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- noun an indecisive naval battle in World War I (1916); fought between the British and German fleets off the northwestern coast of Denmark
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The Battle of Jutland was the first naval battle in which aerial reconnaissance played a part.
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The Battle of Jutland was the biggest naval battle of
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Mr Allingham is the sole survivor of the Battle of Jutland and has also published his life story.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Mr Allingham is the sole survivor of the Battle of Jutland and has also published his life story.
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In the meantime, on January 23, 1919, Admiral Rosslyn Wester Wemyss, who succeeded Jellicoe as First Sea Lord, assigned Captain J.E.T. Harper, an Admiralty navigation specialist, to write a straightforward official account of the Battle of Jutland, “based solely on documentary evidence and free from commentary or criticism.”
Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003
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In fact the whole thing seems to indicate, as a detailed study of the Battle of Jutland will also indicate, that Jellicoe just wasn't a very good admiral.
An Unadmirable Admiral Tullock, Gordon 1992
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In the case of the Navy, the whole later course of the war, no less than the Battle of Jutland, has shown what the British Navy means to the cause of the Allies.
The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend Humphry Ward 1885
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If you ever require low-level faecal strafing runs and ear-splitting Psittaciforme support for your campaign, my Parrot would be only too happy to oblige - he hasn't been this enthusiastic about British politics since the Battle of Jutland!
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If you ever require low-level faecal strafing runs and ear-splitting Psittaciforme support for your campaign, my Parrot would be only too happy to oblige - he hasn't been this enthusiastic about British politics since the Battle of Jutland!
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