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Naval battles

English sailors engage the French invasion fleet at the battle of Sandwich in 1217.
Medieval

The battle of Sandwich: England’s medieval Trafalgar

The crew of SMS King in its home port following the battle of the Skagerrak, June 1916. (Photo by A Renard/ullstein image via Getty Images)
First World War

Jutland: the battle that won the First World War

The German battleship Bismarck of the German Kriegsmarine during early World War II
Second World War

Bismarck: why was the WW2 German battleship so feared? Plus 9 things you didn’t know about its only mission

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US marines advance up Iwo Jima's beaches
Second World War

The battle for Iwo Jima: why did it happen and why was it so hard fought?

Mural of the battle of Actium from 1600
Roman

Actium, 31 BC: the beginning of the end for Mark Antony and Cleopatra

Elizabeth I arrives in Tilbury
Elizabethan

The Spanish Armada: one of history’s biggest fibs?

The US cutter Spencer attacks U-boat U-175
Second World War

The Battle of the Atlantic: why Britain almost lost to Hitler’s U-boats

British ships on convoy duty in the North Atlantic
Second World War

Danger in the deep: key questions about the Battle of the Atlantic answered

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Welcome home: the cruiser 'Exeter' arrives back at Plymouth, c15 February 1940, after taking part in the battle of the River Plate. The action resulted in the scuttling of the German pocket battleship 'Admiral Graf Spee', which had sent several British merchant ships to the bottom of the Atlantic. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Second World War

The Battle of the Atlantic: the “desperate” WW2 campaign featured in Tom Hanks film Greyhound

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Ill mannered discussions: Chinese leader General Chiang Kai-shek, US president Franklin D Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill meet at the Cairo Conference in November 1943. (Photo by Getty Images)
Second World War

VE Day at 75 Preparing for peace: why WW2 felt like a war without an end

Flying the flag: A sailor signals a merchant ship in the Thames Estuary, 1939. Allied maritime capacity was paramount in the final victory. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
Second World War

WW2: Why did the Allies win the Second World War?

Illustration of Elizabeth I in a cage
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US Army 7th Division's tanks equipped with flame throwers climbing a ridge on Okinawa. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)
Second World War

Okinawa: the battle and the bomb

The US assault on Okinawa
Second World War

The WW2 battle of Okinawa: the bloodiest assault of the Pacific War

The American aircraft carrier USS Yorktown is being bombed in the Battle of Midway, June 1942. (Photo by Corbis via Getty Images)
Second World War

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