the best for the best squadron At the outbreak of World War I Germany had a powerful cruiser fleet in the Pacific. It was known as known as the East Asiatic Squadron and its commander was Admiral ...

One of the most significant events of the Spanish-American War occurred on May 1, 1899—the day Commodore Dewey and his Asiatic Squadron defeated the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. In the years ...

Some weeks earlier, the people of Stanley had said goodbye to the sailors of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth, who had been tasked to find the German Asiatic Squadron ... to the East of the ...