A victory over Beatty's battle cruisers, or some other detached unit of the British fleet, would have been very opportune in bracing German morale.
The highly trained amateur, brought to the climax of personal perfection--that is the aim of American training, rather than the production of the machine-made professional soldier.
The proclamation declared that Esthonia wished to preserve absolute neutrality, and that the Esthonian soldiers in the Russian Army would be recalled and demobilized.
Beatty’s and Hood’s battle cruisers—chaffingly known as the Salt of the Earth—and Evan Thomas’s squadron of four fast Queen Elizabeths had fought for two hours the whole German High Seas Fleet.
Even if we had sunk no battle cruisers or battleships, the German High Seas Fleet would have been crippled for months by the destruction of its indispensable ‘cavalry screen.
Galatea, one of the light cruisers engaged in scouting east of Beatty's battle cruisers, reported smoke on the horizon to the eastward, and started to investigate, the battle cruisers taking up full speed and following.
Another lesson of the war has resulted from the fact that practically all of the important operations on the British side have been conducted by battle cruisers, not by battleships.
It is in the nineteen French armored cruisers--France has no battle cruisers--that the French showed better efforts as builders of speedy ships, for they made 23 knots or more.
Consequently Admiral Fisher detailed the two battle cruisers Invincible and Inflexible to go to the Falkland Islands.
The conditions surrounding this battle were ideal for illustrating the functions of battle cruisers.
The German battleship squadron, headed by battle cruisers, steered first toward the extensive haze bank to the northeast, where the crippled cruiser Wiesbaden was still receiving a heavy fire.
His confidence is explained by the fact that all previous sorties of the Germans had been made by battle cruisers or small craft.
Such an attempt would have exposed his own battle cruisers to the 15-inch guns of the approaching dreadnoughts of Admiral Evan-Thomas's squadron.
The first phase of the battle may properly be studied as a fight between the British and German battle cruisers, in consequence of the before-stated gap separating the two parts of Admiral Beatty's command.
This torpedo is used in all the navies, and is launched on its mission from battleships, battle cruisers, destroyers, submarines, and other craft of various kinds.
On Beatty's orders he then carried out Jellicoe's plan by turning back so as to lengthen Beatty's line of battle cruisers at the forward end, thus overlapping the Germans.
This left four all in battle cruisers, with the four fast British battleships straining their last turn of speed to come up.
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