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The Battle of the Porpoises (Portuguese: Batalha das Toninhas) is the name given to a military blunder involving the Brazilian Navy in the Gibraltar Strait, near the end of the First World War. [1] While on patrol for potential German submarines, the crew of the Bahia slaughtered a passing shoal of porpoises, mistaking them for the periscope of ...
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Background map : extract from File:France_map_Lambert-93_with_rivers_and_regions-blank.svg by Éric Gaba under licence GFDL or CC-BY-SA 3.0 Tracks : a map from Corbett, Julian Stafford (1907) England in the seven years' war, volume 2 , London, New York, Bombay, and Calcutta: Longmans, Green, and co., pp. 407 Retrieved on 21 November 2009.
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Laurindo Pitta is a museum ship and former tugboat of the Brazilian Navy, subordinated to the Directorate of Historical Heritage and Documentation of the Navy (DHHDN).She is the oldest boat of the navy still in service, being built by the British shipyard Vickers, Sons & Maxim, Ltd, in 1910.
The Northeast Coast campaign (also known as the Six Terrible Days) [3] (10 August – 6 October 1703) was the first major campaign by the French of Queen Anne's War in New England. Alexandre Leneuf de La Vallière de Beaubassin [ 4 ] led 500 troops made up of French colonial forces and the Wabanaki Confederacy of Acadia (200 Mi'kmaq [ 5 ] and ...
On 11 September, there was an indecisive long-range skirmish off the Genesee River about 10 miles (16 km) east of the Niagara. The British squadron was becalmed and for several hours, the American schooners fired at them from long range, while the British attempted to work their vessels out of range by towing them with boats and using sweeps ...