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    Harwich /ˈhærɪtʃ/ is a town in Essex, England, and one of the Haven ports on the North Sea coast. It is in the Tendring district. Nearby places include...
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    Corpo Aereo Italiano (category Italian Air Force)
    20s took off to attack Harwich and Felixstowe. Not all aircraft found their targets and three were lost in accidents. The Harwich Gun Defence Area (GDA)...
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  • The Harwich Mariners are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Harwich, Massachusetts. The team is a member of the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL)...
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    of the Dutch. A planned Dutch attack on the English anchorage at Harwich led by De Ruyter had to be abandoned after the battle of Landguard Fort, at...
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    Dutch force attacked Landguard Fort near Felixstowe. It was intended to clear the way for an attack on the English Royal Naval anchorage at Harwich. After...
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  • been lost. Harwich blockhouses Harwich 51°56′54″N 1°17′13″E / 51.94822°N 1.28707°E / 51.94822; 1.28707 (Tower House) TM259328 1543 Harwich N/A Three...
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    Chatham, the Township of Chatham, Dover, Dresden, Erie Beach, Erieau, Harwich, Highgate, Howard, Orford, Raleigh, Ridgetown, Romney, Thamesville, Tilbury...
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    British soil by a foreign unit. The July 2nd attack on Landguard fort near Harwich, performed by 1,500 Mariniers after landing at Woodrich was defeated by...
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    Nicholas Winton (category Royal Air Force personnel of World War II)
    names of the London and North Eastern Railway steamers which operated the Harwich to The Hook of Holland route included the Prague and the Vienna; the former...
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    strengthen the Fort with the supply and ammunition stores moved across to Harwich for safety. The badly-disciplined garrison had drunk gin found on a captured...
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    Reginald Tyrwhitt (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
    During the First World War he served as commander of the Harwich Force. He led a supporting naval force of 31 destroyers and two cruisers at the Battle of Heligoland...
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    guns) HMS Exeter (60 guns) HMS York (60 guns) HMS Winchester (50 guns) HMS Harwich (50 guns) HMS Preston (50 guns) HMS Eltham (40 guns) HMS Pearl (40 guns)...
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    "Treadwheel Crane". The Harwich Society. Retrieved 28 October 2009. Historic England. "OLD NAVAL YARD CRANE, HARWICH GREEN, HARWICH, TENDRING, ESSEX (1187899)"...
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    left England on board Royal Sovereign, but a storm forced her back into Harwich. On the 14th, Royal Sovereign anchored before Klundert on the Hollands...
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    Volunteer Force in 1880 saw the 1st Norfolk Admin Brigade consolidated into a single unit, with the 1st Essex AVC due to become No 5 Battery at Harwich. Meanwhile...
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    and HMS Pigeon. Attached from 10th D.F., Harwich Force The 9th Destroyer Flotilla was part of the Harwich Force; this group of six destroyers were attached...
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    Celebrity Infinity (category Ships built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique)
    Caribbean from San Juan, Puerto Rico and Fort Lauderdale, and Europe from Harwich and throughout the Mediterranean. On 3 June 2016, while docking in Ketchikan...
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    William Tennant (Royal Navy officer) (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    first served aboard the destroyers Lizard and Ferret as part of the Harwich Force until 1916, then aboard the cruisers Chatham and Nottingham, as part...
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    Leader of Torpedo Boats [de] and commander of the II Scouting Squadron. On 28 August 1914, the (British) Royal Navy's Harwich Force of two light cruisers...
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    member of the Conservative Party, Carswell was first elected as the MP for Harwich in 2005 and then for Clacton in 2010. In August 2014, he changed his political...
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  • travel to Britain and offer their military services there, arriving at Harwich on about 31 July. George III formed the King's German Legion (KGL) as a...
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  • coast and laid mines in the Harwich, Humber and Thames estuary waters. The Germans landed their Herbstreise diversion force in Iceland and laid protective...
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    in this quarrel". The Earl was offered the governorship of the port of Harwich, but he thought it was unworthy and declined the post; Leicester was glad...
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    awaited the Dutch attack. On 2 July a Dutch marine force landed near Woodbridge north of Harwich and successfully prevented Landguard Fort from being...
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  • the Chilean historical scene, when colonel Robert Souper Howard (born in Harwich, Britain) played a prominent role in the 1879 War of the Pacific. Souper...
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    Scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    to surrender to Rear-Admiral Reginald Tyrwhitt at Harwich, under the supervision of the Harwich Force. The surface fleet was to sail to the Firth of Forth...
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    Sub-lieutenant : Oberleutnant zur See / OLtzS Other Abbreviations AdC.: Aide de Camp to The King C.B.: Companion of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath...
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  • Strathern Chris Lucas Charles Bunker William Lavin Conservative Bim Afolami Harwich and North Essex Bernard Jenkin Alex Diner Natalie Sommers Mark Cole Andrew...
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    six battlecruisers to meet the main fleet in the Long Forties. The Harwich Force of twenty destroyers and five light cruisers (Commodore Reginald Tyrwhitt)...
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    naval power for a generation. A Dutch attack on the English anchorage at Harwich had to be abandoned however after the battle of Landguard Fort ended in...
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