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    Maximilian Johannes Maria Hubert Reichsgraf von Spee (22 June 1861 – 8 December 1914) was a naval officer of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy)...
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    Pius Anthonius Hubertus Marie Graf von Galen (16 March 1878 – 22 March 1946), better known as Clemens August Graf von Galen, was a German count, Bishop...
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    Friedrich Spee (also Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld; February 25, 1591 – August 7, 1635) was a German Jesuit priest, professor, and poet, most well known...
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    World War II. The vessel was named after World War I Admiral Maximilian von Spee, commander of the East Asia Squadron who fought the battles of Coronel...
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    Battle of Coronel (category Use dmy dates from August 2014)
    Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) led by Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee met and overpowered a British squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher...
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    Günther von Krosigk, and the fleet's last commanding officer, Maximilian von Spee. In these years a broad replacement and upgrade program provided for the...
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    squadron there on 12 August. The auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich joined Spee's ships there as well. On 13 August, Commodore Karl von Müller, captain...
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    Ersatz Yorck class. Of the four ships of the Mackensen class, Mackensen, Graf Spee, and Prinz Eitel Friedrich were launched, and Fürst Bismarck was not—but...
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    Versailles. The ships of the class, Deutschland, Admiral Scheer, and Admiral Graf Spee, were all stated to displace 10,000 long tons (10,160 t) in accordance with...
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    Düsseldorf, where they were neighbours of the family of Graf (Count) Maximilian von Spee, who was to become a German naval hero (while losing his life) at the Battle...
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    SMS Gneisenau (category Use dmy dates from August 2014)
    the East Asia Squadron, under the command of Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee, crossed the Pacific to the western coast of South America, stopping for...
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    SMS Nürnberg (1906) (category Use dmy dates from August 2014)
    rejoined the rest of the Squadron, commanded by Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee, which steamed across the Pacific Ocean and encountered a British squadron...
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    Graf Maximilian von Spee, which had caused the damage at Coronel. On 8 December 1914, while coaling at Stanley, Sturdee encountered von Spee and the subsequent...
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    made rendezvous with the East Asia Squadron of Admiral Count Maximilian von Spee in the Mariana Islands. It was during a conference on the island of Pagan...
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    Later the German forces would attack Papeete where Admiral Maximilian von Spee with his two armoured cruisers sank a French gunboat and a freighter before...
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    War I in August 1914, the German East Asia Squadron, commanded by Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee, departed from its base at Qingdao. Spee intended to...
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    of Belgium. Karl von Müller, commander of the German light cruiser SMS Emden, met with Imperial German Navy Admiral Maximilian von Spee at Pagan, one of...
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    the war, the most famous of these being the heavy cruisers Admiral Graf Spee and Admiral Scheer and the battleship Bismarck. However, the adoption of...
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    Bertha von Lobkowicz (1851–1887), who married Count Friedrich Franz von Brühl, a son of Count Friedrich von Brühl and Countess Marie von Spee. Princess...
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    SMS Leipzig (1905) (category Use dmy dates from August 2014)
    Squadron, by which time the unit was under the command of VAdm Maximilian von Spee. By that time, Leipzig had accumulated a group of three colliers. On 18...
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    (1907). "Angeblich von J. S. Bach komponierte Oden von Chr. H. von Hoffmannswaldau" [Likely by J. S. Bach composed odes of Chr. H. von Hoffmannswaldau]...
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  • de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford, English soldier (b. 1575) 1635 – Friedrich Spee, German poet and academic (b. 1591) 1639 – Martin van den Hove, Dutch astronomer...
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    ships, later built as the Deutschland, Admiral Scheer, and Admiral Graf Spee. The last years of his life Zenker spent in Osterode am Harz. His son, Karl-Adolf...
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    Occupation of German Samoa (category August 1914 events)
    to be obsolete and no match for Vizeadmiral (Vice Admiral) Maximilian von Spee's East Asia Squadron with its armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS...
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    von Spee was a day away from Fiji. Sweet-Escott wired a message to the Australian fleet, then 2000 miles away, which the Germans intercepted and von Spee...
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    the United States Army Air Service wins in a Curtiss R3C-2 at an average spee dof 374.2 km/h (232.5 mph). In mid-month, Farman Aviation Works test pilot...
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    religiously in Hollenegg on 29 May 1965 Rochus Graf von Spee (Borken, 25 October 1925 - Köln, 30 August 1981),[citation needed] and had issue Prince Wolfgang...
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    rendezvous with the East Asia Squadron under Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee in the Pacific. Karlsruhe was sent to intercept Allied merchantmen off...
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    HMS Good Hope (1901) (category Use British English from August 2014)
    East Asia Squadron, under the command of Vice Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee, in the vicinity of Cape Horn and the Strait of Magellan in accordance...
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  • few rooms for temporary stays in Kalkum. Tenants included the von Spee, von Stumm and von Benningsen families. As several families in the service of the...
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