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Battle of Havana (1870), the Glossary

The Battle of Havana on 9 November 1870 was an indecisive single ship action between the German gunboat and the French aviso ''Bouvet'' off the coast of Havana, Cuba during the Franco-Prussian War.^[1]

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1870 in Cuba
Maritime incidents in Cuba
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November 1870 events

Alexandre Franquet

Alexandre Franquet (28 June 1828 – 25 August 1907) was a French Admiral who participated in the Crimean War, the Second Opium War, and the Franco-Prussian War.

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Alsace

Alsace (Low Alemannic German/Alsatian: Elsàss ˈɛlsɑs; German: Elsass (German spelling before 1996: Elsaß.) ˈɛlzas ⓘ; Latin: Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland.

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Alsace–Lorraine

Alsace–Lorraine (German: Elsaß–Lothringen), officially the Imperial Territory of Alsace–Lorraine (Reichsland Elsaß–Lothringen), was a former territory of the German Empire, located in modern day France.

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Aviso

An aviso was originally a kind of dispatch boat or "advice boat", carrying orders before the development of effective remote communication.

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Édouard Bouët-Willaumez

Louis Édouard Bouët-Willaumez (24 April 1808 – 9 September 1871) was a French admiral.

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Île-à-Vache

Île-à-Vache, (French,, also expressed Île-à-Vaches, former Spanish name Isla Vaca; both translate to Cow Island; Lilavach) is a Caribbean island, one of Haiti's satellite islands.

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Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.

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Blockade

A blockade is the act of actively preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes people, by military force.

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Boiler

A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated.

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Brest, France

Brest is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany.

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Broadside (naval)

A broadside is the side of a ship, or more specifically the battery of cannon on one side of a warship or their coordinated fire in naval warfare, or a measurement of a warship's maximum simultaneous firepower which can be delivered upon a single target (because this concentration is usually obtained by firing a broadside).

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Captain (naval)

Captain is the name most often given in English-speaking navies to the rank corresponding to command of the largest ships.

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Captaincy General of Cuba

The Captaincy General of Cuba (Capitanía General de Cuba) was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire created in 1607 as part of Habsburg Spain attempt to better defend and administer its Caribbean possessions. Battle of Havana (1870) and Captaincy General of Cuba are Spanish colonial period of Cuba.

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Caribbean Sea

The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.

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Causes of World War I

The identification of the causes of World War I remains a debated issue.

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Christopher Rave

Christopher Rave (20 February 1881 – 13 January 1933) was a German painter, explorer of polar regions and professor.

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Commerce raiding

Commerce raiding is a form of naval warfare used to destroy or disrupt logistics of the enemy on the open sea by attacking its merchant shipping, rather than engaging its combatants or enforcing a blockade against them.

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Corvette

A corvette is a small warship.

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Eduard von Knorr

Ernst Wilhelm Eduard von Knorr (8 March 1840 – 17 February 1920) was a German admiral of the Kaiserliche Marine who helped establish the German colonial empire.

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Engine room

On a ship, the engine room (ER) is the compartment where the machinery for marine propulsion is located.

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Flotilla

A flotilla (from Spanish, meaning a small flota (fleet) of ships), or naval flotilla, is a formation of small warships that may be part of a larger fleet.

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Franco-Prussian War

The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. Battle of Havana (1870) and Franco-Prussian War are 1870 in Cuba, conflicts in 1870 and Spanish colonial period of Cuba.

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French aviso Bouvet (1865)

Bouvet was a sail and steam aviso of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.

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French Navy

The French Navy (lit), informally La Royale, is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the four military service branches of France.

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French Third Republic

The French Third Republic (Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, after the Fall of France during World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government.

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Gdańsk

Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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German Imperial Admiralty

The German Imperial Admiralty (Kaiserliche Admiralität) was an imperial naval authority in the German Empire.

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Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Großherzogtum Mecklenburg-Schwerin) was a territory in Northern Germany held by the House of Mecklenburg residing at Schwerin.

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Gunboat

A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.

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Havana

Havana (La Habana) is the capital and largest city of Cuba.

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History of Spain (1808–1874)

Spain in the 19th century was a country in turmoil.

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Iron Cross

The Iron Cross (Eisernes Kreuz,, abbreviated EK) was a military decoration in the Kingdom of Prussia, and later in the German Empire (1871–1918) and Nazi Germany (1933–1945).

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Ironclad warship

An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship protected by steel or iron armor constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s.

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Korvettenkapitän

Korvettenkapitän is the lowest ranking senior officer in a number of Germanic-speaking navies.

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List of single-ship actions

A single-ship action is a naval engagement fought between two warships of opposing sides, excluding submarine engagements; it is called so because there is a single ship on each side.

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Lorraine

Lorraine, also,,; Lorrain: Louréne; Lorraine Franconian: Lottringe; Lothringen; Loutrengen; Lotharingen is a cultural and historical region in Northeastern France, now located in the administrative region of Grand Est.

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Martinique

Martinique (Matinik or Matnik; Kalinago: Madinina or Madiana) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea.

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Merchant navy

A merchant navy or merchant marine is the fleet of merchant vessels that are registered in a specific country.

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Merchant ship

A merchant ship, merchant vessel, trading vessel, or merchantman is a watercraft that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire.

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Nassau, Bahamas

Nassau is the capital and largest city of The Bahamas.

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Nation state

A nation-state is a political unit where the state, a centralized political organization ruling over a population within a territory, and the nation, a community based on a common identity, are congruent.

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Naval boarding

Naval boarding action is an offensive tactic used in naval warfare to come up against (or alongside) an enemy watercraft and attack by inserting combatants aboard that vessel.

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Neutral country

A neutral country is a state that is neutral towards belligerents in a specific war or holds itself as permanently neutral in all future conflicts (including avoiding entering into military alliances such as NATO, CSTO or the SCO).

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North German Federal Navy

The North German Federal Navy (Norddeutsche Bundesmarine or Marine des Norddeutschen Bundes), was the Navy of the North German Confederation, formed out of the Prussian Navy in 1867.

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Nowy Port

Nowy Port (Neufahrwasser; Fôrwôter) is a district of the city of Gdańsk, Poland.

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Plymouth

Plymouth is a port city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England.

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Propeller

A propeller (colloquially often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linear thrust upon a working fluid such as water or air.

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Ramming

In warfare, ramming is a technique used in air, sea, and land combat.

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Rigging

Rigging comprises the system of ropes, cables and chains, which support and control a sailing ship or sail boat's masts and sails.

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Sandbag

A sandbag or dirtbag is a bag or sack made of hessian (burlap), polypropylene or other sturdy materials that is filled with sand or soil and used for such purposes as flood control, military fortification in trenches and bunkers, shielding glass windows in war zones, ballast, counterweight, and in other applications requiring mobile fortification, such as adding improvised additional protection to armored vehicles or tanks.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Havana_(1870)

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Battle of Havana (1870), the Glossary

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1870 in Cuba

Maritime incidents in Cuba

Naval battles involving Germany

November 1870 events

References