Falkland Islands 2 Pounds 1914-2014 Centenary Battle of the Falkland Islands

Centenary Battle of the Falkland Islands
2 Pounds 2014 PROOF Like in protective Capsule.

The Falkland Islands Government & Treasury have issued a new £2 coin which commemorates the Centennial of the Battle of the Falkland Islands. At the start of World War I in 1914, the Falkland Islands was an important strategic naval base that allowed crucial control of the British Royal Navy of the South Atlantic. A month after German naval forces inflicted the Royal Navy’s first defeat in a century by sinking two British cruisers with all hands, Admiral Maximilian von Spee, who led Imperial German Naval forces, brought his fleet close to British squadrons anchored in the Falkland Islands, confident he could outrun the British ships he saw in the port. However, the German forces found themselves pursued by faster and far more superior British ships. All told, Germany lost four warships and more than 2,000 sailors in the Falkland Islands, compared with only 10 British deaths.

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