{"id":68874,"date":"2022-01-08T02:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=68874"},"modified":"2022-01-07T09:53:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:53:42","slug":"battle-of-the-river-plate-1939-minute-by-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/01\/08\/battle-of-the-river-plate-1939-minute-by-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the River Plate 1939: Minute-by-Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xAedcaYQUjs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Historigraph<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 24 Jul 2018<\/p>\n<p>The Battle of the River Plate took place in December 1939, and featured the Royal Navy cruisers Exeter, Achilles and Ajax, against the German <em>Panzerschiffe<\/em>, <em>Graf Spee<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to support the creation of more videos like this, please consider supporting us at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/historigraph\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/historigraph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to join the historigraph community, consider joining my discord server, which is shared with my strategy gaming channel: <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/f8JZw93\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/discord.gg\/f8JZw93<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the channel on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/historigraph\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/historigraph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And on facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/historigraph\/<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<br \/>\nRichard Petrow, <em>The Bitter Years: The invasion and Occupation of Denmark and Norway April 1940-May 1945<\/em> (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974). &mdash; The first chapter of the book includes a brief description of the hunt for the <em>Graf Spee<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Corelli Barnett, <em>Engage The Enemy More Closely: The Royal Navy in the Second World War<\/em> (London: Penguin, 1991)<\/p>\n<p>Commodore Harwood&#8217;s own account of the battle, made available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbXVWOWhlc3IyZDh4UW5BTDc0UHRldFYta1lPZ3xBQ3Jtc0tuWEZBS1dMNHphWVhIY2w5OGVTOUNyT1NkWFpxSFBoRVBLQTVlV2txQWJkTFhFU0xOTVV0R3o1UkVrSWs5SFdqSnFQblRHb2d2NkZUUlJrVzlsWER3TWpJRXBfVkw3a0xJOHJNaG4wVEpKa2NJYnE5bw&#038;q=http%3A%2F%2Fnaval-history.net%2FWW2LGGrafSpee.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/naval-history.net\/WW2LGGrafSpe&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Graf Spee<\/em>&#8216;s voyage described here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa3VaSU5OUTZkYzRTREVoTmdqdUFZRlhkOHozQXxBQ3Jtc0tsRUYtem5oS0UzbjhvaU5ocl9TdlM0Z2J6QzAxSUo0NjhSYkkycWtBbzhWcmlHSlpVdDUwd3J5V0liMk12d1ZKQzhwWVZBZS1BRWhTS0FmdERVYkdDWHBrRFdkazNmeHpyRkVWd3F3eHU2ZERnZ3lkRQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.deutschland-class.dk%2Fadmiral_graf_spee%2Fadmiral_graf_spee_operation_hist.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.deutschland-class.dk\/admi&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Video clips from <em>World of Warships<\/em> gameplay and the <em>Battle of the River Plate<\/em> film, 1958<\/p>\n<p>Music: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crypto&#8221; Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)<br \/>\nLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Division&#8221; Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)<br \/>\nLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crossing the Chasm&#8221; Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)<br \/>\nLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sound Effects:<br \/>\nGunshots and so on are recordings from <em>World of Warships<\/em>, where the gameplay footage of the ships hails from.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2022-01-08-at-09-52-46-Battle-of-the-River-Plate-1939-Minute-by-Minute-Quotulatiousness.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2022-01-08-at-09-52-46-Battle-of-the-River-Plate-1939-Minute-by-Minute-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-71050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2022-01-08-at-09-52-46-Battle-of-the-River-Plate-1939-Minute-by-Minute-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2022-01-08-at-09-52-46-Battle-of-the-River-Plate-1939-Minute-by-Minute-Quotulatiousness-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2022-01-08-at-09-52-46-Battle-of-the-River-Plate-1939-Minute-by-Minute-Quotulatiousness-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2022-01-08-at-09-52-46-Battle-of-the-River-Plate-1939-Minute-by-Minute-Quotulatiousness.png 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historigraph Published 24 Jul 2018 The Battle of the River Plate took place in December 1939, and featured the Royal Navy cruisers Exeter, Achilles and Ajax, against the German Panzerschiffe, Graf Spee. &#8211; 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