The launch of the Dreadnought

  Causes of WW1, A Level and IB History Revision, First World War, European Diplomacy before the First World War

On the 10^th February 1906 the British King, Edward VII, launched HMS Dreadnought – a revolutionary new type of battleship that made all other ships obsolete.

war, militarism, navy, ship, arms race

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