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- Royal Navy [r]: By long naval tradition, when there is no qualifier but "Royal", the navy being discussed is that of the United Kingdom. [e]
- First Sea Lord [r]: Add brief definition or description
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- Winston Churchill [r]: British Prime Minister and war leader during the Second World War from 1940 to 1945; second term from 1951 to 1955. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature as a historian. [e]
- Charles Beresford [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Battleship [r]: A heavily-armored, warship optimized for fighting other warships using large-caliber guns; certain armor requirements differentiated from cruisers; obsolete by end of World War II. [e]
- HMS Dreadnought (1905) [r]: The first "all-big-gun" battleship, obsoleting all others in the world when built, yet having very little actual combat role [e]
- Coal mining [r]: the various methods used to extract coal from the ground. [e]
- Cruiser [r]: While definitions vary with time and doctrine, a large warship capable of acting independently, as a flagship, or a major escort; capabilities include anti-air warfare, anti-surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare, land attack, and possibly ballistic missile defense [e]
- Battle of Jutland [r]: Major naval engagement between the German and Royal Navies in the First World War; largest naval battle in history until the WWII Battle of Leyte Gulf [e]
- Soviet legacy [r]: The multiple diplomatic, economic, environmental, legal, military, political, and social issues facing former Soviet satellite states after the fall of the USSR. [e]
- Tom Barry [r]: Tom Barry (1897-1980) was an Irish revolutionary and folk hero who lead a flying column during the Irish War of Independence. Following the war he fought in the Irish Civil War and remained a high ranking member of the Irish Republican Army until 1938. [e]