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The Allied assault landings at Normandy in June 1944 constituted the single most decisive naval event of the war. The May 1940 rescue of hundreds of thousands of troops from Dunkirk to England was the evacuation with the greatest military consequence.
This list of naval battles is a chronological list delineating important naval battles that have occurred throughout history, from the beginning of naval warfare with the Hittites in the 12th century BC to piracy off the coast of Somalia in the 21st century.
Wars, Conflicts, and Operations. For more resources, please consult the Navy Department Library's research guide to wars and conflicts of the United States Navy. In addition, the Library's...
Naval warfare, the tactics of military operations and armed forces conducted on, under, or over the sea. Being the activities of battle itself, tactics are conceived and executed at the literal and metaphoric centre of war’s violence.
1 paź 2020 · World War II ended 75 years ago—and with it, the most epic-scale naval warfare the world has ever seen. We’ve been covering the salient naval historical highlights throughout these 75th ...
The Battle of Salamis. One of the first naval confrontations in recorded history, the Battle of Salamis was a key moment in the Greco-Persian Wars – a tumultuous era which saw the forces of the Persian Empire lay waste to Athens itself in 480 BC.
Pompey assembles a naval fleet and attacks Pamphylia and Cilicia, principally to repress piracy. The navies of Rome and the Veneti Gauls clash resulting in a Roman victory. This is the first recorded naval battle in the Atlantic Ocean. Explore the timline of Naval Warfare.
