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Description: 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. - If you'd like to support the creation of more videos like this, please consider supporting us at: patreon.com/historigraph If you'd like to join the historigraph community, consider joining my discord server, which is shared with my strategy gaming channel: discord.gg/f8JZw93 Follow the channel on Twitter: twitter.com/historigraph And on facebook: facebook.com/historigraph Sources: Richard Petrow, The Bitter Years: The invasion and Occupation of Denmark and Norway April 1940-May 1945 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974). - first chapter of the book includes a brief description of the hunt for the Graf Spee Corelli Barnett, Engage The Enemy More Closely: The Royal Navy in the Second World War (London: Penguin, 1991) Commodore Harwood's own account of the battle, made available here: naval-history.net/WW2LGGrafSpee.htm Graf Spee's voyage described here: deutschland-class.dk/admiral_graf_spee/admiral_graf_spee_operation_hist.htm Video clips from World of Warships gameplay and the Battle of the River Plate film, 1958 Music: “Crypto" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 “Division" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 “Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 Sound Effects: Gunshots and so on are recordings from World of Warships, where the gameplay footage of the ships hails from.