Battle of Havana (1870)
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The Battle of Havana on 9 November 1870 was an indecisive single ship action between the German gunboat Meteor and the French aviso Bouvet off the coast of Havana, Cuba during the Franco-Prussian War.
The Battle of Havana by Christopher Rave
SMS Augusta off Gironde, by Alexander Kircher
The Bouvet disengaging under fire from Meteor, by Robert Parlow.
Eduard von Knorr
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Ernst Wilhelm Eduard von Knorr was a German admiral of the Kaiserliche Marine who helped establish the German colonial empire.
Battle of Havana (1870)
…the war. A new government was formed in Paris that continued the war for another five months. At 8 a.m. on 7 November 1870, Meteor, under Lieutenant Eduard von Knorr, arrived in the harbour of Havana after leaving Nassau some days before. Cuba was then a Spanish colony, with Spain being a neutral power during the…
Portrait of Admiral Eduard von Knorr, Sydney, Australia, 1880, Freeman Studio
Anonymous portrait of Eduard von Knorr, ca. 1884
Portrait of Eduard von Knorr by Christian Wilhelm Allers, 1891
Knorr on the Fondation of the Elbe–Lübeck Canal on 31 May 1895