Battle of Más a Tierra

Significance

The Battle of Más a Tierra eliminated the final surviving vessel of the German East Asia Squadron. SMS Dresden, a German light cruiser, was cornered by a British squadron in Cumberland Bay near the Chilean island of Más a Tierra and subsequently scuttled by her crew. The destruction of Dresden closed out the operational history of Germany's East Asia Squadron, which had posed a sustained threat to British naval commerce and communications in the Pacific and South Atlantic. With this action, Britain secured complete naval dominance in those waters, removing the last German surface raider force active in the region.

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