1914 British navy operations on the Chilean coast

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  The British navy forces joined the First World War in 1914, they have executed Serveal naval operations in order to maintain its territories and confirm dominate seas areas in the World which continued throughout the nineteenth  century. The  naval  operations on the coast of  Chile in 1914 was one of  the  significant operations had been executed by the British Navy during the war against Germany. The operations  started  by the British  naval  intelligence to  gather information  regarding Chile coast using warcrafts, then coronel  battle took  place on the first day of  November 1914  nearby Santa  Maria  Island  on  the  coast of  Chile between the British cruisers and German cruisers to resolve  the Anglo-German arms race and  the rising  German  naval force in the  nineteenth century. The target of  this  study is to  recognize  the  operations of the British navy forces on  the Chilean coast during the First World War and realize  the  British  navy  losses and the  issues they  faced  throughout  these  operations.