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Scharnhorst writes " Financially insecure throughout his life, the younger Alger may have been active in reform organizations such as those for temperance and children's aid as a means of resolving his status-anxiety and establish his genteel credentials for leadership.
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Scharnhorst writes that Alger " exercised a certain discretion in discussing his probable homosexuality " and was known to have mentioned his sexuality only once after the Brewster incident.
Scharnhorst and insecure
According to Scharnhorst, Alger made veiled references to homosexuality in his boys ' books and these references, Scharnhorst speculates, indicate Alger was " insecure with his sexual orientation ".
Scharnhorst and throughout
The Squadron's Hurricanes saw little action throughout 1941, but did attempt, unsuccessfully, to escort the Fairey Swordfish biplanes of 825 Naval Air Squadron during their doomed attempt to stop the German warships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen during the Channel Dash on 12 February 1942, and then carried out a number of night intruder operations before being deployed overseas.
Scharnhorst and life
Scharnhorst points out that the patron in Try and Trust, for example, conceals a " sad secret " from which he is redeemed only after saving the hero's life.
Scharnhorst and Alger
Alger scholar Gary Scharnhorst describes Alger's style as " anachronistic ", " often laughable ", " distinctive ", and " distinguished by the quality of its literary allusions ".
Scharnhorst and may
Scharnhorst speculates this episode in Alger's childhood accounts for the recurrent theme in his boys ' books of heroes being threatened with eviction or foreclosure, and may account for Alger's " consistent espousal of environmental reform proposals ".
Scharnhorst believes Alger's desire to atone for his " secret sin " may have " spurred him to identify his own charitable acts of writing didactic books for boys with the acts of the charitable patrons in his books who wish to atone for a secret sin in their past by aiding the hero ".
Such a move may have won the battle, but Napoléon, well aware that 9, 000 Prussians under L ' Estocq and his chief of staff Gerhard von Scharnhorst were still unaccounted for, judged it wise to retain the Guard in reserve.
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Scharnhorst and have
The original plan was to have both ships involved in the operation, but Scharnhorst was undergoing heavy repairs to her engines, and Gneisenau had just suffered a damaging torpedo hit days before which put her out of action for 6 months.
The Admiralty view, argued for by Alexander and Pound, was that the Prince of Wales and the Repulse would have been better deployed in the Atlantic to counter the threat from the Tirpitz, the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau.
Scharnhorst and been
Scharnhorst switched firing towards Monmouth, while Gneisenau joined Leipzig and Dresden which had been engaging Glasgow.
Scharnhorst and active
He was an active member of the Tugendbund, the quasi-Masonic " League of Virtue " founded in June 1808, and including many notable Prussian reformers such as Gerhard von Scharnhorst and August Neidhardt von Gneisenau.
Scharnhorst and such
The few exceptions were their capital ships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, Scharnhorst, and Bismarck.
John Wheeler-Bennett wrote in 1967: " To such a nadir of supine degradation had come the child of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and Moltke.
They were rudely surprised when ships such as the Admiral Graf Spee, Scharnhorst, and Gneisenau constantly raided the Allied supply lines.
The official Bundeswehr traditions are based on three major lines: the military reformers at the beginning of the 19th century such as Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Clausewitz, the members of the military resistance against Hitler such as Claus von Stauffenberg and Henning von Tresckow and its own tradition since 1955.
One such example is the position of Chief of Staff, held by three different officers, General Phull ( or Pfuel ), Colonel Gerhard von Scharnhorst and Colonel Rudolf Massenbach.
Although the United States and the United Kingdom agreed upon a Germany-first grand strategy, Germany's surface fleet was small, and the escort ships used in the Second Battle of the Atlantic were mostly destroyers and destroyer escorts to counter the U-boat threat ; only a few German capital ships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, Scharnhorst and Bismarck were engaged by Allied ships.
This was largely at the instigation of comparatively junior but gifted officers such as Gerhard von Scharnhorst and August von Gneisenau.
Scharnhorst and those
During the North Cape raid, the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau sank the British carrier HMS Glorious and two destroyers, but the damage that put those ships out of action for six months when they were needed for a possible invasion of Britain easily outweighed the loss of the Glorious.
In the following few years Louise supported the reforming efforts of government carried out by Stein and Hardenberg, as well as those of Gerhard von Scharnhorst and August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, to reorganize the army.
Scharnhorst and for
Scharnhorst and Gneisenau followed, between 1904 and 1908, and cost an estimated for 20. 3 million GM.
Both the Scharnhorst ( only recently repaired from earlier damage in the Norwegian operation ) and Gneisenau were torpedoed by British submarines in these prestige manoeuvres ; they would not be ready for operations in the Atlantic again until the end of December.
Scharnhorst credits these allusions for distinguishing Alger's novels from pulp fiction.
* Scharnhorst, W., Althaus, H .- J., Hilty, L. and Jolliet, O .: Environmental assessment of End-of-Life treatment options for an GSM 900 antenna rack, Int J LCA., 11 ( 6 ), pp: 426-436.
Gerhard Johann David Waitz von Scharnhorst ( 12 November 1755 – 28 June 1813 ) was a general in Prussian service, Chief of the Prussian General Staff, noted for both his writings, his reforms of the Prussian army, and his leadership during the Napoleonic Wars.
In this battle, Scharnhorst received a wound in the foot, not in itself grave, but soon made mortal by the fatigues of the retreat to Dresden, and he succumbed to it on 28 June 1813 at Prague, where he had travelled to negotiate with Schwarzenberg and Radetzky for the armed intervention of Austria.
Lütjens had requested that Raeder delay Rheinübung long enough either for Scharnhorst to complete repairs to her engines and be made combat worthy and to rendezvous at sea with Bismarck and Prinz Eugen or for Bismarcks sister-ship Tirpitz to accompany them.
She was transferred to the German Navy in 1959 and renamed Scharnhorst, was hulked for damage control training between 1974 and 1989, and was towed to be broken up in 1990.
Although the operation would be under Vice Admiral Otto Ciliax, who commanded the Brest Group ( flying his flag on Scharnhorst ), Naval Command West under Admiral Alfred Saalwächter was responsible for all planning and operational directions.
As he watched the smoking wrecks of the Swordfish falling into the sea, Captain Hoffmann of the Scharnhorst exclaimed, " Poor fellows, they are so very slow, it is nothing but suicide for them to fly against these big ships ".
Willhelm Wolf aboard the Scharnhorst wrote, " What an heroic stage for them to meet their end!
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* 1943 – World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.
* 1755 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general ( d. 1813 )
A classic fast torpedo boat action was the Channel Dash in February 1942 when German E-boats and destroyers defended the flotilla of Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Prinz Eugen and several smaller ships against RN MTBs.
* November 12 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general ( d. 1813 )
* June 28 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general ( b. 1755 )
The power of a battleship in protecting a convoy was also dramatically illustrated when the German warships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, carrying 11 " guns, came upon an eastbound British convoy of 41 ships, HX-106 in the North Atlantic on February 8, 1941.
St Mary's Church contains a memorial to the men of who lost their lives in HMS Monmouth, which was sunk with all hands on 1 November 1914, by German cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau off the Chilean Coast at the Battle of Coronel ; the church hosts an annual service in remembrance.
In late May 1940, Raeder ordered the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau into action off Norway's North Cape.
An even more harsher assessment of Raeder's decision to send the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau off the North Cape came from Murray and Millet, who wrote: " The Seekriegsleitung ... had lost none of its ability to confuse strategy with bureaucratic interest.
In late May, worried that German successes in France and Norway might bring the war to an end before his battle cruisers saw action, Raeder committed the battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau to a raid off Norway's North Cape.
In January 1941, Raeder launched the successful Operation Berlin, where the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst were sent out on a raid into the North Atlantic.
Lütjens wanted Rheinübung put off until the Scharnhorst was finished refitting in July 1941, but since Barbarossa was due to start on 22 June 1941, Raeder insisted that the operation go ahead in May 1941.
Accordingly, Raeder planned the Channel Dash of February 1942 that saw the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau make the run from Brest to Norway.
Scharnhorst describes six major themes in Alger's boys ' books.
According to Scharnhorst, Alger's father was " an impoverished man " who defaulted on his debts in 1844.
* Oliver, Lawrence J. and Gary Scharnhorst.
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