Beginning in 1778 Emperor wished to have new works, in German, composed by his own subjects and brought on the stage with clear Imperial support.

* 1908 – SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches.

Biological sabotage – in the form of anthrax and glanders — was undertaken on behalf of the Imperial German government during World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ), with indifferent results.

Its first modern incidence in biological warfare were when Scandinavian " freedom fighters " supplied by the German General Staff used anthrax with unknown results against the Imperial Russian Army in Finland in 1916.

*, an Imperial German Navy light cruiser

Finally, in the German Imperial War Council of 8 December 1912 the consensus was that Germany would not be ready for war until at least mid-1914 and passed notes to that effect to the Habsburgs.

Philip Augustus of France defeated an army consisting of Imperial German, English and Flemish soldiers, led by Otto IV of Germany.

The Imperial German Cavalry, while as colourful and traditional as any in peacetime appearance, had adopted a practice of falling back on infantry support when any substantial opposition was encountered.

* 1912 – Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.

* 1914 – A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats an inferior squadron of the Imperial German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

Thus the dragoon regiments of the Imperial German Army wore the pickelhaube ( spiked helmet ) of the same design as those of the infantry and the British dragoons wore scarlet tunics, In other respects however dragoons had adopted the same tactics, roles and equipment as other branches of the cavalry and the distinction had become simply one of traditional titles.

Thereafter the Imperial German Navy ceased any serious attempts to engage the British fleet and remained at home as a ' fleet in being '.

Prince Eugene of Savoy ( French: François-Eugène de Savoie, German: Eugen von Savoyen, Italian: Principe Eugenio di Savoia-Carignano ; 18 October 1663 – 21 April 1736 ), was one of the most successful military commanders in modern European history, rising to the highest offices of state at the Imperial court in Vienna.

The title of Emperor of Austria and the associated Empire were both abolished at the end of the First World War in 1918, when German Austria became a republic and the other kingdoms and lands represented in the Imperial Council established their independence or adhesion to other states.

The government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, conferred the additional title upon her by an Act of Parliament, reputedly to assuage the monarch's irritation at being, as a mere Queen, notionally inferior to her own daughter ( Princess Victoria was the wife of the reigning German Emperor ); the Indian Imperial designation was also formally justified as the expression of Britain succeeding as paramount ruler of the subcontinent the former Mughal ' Padishah of Hind ', using indirect rule through hundreds of princely states formally under protection, not colonies, but accepting the British Sovereign as their suzerain.

Representatives of White Finland in Berlin duly requested help on 14 February ; on 13 February the German Imperial Military Council had made the decision to send troops to Finland.

* German Army ( German Empire ) ( 1871 – 1919 ), also known as the Imperial Army ( Reichsheer ), armed forces of the German Empire

Some key elements of the German Empire's authoritarian political structure were also the basis for conservative modernization in Imperial Japan under Meiji and the preservation of an authoritarian political structure under the Tsars in the Russian Empire.

Each component of the German Empire sent representatives to the Federal Council ( Bundesrat ) and, via single member districts, the Imperial Diet ( Reichstag ).

A German Government report on fuel prices dated 2010 / 11 stated that the Imperial gallon is used as a unit of measure for fuel in Guyana, United Arab Emirates and Antigua and Barbuda and the US gallon in Liberia, Belize, Colombia, The Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Myanmar ( Burma ), Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico and the United States.

For the first time, the assembly of the electors and other dukes was now called the Imperial Diet ( German Reichstag ) ( to be joined by the Imperial Free Cities later ).

When King Conrad III died without adult heir in 1152, Frederick also succeeded him, taking both German royal and Imperial titles.

The Imperial Japanese Navy's Kotaka ( 1887 )

The Imperial Navy's tasks were then to prevent any invasion force from landing and to protect coastal towns from possible bombardment.

In the film's climactic battle, the Rebellion destroys the second Death Star and a great portion of the Imperial Navy's highest-ranking officers.

Because of the Empire's policy of discrimination against non-humans, he is the only non-human to reach the Imperial Navy's highest rank – that of Grand Admiral.

While this put Thrawn in a strong position, he was confronted by the Imperial Navy's lack of ships.

Imperial Beach boasts a high military population and is home to the US Navy's Naval Outlying Landing Field Imperial Beach also known as NOLF Imperial Beach.

By 1916, after the Battle of Jutland, the Germans were forced to concede that the Imperial German Navy's surface fleet could not challenge the strength of the Royal Navy on the high seas, so great faith was placed in the U-Boat to strangle British supply lines in the Atlantic.

Japan started the war with a very good design, the Imperial Navy's carrier-borne Aichi D3A (" Val ").

The Imperial Japanese Navy ( IJN ) mobilized nearly all of its remaining major naval vessels in an attempt to defeat the Allied invasion, but was repulsed by the US Navy's 3rd and 7th Fleets.

In response, the Imperial Japanese Navy's combined fleet sortied to attack the U. S. Navy fleet supporting the landings.

The Battle of the Philippine Sea ( June 19 – 20, 1944 ) was a decisive naval battle of World War II which effectively eliminated the Imperial Japanese Navy's ability to conduct large-scale carrier actions.

The battle was the fifth of five major " carrier-versus-carrier " engagements between American and Japanese naval forces, and involved elements of the United States Navy's Fifth Fleet as well as ships and land-based aircraft from the Imperial Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet and nearby island garrisons.

They found the targets difficult to identify but attacked two cruisers from the dive of the torpedo, and it is likely the Imperial Japanese Navy's planning staff, in its careful study of Taranto during planning for the attack on Pearl Harbor copied this idea.

Afterwards, the fleet would sail North for a decisive battle against the Imperial Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, and then blockade the Japanese home islands.

Sakai was the Imperial Navy's fourth-ranking ace and Japan's second leading fighter pilot to survive the war ( after Tetsuzō Iwamoto ).

In February 1818 he passed examinations to become a midshipman and was immediately assigned to the second Fleet Crew ( Flotskiy Ekipazh ) of the Russian Imperial Navy's Baltic Fleet.

*- Translation of the official record by the Japanese Demobilization Bureaux detailing the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy's participation in the Southwest Pacific area of the Pacific War.

Following the hostilities he served a tour at the Imperial Navy's Torpedo school and then was assigned to naval intelligence, where he spent several months posing as a laborer and conducting missions in Manchuria and Korea.

* 17 August – The Imperial Japanese Navy's first aviation ship, Wakamiya, is recommissioned as a seaplane carrier.

The wrecks of the U. S. Navy's Large Auxiliary Floating Dry Docks, AFDB-2 and AFDB-4, and an Imperial Japanese ship amongst others are located within the harbor.

In October, 1914, the British also obtained the Imperial German Navy's Handelsschiffsverkehrsbuch ( HVB ), a codebook used by German naval warships, merchantmen, naval zeppelins and U-Boats.