Labels:text | screenshot | font | black and white | number OCR: Salamis (480 BC) The Greek fleet, led by THEMISTOCLES, defeated Actium (31 BC) the Persians. The forces of Octavian (later Roman Emperor AUGUSTUS) defeated the sea and land forces of Mark Antony and CLEOPATRA. Lepanto (1571) Spanish and Italian ships defeated the Turks. Spanish Armada (1588) A Spanish fleet of 130 ships, the Armada, was defeated by the English in the English Channel. Serapis vs. Bonhomme U.S. sea captain John Paul Jones and his Richard (1779) Bonhomme Richard defeated the British frigate Serapis off the Yorkshire coast. Chesapeake Bay (1781) A French fleet bottled up British forces at Yorktown, Va. (see YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN), under Gen. Charles Comwallis, who surrendered Trafalgar (1805) to the Americans, ending the American Revolution. A British fleet under Horatio NELSON defeated the French and Spanish fleets off Cape Trafalgar, Lake Eme (1813) Spain An American Reet under Captain Oliver PERRY defeated a British force on Lake Erie, enabling Gen. william Henry HARRISON to defeat British land forces at the Thames River. Monitor vs. Memimack (1862) In the first engagement between ironclad ships, the MONITOR AND MERRIMACK, Union and Confederate vessels fought to a draw at Hampton Roads, Va. Tsushima Straits (1905) A Japanese fleet destroyed the Russian Baltic Jutland (1916) fleet British and German fleets fought the largest naval battle of World War I, which left the British in command of the seas. Pearl Harbor (1941) Japanese carrier-based planes caught the U.S. Pacific Fleet by surprise and sank or severely Mdway (1942) damaged 19 naval vessels, including 8 battleships U.S. carrier-based aircraft destroyed 4 Japanese Guadalcanal (1942) aircraft carriers. U.S. seabome forces made their first amphibious Leyte Guf (1944) invasion of a Japanese-held island. U.S. fleets destroyed what remained of Japan's naval power. The Japanese lost 3 battleships, 4 carriers, 9 destroyers, and 1 0 cruisers. wo Jima (1945) U.S. forces captured an important Japanese air base in an amphibious assault. Okinawa (1945) U.S. naval vessels suffered heavy damages from Japanese kamikaze (suicide) planes during the final amphibious invasion of World War II. Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (1982) Major naval and air encounters between British and Argentine forces, with use of long-range Exocet missiles against British ships .
