French cruiser Guichen (1897)
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french-cruiser-guichen-1897-169-3036379
title:
French cruiser Guichen (1897)
text:
Guichen was a large protected cruiser built in the 1890s for the French Navy, the only member of her class. She was intended to serve as a long-range commerce raider, designed according to the theories of the Jeune École, which favored a strategy of attacking Britain's extensive merchant shipping network instead of engaging in an expensive naval arms race with the Royal Navy. As such, Guichen was built with a relatively light armament of just eight medium-caliber guns, but was given a long cruis
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description:
Protected cruiser of the French Navy
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_cruiser_Guichen_(1897)
date created:
2014-02-22T23:26:03Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T09:19:54Z
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