Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock
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September 1914
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Austrian fortress of Lemberg falls after succesful Russian attack at Gnila Lipa
The Russian Fifth Army begins to advance into a gap beween the Austrian First and Fifth Armies, heading for Rava Ruska.
Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock, commander of the North American and West Indies Station, is ordered to stay in teh South Atlantic to guard against Admiral von Spee’s East Asian squadron