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British troops are forced to abandon Messines. The battle officially ends on 2 November, but the Germans continue to advance for a few days after that and capture Messines Ridge.
August von Mackensen is appointed to command the Ninth Army in Silesia, but it is then moved north to deal with a possible Russian invasion of Germany.
Battle of Coronel, worst British naval defeat of the First World War sees Admiral Maximilian von Spee's naval squadron ( Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Nürnberg, Leipzig and Dresden) defeat the British squadron of Admiral Christopher Cradock, sinking the cruisers HMS Monmouth and HMS Good Hope . The cruisers HMS Glasgow escapes.