The Battle of the Falkland Islands was a First World War naval action between the British Royal Navy and Imperial German Navy on 8 December 1914 in the South Atlantic.
After the German at Coronel the previous month, Admiral von Spee planned to destroy the British coaling station at Port Stanley on East Falkland in the South Atlantic. Spee found a much superior British force in port as he approached. Within hours he was dead.
The Battle of the Falkland Islands has been called the most decisive naval battle of the war, because it gave a great morale boost to the Allied war effort at a dire time