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Currently we have 7,638 articles, 11,349 pictures, 423 maps, 958 unit histories, 2,277 book reviews and over 6,425,100 words in original articles. We don't just cover the best known conflicts, although we do have good coverage of the First and Second World Wars, the Napoleonic Wars and the American Civil War.

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HMS Hoste (1916) was a Parker class flotilla later that served with the Thirteenth Destroyer Flotilla of the Grand Fleet, but sank on 21 December 1916 after her depth charges fell overboard and exploded as a result of a collision during a Grand Fleet exercise.

We now have a day-by-day history of the Second World War, covering the 2,214 days of the war from the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 to the Japanese surrender in Hong Kong on 16 September 1945 (two weeks after the surrender in Tokyo Bay), and currently containing 5,308 individual facts.

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