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The Grand Fleet received information that the German high seas fleet would set out to sea the next day

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The British outnumbered the German

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Great Britain and Germany possessed the two most powerful fleets in the world at the time

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It involved about 250 ships and 100,000 men.

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The German fleet hoped to weaken the Royal Navy by launching an ambush on the British.

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Both sides claimed victory in this battle.

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In the afternoon of May 31, 1916.

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The Battle of Jutland started when a British naval force confronts a squadron of German ships.

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Near Skagerrak, an arm of the North Sea around 75 miles off of the Danish coast.

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The battle of Jutland was the first naval battle of WWI. 

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The countries open fire on each other.

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The German took out more men and ships.

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The gunfire destroyed two British battle cruisers, killing over 2,000 sailors. 

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The British left the German navy too diminished to put to sea during the war.

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Admiral Reinhard Scheer planned to lure both Admiral Sir David Beatty's Battlecruiser Force and Admiral Sir John Jellicoe's Grand Fleet.