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The Minas Geraes class, spelled Minas Gerais in some sources, consisted of two battleships built for the Brazilian Navy by the British company Armstrong Whitworth. In 1904, Brazil began a major naval building program that included three 11,800-long-ton (12,000 tonne) small battleships. Designing and ordering the ships took two years, but these plans were scrapped after the revolutionary dreadnought concept rendered the Brazilian design totally obsolete. Two of these dreadnoughts were ordered instead, making Brazil became the third country to have ships of this type under construction, before traditional powers like Germany, France or Russia. As such, the ships caused quite a stir among the major countries in the world, many of whom incorrectly speculated the ships were actually destined for a rival nation. Soon after their delivery in 1910, both Minas Geraes and São Paulo were embroiled in the Revolt of the Lash, in which the crews of four Brazilian ships demanded the abolition of corporal punishment in the navy. The ships surrendered four days after it began, when a bill was passed granting amnesty to all involved. In the 1920s and 30s, they participated in multiple revolts. Minas Geraes was modernized in the 1930s, but both battleships were too old to actively participate in the Second World War, and instead were employed as harbor defense ships in Salvador and Recife. São Paulo was sold in 1951 to a British shipbreaker, but was lost in a storm north of the Azores while being towed to her final destination. Minas Geraes was sold to an Italian scrapper in 1953 and towed to Genoa the following year.

Gensui Marquis Tōgō Heihachirō, OM, GCVO (東郷 平八郎, Tōgō Heihachirō), (27 January 1848 - 30 May 1934) of the Imperial Japanese Navy was nicknamed "Nelson of the East". One of Japan's greatest naval heroes, he fought in the Anglo-Satsuma, Boshin, First Sino-Japanese, and Russo-Japanese wars. After some skirmishes at age 16, he attended the Royal Naval Academy and Old Royal Naval College before returning as a Japanese naval officer. Rising to success aboard the Japanese cruiser Naniwa, he would rise in the ranks and command the Japanese Naval War College, Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Combined Fleet, and serve as Chief of the Navy General Staff. In 1914, he tutored Crown Prince Hirohito, the future Shōwa Emperor, and would receive many honors in his retirement, such as the Orders of the Chrysanthemum, Paulownia Flowers, Sacred Treasure, Golden Kite 1st Class, and the Tōgō Shrine built after his death. In 1958, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz financed the restoration of the Japanese battleship Mikasa, Tōgō's flagship.

The American battleship Pennsylvania leads Colorado, Louisville, Portland, and Columbia into Lingayen Gulf before the landing on Luzon, Philippines in January 1945. Battleships and other big gun naval vessels that served in the Pacific Theatre during World War II were used primarily for offshore bombardment of enemy positions and as anti-aircraft screens for aircraft carriers.

The American battleship Pennsylvania leads Colorado, Louisville, Portland, and Columbia into Lingayen Gulf before the landing on Luzon, Philippines in January 1945. Battleships and other big gun naval vessels that served in the Pacific Theatre during World War II were used primarily for offshore bombardment of enemy positions and as anti-aircraft screens for aircraft carriers.

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