What was the greatest victory battle in ww1 for england?
Jutland was the most important victory of the British During WW1. The simple reason for this is that, had they lost at Jutland, they would have lost the war. I believe it was Winston Churchill who said of the Commander of the British Fleet that “He is the only man who can loose the war in an afternoon.” The British did not destroy the German Navy at Jutland the way they had destroyed the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar, (in fact they lost more ships and more men than the Germans did), but in order to win they didn’t have to do that. The British already had control of the seas, they were blockading the Germans and keeping their sea lanes open. (This is eventually what won the war, more than any other single factor.) All the British had to do at Jutland was NOT LOOSE. That much they accomplishes…the German High Seas fleet did not set sail from their port again till they were sent to Scappa Flow as part of the German Surrender. Had the British fleet been destroyed at Jutland, the
