Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:41:56 -0600 (CST) From: Jay Nelson <noslenj@swbell.net> To: c.raven@ukonline.co.uk Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Guns and freedom [Was: Re: On "intelligent people" and"dangers to BSD"] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10003301839520.577-100000@acp.swbell.net> In-Reply-To: <001d01bf9a27$80532d40$1c021740@cian.net>
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On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 c.raven@ukonline.co.uk wrote: >> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> >1776: >> > British Army: muskets and cannon. >> > Revolutionaries: muskets. >> >> You should probably add to that, the mortars, frigates and lancers for >> the British of that time. > > >You should perhaps _more_ importantly note the age of the British fleet of >that time, not it's size. > >The Revolutionary fleet was brand-spanking-new. The equivalent of sending a >W.W.I battleship up against the New Jersey ....... it was a damn brave show >by the British navy to fight, knowing as they did so, that they confronted >a better armed, better motivated and (sadly for them) frequently better led >naval enemy. Good point. Much like our current fleet of Apaches and Blackhawks. >This of course not to detract from the sound arse-whooping the Brits >received on more than a couple of occasions. Mind you, the white house was >torched in all this somewhere :) ... bet that's not happened for a while. Sadly, no -- and it's beginning to look like it's needed again:) -- Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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