From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 30 17: 3:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta2.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta2.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD3737C2B0 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:03:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from noslenj@swbell.net) Received: from acp.swbell.net ([209.184.1.6]) by mta2.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0FS9007L8HKM09@mta2.rcsntx.swbell.net> for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:02:57 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (noslenj@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by acp.swbell.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA00740; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:41:56 -0600 (CST envelope-from noslenj@swbell.net) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:41:56 -0600 (CST) From: Jay Nelson Subject: Re: Guns and freedom [Was: Re: On "intelligent people" and"dangers to BSD"] In-reply-to: <001d01bf9a27$80532d40$1c021740@cian.net> To: c.raven@ukonline.co.uk Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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