Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 06:25:10 -0500 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Guns and freedom [Was: Re: On "intelligent people" and"dangers to BSD"] Message-ID: <38E48B16.C0C97640@mail.ptd.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10003291834410.935-100000@acp.swbell.net> <001d01bf9a27$80532d40$1c021740@cian.net>
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c.raven@ukonline.co.uk wrote: > > 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. The American fleet was virtually non-existent. The first batch of ships were converted merchantmen. The second batch of 13 were built as warships, but only 9 ever saw the sea, and several of the remainder were taken almost at once. Technologically there was not much difference between the ships on each side. > 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. That was in 1814, not during the Revolution. The White House wasn't built until 1801 or so. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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