2. In reality, not only had the Chinese been using (hand-crank-powered) paddlewheel boats since the twelfth century, the first British prototype steamers in the 1780s used paddlewheels in deliberate imitation of the Chinese.
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3. Of course, the Chinese paddlewheels of 1840 were still wooden boats hand-cranked by conscripts, so they were no match for the steam-powered British ironclad. British innovation was as foreign to the Chinese as the Chinese origins of that innovation were foreign to the British.
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4. The first engagement where the Nemesis steamed into a harbor and the rest of the British fleet just hung back and blocked the exits was, basically, the naval equivalent of the scene from Rogue One where Darth Vader has the rebels trapped in a corridor. Utter massacre.
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Oh no, not another random thread prone to ratioing
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“Oriental” I’ve been trolled, by Dan, again.
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