FROM THAT POINT, the Royal Navy starts carrying fresh fruit, or convoying it out to ships on blockade. This is a CRITICAL FACTOR in it's dominance of the sea in the 19th Century, and why it is able to blockade France completely in the Napoleonic war. Because it can stay at sea.
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If you like near historical misses, you may like my Pristina airport incident account: https://medium.com/lapsed-historian/pristina-an-airport-too-far-42e010e19f12 … Or how a computer glitch almost made the Cold War hot: https://medium.com/lapsed-historian/the-day-the-world-didnt-end-76b9deececcc … And the rest of my history stuff is here:https://medium.com/@garius
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Oh, and HUGE shout out to
@lrbudd for reminding me about this whole element of awesome naval history in the ongoing chat about interesting history over here:https://twitter.com/garius/status/1149587770127446017 …
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ADDENDUM: (and again, thanks to
@lrbudd) you can read a proper, non-twitter article WITH SCIENCE on the scurvy thing (and its impact on the Scott expedition) here: https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm …Show this thread -
ADDED ADDENDUM If you liked this, I've also written about how the Knights Hospitaller ended up with an air force. No reallyhttps://mobile.twitter.com/garius/status/1151832864494903296 …
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MOAR ADDENDUMS Here's my look at how Orders in Council were used to help kick off the process of banning the slave trade in Britainhttps://twitter.com/garius/status/1177551865438986240 …
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First time I've heard that Quincy story. Utterly fascinating and inspiring
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Quincy was genuinely innovative, and had a heart and a brain. I loved it as a kid. The weed episode is a total shocker, though...
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There’s a really good
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