BJ Armstrong

@WWATMD

What Would AT Mahan Do? Navalist, rotorhead, PhD Cand, editor 21st Century Foundations , Senior Editor - Personal opinions

Southeast of Disorder
Joined March 2013

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  2. Need a GIF fm tonites of Cheryl at the end explaining how to determine if this is a pirate ship or not...leather bound book, etc

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    : "Any assertion that there is a disconnect between and the is simply not true."

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    "Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head"

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    Lieut. Berkeley Milne was 'ordered to drink nothing but champagne' when suffering fever following the Anglo-Zulu War. Beat that, Churchill.

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    to one of the first matches ever, in the early 80s. We're not 100% sure which year this was - does anyone know…

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    WTF!? says Britannia didn't rule the waves!

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    So there we go. Did we learn anything? My favourite fact is No.6.

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    13/10 the last shot of the war was fired between warships at the battle of Cuddalore in the Bay of Bengal on 20 June 1783. hmm.

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    12/10 [I know] 12.The result of the war - the Independence of America - was uncertain until the very last moment

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    11/10 Royal Navy was responsible for numerous large-scale civilian evacuations which dramatically re-shaped the Atlantic world.

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    9/10 The most important people in Washington's army were sailors, not soldiers.

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    8/10 Washington's 'Crossing of the Delaware' is a misnomer. He did not cross it once but FOUR times.

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    7/10 The British repeatedly prioritised the fate of Gibraltar over the American colonies. Hmmm.

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    6/10 The British dragged an entire fleet, in pieces, up a river, up a waterfall and through a forest to control an inland lake.

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    5/10 There were more large scale naval actions fought in the American Revolutionary War than in any other naval war of the period

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    3/10 (best fact of them all) The American Revolution involved no fewer than twenty-two (yes! 22) separate navies.

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    I don’t make this crazy shit up.

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    3/10 The 1st naval action between UK and Fr led to new hairstyle in which women wore a large model of a battleship in their hair

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