| Nate Ellefson on Sun, 12 Dec 2004 23:28:41 -0600 (CST) |
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| RE: [eia] Napoleonic Naval Site |
I'll insert a little follow-on to Mike's observation regarding the success of the Royal Navy : Theodore Roosevelt wrote what I think is still widely held to be the premier analysis of the naval conflict in the War of 1812. In it, he notes that during the 20 years preceding 1812 there were over 200 one-on-one battles between a British ship and a ship of another nationality in which the nominally weakest ship was no less than half the strength of the more powerful vessel. (Roosevelt spent some time developing metrics to assess the relative strength of warships.) Roosevelt noted that of those 200 battles over 20 years the British ship was defeated in only five. Certainly not all of the others resulted in the British capturing or destroying their opponent, but disparity was nevertheless huge. He goes on to gloat (yes, gloat) that in 1812 the British subsequently went 0 for 5 against the Americans, losing three frigates and two sloops. Say it with me: USA! USA! USA! Here's Roosevelt's book on Project Gutenberg. It's good stuff historically, as well as a very insightful example of how writing standards have changed over the centuries. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9104 > -----Original Message----- > From: eia-bounces@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:eia-bounces@xxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Michael Gorman > Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 10:34 PM > To: public list for an Empires in Arms game > Subject: [eia] Napoleonic Naval Site > > > I was looking around for an online copy of the Royal Navy > Lists for the > Napoleonic Era and while I've only found a complete list for > 1805, the site > has a great listing of Naval losses for a long period and for several > nations. You can really see the intensity of the commerce > war and also the > dominance of the British in actions involving anything of the > Frigate class > and higher. > http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html Thought you might like it, Mike _______________________________________________ eia mailing list eia@xxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/eia _______________________________________________ eia mailing list eia@xxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/eia