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Tango01 | 16 Apr 2014 11:12 p.m. PST |
in the Pacific. "When we last checked in with legendary Capt. David Porter, he had successfully sailed on USS Essex around Cape Horn Feb. 14, 1814, in shorter time, in worst weather, and with less support than any of his naval heroes had done before him. Porter and his crew spent the next year whupping up on the British whaling and merchant industry in the Pacific. At least that was how Porter himself described his success in his Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean. "I had completely broken up the British navigation in the Pacific; the vessels that had not been captured by me were laid up and dare not venture out. The valuable whale fishery there is entirely destroyed and the actual injury we have done them may be estimated at 2 ½ millions of dollars, independent of the expenses of the vessels in search of me."
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Glengarry5 | 17 Apr 2014 2:00 a.m. PST |
I have little doubt without Britain's preoccupation with France the United States would not have declared war. Of course, the Americans complaints against Britain stemmed from the British economic blockade of Napoleon's Europe and the impressment of British sailors who had deserted the Royal Navy (and the occasional American non-deserter)to sail on American ships only because of this conflict. It also depended on who you were, some Americans saw the war as a chance to finally crush the resistance of the First Nations of the "old Northwest" (in which they succeeded) or the goal of "liberating" the British North American colonies from the despotic rule of the "tyrannical king" (in which they failed). Some Americans opposed the war entirely and tried to ignore it as much as possible. Indeed, British troops in Canada and Spain were fed on American beef. For some Americans it was a matter of pride, to prove themselves equal to the British in battle and to that extent they succeeded, if only after many failures. To the British it was seen as the Americans had stabbed them in the back in their greatest moment of peril. |
Glengarry5 | 17 Apr 2014 2:05 a.m. PST |
I put this in the wrong place. I tried to delete it but TMP won't let me. Sorry |
138SquadronRAF | 17 Apr 2014 2:46 p.m. PST |
Didn't end well for though since the ship ended up as HMS Essex |
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