[Public-list] Master and Commander

[John Birch]

Arrrr avast - run out the guns
; )
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gordon Laco" <mainstay at csolve.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Public-list] Master and Commander


> Hi there -
>
> My copy of the surgeon's report shows him rated as Coxswain, and that he 
> was
> wounded in the right arm by a musket ball, and in the left by a grape 
> shot.
> Near the end of the boarding portion of the action there was a discharge 
> by
> one of Shannon's quarterdeck carronades that actually caused the larger
> portion of the wounds and deaths suffered on "our" side.  Aboard Shannon 
> the
> gunners did not anticipate that their compatriots would advance as rapidly
> as they did.
>
> O'Brian's novel is of course fictional but his accounts of both the
> Constitution vs Java and Shannon vs Chesapeake fights are the best I have
> read.
>
> While shooting the film I provoked fights with my American colleagues to
> trim them a little when they brought up the fledgling US Navy's early
> victories in the War of 1812 and taunted me with them.  My smug response 
> was
> to point out that in frigate to frigate fights the Royal Navy was never
> beaten by the US when the odds were even. And when they WERE even odds the
> RN won. Check it out...
>
> Did I start another fight??
>
> Gord #426 Surprise
>
>
>
>
>
>> Great  great grandfather was William Stack.Some reports say he was 
>> wounded
>> by friendly fire while on board the Chesapeake.
>> Peter Amos
>> Tait Tait #478
>>
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