Korean Seaboy
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Admiral Yi-Soon-Sin. Enough said
Wasn't Far East shipbuilding superior to European standards at this time? I may be thinking of the Mongols who utilised Chinese shipbuilders. It begs the question why these nations and not the Europeans subsequently dominated the world oceans.
Well it might have been useful to reference his achievements along the strategies and technologies used between the Japanese and Korean navies at that time, since most of us are probably Euro-centric!
Wasn't Far East shipbuilding superior to European standards at this time? I may be thinking of the Mongols who utilised Chinese shipbuilders. It begs the question why these nations and not the Europeans subsequently dominated the world oceans.
Hi Monty
Now what about Napoleon getting defeated at Acre. When he attacked the fort there he got taken apart. Also there where a couple of large battles with the British in Egypt. this is where the Middlesex Regiment got nicknamed the die hards as over 600 men from that regiment who died there all suffered wounds th their front and not one was found with a wound in his back. Also I suppose that Spain and Portugal never happened
I think you are being somewhat deceptive here as his army wasn't defeated in Egypt it was cut off by the Royal Navy and starved into submission and in Russia he defeated everything the Russians threw at him except the winter.
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There is no doubt that Napoleon lost but I would happily put him in the same class as Wellington or Nelson and unlike the British Empire, French conquests were primarily against those with guns rather than sharpened sticks.
And for the record both Montgomery and Patton are examples of average Generals being made "great" by their own press.
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