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this date 1942, in French Naval History

Posted on 11/27/2017 3:51:18 PM PST by Bull Snipe

As German Army units overran the French Naval Base at Toulon France, French sailors and officers scuttled their ships to prevent them from falling into German hands. When it was over, 77 French Naval vessels, including 3 battleships, 3 heavy cruiser, 4 light cruisers, 15 destroyers and 12 submarines rest on the bottom of Toulon harbor.


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To: ZULU

An interesting one. Without the assistance of the French Navy, Washington might not have bagged Lord Cornwallis’s Army at Yorktown in 1781. Seventeen years later, we were in a Naval War the French.


41 posted on 11/28/2017 8:42:11 AM PST by Bull Snipe
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To: Bull Snipe

The one and only major victory of the French navy I believe.
It was probably the hand of God that defeated the Brits.


42 posted on 11/28/2017 10:30:52 AM PST by ZULU (DITCH MITCH!!! DUMP RYAN!! DROP DEAD MCCAIN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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To: ZULU

more like an American/French Army and a French Navy.


43 posted on 11/28/2017 12:55:48 PM PST by Bull Snipe
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To: Bull Snipe

Don’t understand how the Brits blew that one. It was a miracle for us. Battle of the Capes.


44 posted on 11/29/2017 6:59:42 AM PST by ZULU (DITCH MITCH!!! DUMP RYAN!! DROP DEAD MCCAIN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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To: ZULU

You are spot on.


45 posted on 11/29/2017 7:56:33 AM PST by Bull Snipe
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To: Bull Snipe

French Naval ships are the only ones that do flank speed in reverse.


46 posted on 11/29/2017 7:58:15 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Actually French warships always had a one or two knot advantage over their British counterparts.


47 posted on 11/29/2017 8:00:21 AM PST by Bull Snipe
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To: Bull Snipe

I was one year old!...thanks for the history.


48 posted on 11/29/2017 8:01:39 AM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: Bull Snipe

For which the Brits thanked them heartily as they generally wound up being captured and used against the French!!


49 posted on 11/29/2017 11:20:04 AM PST by ZULU (DITCH MITCH!!! DUMP RYAN!! DROP DEAD MCCAIN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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