To: NorseViking
Osman also figured that Nakhimov would abide by the (unwritten) rules of naval warfare, which stipulated that you couldn’t attack ships at anchorThe author never heard of Nelson's destruction of the Danish navy?
8 posted on
11/30/2019 7:18:39 AM PST by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Nelson did great but the Turks should know better from own history.
Just 80 years earlier the Russians destroyed near entire Ottoman Navy at Chesme Bay using almost the same tactics.
Ottomans lost 69 ships and the Russians 1 ship.
To: BenLurkin
The British attacked the Spanish Armada at anchor off Calais.
13 posted on
11/30/2019 10:21:26 AM PST by
Hiddigeigei
("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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