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To: SAMWolf

Ah, yes, I was not including DeGrasse's men. Likely the fleet had roughly 25,000 crewmen. This was an all out French naval effort. Worked just fine.

Was trying to figure out how I had missed such a large number of French infantry, artillery, cavalry, etc.!!! Logistics would have been real difficult for a force like that there and then.


67 posted on 05/26/2005 12:34:01 PM PDT by Iris7 ("War means fighting, and fighting means killing." - Bedford Forrest)
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To: Iris7

I believe that french ships of the line during that time had crews of around 800. That's a lot of men in 37 ships. ;-)


68 posted on 05/26/2005 1:23:16 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Another beautiful theory, killed by a nasty, ugly, little fact.)
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