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"In 1839 [...] the United States had already defeated Britain’s navy in two wars" This statement is wrong and trivially falsifiable. Perhaps the author meant t
by hyko 3mo ago
"In 1839 [...] the United States had already defeated Britain’s navy in two wars"
This statement is wrong and trivially falsifiable. Perhaps the author meant that the U.S. had by that point won some naval battles against the British?
- fusslo 3mo agoyeah, it's worded strangely; as if both conflicts were exclusively/divisively maritime. Which is a shame because the role of the Colonial Navy and later the U.S. Navy in the war of independence and later in the War of 1812 is actually fascinating and often overlooked John Paul Jones, for example had an amazing (as in interesting, not 'goodly') life ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Jones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Jones ) And the Battle of Lake Erie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Erie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Erie
- mapt 3mo agoI completely fail to recall that time we burned down Buckingham Palace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington We did flex quite a bit on lesser powers, though, even in the 1800s. The US Navy was infamously rebuilt after the revolution to fight a war against Tripoli. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_corsairs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_corsairs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Wars Before the end of the century we'd fought a hundred or so largely forgotten wars. Who remembers that time we invaded Korea? No, the other one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_expedition_to_Korea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_expedition_to_Ko... Or Fiji? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1858_Fiji_expedition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1858_Fiji_expedition Or New Orleans? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811_German_Coast_uprising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811_German_Coast_uprising