200th Anniversary!

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Just a little reminder that 200 years ago today, British troops captured Washington DC and burnt the Whitehouse to the ground.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington

"Throughout the history of the United States, the United Kingdom is the only country to have ever burned the White House or Washington, D.C., and this was the only time since the American Revolutionary War that a foreign power captured and occupied the United States capital"

Happy anniversary folks! :D
 
Kind of a nasty habit with you folks!

You practiced for that little stunt by burning Copenhagen to the ground in 1806.
 
You've got to get over this jealousy thing, Ed. It's not your fault you weren't born American! Stop hating on yourself - it'll just eat you up inside!

;)
 
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Well we did ask you nicely to hand over your fleet first ;)
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It was our own fault for siding with Napoleon.
Picked the wrong horse and paid the price.
That was the first time rockets were used in warfare on a bigger scale BTW. Fellow named Congreve designed a usable one and they tested it on Copenhagen.

After you guy took our whole fleet, the government issued a command to start growing oak trees like crazy, so we could build another.
It took about 4000 ( yes, that is four thousand) mature oaks to build a ship like the frigate Jylland.
We still have a lot of those so called "naval oaks" around. Sometime around 1980 a state forester wrote a letter to the admiralty and told them their trees were ripe, so it was time to get to work, rebuild the fleet and kick some British ass:lol:
 
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1980? ha. we still had aircraft carriers and Harrier aircraft, you would have had a kicking. Right about now would be a good time to do it actually....
 
That was kind of the joke, ED.
They passed the letter on to the pres and we all had a good chuckle over it.
Just picturing this grand naval fleet of wooden ships going up the thames to burn London to the ground as revenge:lol:
 
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1980? ha. we still had aircraft carriers and Harrier aircraft, you would have had a kicking. Right about now would be a good time to do it actually....
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Hasn't an aircraft carrier just been finished? The queen Elizabeth I believe.
So watch out you quarrelsome hottentots! Brittania rules the waves again.
 
Thor's Hammer said:
1980? ha. we still had aircraft carriers and Harrier aircraft, you would have had a kicking. Right about now would be a good time to do it actually....
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Hasn't an aircraft carrier just been finished? The queen Elizabeth I believe.
So watch out you quarrelsome hottentots! Brittania rules the waves again.
 
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Haha, the Joke is Stig, if you attacked now, you'd probably manage it in wooden ships. We scrapped our aircraft carriers and the new aircraft carrier is nowhere near ready, we sold all our harriers off and the F35 is nowhere near ready...
 
Interesting articles but it is hard for me to believe the US would dump mega bucks into the Gerald R Ford if it is so vulnerable to inexpensive technology like those ship missiles. Lots of bright minds thinking around the clock how to outwit the bright minds of our enemies. Seems like these minds would have an effective counter measure to those missiles, and not build something that costly which is a sitting duck.
 
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Interesting articles but it is hard for me to believe the US would dump mega bucks into the Gerald R Ford if it is so vulnerable to inexpensive technology like those ship missiles. Lots of bright minds thinking around the clock how to outwit the bright minds of our enemies. Seems like these minds would have an effective counter measure to those missiles, and not build something that costly which is a sitting duck.
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Surely its obvious to anyone that this day and age, having all that expense(aircraft etc) tied up on one ship is nothing short of a sitting duck? Carriers are nothing more than a status symbol these days if you were to face any sort of formidable enemy.
 
As it says in one of the articles, those bright minds are just hoping it'll last till they have retired with a good pension.
 
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Look at History though Cory. The Battleship was considered the state of the art weapon and impregnable. Look at how they turned out...

Asymmetric warfare is rendering them obsolete. In recent wargames, a US naval admiral in charge of force 'red' with nothing but a bunch of speedboats and fishing vessels wiped out 2 carrier force groups. The US navy did everything they could to keep that under wraps...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_K._Van_Riper


or also read this -

http://www.cuttingedge.org/news_updates/nz1839.htm
 
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