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Here from the Red Star Kennel web site the full and complete [?] story of the Black Russian terrier.
The war dog of choice for first the Soviet and now the Russian military.
The product of Red Star Kennels very selective breeding program.
[Red Star at one time providing prodigious numbers of guard dogs for the GULAG? This might be so. Dogs chosen and bred for viciousness and needed in enormous numbers during the time of Stalin!]
The Black Russian terrier a mix of various breeds carefully chosen for specifice traits and characteristics that would make for a good war dog.
NOT necessarily a KILLER but a war dog able to perform a variety of functions vital to a military effort.
But NOT a vicious killer, that is clear.
That original Giant schnauzer stud dog Roy mixed with with a rottweiler.
The final mix of Black Russian terrier resembling the schnauzer, rottweiler, airedale.
A dog large in size, about 100-120 pounds, a minimum of fifty Kilograms,
NOT a dog easily carried as is the Malinois.
That Black Russian terrier guard dog, a sentry dog, a mine detecting dog, and perhaps an attack dog able to KILL on command [?].
Appear to be a shaggy hairy dog that is not suited for hot climates? That is what the appearance is to me.
A dog definitely requiring:
* A strong alpha master.
* Lots of grooming.
* Lots of exercise.
[Dogs of all creatures so studied when at a pace, running, the only animal becoming stronger the further and further it runs. Man and horses not able to compete over such a long distance as the dog. Dogs not having sweat glands and panting to dissipate heat but able to pursue a prey as not other animal can!!]
Puppies now available in the U.S. but I would have to think for persons ONLY that know to handle and care for a dog and are willing to devote a lot of time to the critter.You must dominate this dog and not the other way around.
coolbert.
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Armor.
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Here with some additional armor, tracked and wheeled and semi-wheeled vehicles that could be added to the inventory of the "Drive A Tank" "experience". Something different indeed. NOT but merely a British Chieftain available to drive but also:
American M113 armored personnel carrier. As with the ACAV in Vietnam.
French Panhard wheeled armored car. This particular version with 90 mm gun.
American World War Two era M3 half-track.
Soviet era tank T54.
South African Buffel wheeled armored personnel carrier.
Participants of the "Drive A Tank" experience able to choose from a greater variety.
That course as driven either cross country or road-bound or a combination thereof, through mud and fording small man-made watercourses, up and down hills, crossing trench lines and breaking through walled barriers, etc. Smashing fifty gallon drums flat, bash an automobile out of the way [or crushing that auto flat!]. Put human manikins [dressed in military uniform] in the your path and run them over.
You take your pick.
For each and every armored vehicle, again, a CONEX full of spare parts needed.
And the rougher the ride more maintenance needed, the ride hard on the body, protection for the head a must. One severe jostle and you can split your noggin open instantly on the thick bulk head of one of those vehicles!!
Drive day or night during hours of darkness using either active infra-red or passive night vision devices for visibility.
All sorts of ways this can be done.
And also no main guns allowed. Maybe mounted but disabled not fire-able.
That T-54, Panhard, and M113 for example I would have to think a whole lot of nations the world over having surplus tanks and other armor for sale at a good price.
Devoted readers to the blog can suggest other armor that can be added to my meagre selection? Let me hear from you!
coolbert.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
War Dog?
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Thanks to RIANovosti and the tip from DEC we have the story of the Russian war dog.
A new breed of war dog unusual as are most things Russian.
The Soviet before them and now the Russian approach to military problems quite often unique and not in keeping with convention.
This is the Russian black terrier.
"‘Stalin’s Dogs’ Join Russian Army"
Red Star kennels mixing a bunch of different breeds to produce the Russian black terrier, now in training for duty with the Russian Army, again a UNIQUE ANIMAL NOT SEEN IN WESTERN DOG-LOVING CIRCLES! For a time even the very existence of this dog was a state secret unknown to the "west"?
"the black Russian terrier, which was produced from a mix of about 20 breeds such as the Giant Schnauzer, the Rottweiler, the Newfoundland and the Caucasian Ovcharka. The breed has been available to Russian pet lovers since the 1950s, though it remains rare outside the country."
That giant Alsatian dog, the German shepherd always thought to be the ideal war dog able to perform military service in the most desirable manner no longer seen as so perfect?
That malinois breed for instance used by French and now American military units that incorporate dogs into the TO and E.
A major consideration being a canine that if necessary can be picked up and carried by one man, the handler!
This too a consideration with the Russian black terrier?
The Russian and prior to that the Soviet military NEVER slavishly copying or imitating the western model but rather devising their OWN solutions, according to their estimate of the situation and criteria they deem as important.
coolbert.
Thanks to RIANovosti and the tip from DEC we have the story of the Russian war dog.
A new breed of war dog unusual as are most things Russian.
The Soviet before them and now the Russian approach to military problems quite often unique and not in keeping with convention.
This is the Russian black terrier.
"‘Stalin’s Dogs’ Join Russian Army"
Red Star kennels mixing a bunch of different breeds to produce the Russian black terrier, now in training for duty with the Russian Army, again a UNIQUE ANIMAL NOT SEEN IN WESTERN DOG-LOVING CIRCLES! For a time even the very existence of this dog was a state secret unknown to the "west"?
"the black Russian terrier, which was produced from a mix of about 20 breeds such as the Giant Schnauzer, the Rottweiler, the Newfoundland and the Caucasian Ovcharka. The breed has been available to Russian pet lovers since the 1950s, though it remains rare outside the country."
That giant Alsatian dog, the German shepherd always thought to be the ideal war dog able to perform military service in the most desirable manner no longer seen as so perfect?
That malinois breed for instance used by French and now American military units that incorporate dogs into the TO and E.
A major consideration being a canine that if necessary can be picked up and carried by one man, the handler!
This too a consideration with the Russian black terrier?
The Russian and prior to that the Soviet military NEVER slavishly copying or imitating the western model but rather devising their OWN solutions, according to their estimate of the situation and criteria they deem as important.
coolbert.
Tank.
This is coolbert:
Thanks to the tip from National Public Radio [NPR] we have the story of the American entrepreneur offering the experience and "thrill" of driving a military tank.
American businessman from Minnesota USA purchasing British scrapped Chieftain tanks those customers for a considerable but do-able price able to drive a main battle tank.
This is: "DRIVE A TANK"
For a fee the military wannabee can sit at the wheel of a Chieftain and under tutelage and supervision drive the tank through a course and FOR AN ADDITIONAL FEE CRUSH AN AUTOMOBILE.
Some would suggest that is something "ONLY in America"?
Or, for an additional fee, fire on a closed range automatic weapons, that light machine gun as was used by American forces during World War Two and Korea.
"Do something different" is not an understatement?
Comments:
* I would hope that a lot of safety is practiced here. Tanks even during peace time kill or injure a lot of ground troops during maneuvers, even when precautions taken. Those tanks ARE DANGEROUS UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES.
* I hope the owner has a bunch of CONEX with a lot of spare parts. Tanks by nature operate on rough terrain and are very subject to breakdown. Spare parts for these scrapped Chieftains are available? Purchase eight tanks for customers to drive and four more tanks merely for spare parts at your disposal.
* Again, safety should be a major concern! A lot of jostling inside one of those tanks under most circumstances and head gear, a helmet with face protection is a MUST! Ground guides needed when in tight quarters at all times.
* The main guns of these tanks are inoperable. It might be fun to fire the main gun once but consider that the cost thirty years ago each and every time one round was fired from the Chieftain was $3,000 U.S.!!!
* It appears that among the armored tracked vehicles is a British self-propelled gun. Other tracked armored vehicles are available as well! THE AMERICAN MILITARY DOES NOT SELL SCRAP OR OBSOLETE ARMOR TO THE PUBLIC!!
Too bad.
Yet once more, this is type of thing, only in America??
coolbert.
"Do something different!"
Thanks to the tip from National Public Radio [NPR] we have the story of the American entrepreneur offering the experience and "thrill" of driving a military tank.
American businessman from Minnesota USA purchasing British scrapped Chieftain tanks those customers for a considerable but do-able price able to drive a main battle tank.
This is: "DRIVE A TANK"
For a fee the military wannabee can sit at the wheel of a Chieftain and under tutelage and supervision drive the tank through a course and FOR AN ADDITIONAL FEE CRUSH AN AUTOMOBILE.
Some would suggest that is something "ONLY in America"?
Or, for an additional fee, fire on a closed range automatic weapons, that light machine gun as was used by American forces during World War Two and Korea.
"Do something different" is not an understatement?
Comments:
* I would hope that a lot of safety is practiced here. Tanks even during peace time kill or injure a lot of ground troops during maneuvers, even when precautions taken. Those tanks ARE DANGEROUS UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES.
* I hope the owner has a bunch of CONEX with a lot of spare parts. Tanks by nature operate on rough terrain and are very subject to breakdown. Spare parts for these scrapped Chieftains are available? Purchase eight tanks for customers to drive and four more tanks merely for spare parts at your disposal.
* Again, safety should be a major concern! A lot of jostling inside one of those tanks under most circumstances and head gear, a helmet with face protection is a MUST! Ground guides needed when in tight quarters at all times.
* The main guns of these tanks are inoperable. It might be fun to fire the main gun once but consider that the cost thirty years ago each and every time one round was fired from the Chieftain was $3,000 U.S.!!!
* It appears that among the armored tracked vehicles is a British self-propelled gun. Other tracked armored vehicles are available as well! THE AMERICAN MILITARY DOES NOT SELL SCRAP OR OBSOLETE ARMOR TO THE PUBLIC!!
Too bad.
Yet once more, this is type of thing, only in America??
coolbert.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Mt. Hermon.
This is coolbert:
From a comment to the blog by Moshe:
"About Golani's unit 51. I was in that unit from 1971-1974 after intensive training we were on the very edge of the suez Canal, then Gaza, more training and Israel in 1973 was attacked . . . I was in the north. It was our unit 51 which captured the Hermon mountain . . . 44 of about 280 soldiers were killed within a short time during that fierce battle"
"Mount Hermon . . . is a mountain cluster in the Anti-Lebanon mountain range. Its summit straddles the border between Syria and Lebanon"
Mount Hermon DOMINANT TERRAIN FROM THE MILITARY STANDPOINT!!
So much so in the manner of say a Monte Cassino. during World War Two [WW2].
Dominant in that the military force occupying the summit and heights of Mount Hermon said to have a distinct and overwhelming advantage.
Mount Hermon the summit and heights captured by the Israeli during the Six Day War [1967], the Israeli military understanding instantly the vital importance of the summit and heights and occupying same, AN OUTPOST ESTABLISHED without delay!!
Radar, signal, intelligence personnel, not combat arms troops manning the various facilities in place, Mount Hermon the summit and heights now having a significance deemed of extraordinary importance to the Israeli!
"The Hermon outpost was considered strategically important for several reasons, such as: gathering early warning information, real-time Intelligence collection, conducting electronic warfare (EW) against ground or air attack, artillery spotting on the Damascus Plain, using the Hermon ridge and its western slopes for a strategic flanking move toward Syria, conducting operations in Syria and Lebanon and commanding Israel's main water sources."
"it was used as a radar outpost, housing some of the IDF's most sensitive and secret electronic equipment . . . The troops manning the Hermon outpost could view the entire Syrian plain"
Mount Hermon dominant terrain to say the least. A mountain the summit and heights it is believed where the Transfiguration of JESUS occurred!!
During the very initial stages of the Yom Kippur/Ramadan War of 1973, those Israeli personnel high at the summit of Mt. Hermon finding themselves in an impossible situation. NOT trained, equipped, or mentally prepared to fight, attacked upon by the BEST infantry of the Syrian army, air assault paratroopers! Israeli troops normally highly regarded NOT able to defend their installations and equipment, personnel and vital equipment more or less captured intact.
ISRAELI FORCES NOT POSSESSING THE PHYSICAL, MENTAL, OR PSYCHOLOGICAL WHEREWITHAL TO DEFEND THEIR POSITIONS A DEBACLE THE CONSEQUENCES OF WHICH MOST SERIOUS.
1. "The First Battle of Mount Hermon was fought at the outset of the Yom Kippur War between the Syrian Army and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). On Yom Kippur, October 6 1973, Syrian commandos attacked and captured the IDF outpost on Mount Hermon."
2. "The Second Battle of Mount Hermon was fought on October 8, 1973, during the Yom Kippur War between the Syrian Army and the Israeli Army.
3. "The Third Battle of Mount Hermon was fought on the night of October 21–22, 1973, between the Israeli Army and the Syrian Army over Mount Hermon, during the last days of the Yom Kippur War"
Golani brigade of the Israeli army engaged during the Second and Third Battle of Mount Hermon, a tested and ready combat arms unit the esprit, preparation, and mental wherewithal for the military mission in marked contrast to those Israeli forces engaged during the First Battle of Mount Hermon.
Thanks to Golani the summit and heights of Mt. Hermon once again dominant terrain occupied by Israeli forces.
These events of the Yom Kippur/Ramadan War as occurred for the contested ground of Mt. Hermon reminding me of the USS Pueblo and Site 85.
American military personnel [naval and air force] also on two occasions placed into an impossible situation, not equipped or trained, mentally and psychologically unprepared for combat, sailors and airmen having to confront a very determined and well armed adversary, the BEST the enemy could muster!!
In both instances also debacle being the result.
The USS Pueblo, crew and gear more or less captured intact, those prisoners of the North Koreans subject to a harsh and brutal regimen of capture. Site 85 that last airman having only recently more than forty years later being awarded the Medal of Honor for heroics body-not-recovered [BNR]!!
The high command having made estimates of the situation that proved to be invalid, catastrophe the result, much to the detriment of all involved.
coolbert.
From a comment to the blog by Moshe:
"About Golani's unit 51. I was in that unit from 1971-1974 after intensive training we were on the very edge of the suez Canal, then Gaza, more training and Israel in 1973 was attacked . . . I was in the north. It was our unit 51 which captured the Hermon mountain . . . 44 of about 280 soldiers were killed within a short time during that fierce battle"
"Mount Hermon . . . is a mountain cluster in the Anti-Lebanon mountain range. Its summit straddles the border between Syria and Lebanon"
Mount Hermon DOMINANT TERRAIN FROM THE MILITARY STANDPOINT!!
So much so in the manner of say a Monte Cassino. during World War Two [WW2].
Dominant in that the military force occupying the summit and heights of Mount Hermon said to have a distinct and overwhelming advantage.
Mount Hermon the summit and heights captured by the Israeli during the Six Day War [1967], the Israeli military understanding instantly the vital importance of the summit and heights and occupying same, AN OUTPOST ESTABLISHED without delay!!
Radar, signal, intelligence personnel, not combat arms troops manning the various facilities in place, Mount Hermon the summit and heights now having a significance deemed of extraordinary importance to the Israeli!
"The Hermon outpost was considered strategically important for several reasons, such as: gathering early warning information, real-time Intelligence collection, conducting electronic warfare (EW) against ground or air attack, artillery spotting on the Damascus Plain, using the Hermon ridge and its western slopes for a strategic flanking move toward Syria, conducting operations in Syria and Lebanon and commanding Israel's main water sources."
"it was used as a radar outpost, housing some of the IDF's most sensitive and secret electronic equipment . . . The troops manning the Hermon outpost could view the entire Syrian plain"
Mount Hermon dominant terrain to say the least. A mountain the summit and heights it is believed where the Transfiguration of JESUS occurred!!
During the very initial stages of the Yom Kippur/Ramadan War of 1973, those Israeli personnel high at the summit of Mt. Hermon finding themselves in an impossible situation. NOT trained, equipped, or mentally prepared to fight, attacked upon by the BEST infantry of the Syrian army, air assault paratroopers! Israeli troops normally highly regarded NOT able to defend their installations and equipment, personnel and vital equipment more or less captured intact.
ISRAELI FORCES NOT POSSESSING THE PHYSICAL, MENTAL, OR PSYCHOLOGICAL WHEREWITHAL TO DEFEND THEIR POSITIONS A DEBACLE THE CONSEQUENCES OF WHICH MOST SERIOUS.
1. "The First Battle of Mount Hermon was fought at the outset of the Yom Kippur War between the Syrian Army and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). On Yom Kippur, October 6 1973, Syrian commandos attacked and captured the IDF outpost on Mount Hermon."
2. "The Second Battle of Mount Hermon was fought on October 8, 1973, during the Yom Kippur War between the Syrian Army and the Israeli Army.
3. "The Third Battle of Mount Hermon was fought on the night of October 21–22, 1973, between the Israeli Army and the Syrian Army over Mount Hermon, during the last days of the Yom Kippur War"
Golani brigade of the Israeli army engaged during the Second and Third Battle of Mount Hermon, a tested and ready combat arms unit the esprit, preparation, and mental wherewithal for the military mission in marked contrast to those Israeli forces engaged during the First Battle of Mount Hermon.
Thanks to Golani the summit and heights of Mt. Hermon once again dominant terrain occupied by Israeli forces.
These events of the Yom Kippur/Ramadan War as occurred for the contested ground of Mt. Hermon reminding me of the USS Pueblo and Site 85.
American military personnel [naval and air force] also on two occasions placed into an impossible situation, not equipped or trained, mentally and psychologically unprepared for combat, sailors and airmen having to confront a very determined and well armed adversary, the BEST the enemy could muster!!
In both instances also debacle being the result.
The USS Pueblo, crew and gear more or less captured intact, those prisoners of the North Koreans subject to a harsh and brutal regimen of capture. Site 85 that last airman having only recently more than forty years later being awarded the Medal of Honor for heroics body-not-recovered [BNR]!!
The high command having made estimates of the situation that proved to be invalid, catastrophe the result, much to the detriment of all involved.
coolbert.
Monday, July 2, 2012
Kempka.
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From the comment to the blog and my original response:
"Don't be such a neocon. They let Hilter's driver go after the war. The whole thing is absurd." - - Dave G.
It appears I am wrong here.
My failings must be addressed and quick too.
Originally I had thought that the man in question as the personal chaufffeur of Adolf Hitler was Emil Maurice.
This IS NOT CORRECT.
Was another SS Mann - - Erich Kempka.
"SS-Obersturmbannführer Erich Kempka . . . served as Adolf Hitler's chauffeur from 1934 to April, 1945. He was SS member #2,803"
"29 February 1932 . . . he was tasked as a reserve driver for Hitler's personal entourage . . . In 1936, he replaced Julius Schreck as Hitler's primary chauffeur and chief of his car fleet"
A fleet of forty vehicles at the disposal of Hitler, ready at any moment to move. So the task of primary driver entailed more than just being at the wheel!
Emil Maurice for a time after the imprisonment of Hitler in the Landsberg prison [Maurice also incarcerated at the same time and place] indeed the chauffeur but NOT during the war years and even NOT for a period of those three years prior to 1939.
"Maurice became Hitler's chauffeur. He reportedly had a brief relationship with Geli Raubal, Hitler's niece, and lost his job as Hitler's chauffeur."
Kempka captured by the American military 1945 and interrogated but not standing trial, no charges lodged. THE DEFENSE AT THE TRIAL OF SALIM HAMDAN CITING THIS PRECEDENT WITHOUT AVAIL!!
"At the 2008 military trial for Osama bin-Laden's driver, Salim Hamdan, the defense argued for his innocence, noting that Kempka was not tried as a war criminal for being a chauffeur for Hitler."
I was wrong but not so totally so!
I stand corrected and am glad to share this with all devoted readers to the blog.
Veracity of my comments confirmed and we are all so much the better for it too!!
As has been stated before, the German word fuerher often translated as "leader" but rather more correctly understood as "driver", the man at the wheel and controlling the direction!!
Well, he [Hitler] was that, wasn't he?
coolbert.
From the comment to the blog and my original response:
"Don't be such a neocon. They let Hilter's driver go after the war. The whole thing is absurd." - - Dave G.
It appears I am wrong here.
My failings must be addressed and quick too.
Originally I had thought that the man in question as the personal chaufffeur of Adolf Hitler was Emil Maurice.
This IS NOT CORRECT.
Was another SS Mann - - Erich Kempka.
"SS-Obersturmbannführer Erich Kempka . . . served as Adolf Hitler's chauffeur from 1934 to April, 1945. He was SS member #2,803"
"29 February 1932 . . . he was tasked as a reserve driver for Hitler's personal entourage . . . In 1936, he replaced Julius Schreck as Hitler's primary chauffeur and chief of his car fleet"
A fleet of forty vehicles at the disposal of Hitler, ready at any moment to move. So the task of primary driver entailed more than just being at the wheel!
Emil Maurice for a time after the imprisonment of Hitler in the Landsberg prison [Maurice also incarcerated at the same time and place] indeed the chauffeur but NOT during the war years and even NOT for a period of those three years prior to 1939.
"Maurice became Hitler's chauffeur. He reportedly had a brief relationship with Geli Raubal, Hitler's niece, and lost his job as Hitler's chauffeur."
Kempka captured by the American military 1945 and interrogated but not standing trial, no charges lodged. THE DEFENSE AT THE TRIAL OF SALIM HAMDAN CITING THIS PRECEDENT WITHOUT AVAIL!!
"At the 2008 military trial for Osama bin-Laden's driver, Salim Hamdan, the defense argued for his innocence, noting that Kempka was not tried as a war criminal for being a chauffeur for Hitler."
I was wrong but not so totally so!
I stand corrected and am glad to share this with all devoted readers to the blog.
Veracity of my comments confirmed and we are all so much the better for it too!!
As has been stated before, the German word fuerher often translated as "leader" but rather more correctly understood as "driver", the man at the wheel and controlling the direction!!
Well, he [Hitler] was that, wasn't he?
coolbert.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
1812.
This is coolbert:
Quick! Answer this question for me. In what year did the War of 1812 begin?
For some reason this is the type of question the answer of which seems to elude most Amereican history students?
That bicentenniel now [200 years] not getting much of a response in the U.S. but much more so in Canada. Thanks to both Salon and USA Today for the articles!
"The War of 1812 gave us the first 'hawks' in U.S. history"
"War of 1812 bicentennial: USA shrugs as Canada goes all out"
"To grossly generalize: Canadians, whose forebears helped repulse several U.S. invasions in 1812, regard the war that began 200 years ago Monday as a crucible of national identity. For them, its bicentennial is a big deal."
Canadians for the first time during the War of 1812 seeing themselves as a distinct people, North Americans British oriented and retaining a loyalty to the crown in a manner the American did not. Canada no longer strictly mercantile, Rupert's Land and the Hudson's Bay Company.
"It began with a declaration of war by Americans who did not realize, because word traveled by sea, that the British government had granted some of their key demands several days earlier."
A war that began over questions of American merchant sailors being impressed into military service by the British. American civilian vessels stopped on the high seas, those U.S. citizens against their will forced to man the war ships of the Royal Navy [RN]. A war that need have occurred to begin with.
Conclusion of the war generally accepted to be a draw, neither side able to prevail over the other in the traditional and unconditional sense, negotiated settlement bringing an end to a war that NEED NOT HAVE HAPPENED!
And a war that ended with two notable American victories, IN BOTH INSTANCES COMBAT OCCURRING TWO WEEKS AFTER HOSTILITIES HAD OFFICIALLY ENDED.
[1. The Battle of New Orleans. 2. The USS Peacock capturing the HMS Nautilus in the Sunda Strait.]
Such was the speed [lack of] communication at the time those war makers and war fighters were not aware of what had transpired and acted according to what they knew at that exact moment, actions and events to the contrary notwithstanding!!
C'est le vie and c'est le guerre!!
coolbert.
Quick! Answer this question for me. In what year did the War of 1812 begin?
For some reason this is the type of question the answer of which seems to elude most Amereican history students?
That bicentenniel now [200 years] not getting much of a response in the U.S. but much more so in Canada. Thanks to both Salon and USA Today for the articles!
"The War of 1812 gave us the first 'hawks' in U.S. history"
"War of 1812 bicentennial: USA shrugs as Canada goes all out"
"To grossly generalize: Canadians, whose forebears helped repulse several U.S. invasions in 1812, regard the war that began 200 years ago Monday as a crucible of national identity. For them, its bicentennial is a big deal."
Canadians for the first time during the War of 1812 seeing themselves as a distinct people, North Americans British oriented and retaining a loyalty to the crown in a manner the American did not. Canada no longer strictly mercantile, Rupert's Land and the Hudson's Bay Company.
"It began with a declaration of war by Americans who did not realize, because word traveled by sea, that the British government had granted some of their key demands several days earlier."
A war that began over questions of American merchant sailors being impressed into military service by the British. American civilian vessels stopped on the high seas, those U.S. citizens against their will forced to man the war ships of the Royal Navy [RN]. A war that need have occurred to begin with.
Conclusion of the war generally accepted to be a draw, neither side able to prevail over the other in the traditional and unconditional sense, negotiated settlement bringing an end to a war that NEED NOT HAVE HAPPENED!
And a war that ended with two notable American victories, IN BOTH INSTANCES COMBAT OCCURRING TWO WEEKS AFTER HOSTILITIES HAD OFFICIALLY ENDED.
[1. The Battle of New Orleans. 2. The USS Peacock capturing the HMS Nautilus in the Sunda Strait.]
Such was the speed [lack of] communication at the time those war makers and war fighters were not aware of what had transpired and acted according to what they knew at that exact moment, actions and events to the contrary notwithstanding!!
C'est le vie and c'est le guerre!!
coolbert.
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