Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "History Buffs: Master and Commander" video.

  1. I suspect that the makers decided that a British warship engaging and defeating a larger US one, as in the book, would probably not play well with the target audience.
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  2.  @Buledoyanmotor  The English didn't burn Joan of Arc. As to Bonaparte, studies published in 2007 and 2008 dismissed evidence of arsenic poisoning, and confirmed evidence of peptic ulcer and gastric cancer as the cause of death.
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  3.  @Buledoyanmotor  Isn't that rather like saying that, in land warfare, one army attacking another shouldn't attack without giving the defending army sufficient time to get ready? Good heavens, sir, it just isn't cricket!
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  4. Hardly a cheap copy. O'Brian's books use period language and, by all accounts, are truer to the period than Forester's.
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  5. The masts will be replaced. Considerable work in being carried out on Victory as her hull is in poor condition.
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  6. Nelson did at Cape St. Vincent.
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  7. Correct. There should only be two stumps, by the way. I mentioned this to my wife when we saw it in the cinema, and was told to stop grumbling!
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  8. The earliest recorded use of the word 'Yankee' was in 1758, when General James Wolfe used it in reference to soldiers from New England under his command.
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