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  1. Achilles as in HMS Achilles, a 74 gun battleship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, or HMS (later HMNZS) Achilles, a light cruiser at the River Plate, Guadalcanal, and Okinawa in WW2. A much more illustrious name for a new RN warship than Agincourt is, or ever could be.
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  2. Of course he did. He was also responsible for the Black Death, the Thirty Years' War, and the Peterloo Massacre. Subsequently, he was probably Jack the Ripper as well. Clearly, a complex variety of factors, such as loss of rice imports from Japanese captured areas, the large number of refugees entering Bengal, the rising population of Bengal itself, price inflation imposed by wealthier (in the main, Indian) farmers, the refusal of FDR to permit diversion of shipping space, and the inadequate response of the government of Bengal itself, had nothing to do with it. The worst Churchill can be accused of is not concentrating his attention on Bengal. After all, in 1943, it isn't as if he had anything else to occupy his mind, is it? Clearly, he and his advisors should have realized that the Bengal government reports that the famine was grossly exaggerated were false. He did, in October, 1943, give control of relief efforts to the British Indian Army, and he diverted grain shipments from Australia, both measures which improved the situation, but I suppose that that was part of his evil master plan as well?
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  3. Presumably, naval warfare isn't your strong point. Firstly, when an 11 inch gunned ship encounters an eight inch gunned ship, supported by two 6 inch gunned ships whose guns cannot penetrate the armour anyway, there should really only be one winner. Secondly, the Graf Spee used up so much ammunition that she would have been unable to fight a successful surface action against Cumberland had she left Montevideo. Thirdly, her fuel purification had been disabled, and she had only enough fuel available for 24 hours in any case. All in all, the first of a series of failures by the German surface fleet in WW2. In this case, a ship supposedly armoured well enough to resist 8 inch shellfire proved herself to be nothing of the kind. You are, however, correct about Exeter. Langsdorff should have completed her sinking. Not because of your immature comment about body count, but because of the problem this would have given Harwood concerning whether to disengage and pick up survivors, or continue his pursuit of Greaf Spee.
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  4. He was neither 'stumbling' nor 'at a loss for words.' Whether his arguments were credible or not, your allegations, presumably based on your personal prejudice, are simply invalid.
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  5.  @HistoryHustle  My mistake. The comment was addressed to McMaster. I have now transferred it. I apologise!
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  6.  @philiphumphrey1548  Don't forget the Mediterranean. You can only fight what is put up against you. There is, of course, the big one, won by the Canadian & British navies with air support. The Battle of the Atlantic.
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