Comments by "Taxi Rob" (@taxirob2248) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1. I feel like the Continental System could have survived with liberal trade terms. France could have effectively founded the EU 175 years earlier, and they could have been trade peers with the existing British Empire rather than adversaries. Too bad Napoleon was doing the same old wealth-extraction-from-client-states model. If everyone was making money, no one would have complained.
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  2. 100% Gensoul's fault. He had standing orders that included the option of moving the fleet to US waters.
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  3. Hannibal.. have you heard of this guy?
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  4.  @Jakob_DK  Darlan was on holiday so he put out standing orders. One option was to go to US waters and be interred. The French West Indies wasn't one of his official options, but it was what the British fleet offered, and it was even better from an autonomy viewpoint than surrendering to US internment. The British fleet was being extremely generous and also hoping to get the French fleet to join Allied operations later on. BUT they would not have harmed the French if they had complied with internment and later chose not to join anti-Nazi operations. The guy on site and in charge of the French fleet was an asshole, case closed.
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  5.  @johnallen7807  Darlan wasn't even there. Agree Somerville had no choice though.
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  6.  @Jakob_DK  "@Jakob_DK 14 hours ago En Mers el Kebir the options given were Internment or battle with UK. Internment either in UK or in US waters. The option of safe passage to joining the allied were not given. Similar in 1807, give the navy to England or it will be sunk with the capital burned. No option of joining England or return of the navy after the war. " This is incomplete information. Yes, there was an option to go to the French Caribbean colonies. The British fleet was basically encouraging them to cooperate with the Free French government in exile in existing French overseas territories. Gensoul was an asshole, and history should shit on his name forever.
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  7.  @ZS-rw4qq  avoiding war and doing trade? How would it not? Establishing spheres of influence was maybe too advanced of a concept for Napoleon, and you too apparently.
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  8.  @ZS-rw4qq  understood but stability is worth a fortune on its own
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  9. Rome or a bear?
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  10.  @Jakob_DK  ok but as partners or serfs?
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  11. It's uncanny how conservatives show up to comment on the inner turmoil of groups they don't care about in the slightest...
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  12. Sounds like you're comparing open discourse to an actual cult, and in that order.
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  13. For some reason I thought they came from Spain, I don't know why.
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  14. the universal appeal of the "I Have A Dream" speech might have to do with the real dreams of people at the time
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  15. 13:00 I wonder if San Diego will get hit with tumbleweeeds again this year considering all the rain they got over the winter
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