The Falklands?.. A war?.... Really?
If it wasn't a war then what was it?
Nope... you needed help from the US to win in the Falklands.
The only "help" you gave the British was Reagan begging us to stop fighting the Argies. If the Yanks had had their way, the Falklands would still be in Argie hands right now.
The Russian Navy... although far superior than the RN... is a compilation of Cold War clunkers. They have nothing in the Artic that could stand against the USN
If that's the case, why is it that the experts are saying that the United States Navy is far behind Russia in terms of equipment in the Arctic?
The Russian Navy has loads of icebreakers and other equipment needed for the Arctic (in which half of all people are Russians), something which the Yanks are severely lacking.
‘US wants to catch up with Russia in the Arctic’
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A helipad on the NS 50 Let Pobedy Arktika-class nuclear-powered icebreaker. (RIA Novosti / Alexey Filippov)
The US wants to play a leading role in exploring the Arctic but doesn’t have enough facilities or resources, and basically lags behind Russia, Edward Struzik, leading researcher of the Arctic region, told RT.
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[The Russians] have ice breaker capability, they have naval bases, they are expanding their naval bases. I would say the Russians' road map to the Arctic is well under way and the US right now is simply acknowledging that they have got to catch up,” Struzik said.
?US wants to catch up with Russia in the Arctic? ? RT Op-Edge
The Brits can't even defend their own channel.
We most certainly can, and will whenever the need should arise.
The Prince of Orange along with Blucher are the Heroes of Waterloo.
Look at the monument to the Prince of Orange!
It's a monument which isn't deserved.
The War of Independence and the War of 1812.
You lost the latter, and you only won the former because we had more pressing concerns going on elsewhere so we let you win. Had the British really wanted to win that war they would have done. As it was, the American colonies just weren't deemed as important to Britain as some of her other colonies.
The briddish have always relied upon other nations to fight their wars and to save them from wars they started.
No. That's the Americans.
Bernard Cornwall characterized the Prince of Orange as a bumbler in order to make the fictional character Richard Sharpe look good. It was a literary device in a work of historical fiction.
It's difficult to write about the battle of Waterloo without touching on the noted historical figures involved. Napoleon and Wellington. Lord Uxbridge, Marshal Ney, and other noted military commanders. And one other, who if he could not be called a noted commander, did hold a command in the battle - William, Prince of Orange, later William II of the Netherlands.
The Prince of Orange was born in the Hague on 11 December, 1792, eldest son of William I of the Netherlands and Wilhelmine of Prussia. When he was two, allied British-Hanoverian troops left the Netherlands and French troops swept in to join the anti-Orangist forces. The royal family fled to England. William went on to study at Oxford and in 1811, at 18, became an aide-de-camp to Wellington in the Peninsular War. He became one of the close knit "family" of Wellington's aides, kick-named "Slender Billy."
In 1813, Billy returned to the Netherlands when his father regained the throne. In 1814 he was briefly betrothed to the Prince Regent's daughter Princess Charlotte, but Charlotte wasn't keen on either Billy or on living in the Netherlands and ended the engagement.
In 1815 when Napoleon escaped from Elba and returned to power in France, the prince was given temporary command of the Allied forces in the Netherlands until Wellington arrived from Vienna. Billy, who regarded Wellington with something akin to hero worship, was quite willing to relinquish command, but Wellington's relations with the prince's father were less amicable. Partly to mollify King William, Billy was given command of the I Corps, though he was not yet three-and-twenty. Young and untried as a commander, Billy ordered troops to form line rather than square three times over the course of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, exposing them to cavalry fire and crippling losses. At Waterloo, when the prince insisted that Baron Ompteda follow the order to form line, Ompteda looked at Billy as though he'd received a death sentence and said simply that in that case he would try to save the lives of his nephews, aged 14 and 15. Both the nephews survived, but Ompteda and dozens of others did not.
History Hoydens: Different Views of the Prince of Orange
PS: Did Britain accomplish its strategic objectives during the War of 1812?
Britain achieved most, if not all, of its objectives, whereas the US achieved none of its objectives. Not one. And all British territory that the US captured was handed back to Britain - which is evidence today in the fact that Canada is a part of the Commonwealth rather than a part of the United States.
In fact, during the Treaty of Ghent negotiations, not one American objective was even discussed, let alone granted.
I'm not surprised, though, that you Yanks believe America won the War of 1812, because that's what you get taught by your biased history teachers, who don't teach you actual history but teach you a slanted, pro-American version of history.
