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Master and Commander...
I thought it was a fantastic movie.
different from ye olde Aro Flynn swashbuckeling stuff, and far removed from the comedy stuff like "Pirates of the Carribean"...sorry It gave a visual piece of what it was like on the high seas of the time and era. I really felt sorry for the victim and crew of the ship who in the storm chase had to cut the guy loose so the ship wouldn't be toppled, leaving him to the vengance of the storm and sea. Can't think of the guys name, but the Captain in real life was picked up and charged with being a wife beater etc. so sad. Tim |
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Master and Commander...
Do yourself a favor and read the books, when you do the movie, although
still enjoyable, seems shallow and contrived. I was more of a collection of scenes from the books spliced together to arrive at a plot. "Harry Krause" wrote in message ... wrote: I thought it was a fantastic movie. I did, too. And it was a fairly accurate depiction of life at sea in those days. There were lots of injuries and deaths aboard ships of the line. |
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Master and Commander...
Harry,
Are you sure their were many injuries and deaths on a war ship? Did the infantry during that time have many injuries and deaths when they went into battle? "Harry Krause" wrote in message ... wrote: I thought it was a fantastic movie. I did, too. And it was a fairly accurate depiction of life at sea in those days. There were lots of injuries and deaths aboard ships of the line. |
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Master and Commander...
"Dr. Dr. Smithers" Ask Me about my Phd @ Diploma Mill .com wrote in message ... Harry, Are you sure their were many injuries and deaths on a war ship? Did the infantry during that time have many injuries and deaths when they went into battle? I took Harry's comment to mean that every day life aboard ships, in those days, would be risky to life and limb. Do your replies have to be so sarcastic? Why don't you grow up and act your age? Jim |
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Master and Commander...
Jim C,
I must have missed your rebuts when Harry makes sarcastic comments and off color degrading comments to anyone who disagrees with his political philosophy. Since my sarcastic comments are 90% less than those made by Harry, and I never use profanity to make a point, I know you must have come down very hard on poor Harry. "Jim Carter" wrote in message ... "Dr. Dr. Smithers" Ask Me about my Phd @ Diploma Mill .com wrote in message ... Harry, Are you sure their were many injuries and deaths on a war ship? Did the infantry during that time have many injuries and deaths when they went into battle? I took Harry's comment to mean that every day life aboard ships, in those days, would be risky to life and limb. Do your replies have to be so sarcastic? Why don't you grow up and act your age? Jim |
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Master and Commander...
Harry,
You read every one of my posts and respond to at least 75% of them. "Harry Krause" wrote in message ... Jim Carter wrote: "Dr. Dr. Smithers" Ask Me about my Phd @ Diploma Mill .com wrote in message ... Harry, Are you sure their were many injuries and deaths on a war ship? Did the infantry during that time have many injuries and deaths when they went into battle? I took Harry's comment to mean that every day life aboard ships, in those days, would be risky to life and limb. Do your replies have to be so sarcastic? Why don't you grow up and act your age? Jim That's precisely what I meant. You just never knew when you stepped aboard a warship or even commercial ship in the 19th Century whether you would return and if you did whether you'd have all your limbs, and you didn't even have to be in a battle to sustain a horrific shipboard injury. It was very dangerous work. Smithers is a lost cause. He's only here to see who he can hector, and he's in a permanently ****ed-off mode because I never see about 90% of the "barbs" he tosses at me. |
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Master and Commander...
Jim Carter wrote:
I took Harry's comment to mean that every day life aboard ships, in those days, would be risky to life and limb. Do your replies have to be so sarcastic? Why don't you grow up and act your age? Jim Now that raises a very good question...just how old is Smithers? |
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Master and Commander...
Harry Krause wrote:
Jim Carter wrote: "Dr. Dr. Smithers" Ask Me about my Phd @ Diploma Mill .com wrote in message ... Harry, Are you sure their were many injuries and deaths on a war ship? Did the infantry during that time have many injuries and deaths when they went into battle? I took Harry's comment to mean that every day life aboard ships, in those days, would be risky to life and limb. Do your replies have to be so sarcastic? Why don't you grow up and act your age? Jim That's precisely what I meant. You just never knew when you stepped aboard a warship or even commercial ship in the 19th Century whether you would return and if you did whether you'd have all your limbs, and you didn't even have to be in a battle to sustain a horrific shipboard injury. It was very dangerous work. Smithers is a lost cause. He's only here to see who he can hector, and he's in a permanently ****ed-off mode because I never see about 90% of the "barbs" he tosses at me. Here the British Navy had to operate 'Press Gangs' to re-man their ships and replace sailors injured, sick or dead in the course of their duties. Especially after the ungrateful rabble in Boston threw out the Brits, my home port became the main naval base on this side of the Atlantic. Up to 70 British naval ships could be here at one time....and few people clamored to join up. http://www.angelfire.com/ns/bkeddy/halifaxcity.html |
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Master and Commander...
"Dr. Dr. Smithers" Ask Me about my Phd @ Diploma Mill .com wrote in message . .. Jim C, I must have missed your rebuts when Harry makes sarcastic comments and off color degrading comments to anyone who disagrees with his political philosophy. Since my sarcastic comments are 90% less than those made by Harry, and I never use profanity to make a point, I know you must have come down very hard on poor Harry. You must have majored in "sarcasm" in school. Grow up. Jim |
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Master and Commander...
Dr. Dr. Smithers wrote: Harry, Are you sure their were many injuries and deaths on a war ship? Did the infantry during that time have many injuries and deaths when they went into battle? Any modern army (post WWII) would run for home in an instant if it was taking the percentage losses associated with naval warfare in the early 19th Century. Infection and disease took a huge toll. The major hazards during an engagement was flying splinters, schrapnel, and falling rigging- far more likely to cause death than being stabbed with a cutlass or picked off by a sharpshooter. Losses were so astronomical and life aboard so generally crappy that the British government had full time press gangs just rounding up farmers, blacksmiths, shopkeepers, apprentices, and almost anybody drunk enough to be easily subdued to fill the vacancies in the navy. Merchant vessels could be hauled down (and stripped of all but a bare bones crew) at the discretion of any naval captain who felt he needed more men on the gundeck. As you likely remember, one of the root causes of our War of 1812 (where the British burned Washington DC) was the continued pressing of American seamen by the British navy. Infantry losses were also very high, due primarily to the tactics involved. By the time of the American Civil War, weaponry had advanced significantly but the tactics employed were still often 17-18th century "skirmish line" and firing-from-formation techniques. Many historians believe that the Civil War was the costliest war, in terms of a percentage of combatants killed- but if the Napoleanic era was much behind in this statistic it would have been primarliy due to the shorter range and longer loading times of the weapons- the tactics were very similar. The naval tactics at the time, and the infantry tactics into the middle of the 19th Century, reflected the feudal social values that prevailed in Europe several hundred years ago.....(the serfs were expendable property)....and served as the basis for western military tactics until the latter part of the 19th Century. |
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