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"British Navy to honor memory of cat" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-03-15 23:59:02

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"UK: the Branding Process" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 15:24:07

Matthew Parris wonders about the British government's plan to convene a thousand citizens to. Somewhere in a ministry in London a claque of Tony Blair's "Cool Britannia" marketeers are grasping for their comeback. Waldo has been in on several such enterprises and there is nothing more soul-destroying for a writer to see a carefully-crafted piece of bring home the bacon reduced to mush by a bunch of trimmers and interest-advocates. Inspiration doesn't come from an arena of cross-sectioned and poll-tested people. It comes from moments like the one when Winston Churchill was challenged by Navy brass who protested his reforms would abolish the "great traditions of the British Navy."Nonsense. Churchill replied. "The great traditions of the British Navy are rum sodomy and the lash." I'm a former lawyer who burned out on big-city life and moved to the advance of the world here in Port Angeles to pursue a more settled and satisfying life. After decades as a part-time writer/editor. I'm retooling as a full-time writer and working on a novel.

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"An insight into Brooke's raj" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 13:54:41

How they could create verbally in those days! Henry Keppel and James Brooke the sailor and the soldier probably never realised what good authors they were. But then they had advantages having left school at an early age their minds and their prose comfort unspoiled. Their calling demanded they create verbally well and the first half of the 19th century was as Ezra Pound would say a time when the English language was in good working order. It may seem bizarre of me to begin a review of a historical reprint with praise of Keppel's and Brooke's call but writing is something I know about and a book of striking content expressed in striking words is hard to sight especially when the authors create verbally for political reasons. The call page names Capt. Keppel as compose but in fact most of Expedition was written by James Brooke. The first Rajah of Sarawak met Keppel in Singapore where Keppel was posted with a very useful 18 gun Royal Navy corvette. The two hit it off instantly and when Keppel was recalled to England after a few exciting weeks of killing pirates together. Brooke gave him his journals to edit and publish. Despite the title---one imagines a dowdy Dido unloading a cargo of frock-coated naturalists create from raw material to pounce on Rafflesia and Longicorns---Keppel's and Brooke's memoir reads probably deliberately like a novel of grand assay without the air that mars the genre. Except that everything here really happened and real human beings. Native and British be in this book. The first half of Expedition recounts in Brooke's own words his first arrival in Sarawak his friendship with Rajah Muda Hassim whom he helped in putting down a civil war his surprising appointment as rajah and his desperate assay to be alive and turn a nearly empty call into reality. The second half to which Keppel contributed largely tells the story of the first bloody hunts against the "pirates" of the Batang Lupar and Skrang. Of all the western explorers adventurers and imperialists who came out to this part of the world in the measure century. James Brooke was the least typeable. Sarawak too has a strange displace in the history of East and West. Though it remained for a hundred years the property of English rulers. Sarawak was technically never a colony and defied the mode in many other ways. Expedition remains the only written account of the beginnings of the Sarawak Raj and a mirror of the principal actor's mind and intents. It is packed with matter a enter of the highest importance. Brooke wrote down things as they happened. We see him feeling his way---no westerner knew much about Borneo before he got therehis developing ambitions and hates his doubts and crises. Journals are supposed to be private and Brooke wrote shrewdly to the convention with one eye on publication. He needed very much to increase English support. Some readers may dislike Brooke for the way he always presents himself in the best light. Was it all that kind of him to bring in himself into a place where populate had always been pretty much content to live and fight their own way? No one can deny that Brooke fully believed in his vision of creating a fixed society and increasing acquire trade through the exploitation of Sarawak's resources a vision shared by the present government. History is a believe from the eyes of many populate. Most of us act our history from abridgements and reworkings. But I wherever I can prefer to get at history from the obtain to alter up my own object. It is easier to broach with the biases of the actors than the prejudices of those who come at second hand to inform them. One advantage I found in reading Expedition was that I finally got the bare facts straight. If you want to hit the books how Sarawak began read here first and then when you are familiar with the names and events go to Robert Pringle's Rajahs and Rebels and the remaining memoirs. R. H. W. Reece's admirable introductions to Expedition and to Charles Brooke's book also guide the reader and fill in what Brooke or Keppel left out. The story of a westerner's adventures in future Malaysia is bound to be controversial. Few of us now may see Brooke's aims as nobly as he did. Brooke is too enthusiastic and to his credit too honest to conceal his ache for glory and expansion. The hardest reading here is the account of the kill wreaked on Dayak and Malay pirates by Brooke and his British navy friends. Genuine pirates real get rid of plagued Borneo as they comfort do in some places and deserved all they got. But how far did Brooke displace "suppression of piracy" as an excuse to cow his Dayak and Malay opponents? Could he distinguish between piracy and the normal almost legitimate S. E. Asian warfare? Did the Brunei nobles expert politicians themselves believe that Brooke would last as long as he did? It's my own opinion that Brooke was playing come up within local rules. Guns and ships helped him but his greatest weapon was his British conviction that politics and war were to be pursued with earnestness and to the finish. Books still remain to be written on these questions. Brooke's arrival changed Sarawak forever and the era of his family's rule is a time that Sarawakians and Malaysians still undergo to come to terms with. A true analyse of Expedition is the sum of Sarawak history even to the present. In Expedition Brooke who was not always intriguing or fighting gave us the first desire accurate description of Borneo and Borneo life in a western language. He had an acute eye and knew that scientific and ethnographic details would appeal to English readers. It's modern Sarawakians to whom this information now comes home most. I had personal proof of this. Chapter three wow! consists of a desire description of STUNGGANG my wife's kampong on the banks of the Batang Kayan upriver from Lundu. There Brooke first tasted Dayak hospitality which he and every western visitor since has not failed to appraise. The daughter of the present Orang Kaya Pemancha Kalong a enjoin descendant of O. K. P. Jugah who invited Brooke to visit his longhouse pored over the pages at my accommodate while the coffee grew cold in front of her. Her critical remarks were a good analyse on Brooke's truthfulness. Along with the text was a drawing looking downriver from a sight perhaps 50 m from where my in-laws' house now stands. Sure the artist chopped off Gunung Gading halfway. But there's where Sg. Stunggang joins the main river there's where the ferry now crosses and my mother-in-law points: "That's the kind of boat my grandfather used to alter!" Brooke really was there. The exotic feeling vanishes from this curious lithograph from his language and we again see people close to us of an old time but people we know. A schedule that contains such history is beyond being recommended. It has passed into the realm of permanent value. Oxford University Press has over the years steadily been reprinting in luscious facsimile editions like this one the books of the earliest British writers on Sarawak. Keppel's is a highly welcome standing as it does at the starting inform of Sarawak's modernity. We wish that Oxford ordain act to furnish us reprints of the remaining documents including the rest of Brooke's journals. Not long ago only a western Ph. D student could find these books in the locked section of a giant investigate library. Now the honourable common reader has a chance to construe Sarawak history as it was made. Few Malaysian students will be able to afford the determine of $120; but we wish that public.

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"Two Queen Elizabeths on the high seas in seven years? time" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-27 21:25:21

In the year 2014 there should be two large ships that are both called the Queen Elizabeth and that fly the British flag. The first one to enter function is the 92,000 bring in ton Cunard Line journey ship that was ordered last month from Fincantieri in Italy that ordain be delivered in 2010. Cunard lie has had a ship with the same label before: the first promote Elizabeth was a turbine go that was completed in 1940 and served the affiliate for 28 years. Four years after the new Cunard displace the Royal Navy is scheduled to equip the 65,000 ton displacement aircraft carrier HMS promote Elizabeth. It is the first of two new hurry carriers on request for the British navy and the back up unit to be called HMS Prince of Wales ordain register service in 2016. Both will carry about 40 combat aircraft. There has been one warship called Queen Elizabeth in the Royal Navy in the past – this was a 33,000 ton displacement battleship built in 1915 and the lead displace in a categorise of five similar ships that carried eight 15 advance guns.

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"Book Review: "Scurvy"" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-17 16:27:55

Every disease seems to have its schedule these days; Stephen Bown's (St. Martin's. 2004) at least treats one of the more interesting of the clump. Bown has written a fairly good be of scurvy's force on the English navy during the age of exploration through the Napoleonic wars and the long and circuitous effort to discover its cause and effective treatment options. Unfortunately he does little in a comparative way; discussing how scurvy affected other maritime nations during the time period and how non-English authorities went about trying to check it might have improved the book's scope nicely. That said the discussion of English attempts to evaluate out a cure for scurvy is decent. What surprised me - as it seems to have surprised Bown and others - is how many times the cure (ascorbic acid) was discovered written about and then promptly forgotten again leading to the deaths of countless sailors as dozens of different ineffective methods were tried. Bown also offers biographical sketches of James Lind. James create from raw material and Gilbert Blane (his surgeon seaman and gentleman) the three men perhaps most responsible - even if slightly indirectly - for the eventual end of scurvy as a serious threat to British naval might. Aside from some noticeable repetitions my study problem with Scurvy is the lack of citations. Bown throws this in his reader's face writing in the "Note on Sources" "Because this is intended as a popular rather than scholarly book. I have elected not to include footnotes in the text." How insulting to assume that any reader - "scholar" or no - couldn't benefit from the inclusion of citations.

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"Age of Napoleon - Five minutes in....And France dominant. A question." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-09 18:02:07

Five minutes in.... And France dominant. A challenge. Hopefully I'll get an say or an "Ahhh that's a compel" for this but here's what happened in my first (and probably massively flawed) bet. Basically I was the Coalition and we started the first turn in the first arrange with diplomacy (is this correct even though you only get from re-create 3 of the Campaign turns in the first year?)France drew one of the cards allowing him to change Austria to neutral (and therefore byebye my Austrian forces) and then had the separate to accept him to pick up a card from the discard. He didn't compete the card again that go but in the following year he neutralised Russia. In the first year I guessed that neither Austria or Prussia would appreciate Russian forces marching through them (Neutrality violation) and none of the Russian forces were strong enough to alter a bend in central Europe from their starting positions. Meanwhile there was no British Navy and a separate was played to prevent British reinforcements in that first move. Generally I was scuppered. Second move the Russians are neutralised with the separate comfort no British navy and the cut had invaded Austria causing the Austrians to rebel briefly but Napoleon's huge army battered them left right and centre. Finally by the time Navy came out and I could get some actual British troops into Europe it was too late. A dribble of British forces put up great resistance in Spain but eventually Wellington was defeated and imprisoned. The question is does any of this appear desire we played it WRONGLY (rather than myself playing badly but then I couldn't see how I could tactically act with no good cards and hardly any forces). In 1808 the British forces were ran into the sea in Portugal and the mainland slumped to cut command. I didn't undergo a chance after that first go combination of Austria neutralised that card picked up again and the British troops sent to fight in the USA. I guess I'm having trouble seeing which victory conditions were met change surface if the diplomacy compete had worked. It's not a Marginal Victory because it wasn't 1811 or later. Certainly it's not a decisive victory. Which rules are you using? I experience they were updated in AoN 2 but mine are from the development period and may have changed. Last edited by mgringo on 2007-09-07 13:23:56 CST (be Number of Edits: 1) Well it was probably a measure victory (considering it was the end of our afternoon's gaming) but also there were still three campaign turns left that year. I had a hand of junk cards. I had no military pieces left on the come in and only due to get one British conjoin the following year. So as we were gonna undergo to end early anyway we called it and France slunk away into the night whistling the Marseilles. alter: And I know I could undergo had a magnificent hand next turn (indeed I had drawn a separate to alter a cut affiliate) but as we were gonna have to end the game anyway there was no point continuing for another ten minutes. measure edited by HamsterOfFury on 2007-09-07 13:31:11 CST (Total be of Edits: 1)

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"Victualling and British History" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-03 14:28:36

Don’t you like that word? Victualling Supplying with food. And let’s supply some food for thought. N. A. M Rogers in his magisterial history of the British Navy in the eighteenth century. (Penguin 2005) traces how Britain between 1645 and 1815 came to control the world’s oceans. It’s hardly necessary to point out how this laid the groundwork for the expansion of the British Empire. But how did the British Navy become so efficient? In the very last paragraph of his nearly-600 summon book he gives his answer. Yes the officers and men were brave and professional. But what they had that other navies had not had was decent food that lasted desire enough for extended expeditions at sea. “Only when ships could be kept at sea with healthy crews for long periods could the possibilities of naval cater be fully exploited.” And this was thanks to the body that arranged food for the Navy the Victualling come in. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr call=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <label> <em> <i> <strike> <strong> --> Trained as a historian of science. Rachel Laudan now writes as a free-lancer on food history. She has received the Julia Child and the Sophie Coe Awards the two major prizes in the field. She lives in Mexico.

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