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Jun 30, 2006, 05:25 AM
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Seizing The Day
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Grenoble, France
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Naval Battle of Foochow
Sino-French War 1884-1885. I'm looking for more detailed accounts of this war and more particulary, the battle of Foochow, in wich the Chinese fleet was destroyed.
I'm interested in knowing the reasons, why the French attacked with no declaration of war and who was the French citizen who supervised and built the Chinese fleet. I guess i could just check out wikipedia but i don't take wikipedia as a very reliable source. Thanks! |
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Jun 30, 2006, 10:02 AM
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Fire Warden
Join Date: Jul 2005
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I didn't know the French had a true war with China, the only one I knew of from this time period is the Opium Wars, where the English walked all over the Chinese fleet.
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Jun 30, 2006, 11:39 AM
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Seizing The Day
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I wasn't aware aswell
 . Untill i searched where the name Courbet (there is a naval vessel named after this admiral) come from.
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Jun 30, 2006, 08:01 PM
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A thousand cuts
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Jul 01, 2006, 03:44 AM
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Deity
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Location: Sweden / France
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Jul 12, 2006, 01:52 AM
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Prussian Feldmarschall
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This battle also saw the last use of spear torpedoes. They were already outdated by the mobile torpedo and here they only worked because of the surprise. Only a little later Rumania was the last country to use these weapons on ships.
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