Captain Jean-Luc Picard

English sailors on the HMS Dolphin in 1766 discovered that native women on islands would trade sex for iron, and began pulling nails out, this trade became so extensive that the loss of nails started to threaten Dolphin's physical integrity Although traditional Tahitian culture did not sanction extramarital sexual relations, within 48 hours of Wallis's arrival, Tahitian husbands and fathers were encouraging their wives and daughters to swim out to the Dolphin and offer the sailors sex in exchange for iron nails. Aware of the brisk trade in iron, later explorers such as Captain James Cook brought supplies of nails and hoop iron with them to barter. https://books.google.pl/books?id=vf4TBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA682&dq=english+sailors+hms+dolphin+iron+trade+in+tahiti&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=english sailors hms dolphin iron trade in tahiti&f=false

Awesome, i take it that it should have acceptable historical accuracy if it's made by you, and open world is always welcome. -Would it be possible to know what books and other sources are being used ? Amusingly enough i am reading a book about native americans atm struggle for the land, native north american resistance to genocide, ecocide and colonization, it marked me that from the starts it says that native americans are not fighting for equal rights but for their rights as nations. Lakota woman was another great book. ( both modern books ) -Any support for mods? -Any ethnologist helping with the accuracy? -Any native americans having a say on the game?

it means that it is so amazing that it is almost not credible that it can be so amazing. ( i'm not native neither btw ). The same goes for several other european languages.

Always check "more" under the video to see what sources he uses. He has an incredible collection of books.

I know exactly what you mean, i know parts of my genealogy tree coming back to the middle ages, and thus i feel somewhat involved in many a battle on many a side pretty much all over europe when i play games. Sure makes me micromanage their units all the more when i know them. Got some family portraits hanging around for a few of them, large paintings for the colonels, generals and the like, small drawings for some of the 1800s, black and white pictures on shelves for ww2... The first virtuti militari is in some branch of my familly and i see it hanging in another home. I can play a game and ask a portrait "what would you have done great great great great great whatever" or tell the portrait "ooops sorry i think you just got wiped the hell out of the face of the earth" It brings a different perspective on life to know that you are only here because all your ancestors, and there is a Ton of them, survived some war, some battle, some hunger, some black death or whatever, and any stray arrow or bullet would wipe out all the generations to come. This being said, if you rather believe on the theory of evolution rather than us being created by god or aliens, we are all family and every war is essentially one giant fratricide party.

i recommend that you ask in reddit askhistorians, they have a couple of people who know their stuff and never miss the obvious: ask the royal navy itself as well as dan snow and the bbc. Those last two should have some sources to quote for their claims. I'd ask greenwich museum too. If they can't substantiate their claims, send them a broadside publicly.

A geoff hunt painting of it

Good name.

Not exactly naval action timeframe, but it is centered around the sea... so... yeah...

Welcome aboard.

Yes. Just sell them vegan fish instead.

Faites peter l'champagne, gare aux photos compromettantes, et allez-y mollo avec les touristes

Everything he touches is gold. pirates, gettysburg, civilization, railroad tycoon, silent service... the guy is a genius!

Looks like more patrick o'brian to me.

My latest batch of books arrived, among them Billy Ruffian, The Bellerophon and the downfall of napoleon by david cordingly https://www.amazon.co.uk/Billy-Ruffian-David-Cordingly-x/dp/0747565449 It focuses on the ship itself and its adventures. His biography of cochrane is considered one of the best ones, so i'd expect him to be factual enough in that book as well.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFOlp3QzY6c_Qis5ipXvCAA

Well that last link is a boardgame. I was under the impression due to the mention of pirates! that it was a computer game but maybe you are right.

Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau, battle of cape st vincent of 1797

There was no real need of sinking british ships, just of forcing them to be everywhere at once, cautious, and to render their operations difficult, and occasionally to just mess things up. Cheasapake bay is a perfect example, sure as a naval battle per se it was kinda useless, but strategically it was a clear victory that forbid the evacutation of yorktown. Yes, french land troops mattered, but they still had to be brought in by sea, all the while complicating the reinforcment, and thanks to cheasapake bay forbidding the evacuation, of british troops. When you mention spain, it is also good to remember that although of course she her own reasons, it entered the war as an ally of france (the treaty of aranjuez). The other minor nations played a role similar to the french navy in forcing the brits to be everywhere at the same time and unable to focus on the thirteen colonies as needed.

You don't need to visit them, jand even if you do they might be very busy. Just drop them an email. I have occasional dealings with various museums sometimes and everyone i know i very friendly and passionate about their specialty. You will likely find an attentive audience.

By any chance did you get in touch with the dutch maritime museum? They might have already looked into it and if not might be able to look further into it.

I have some very specific books on the french-'murican relations at the time, but nothing on the navy specifically. A quick search bringed up this, don't know anything about it but it's by Dull, who has written great stuff, and is published by Princeton, who publishes great stuff, so it looks great. Should be interesting to some other people around here. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x0t7s french help is nowadays considered indeed to have been essential to american independence, beyond the naval fight, it's the fact that the fight was not just taking place in the colonies but in various places, pulling much english ressources away from the fight in the colonies, all the while supplying the rebels ( including clothing, and if i remember correctly and if it is true some 90% of gunpowder )

I very much like the picture with the statue of Liberty since it is a french gift to the US by bartholdi and eiffel. it's smaller replica stands in paris. Thanks for remembering the frenchies.