William the Drake Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 Nick Hodges of History Buffs takes a look at "Master and Commander: Far Side of the World" in his most recent episode. He looks at the inspiration for the film (and book) as well as pointing out both historical accuracies and inaccuracies, such as a glimpse at the U.S.S. Constitution and the English Captain Thomas Cochrane. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueEagleGER Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 Just seen this, and now there is your post As I already discussed in the video's comment section, here is an really interesting article on the War of 1812, with the British and the Canadian view at the time together with the US one, written by a British historian for the Smithsonian webside (and thus for US readers, but for the whole world aswell): http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/british-view-war-1812-quite-differently-americans-do-180951852/?no-ist Enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt Hornblower Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 it's a shame Weir hasn't done another O'Brian book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan van Santen Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 (edited) Nick Hodges of History Buffs takes a look at "Master and Commander: Far Side of the World" in his most recent episode. He looks at the inspiration for the film (and book) as well as pointing out both historical accuracies and inaccuracies, such as a glimpse at the U.S.S. Constitution and the English Captain Thomas Cochrane. Actually he took his inspiration from this: Discovery HD Master And Commander -The True Story Edited September 25, 2016 by Jan van Santen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maturin Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 It's funny that the only bit of dialog that the video replays involves historically questionable content. Well OF COURSE your shots wouldn't penetrate "treble(!)-shotted at three hundred yards"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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