Master and Commanderis a marvel for its highly specific attention to detail and delicacy.
Aye, we saidnear.
Bless their fragile hearts.
ONLY THE BRITISH FLEET STANDS BEFORE HIM.
OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS.
The Napoleonic Wars, it seems, will now be fought on the wrong side of Cape Horn.
Its all very dramatic, but it does not make total strategic or historical sense.
Soon enough he learned it was sheathed with a wood around its hull that apparently makes it faster.
Its a regular Phantom that can surprise the British at any time.
Aubreys Phantom instead came some years afterMaster and Commanders 1805 setting, although it did indeed hail from Boston.
That resistance allowed it to move faster through water as well as resist a greater extent of outside pressure.
It was just confusing emotionally for the audience.
Who did they feel for?
Jack or their own countrymen?
Admittedly, foreign vessels could be commandeered after a battle.
The HMSGuerriere, in fact, was a French vessel captured by the British.
