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[--Pete]

Hi,

Had we mustered an army, ...

We did. It was French.

... taking advantage of (?) [British] reliance on the traditional warfare conducted by gentlemen soldiers.

Perhaps led by gentlemen. Which is why the idea of specifically targeting the officers was anathema to the European armies of the time.

Let us not speak of the notorious John Paul Jones, and his raids in the Ranger against merchant shipping in the Irish sea and his assaults on St. Mary's Isle and Whitehaven.

Oh, please, let us indeed speak of him. JPJ is, along with Drake and Morgan, a hero of mine. Oh, wait, weren't the other two British pirates? (And, please, Jester -- I know they weren't contemporaries. But it all happened a long time ago, so they sorta were. BTW, what's wrong with using a conjunction to start a sentence? Ain't you never heard of the null set -- it's kinda like the null hypothesis, only terser).

--Pete