Talk:Battle of the Chesapeake

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This page doesnt give enough information on the battle of the chesapeake bay!!!!!!!!!!

Erika B

The solution to this problem is to look up some facts and add them.  :-) Isomorphic 21:46, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

This article says there were no French or British casualties and that only a few British ships were damaged. I've seen one source that said there were 300 British casualties and 200 French. Page Smith gives an account of the battle in A New Age Now Begins and he indicates a number of sailors on both sides were dismembered and killed. [anon]

The solution to this problem, having looked up some facts, would have been to add them- which I've now done. There were, by American Revolutionary War standards, quite a lot of casualties at the (second) Battle of the Chesapeake. I've also made a lot of other changes to the article, but I consider this just a temporary patch- I'd rate this as Start Class, not B-Class, and it really needs a complete rewrite with proper referencing. So do lots of other articles about the American Revolutionary War, hence I'm afraid this is not high on my personal list of priorities. David Trochos (talk) 16:59, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

There is something more important missing here than just information, that is, the fact that there was a confusion of signals on the British side between "keeping line of battle" and "close action". The British naval force should have won this naval battle and imagine the consequences! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vdorta (talk • contribs) 22:05, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

"Should have" doesn't count in history; why not say that the French had 25% more ships and therefore "should have" won? What happened happened; however the reasons why it happened are interesting- and to military planners very important. British naval signalling was just in the process of being improved at the time, and once the new system was fully adopted it made possible some extraordinary tactics. David Trochos (talk) 16:59, 6 January 2008 (UTC)