History Buffs: Master and Commander

[William the Drake]

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.

[BlueEagleGER]

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

[Capt Hornblower]

it's a shame Weir hasn't done another O'Brian book

[Jan van Santen]

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

[maturin]

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"!