Original Print from James Gillray

[James Roberts]

Edited February 5, 2016 by William Roberts

[Tomms123]

Im confused

[Powderhorn]

It's an excellent rewrite of an old political cartoon.  Here is the original.

 

[Tomms123]

I get that but I dont see his point?

Edited February 5, 2016 by Tomms123

[Powderhorn]

I can't teach you appreciation or understanding for political cartoons.  If nothing else, see it as a piece of immersion in the larger political arena.  And perhaps see the work put into it to make it look natural.

[SirSamuelHood]

His clan can't hold the Antilles from the French and Swedish. SLRN are preoccupied defending the Haitian Bay from two separate enemies. We have politely declined to spend time taking ports in the Antilles, as it's tactically untenable at the moment, the gentleman OP, rather than cut his losses and explore alternative strategic options, has decided instead to take shots at Caldwell on the forums for not bailing them out and defending his port grabs for him.

 

I'm unsure what the gentleman hopes to accomplish, but what was amusing at first is now quite stale. You cannot defend ports when you do not have the adequate firepower, you cannot expect SLRN, BWITC, and AUSEZ to bail you out when we're fighting our own enemies, and constant veiled insults on the forums won't make us change our minds.

 

Please grow up and stop acting like children. We would gladly fight beside you in the theaters of war that are strategically important, but the Antilles is simply too extended and indefensible to be of pressing importance at the moment.

[Capt. Rice]

lol love these old political cartoons.

[Arthur Brown]

To the Gentleman with Nobel pretentions: You have missed the mark. No request for intervention was ever issued by H. M. West Indies Squadron for military relief.  The only instance that would supply said gentlemen with that inclination derives from a letter sent to the King by the Governor of the Leeward Islands; and the mention for relief was only to facilitate "role-play." 

 

If the present sir was in the know of all correspondence between H.M. West Indies Squadron and the other British Squadron, he would be of a different outlook; but he is not privy to such information, it would seem.  The Gentlemen of Patrician Lust, upon receiving word that the West Indies Squadron had been engaging Swedish Squadrons in the Lesser Antilles, to great effect, asked the West Indies Squadron to abandon the Island of Antigua and fall in under their command. Our response, sent forthwith, established our resolve to remain at the Leeward Islands Station, with the openness of allying to the Swedish Colonies. However, Instead of using family connections with the Swedish Crown to reach an accord more accommodating to the greater good of the British Empire, and all her captains, the Noble, or rather the Ignoble Gents signed away the remaining Islands in the Lesser Antilles. 

 

They act to better their own position, for which we do not fault; but behind a curtain of nicety and cordiality, they dare dream to represent the Entirety of Great Britain and Her interests, without so much as a consideration to those not adherent to their Noble Title.  Their dubious and unsettling relation with certain fleets in the French and Swedish navies, as well, pose a danger to the Good Order of Great Britain and of other nations, friend and foe alike.  It is worth suggestion that they desire to control the West Indies through means of fire power and unhealthy influence over foreign Fleets, in equal measure.

 

If the sir would also like to know the nature of how ports were lost, it comes down to timing; not guns, not men, not ships, but timing.  The Swedes took advantage of that window when our captains were elsewhere and unable to defend; we do not protest this as it is a valid strategy.  To proclaim that we are of a weak position on this point is folly; do enquire to your Swedish Cousins about what takes place upon the Open Waters of the Lesser Antilles.