Ryan Wadle

I'm still thinking about how Britain lost more ships and sailors at Jutland, but still kept control of the sea. #BattleOfJutland #WWI #NavalHistory #SeaControl

25 Oct 1812 // 38-gun frigate HMS Macedonian was captured off Madeira by American 44-gun frigate USS United States. During the battle the British frigate was overwhelmed by the more powerful and longer-range guns carried by her opponent. She was almost fully dismasted in the first exchange of fire.

Halsey's personal papers include a copy of the letter he wrote his wartime chief of staff to state his desire to put Samuel Eliot Morison's "cojones in a vise" for blaming him for San Bernardino Strait.

Happy Trafalgar day

18 Oct 1812 // 18-gun brig sloop HMS Frolic was escorting a convoy to England from the West Indies when she was damaged by a gale north of Bermuda on 16 October. The gale also scattered the convoy. While repairing the damage and re-forming the convoy early on 18 October she sighted a strange sail.

Ohio State in the red zone has World War I levels of tactical innovation (derogatory).

🎉 Happy 251st Birthday, U.S. Navy! ⚓🇺🇸 For 251 years, generations of sailors have served our nation at sea. Here’s to those who stood the watch—and those who carry it forward. https://ow.ly/r5JL50ZU9X6 #Navy251

Here’s LL Cool J trying to explain Clausewitz’s “remarkable trinity” to an uncomprehending Joe Rogan

11 OCTOBER 1776, BATTLE OF VALCOUR ISLAND: As the sun sets, Benedict Arnold orders the American fleet to withdraw before the British destroy it completely. By now, they’re taking fire not just from the British ships but from Native musketeers onshore on both sides of the channel.

11 OCTOBER 1776, VALCOUR ISLAND, LAKE CHAMPLAIN: The naval Battle of Valcour Island begins around 8:30 in the morning, when Continental General Benedict Arnold sends out two of his warships—Congress and Royal Savage—to lure the approaching British fleet to the rest of his forces.

In the regular season the White Sox won ten more games than they should have, probably. They were always likely to run out of gas in the playoffs but they went deep, and it's a hell of an achievement.

www.goodreads.com/review/show/... I wanna highly recommend this book, a readable and engrossing survey of the historiography of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki decisions. It's a lot more than orthodox v. revisionist, as Pyle brings in Japanese historians, military historians, and a variety of other/

The Naval School opened at Annapolis on 10 October 1845 with 50 midshipmen and seven professors. 181 years later, revisit the Academy’s first century in Proceedings. https://www.usni.org/three-anniversaries-one-naval-story #OTD #USNABirthday

We are saddened to say goodbye to our dear friend, Oscar-winning actress Eva Marie Saint. One of the last surviving stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, we’ll forever be grateful for unforgettable contributions to cinema, her generosity and her humor. Our thoughts are with her loved ones.

How does Cargret Thatcher deal with the Cargentina invasion of the Falkland Islands?

this is what the constitutional convention looked like:

My new book now has a cover - and I love it!

In the end, the Rams offense was simply not as good as Iowa's offense.

it's weird because Nirvana is now old whereas I am exactly the same age I was in 1992

27 Sept 1840 // A large fire broke out at Plymouth Dockyard and HMS Talavera (74 guns) and HMS Imogene (28 guns) were destroyed, happily with no lives lost. Image: Thomas Lyde Hornbrook, 'Dockyard Fire at Plymouth' 1840 (North East Lincolnshire Museum via Wikimedia Commons). #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

im sorry put kirk ferentz in a home for that idc

"You don't have space for more books!" What I don't have space for is your NEGATIVITY

17 Sept 1939 // Aircraft carrier HMS Courageous, sailing with two destroyer escorts in the Western Approaches, was torpedoed and sunk by U-boat U.29 with the loss of 519 lives: the first Royal Navy warship to be sunk by enemy action in the Second World War. (Imperial War Museum FL 6534 & HU 45268)

Fun fact, the Wasp’s landing signal officer was none other than David McCampbell. After the sinking, he was sent back to the states to form Fighting Squadron 15, who would go on to destroy the most Japanese planes of any squadron in the war producing 26 aces. Quite the boomerang

Eric Bienemy is back so he and Andy are watching film from 1911 again

2050 and Patrick Mahomes will still be running at 4.3 miles per hour past 11 flummoxed defenders for first downs and TDs

The Cowboys convincing me they’d be better on defense this year

Best bit of the Bayeux tapestry is the 1944 addendum