Re: OT-Wrong port arthur

Just a word of clarification.

The Russian Pacific Fleet was destroyed at Tsushima. The Russian Baltic 
Fleet, which fired upon the maybe/ maybe not British Fishing boats
sailed 
around the Cape of Africa, and had the ramming incident within it own 
fleet. The Baltic Fleet never made it Port Arthur, as Port Arthur had 
surrendered  two weeks previous

At 08:23 AM 2/7/01 -0600, you wrote:

>***
>But had Makharov(?) not been slain so early, and had his replacement
not
>been a hopeless joke,
>they would have done much better. Probably still lost, but at least it
>would have been a fight not a slaughter.
>***
>
>I was reading in scenerio notes of Great War at Sea: 1904-1905, that
>Marakov (my memory of the spelling, but no more likely right than
yours)
>died in the mine sinking of his flagship, after avoiding an ambush laid
by
>the Japanese. Togo was said to have had his fleet lower their flags to
half
>mast in honor of a 'samurai'. Or maybe a warrior with the soul thereof.
>
>I gather he was on station for a relatively short time, and impressed
the
>Japanese far more than his superiors and fellow fleet commanders, as
his
>calls for support and coordinated actions were regularly denied.
>
>I remember being certain that one ship of my beloved ESU fleets had a
class
>named after him, but I must have been dreaming.
>
>Of course, most of the above are just from the GWaS author notes; you
have
>to wonder about a guy that uses game notes as a historical source. ;->=
>
>***
>with not a single allied coaling station along the way was a feat of
naval
>logistics unparalleled in history.
>***
>
>Probably with good reason; the game also points out that the fleet
stopped
>off at Shanghai to top off it's coal supply, a very busy international
>port. As if the Japanese fleet hadn't enough forewarning before...
>
>The_Beast
>
>-Douglas J. Evans, curmudgeon
>
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