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They did, it was called Halifax and was sometimes numbered the 14th colony. The point of my posting that is essentially to make the point that the distinction between "the colonies" and the area we now think of as Canada was shaped as much by what happened during the AIW as how it was pre-AIW.

What, that the copy sent to Lincoln had added letters in a different hand? He said: But there was no standard system as he describes, and he had the other copy which showed "12 midnight". If he was mistaken after that, it's wilfully done. Sears: Paris: Google translate, which I admit is...

Yes, and as I've said the Brits tended to report fire sustained for a long time.

As I said I was relying on The World Wonder'd. If not it was still 14" fire.

This is one of the odd things - if you think it would have been better for McClellan (a Union general) to get the support he needed to defeat the Confederacy in 1862, then you're for some reason labelled as "neo Confederate". It's actually a confluence of the two ends of the scale both bashing...

At the Battle Off Samar the USS Johnston (a 2700 ton "tincan" destroyer) took three 18.1" shells at once from Yamato (source: Lungdren, The World Wonder'd). She was definitely damaged, but continued to fight and indeed was only prevented from mounting torpedo attack by the fact she'd already...

Gun rate of fire varies, this should be obvious because we're talking about varying rate of fire? You always get better results with a rested crew early in the sequence because fatigue hasn't set in yet and they're more alert. As for the 6" turret, delay to avoid dispersion shouldn't result in...