Can you make the French Navy the equals of the British Navy by 1900?

longsword14

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I just want to point this out since it's worth saying. In many ways La Royale was the equal to the Royal Navy. They were smaller, sure, but their captains just as genius and their sailors just as skilled.
Not by the end of Louis XV's rein, La Royale was good enough to fight off RN under Louis XIV. The same old disease of not paying attention to the navy over other matters bugged them, because even if the men had been good, something else was wrong. You can't ask for great results after neglecting issues in times of peace.
 
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