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I had this idea of making a thread about unorthodox strategic moves used in pre 1900 battles
To start, in 1865 during the late stages of the battle of the riachuelo in the triple alliance war, the brazilian admiral Barroso in his flagship, Amazonas, noticed that the paraguayan ships were converted transports, made of wood, while his flagship had a hull made of iron, and so he rammed three enemy ships in sequence to sink them