Talk:Battle of San Domingo

Expansion
As a courtesy I am leaving a notice that I am preparing a new, expanded and sourced version of this article in my Userspace (using the current page as a basis). It should be pasted up here in a week or two. If anyone has any comments then by all means drop me a line.--Jackyd101 (talk) 15:14, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
 * The new version of the article has been copied and pasted onto this one. For those interested in the sequence of edits used in the article's development, see the history of the redirect User:jackyd101/Battle of San Domingo.--Jackyd101 (talk) 18:11, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Last Fleet engagement?
How is this the last naval engagement, a number of different fleets clashed throughout the period between 1806-1814? There's numerous war of 1812 engagements, not to mention the battle of Athos, Dardanelles, the battle of lissa, and so forth. Wastedgrunt36 I believe it should read last major open water fleet engagement. There were many other engagements, but none were in open water and between fleets of ships-of-the-line. I do agree that the wording is ambiguous and should be altered. I shall think on it. Corneredmouse (talk) 09:57, 5 January 2011 (UTC)


 * A very belated reply - I've no problem with the change as made, but should note that the original text described this as "the last fleet engagement of the war". In the engagements listed above, only Athos was a fleet battle and that was part of a different, contiguous, war. The United States didn't have a battle fleet during the war of 1812, just a handful of very successful raiding frigates. The Dardanelles was not a battle between fleets but an engagement between a British fleet and Turkish shore defences while Lissa was fought between two frigate squadrons. San Domingo was the last battle of the Napoleonic Wars to feature a direct engagement between two fleet sized forces (and small ones at that). Regards--Jackyd101 (talk) 09:52, 26 March 2013 (UTC)