Talk:Edward Thornton, 2nd Count of Cacilhas

Paraguay
rightly tagged the first sentence of the Paraguay section as failing verification. The claim that in 1859 Thornton gave the order for the Paraguayan warship Jaguarí to be interfered with by two British warships is neither found in the reference given as currently accessible, nor was it in the archived page from 2012, when the edit was made by, who appears to have retired from editing. Neither is it exprssly given in the reference given for the rest of thhe paragraph. The RN action itself can be referenced, but I have not found anything yet to confirm Thornton's role, one way or the other, though my own sources on this are rather modest. It may be that, if not the Foreign Office papers, then the relevant Admiralty papers, were published in the 1860s. Davidships (talk) 04:18, 12 January 2023 (UTC)