NationStates Jolt Archive

This could be interesting if people would actually post something on my threads, not spam...

Anyway, do you know any battles that have historical importance and yet have been mostly forgotten? For example, the battles at Fort Montgomery and Clinton held off British reinforcments going to Saratoga, and if they were not delayed, the battle probably would have turned out different, and the British would probably have won the American Revolution.

I'd say the British obliterating the Spanish armada would be a great yet forgotten battle.

The British should have been decimated, really, as their ships weren't as good in war as the Spanish armada vessels. At least I think.

The Battle of Belgium - The stout resistance of the Belgians, which completely surprised the Germans, slowed their advance by several crucial days, brought Great Britain into the war, and allowed both Lanrezac's Fifth Army and Sir French's BEF to form and prepare for the German First, Second, and Third Armies onslaught, and the stand at Antwerp kept von Kluck's First Army always looking to it's rear as it advanced toward the Marne.

The Fall of Quebec - Had Wolfe not forced Montcalm to come out of Quebec and face him on Abraham Plains, New France may not have fallen to the British during the Seven Year's War. This would have seriously affected the future of the North American Continent, since it would leave a still present French Empire near the British America's, therefore making them far less likely to revolt agianst the British, with an ever-present threat so close.

Battle of Salamis - The Spartans may get all the glory for their stand at Thermopylae, but it was the Athenians who finally ended the Persian threat to Greece, trouncing them at Salamis

Seige of Toulon - Napoleon's first major victory, it propelled him to the fore ranks of the Republic during it's initial wars against autocratic Europe.

I'd say the British obliterating the Spanish armada would be a great yet forgotten battle.

The British should have been decimated, really, as their ships weren't as good in war as the Spanish armada vessels. At least I think.

The English Ships were far better in terms of armament than the Spanish, with more effective cannon and crew, and they also had far better leadership. The English Navy itself can only claim to have blunted the Armada at Gravelines, which was already after the ingenious flameships used at Calais, and the Armada passing through the Channel.

Once past the Channel, and forced out of port at Calais, the Armada really had no where to go except back home becuase of prevailing weather, and since they could not go back through the Channel (becuase of weather, not the English), they had to go around Scotland, where the seas and winds are lethal, and most of the Armada was wrecked on the shores of Scotland, not at Calais or Gravelines.