Comments on: Hornblower’s Nightmare https://www.isegoria.net/2011/10/hornblowers-nightmare/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: David Foster https://www.isegoria.net/2011/10/hornblowers-nightmare/comment-page-1/#comment-360458 David Foster Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:42:01 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=26298#comment-360458 Don Domingo Perez de Grandallana, a Spanish naval official, incisively analyzed (in 1797) the reasons why Britain tended to win battles and his own country tended to lose them: summarized here.

Of course, the fact that a country (or a corporation) once had the characterstics that lead to victory does not by any means imply that it will automatically always have those characteristics…

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