An article on the infamous action in which Edward Pellew, commanding two frigates, drove a French ship of the line onto the Biscay coast, destroying it and killing 1,000 French sailors and soldiers. The article has passed GA a while back and I am interested in taking it to FA fairly soon. Please let me know what improvements are needed. All comments welcome.-- Jackyd101 ( talk) 10:45, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
Looks very good to me. A couple of issues do come to mind:
Cheers, Nudve ( talk) 09:42, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
Just one thing came to mind on reading the article. In the section on the Battle, it first says "Pellew also knew, however, that the ocean was too disturbed to allow Lacrosse to open his lower gunports without the risk that heavy waves would enter them and cause the Droits de l'Homme to founder" ... but then says "Unknown to Pellew, the French ship was in fact totally unable to open her lower deck gunports during the action". This could probably do with being clarified. Nigel Ish ( talk) 17:21, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
An article on the infamous action in which Edward Pellew, commanding two frigates, drove a French ship of the line onto the Biscay coast, destroying it and killing 1,000 French sailors and soldiers. The article has passed GA a while back and I am interested in taking it to FA fairly soon. Please let me know what improvements are needed. All comments welcome.-- Jackyd101 ( talk) 10:45, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
Looks very good to me. A couple of issues do come to mind:
Cheers, Nudve ( talk) 09:42, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
Just one thing came to mind on reading the article. In the section on the Battle, it first says "Pellew also knew, however, that the ocean was too disturbed to allow Lacrosse to open his lower gunports without the risk that heavy waves would enter them and cause the Droits de l'Homme to founder" ... but then says "Unknown to Pellew, the French ship was in fact totally unable to open her lower deck gunports during the action". This could probably do with being clarified. Nigel Ish ( talk) 17:21, 30 November 2008 (UTC)