Hello everybody,
@ Francis Marliere,
OK, I see the post intention was not only about that map and the Norfolk and Suffolk distances but about my whole work on the Court Martial attempt re-construction until the rewarding done by the King George VI.
1) We are in agreement, I hate personal offenses and do not like to use them unles to respond to someone offending me. I am not that type of guy that take an offense for free. If someone offends me, he is going to pay the price for it.
2) I am sorry but at the beginning many could have been justified to call it my theory, ... but with the later findings I had to admit that some British Historians arrived to my same conclusions even if without going so deep into the details of it, ... from the beginning until the end of what you still call my theory.
We are talking Stephen Roskill ( I did not even know who he was until recently ), Corelli-Barnett, Graham Rhys-Jones, just to list the most important ones.
So, can you still call it my theory ? I guess not.
I was going to be proud for this scoop, ... but I cannot take credits for what others discovered and published long before I did.
3) I did more deep reserches and provided the complete scenario and logic of what happened in full details.
For obvious reasons the British Historians did not do it, and there is where my value add apply, ... my credits, ... I have been the first one to make the complete picture becoming public.
Everybody can keep his own opinion and interpretation as long as they are ok with it.
I do not pretend to convince everybody and have 100 % of people accepting my work.
Surely there are many out there that would have liked I had never started doing it and never to publish it. I am sorry for them.
4) Yes, it is irrilevant now given the questions above and after. Still it is always very helpful while re-constructing action events at sea to double check with the reality showed on maps. I can tell you that on the hundreds of naval books I have this is a very weak point and often what they wrote does not correspond to what they showed on available historical maps.
5) Everybody can talk and write here in, this is a free and public forum. No certificate need. Just to follow teh forum rules. But if one suddendly appears on a thread that never saw him writing before, ... in the middle of a discussion, ... I was expecting a value add from his post, ... and not only a side taken without even the reason for it to be. At least now I know why.
6) The answer is easy. When cornered and with no possibility to counter or challenge anymore a statement or a demostration, there are persons that started doing that intentionally, ... obvioulsy.
No one like to loose into a discussion, ... there are very few fair persons, .. and this is a HOT debate with a side taken approach, ... unfortunately many cannot thing with a cold brain and calm anymore, ... given the arguments, ... and I understand, ... but I cannot accept it too.
7 ) The majority of the" challengers" here in are British, .. or RN strong supporters anyway. There are also other exceptions.
In fairness I have to say that I have very strong supporters on the British side as well, ... so it is half and half everywhere as logic.
Closing I like to remark and underline the fact that it is not my theory, and reading the books of the British Historian authors I listed above you will find it already published many years ago, especially by the Royal Navy Official Historian for World War 2, so by Stephen Roskill.
The step forward if one is interested on knowing more is to read what I have re-constructed and properly linked.
If one is not interested about it, there is no need to read my works.
What one cannot do is to come in here and start offending me and my work, ... it is clearly against this forum rules, ... but mostly it is against a minimum level of education.
Bye Antonio