Talk:The Letter of Marque

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Support. Unnecessary disambiguation. grendel|khan 21:23, 2005 May 6 (UTC)
Neutral to Don't Move Some of O'Brian's titles require disambiguation and it seems reasonable to have a certain consistency in the page titles with the added (novel) after all of them. Given that I am not completely set on that. Dabbler 23:08, 6 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Photograph

Can anyone fix the link for the cover image of the book? Ivankinsman (talk) 16:58, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Saint-Martin-de-Ré

An anonymous IP editor is persistently identifying St Martin with Saint-Martin-de-Ré which does not seem to be supported by the text of the book or the map included in the book. Is there any actual evidence for this assertion? If not I believe that it should be removed. Dabbler (talk) 15:17, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was glad to find this and would welcome any updates. I went looking for "St. Martin's," and Saint-Martin-de-Ré is the closest candidate I could find. Since the novel mentions Channel Islanders among Aubrey's crew, the Ile de Ré seems a likely bet, so I'd guess the anonymous editor just made a leap. It's true that Aubrey's map in the book doesn't exactly resemble Vauban's historic fortifications, though, and I can't find any mention of the harbor's role in Napoleonic Wars (not that I'm a web scholar). Perhaps O'Brien was deliberately fuzzing the issue? Since I don't know the drill here, I'll just sign with my name (Diana) and ˜˜˜ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.19.78.214 (talk) 12:42, 19 March 2011 (UTC) Addendum: I should have checked Ile de Ré's location before posting: not in the Channel at all, much farther south in Bay of Biscay. So the association does seem dubious![reply]

Dabbler The Patrick O'Brian Mapping Project is working on this novel now, with some markers and quotes on the map, but no lines to mark voyages. Perhaps we can wait to see where he places that port? --Prairieplant (talk) 23:06, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The note above, signed by an IP address, links the Channel Islanders in the crew to the English Channel as the real world location of the port. They are mentioned because they spoke a dialect of French in that era, and Aubrey expects that some conversation might occur before or during the cutting out. In the end, Dr Maturin speaks in French to a fisherman they encounter. Thus the reference to Jersey men has no bearing on where the port might be along the coast of France. --Prairieplant (talk) 07:57, 11 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment on history

Not an edit - just wondering how a home port (St. Martin) came to be unprotected, and why the weak British blockade was not just swept away. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1000:B06C:D720:4C7C:377:2258:2B88 (talk) 14:24, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This talk page is to talk about the article not about the history. Further, please learn to sign your posts. --Prairieplant (talk) 06:38, 18 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]