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>>Juan Alsina Torrente, <I>Una guerra romántica, >>1778–1783: España, Francia e Inglaterra en el mar</I> >>(Madrid: Ministry of Defense, Institute of Naval >>History and Culture, 2006), 267, lists Solano’s force >>as follows: >>1. San Luis, 80 (Solano) >>2. San Nicolás, 80 >>3. San Francisco de Asís, 70 >>4. San Francisco de Paula, 70 >>5. Magnánimo, 70 >>6. Guerrero, 70 >>7. Gallardo, 70 >>8. San Gabriel, 70 >>9. Arrogante, 70 >>10. Astuto, 60 >>11. Dragón, 60 >>12. Destin, 74 (Monteil) >>13. Intrépide, 74 >>14. Palmier, 74 >>15. Triton, 64 >> >>Are those the ships you have for Solano’s squadron? > >Yes... ;) > >In fact i have the book and i have work with other >spanish user about the campaigns, dates, routes, >etc... very interesting... > >For instance we thought about an hypothetical battle >between Solano and Hood but i have to investigate >about it because both admirals were very far one to >another... Only their squadron were near when Hood go >up towards Chesapeake and Solano were between "Cape >Francoise" and La Habana with De Grasse very near >indeed... to Hood luck! > >(Hood sailed between Florida and Bahamas when De >Grasse Fleet were in front of La Habana loading >Spanish a lot of money to help AWI ... a data not very >known about our contribution on USA Independence :( . >Well, the case was that in other way De Grasse >probably would have intercept Hood in great adventage) > >Going back to our topic, there is a pdf both in >English and Spanish (very usefull therefore ;) ) where >appears not only the ships listed but also the >composition of the Allied Fleet while they were >blockading Panzacola Bay. > >It is in pdf at: > ><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >href="http://www.seacex.es/indexflash.cfm?dest=catalogo >.cfm?idExposicion=344">http://www.seacex.es/indexflash. >cfm?dest=catalogo.cfm?idExposicion=344</a> > >The article named: > >"La toma de Pensacola a través de los mapas, 1781." >By: Luisa Martín, directora técnica del Museo >Naval de Madrid > >Enjoy it! ;) > >* Other interesting data is that in the list of Juan >Alsina's book there is a mistake about the spanish >frigate named "Unicorino(28)", which is really a >confusion because the true frigate is the french "La >Licorne(28)", which name means that: Unicornio >(Unicorn in English). As we can see, the type is the >same (28) so probably the error went with a past >traslation about the ships involved... > >* I have to read all your answer carefully... now i >have to go to bed in order to work tomorrow! :p > >Thanks again, > >And best regards

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