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Karma just seems to find a way in the end. A shame for all those men he led to their deaths, though.

That would absolutely grind my gears too. I'm glad he managed to reach land safely with all his loyal men alive. Still, as you say, in the age of sail that is one hell of a feat and he should be recognized for it. Indeed, a film about him and his men trying to make their way back to civilization...

There are worse endings I suppose. And happily, it was an ending we could begin again from.

Also none of those chaps pulled a "Vichy" on us. They went down fighting whilst the French threw up the white flag to perhaps the most evil regime in history, when it still had Southern France to regroup in and the entire French Empire to call upon. Froggy high command screwed up, then willfully...

We did that! Why does nobody remember that!?

For me, the idea that the British Empire is somehow worse than Nazi Germany is rather irksome.