Talk:Battle of Minorca (1756)

French perspective?

Hi. Nice article. One piece of feedback for you is that there's not much from the French perspective. I've added links to the bio of the commander Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière. Canuckle 20:08, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

That's enough! You are totally biased. I deleted 'indecisive' because you have POV. Could you tell me why the english write always 'tactical victory' when the French got a naval success against the British? You can't even see that the French had a simple victory against your holy Royal Navy, that's almost absurd. The British have such a lack of objectivity in History, in all wikipedia, that you deny everything which is breaking your national pride. This battle is a french victory and stop writing this was "indecisive", not deserved or whatever other nonsenses, that is really boring. Thanks and see you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.85.95.212 (talk) 18:48, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

I've restored 'indescisive' in line with the existing source and added another source. If you have some sources demonstrating that it was a French victory perhaps you could produce them and they can be added to the article.

I think you might be confusing the Battle of Minorca (an inconclusive draw) with the ongoing Siege of Minorca (which was a French victory). It's worth remembering that Byng was not shot for losing the battle, as is sometimes stated, but for not going to the rescue of the Minorca garrison after the battle. Lord Cornwallis (talk) 12:46, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Quick note: The latter article ought to be entitled Siege of Fort St. Philip (1756), not "Siege of Minorca." The island of Minorca had no walls. As for the naval battle, the French strategic victory is fairly unescapable; some sources (Castex 2003) argue for something of a tactical victory as well, but this, I would agree, is a matter of interpretation. Also, it's unclear to me how "Indecisive" is in harmony with the citation when Dull is pretty unequivocal in calling it a ("major") French victory. Albrecht (talk) 14:16, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Ships of the line

In backround, it says that 10 ships of the line were sent to relieve Minorca, but in the actual battle, 12 ships of line are refered to. Is this a misprint? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.254.158.20 (talk) 22:33, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

British "victories"

I find the article nice, but heavily balanced towards a "Britain always wins" stance. To sum it up in a methaphor, the Brits were left full of blood lying in the dirt, but the fight was inconclusive, because the French left first... Again, the British fleet took so much damage that it could not continue the fight and therefore retreated to their main operations base. I would call this a French victory by all accounts. Regards141.83.61.131 (talk) 09:49, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Mahonnaise

Origin of mayonnaise as result of this battle: https://twitter.com/adam_tooze/status/1307660781991854081 Shtove (talk) 10:07, 21 September 2020 (UTC)