Talk:Thomas Graves (Royal Navy officer)

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Needs categories, correct disambiguation, and sections. Desertsky85451 02:20, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

So let's see...according to the version of this article that's been here for 14 months, the Battle of Chelsea Creek involved 30 poor dear innocent British sailors heroically defending themselves all on their own against a ruthless unprovoked attack by thousands of American insurgents. And by the way, according to this article, the Battle of Chelsea Creek was fought on the Charles River. Yes, sure enough, User:Frendraught copied the entire article word-for-word from the 1890 Dictionary of National Biography available from googlebooks. If any American student of history wants a belly laugh, take a look at some entries in an old British reference text about any Revolutionary War topic. The Encyclopedia Britannica certainly used to be more Britannicish. I'm glad things are so much better now...except when people take old digitized crap and put it into Wikipedia without checking it first. Then things are just about the same. Flying Jazz 08:48, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

My apologies for that last post. It's debatable whether bad, old information online is better or worse than no information online and I should have assumed good faith instead of ranting. There's a [http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Chelsea-Creek-May-1775/dp/B0006CZP20/ref=sr_1_3/002-7070573-3969650?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192885937&sr=8-3) book] that might help with the Chelsea Creek section of this article, but it's way out of print and tough to find. Flying Jazz 13:16, 20 October 2007 (UTC)