Food for thought about how they managed in the Nelson days of sail, maybe months to get a message around the world, with all the faffing about at the time.
Indeed so. One of my favourite - if sad - "dits" on the slow comms of that sort of time concerns the Battle of New Orleans (of Lonnie Donegan and "Col Pakenham" fame.)
The "Battle" was really a series of engagements from Christmas 1814 to early Jan 1815. Nearly 3000 personnel on both sides were KIA, WIA or MIA. The War (of 1812) was in fact ended by the Treaty of Ghent - signed on Christmas Eve.
But nobody in theatre knew .........
