======Scenarios====== =====Battle of Dover===== [[http://www.temeraire.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dover|Wiki article]]\\ Location: Cherbourg to Dover\\ French: 40-60 Dragons (most\\ly Middle Weight) carrying wooden platforms. 1 platform is carried by 4 dragons and holds 2000 men. English: 23 Dragons (mostly Light Wieght) but also included: * Lily, Maximus, Temeraire, Messoria, Nitidus, and Obversaria. Historical outcome: Temeraire first discovered the use of the Divine Wind and was able to lure the majority of the French forces to within gun rang of the royal navy. =====Battle of the Nile===== [[http://www.temeraire.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Nile|Wiki article]]\\ Location: Aboukir Bay, Egypt, on August 1 and 2, 1798. French: 17 ships and 14 dragons\\ English: Thirteen ships of the line, eight British dragons and four loaned by the Turks.\\ Historical outcome: Lord Horatio Nelson led British forces to a decisive victory, essentially ending Napoleon Bonaparte's ambitions to threaten Britain's position in India by conquering Egypt. =====Battle of Shoeburyness===== [[http://www.temeraire.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shoeburyness|Wiki article]]\\ Location: Mouth of the Thames near the town of Shoeburyness sometime between March 7 and March 13\\ French and English: 200,000 men, 300 dragons and 24 ships-of-the-line\\ Ships present: * HMS Victory - 104 gun 1st rate ship of the line (sunk) * HMS Minotaur - 74 gun 3rd rate ship of the line (sunk) * HMS Prince of Wales - 98 gun 2nd rate ship of the line (sunk) * HMS Neptune - 98 gun 2nd rate ship of the line (sunk) * HMS Superb - 74 gun 3rd rate ship of the line (survived) * 19 additional unnamed ships of the line (all sunk) * at least two frigates (all sunk) Dragons present: * Perscitia, Majestatis, Lien, Temeraire, Rictus, Messoria, Chalcedony, Accendare Historical outcome: Most French dragons and 20,000 troops were killed, all ships sunk but one (on both sides by Lien), Chalcedony killed. Napoleon fled. =====Battle of Trafalgar===== [[http://www.temeraire.org/wiki/Battle_of_Trafalgar|Wiki article]]\\ Location: West of Cape Trafalgar in southwest Spainon October 21, 1805.\\ French:33 ships and 10 dragons (5 of which were Spanish)\\ English: 27 ships of the line and 12 dragons\\ Historical outcome: Decisive victory for the English, although a thousand men killed and Nelson was seriously injured.