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On 3 March 1776, a rebel squadron under Commodore Esek Hopkins arrived and occupied Nassau for two weeks, a bloodless undertaking that emptied the island’s forts of arms and other military supplies.
It would be wrong to give away what happens next, but the consequence of the squadron's action is ham-handedly predictable and, morally speaking, takes the picture down a peg.
In 1587 a squadron of British ships commanded by Francis Drake attacked the Algarve (now a “legitimate target” as Spanish territory) and sacked Sagres, thus depriving the world of the relics of Henry the Navigator.
The stubborn Americans came back again in 1853, with Commodore Matthew Perry bringing for the shogun (whom he mistook for the emperor) a polite but insistent letter from President Millard Fillmore and a promise to return the next year, with a bigger squadron, for a positive response.
Prime Minister Tony Blair, who contributed a symbolic squadron of Tornado bombers to Clinton, is only signaling that the Americans are not alone."