T... Your arguments would be more persuasive if you were not so narrowly focused on the singular point of denying ANY cuplability of the British rulling classes... the government at the time, if you will.

Your srgument against "1: "my case has been that on one in the early part of the 1800's had the knowledge to properly deal with the blight"

is based on a typo... "on one" should read "no one" and if you had actually been paying attention to the previous posts that I made, it should have been a no-brainer...

as for the logistics issue... a scholar of the Napoleonic Wars should know that as difficult as it was... IT WAS DONE. Britain got off its ass and waged what was arguably one of the earliest world wars - considering the number of nations involved and the geographic scope of the conflict. They did not "give it a try" and then go home with a sigh and say "oh well, what can you do?"...

Wouldn't it be a wonderful world if nations waged peace with the same enthusiasm as they do conquest.

You just continue with your quibbling... booooring....