1: "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"

If you wish to make a point you should at least take the trouble and pay sufficient attention to correcting your mistakes before pressing the submit button - Pardon me for not guessing what it was you actually meant to write.

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

Yes it most certainly would - Now tell me when you've managed to arrange that and I'll cheer with the rest.

3: "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?"

Yes it was done, by Great Britain on a massive scale at sea, and on a minute but extremely significant scale on land. That latter land part was always as part of a far greater effort by Allies that Great Britain funded and kept supplied - So please sciencegeek get things in perspective.

As for your comment that - They did not "give it a try" and then go home with a sigh and say "oh well, what can you do?" I hate to disillusion you but they did precisely that time and time again. Know where the children's song "The Grand Old Duke of York" comes from? Do you know what it was about?

Yes sciencegeek it was done EVENTUALLY both in Portugal and in Spain always using the main access roads and routes with the Royal Navy in support and relying on well established ports up and down the coast it took SIX years to get right and the effort required to mount the relief effort in Ireland you seem to imagine possible would have taken far more in terms of resources (Remember Wellington's Peninsular Army was very small - minute by European standards of the day).