You’re arguing semantics ! Was there no ship involved in that siege ? Did any action take place on land ? Was it not a strategic AND a military victory ?
When you speak of war, how can you not take into account attrition, diseases, environment, topography, weather (specially about naval war ? Like don’t you care about wind, storm, swell, etc.?). If you keep ignoring these points every time, how would you ever be able to quote any example of military victory strictly won by “pure strengths overwhelming one each other” regardless of these parameters.
<p style=”text-align: left;”>Concerning Cartagena, some historians estimate until fifty years after that battle (Anglo-Saxon historians consider it as a battle by the way while German, Spanish, French or Italian ones as a siege) the repercussions for the Royal Navy and its strategic situation in the Caribbean and New World theatre. So I must disagree, that’s everything but a anecdote.</p>
I was pretty sure you would invoke the argument that it was out of Black Seas period so I can also cite the naval battle during the siege of Valletta which is still a siege but involving naval troops. And at last, if sieges / blockades / or just land as strategic location hadn’t been representative of the Age of Sail, Black Seas would’ve never represented and included them in the game with scenarios, islands, forts, martello towers, etc. That’s just of course my humble opinion.:)
