the naval task force demand or admiral david porter -- commander admiral david porter and another, they said, we have been here for two weeks now. we have scouted the confederate positions. the ground on the east side of cape fear river is a peninsula, and to narrow for military operations. strongly defended by a line of wharfs of the sugarloaf lines. propose is you send reinforcements, we transferred to the west side of the cape fear river, we will have the people go up the river, providing covering fire for both wings of the army on the east side and west side of the cape fear river, but really there is only one major obstacle between ,s and williamson -- williamson and that is for anderson. there would be a lot of elbow room on the army. we can attack for anderson from the river. we can attack it from the side. if possible, we can attack it head on with the protection of the navy, or if necessary, we can outflank it by going around the fences that go all the way to the end of the palm. that is where the battle 27, 1865.february flotilla ofer's gunboats, almost 30 of them, would unlea

our scotla nd correspondent, david porter, has more.s speeding up too. today, it's all about the numbers, but like everything in politics at the moment, this is a budget that has to be seen through the prism of exit and what it could mean for scotland. saving for a rainy day, chancellor? for the chancellor, the first opportunity to pose with the red budget box outside number 11 downing st. in the commons, a direct message to scotland and scots. are run as was today deliver additional funding of £350 million for the scottish government... cheering from his own side. from the nationalist benches opposite, a muted reaction. in edinburgh too, ministers were not impressed. set in the context of £2.9 million of reductions since the tories came into office, so it is a reduction in overall in terms of what we would have had, but of course i welcome barnett consequential is around that, but it isa drop consequential is around that, but it is a drop in the ocean to the resources we could have had. at westminster, to coincide with the budget and i

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