" There is an age-long argument about ships versus forts. Nelson said that a six-gun battery could fight a 100-gun ship-of-the-line. Mr. Balfour, in the Dardanelles inquiry, said in 1916: “If the ship has guns which can hit the fort at ranges where the fort cannot reply, the duel is not necessarily so unequal. "

― Winston S. Churchill , Their Finest Hour (The Second World War, #2)