Didn't they change the battle in Master and Commander from British vs American to British vs French as a concession to the US market?
Yes. The main plot is drawn from the novel The Far Side of the World (1984), but the setting was changed from the War of 1812 to the Napoleonic Wars and the enemy ship from the American Norfolk to the French Acheron. Which I continue to think is silly, especially since the enemy's nationality is irrelevant to the adventure of a pair of ships cat-and-mousing one another around the Horn and all the way to the Galápagos—in that sense the other ship is a McGuffin—but it was 2003 in America, so in hindsight it was probably inevitable. The film was my introduction to the series, in any case.
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Yes. The main plot is drawn from the novel The Far Side of the World (1984), but the setting was changed from the War of 1812 to the Napoleonic Wars and the enemy ship from the American Norfolk to the French Acheron. Which I continue to think is silly, especially since the enemy's nationality is irrelevant to the adventure of a pair of ships cat-and-mousing one another around the Horn and all the way to the Galápagos—in that sense the other ship is a McGuffin—but it was 2003 in America, so in hindsight it was probably inevitable. The film was my introduction to the series, in any case.