Really? Is there some reason Pea couldn't provide that response and fill in an actual number? As usual, your posts add nothing to the conversation, They cloud over the issues rather than clarify them.
Seems to me that after years of investment in the shipping industry, the Northeastern merchants were poised to take advantage of the new laws.
One of the new laws we're talking about was passed in 1789, the other one in 1817. How long does it take to build a ship in your world Gianni? Or buy one for that matter...
pretend that Congress passed laws favorable to OS vendors;...
No. I don't need to engage in yet another distracting poorly drawn analogy. If you insist on inserting yourself into this conversation, at least try to be relevant, Ok? Now get lost...
He did, the numbers were hashed, rehashed, hashed over, and put atop a pile of hash browns. You must be responding from my comments and not reading the thread to have missed them.
As usual, your posts add nothing to the conversation,
I could start cheerleading for pea and 4cj like you do for Non and Heyworth, but that's not really my style. Whatever happened to that racist, Jessica Lynch stalking pig you used to be so tight with, anyway?
One of the new laws we're talking about was passed in 1789, the other one in 1817. How long does it take to build a ship in your world Gianni? Or buy one for that matter...
I don't know, Mac. How long does it take to establish and industry, which is what we're talking about?
Now get lost...
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