To: jmacusa
In retrospect it was pretty bloody stupid for the Rebs, dependent of maritime access and trade to start a war with no navy to speak of. So you don't think the colonies were dependent on maritime access and trade.
54 posted on
01/21/2013 6:10:20 AM PST by
ontap
To: ontap
That’s not what he said and he wasn’t talking about the colonies.
57 posted on
01/21/2013 8:10:47 AM PST by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: ontap
The colonies had the French Fleet helping them. The colonists certainly did better than the CSA, didn’t they?
60 posted on
01/21/2013 9:33:45 AM PST by
jmacusa
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