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Jilly_in_VA

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4. I think

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Fri Nov 21, 2025, 02:42 PM

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that what did in the British in the end was the 9-week delay in having to wait for supplies and more troops. That's how long it took to get anything across the Atlantic. And then, of course, there were the privateers (hello, John Paul Jones, you crazy Irishman!) they kept having to deal with along the route.

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