DBWI the U.S. Navy wasn't sold off in 1785? A little background. In August of
1785, the Continental Congress, which later became the U.S. Congress, sold off the last ship of the Continental Navy, the frigate Alliance, which sailed off into mystery. IOTL, the United States, after the American Revolution,
was flat broke. IATL, could it have emerged from the American Revolution on
a solid economic footing and seven, not six, frigates, nine years later?