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That's what the title says. So what if King George III took the American Revolution seriously? I read that Britain was unprepared for the American
Revolution. Most of its ships were laid up in ordinary, (similar to today's term
"in mothballs"), because they were rotten. The vast majority of the Royal
Navy's ships, were on what was referred to quite appropriately, as "Rotten Row," because they were rotten. Britain in 1775, was just as unprepared for the Revolution as we were for the Civil War. The last war the Royal Navy fought was the Seven Years' War, aka, the French and Indian War, and the War of the Austrian Succession. The Royal Navy's most famous ship, HMS
Victory, was under construction, whatever ships the Royal Navy did have, were on station everywhere, and the Royal Navy was like a rubber band stretched to the breaking point. (God, I love that analogy!) So what if the
Royal Navy had had something similar to the Civil War's Trent Affair?
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