Wars in the Atlantic World
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Is the Europeans Able to Sustain Themselves?
The european system is undefeatable. When there are multiple examples of existential crises for european forts on the african coast, settlements and plantations in the americas, they are overwhelmed. The europeans are then able, like a so of self healing network, to draw on over the horizon, assistants, money, troops and weapons that often their indigenous American or African counterparts can't do. All about ships, because ships can deliver supplies, but it's also that ships can deliver reinforcements, and that the ships are themselves powerful weapons platforms.
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