Re: [eia] a question about trade

["Kyle H" <menexenus@xxxxxxx>]

    What Mike and Joel are saying makes sense to me.  I think I have to side
with JJ on this one.

Sorry Danny,

kdh

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Uckelman" <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 1:55 AM
Subject: Re: [eia] a question about trade


> Thus spake Michael Gorman:
> > I'd have to agree with JJ on this one.  Britain does not have the chanc
> > e
> > to deny American trade because Spain is not eligible to carry out
American
> > trade.  The nationality of the force occupying a national capital is not
> > relevant to it making the nation ineligible to trade.
> >
> > Mike
>
> I concur. What denying American trade represents is the Royal Navy
> harassing American shipping. Occupying Madrid disrupts American trade just
> like it disrupts taxation---by disorganizing the Spanish government. What
> it does not do is hinder American ships from reaching their destinations,
> which is what the Americans cared about and ultimately what led to the War
> of 1812.
>
> -- 
> J.
>
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