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Old 11-11-12, 06:45 PM   #29
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve View Post
Cool! I've been reading Peter Padfield's books on maritime power as an extension of trade, and only recently discovered that the Netherlands was the first trade-based democracy.
The Dutch East India Company was a rival to our own and a very powerful one too, but it was through them that we got Manhattan.
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