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Thomas Paine: “The idea therefore of a navy did not arise to France from the same original and immediate necessity which produced to…”

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The idea therefore of a navy did not arise to France from the same original and immediate necessity which produced to England.
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Thomas Paine

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Paine explains that France's naval development was not driven by the same immediate needs as England's.

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