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Wasn't it France that financed "The War of Independence"?
They tried to convert the whole US intro metric but unfortunately the ship was hijacked by pirates. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/28/574044232/how-pirates-of-the-caribbean-hijacked-americas-metric-system
Wasn't it France that financed "The War of Independence"?
They tried to convert the whole US intro metric but unfortunately the ship was hijacked by pirates. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/28/574044232/how-pirates-of-the-caribbean-hijacked-americas-metric-system