Essay On The American Navy

The original settings for American Independence could be traced back to the French and Indian war of 1754-1763, the war between the British and France. Although the British won this war, the British was in debt as a consequence and began to increase the financial burden placed on the American colonies by levying taxes. Therefore, the British Parliament inaugurated Acts on the colonies to obtain revenues, such as Townshend Act, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, and Currency Act, as well as reasserting their control over the colonies. The genuine problem that the colonies were discontent with was the lack of representation in the British Parliament; some colonies in America had to abandon their own legislature of taxing for 100 years. It was this time that Thomas Paine published the Common Sense to arouse the American colonies to unite and to

Then he proposed the navy would cost at roughly 3.5 million pounds sterling and the British was not worth that much; He mentioned,” The navy of England is not worth, at this time, more than three millions and a half sterling.”(Page 102). The American navy would both further provide the commercial prospects and essential defense from other countries. Thomas Paine announced, “A navy when finished is worth more than it cost. And is that nice point in national policy, in which commerce and protection are united.” He also said the British navy was wide spread throughout the world but they were not proportionally spread in America; a large population of British navy was more occupied in the Atlantic coast than the West. So American navy only had to focus on our defense when the British had to take care of other colonies as well. In Common Sense, it is said, “for if America had only a twentieth part of the naval force of Britain, ~ because, as we neither have, nor claim any foreign dominion, our whole force would be employed on our own