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In 1781, the commander-in-chief of the Continental American Army, George Washington, led a large army to besiege the main British forces in Yorktown.

French Vice Admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse began to plan a decisive naval battle.

He integrated a total of 32 battleships from the French Caribbean Fleet to blockade the Chesapeake Bay and cut off the logistics channels for the British in Yorktown.

At that time, the British Continental Squadron changed drastically. The former Admiral of the Squadron, Major General Shaq Francis Drake, was implicated in the impeachment case and hurriedly stepped down.

Rear Admiral Graves took over and supported a total of 19 battleships in the first and second formations of the squadron and the British mainland. He was ordered to enter Chesapeake and break the French logistic blockade.

The two sides met on September 5th. Major General Graves made a command error, causing the second-thirds of the warships to fail to enter the battlefield. The avant-garde detachment was set on fire, and the [HMS Horror] was seriously injured and abandoned (not sunk but not captured) .

On September 10, France was supported by eight more battleships. Major General Graves was forced to abandon the battle, and the Battle of the Chesapeake Bay ended.

On October 13, General Charles Cornwallis commanded the British surrender in Yorktown, and the War of Independence came to an end.

After the Battle of Yorktown, the War of Independence was left with a diplomatic battle until the "Paris Agreement" was signed on September 3, 1783, and the war ended with the victory of the United States.

Lorraine withdrew from the French smuggling sequence in June 1781, and in July of the same year, Edward Kenway disappeared.

It is impossible to know whether the French went to the East Coast to search for the hero who was behind the War of Independence with a huge sum of money, but Lorraine knew that the Kenway Merchant Group's properties were still under secret surveillance by unknown persons until 1783.

Unfortunately, the monitors are destined to find no clues.

The road marking has gone through seven handovers in just one year, and finally it was auctioned by a sailing collector named Foss Carter at an underground auction in Elgin for a high price of 13,000 pounds, and it is now being collected. In a private dock in Plymouth, it lives next to the Attis Beauty.

Haite Shipyard was sold to Drake Maritime Group.

Maritime Group is a newly emerging super-large shipbuilding group after 1780. The predecessor was a small private dock on the island of St. Dena in Bermuda.

After being acquired by Drake, she acquired 23 Bermuda private docks within two months to form a maritime group.

In 1781, she acquired the Boston Haite Shipyard at the cost of 30% of the shares and 75,000 pounds in cash. In 1783, after the "Paris Contract" was signed, she publicly acquired the Baltimore Lorester Shipbuilding Company with similar treatment.

After the completion of the merger, the Maritime Group has become one with two first-level docks, one third-level dock, five fourth-level docks, 16 fifth-level docks, and 42 sixth-level docks, integrating design, manufacturing, maintenance, and forestry. In one, the super shipbuilding group with total assets of over one million pounds ranks first in the New World in terms of overall scale and twelfth in the world.

Assembling the ideological essence of the three high-speed bases in Boston, Bermuda, and Baltimore, she has become the forefront pioneer of high-speed sailing ships in the world.

In February 1784, the 15-meter-class Slope experimental ship [Sea Ghost] set a speed record of 22.5 knots during its voyage from Boston to the Port of St. Denar, which almost marked the early birth of the flying shear ship.

Dao Mark and Haite Shipyard are the only things Kenway left to Lorraine. In addition, the remaining industries were sold into the free market after several careful handovers.

The seller is Drake's shadow, the buyer has nothing to do with Drake, even if the tracker has hands and eyes open, they can never find out the relationship between Lorraine and Edward Kenway on these dead objects.

Lorraine Anason Drake is just a shining star that made his fortune through the war of pirates and rose rapidly in the business district of England like an ancestor.

The Drake Chamber of Commerce in 1784 was so powerful.

With the General Chamber of Commerce Asset Management Company as its core, the entire Chamber of Commerce has four branches: the European branch (formerly Northwestern Europe branch), the American branch (formerly Caribbean branch), the African branch and the Maritime Group.

The Maritime Group is headquartered in the town of St. Dina, Bermuda. It is the largest group of independent assets with a market value of more than 1 million pounds. In 1783, the total business volume exceeded 150,000 pounds and the profit was 63,000 pounds.

Headquartered in Southampton, England, the European Chapter is the earliest established and most profitable mainstay of the Chamber of Commerce. In recent years, Ramos has been busy reducing the proportion of property rentals and purchasing his own properties, with a market value of 700,000 pounds second only to the Maritime Group. In 1783, his total turnover was 220,000 and the profit was 79,000.

The headquarters of the American Chapter has been relocated several times. In 1780, it was in Kingston, Jamaica. In 1781, it was transferred to St. George's Port, Bermuda. After the signing of the Paris Peace Treaty, it quickly moved to New York, USA. With the strong strength of the Drake Chamber of Commerce and the Lorraine team in the United States, it cannot be said. The special contacts of the United States received a series of generous treatments in the early days of the founding of the United States.

After the establishment of the New York headquarters, its total market value jumped to 400,000 pounds, with a total turnover of 290,000 and a profit of 120,000 in 1783. With the blessing of the loose business environment in North America and low production costs, although the overall strength is still not as good as the European chapter, the ability of Chuck Parker to create profits has left Ramos Pidic far behind.

The last is the general manager Carmen Xavier of the General Association Asset Management Company, established in 1782.

Over the years of the development of the Chamber of Commerce, Lorraine has not been able to accurately position the role of the Chamber of Commerce in the entire group. Without the function of trade, she has been closer to a name for a long time, one used to temporarily transfer the establishment of the direct fleet, or Replace Lorraine's basic framework for dividing interests.

Until huge smuggling dividends poured into the Chamber of Commerce, the value of the Chamber of Commerce has finally been reflected in the ultra-high-speed development of several years, that is, the management of wholly-owned assets and the audit of branch assets.

The General Assembly Asset Management Company has four departments, namely fixed asset management, accounting and auditing, chamber of commerce school, and direct fleet.

At the beginning of its establishment, the Fixed Assets Management Division owned a total of 26 berths on the island of St. Denar in Bermuda, a wharf with 26 berths on the west coast of Jamaica, the entire island of Little Cayman, and two estates in Lucy and Crow's Nest.

In March 1783, Lorraine bought the Miami Estuary from the Indians with a thousand brown beth rifles and five thousand barrels of rum. In July, the deal expanded to North America along the Bay of Biscay, including all the islands and the land three hundred kilometers west of the coastline.

The total cost of completing these acquisitions was only 30,000 pounds. The Indians also generously gifted West Palm Island, which is of special significance to Lorraine. This means that it is equivalent to the vast and barren land of Miami and the entire West Palm Beach city of later generations. The land became Lorraine's private property rights.

Taking into account the future development momentum of the United States, this transaction has been fully and formally filed in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain, which has influence on the Florida Peninsula. These procedures are complicated and complicated, because the transaction tax has to be filed instead of the filing. , Lorraine spent nearly fifty thousand pounds...

Miami was taken to establish a foundation for the future Drake Chamber of Commerce.

Adjacent to the Florida Strait, it is an important export from the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico to North America and the Atlantic Ocean.

Combined with Lorraine’s previously purchased and constructed Bermuda’s St. Denar Island and Jamaica’s Port Lucie, his fleet can form a comprehensive and tight double-team against the Bahamas, the heartland of the Pirates of the Caribbean, against future wars and wars. The development of the Chamber of Commerce will play an immeasurable role.

Because of this, the construction of the Miami area started from the beginning of the land purchase.

The focus of the first phase of the construction is in the town of Miami in the estuary area, including the future Drake Business School, the anchor port of the directly affiliated fleet, the ship development research center, the sailor community and the Drake Estuary Manor. It is planned to form five thousand to one in 4 years. The living scale of ten thousand people.

The second phase of construction focuses on the Bay of Biscay, which focuses on defense and trade, including the coastal defense fort on Biscay Island, the coastal fortress on Virginia Island, and the bridges, commercial ports, docks, warehouses and trade centers on the inner side.

Because of the abundance of funds, these constructions are also being carried out at the same time, and the cycle is still four years.

Another core department of the asset management company is the direct fleet.

From the beginning of its establishment, Lorraine’s direct fleet promoted a mode of temporary transfer from its branch based on the needs of war.

The advantage of this model is that it is cheap, saves a lot of additional maintenance costs, and at the same time, with Lorraine's prestige, it is also enough for those temporarily deployed warships.

But with the continuation and expansion of the pirate war, this "direct subordinate model without direct subordination" began to increasingly affect the operations of the Americas Chapter, and change was imminent, and the opportunity for change was the establishment of the Maritime Group.

Lorraine has its own shipyard, and has reliable and cheap access to new sharp ships. Those high-speed warships born for pirate wars are constantly coming out of the dock, replacing the position of transfer ships with stable speed and reliable combat power. .

The newly-born direct fleet takes the Golden Deer as its flagship, and consists of six five-tier high-speed destroyers, ten six-tier Brig-type frigates, and six-tier Brigentin-type communications ships, a total of twenty-four ships in the Pier Steqin formation. One, the main anchor port is located in Lucy Port, Jamaica.

Valkyrie has not been included in the establishment of the direct fleet, because her delivery has been delayed.

In terms of construction planning, her delivery time should have been at the end of 1783. UU read www.uukanshu.com and completed all external sea trials in July 1783.

However, after installing all the firepower on St. Dina Island, she stumbled in the subsequent internal sea trials.

The ship's center of gravity is unstable, and the saturated shelling stalls...

It took five months for Karen to find the problem with most of the elites of the Maritime Group. It took another five months to modify its deck layout and sail equipment with new technology, increasing the high speed and low speed of Valkyrie by 1 knot. And 0.5 knots, the second round of internal sea trials did not begin until late July 1784, which is one year after the completion of the external sea trials.

At that time, the Dame Lady, which was opened two years late, had already followed Pierce and the gang of boys who could only cause trouble to set up anchor from Port St. George and head towards Africa.

But misfortune and blessing depended on it, and it was precisely because of Valkyrie’s delayed delivery that Lorraine was able to escape the quagmire of the pirate war and come to Europe to preside over the funeral of Sir Garman...

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