Been bouncing around a lot, my targets keep slipping behind trees and houses, so I schedule the computer to bounce to 2-3 a night. Ideally I just spend a couple nights on one, so not enough data to cancel all that background noise.
First build as a blockade runner during the American War of Independence. The new U.S.A. government then armed them with canons to deal with the slave trade. Later on they moved many thousands of the population to California, and especially when gold was discovered there in 1849.
The advent of the extended railroads and the new sea passage of the Panama and Suez canal spelt their doom, as the new steamships could negotiate these channels
