American Turtle Advantages And Disadvantages

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Davids American Turtle is about submarine wafare it is primarly about the Americna Turtle.Which was introduced into The Revolutionary War.The Advantages it had were to infiltrate into enemy territory ,mostly undetected it was a one man seater and can hold up to 30 minutes of oxygen and was fitted with a drill hole to drill the inside of the wood from the ships.Some of the disadvantges were that it was slow and heavy and was rearly used during the Revolutionary war.This was one of the first submarines in history and has inspired submarines and tanks!One thing about the Revolutionary war is that it inspired other revolutions including the french revolution.Enough about the Revoultion though,The American Turtle was one of the best for its time.1776

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