* Importers preferred gold, as it was the currency used in international trade.
* Eastern capitalists preferred gold, as it was the currency used in the financial centers of New York and Boston.
* Manufacturers preferred gold, as it was seen as a more reliable currency for large-scale transactions.
* Railroads preferred gold, as it was the currency used to pay for rail construction and equipment.
Few campaigns of the Second World War gave rise to such bitter discussions as Operation Dragoon, the Allied landings in Provence on August 15, 1944. First called Anvil, this operation was ardently supported by the Americans - the President Franklin D. Roosevelt and General Dwight D. Eisenhower in th
Charles George Gordon, English general, nicknamed Gordon Pasha, was born on January 28, 1833 and died in Khartoum, Sudan on January 26, 1885. A pupil of the Woolwich Military Academy, he served in the Crimea, then in the China campaign of 1860. The Taï-pings or rebels with long hair, taking advanta
Paper money first appeared in China in the 7th century. This post is from the Ming dynasty • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Like so many other inventions, paper money finds its origin in China, where it has been used since the IXe century. Europeans discovered its existence three centuries later, thanks to t
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