Dagwood222 , 2 months ago Apparently the French sent over a metric system for the Americans to use, but the ship was lost. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/28/574044232/how-pirates-of-the-caribbean-hijacked-americas-metric-system I've seen numerous sources for this.
Apparently the French sent over a metric system for the Americans to use, but the ship was lost.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/28/574044232/how-pirates-of-the-caribbean-hijacked-americas-metric-system
I've seen numerous sources for this.