The Florida Strait current was the strongest warm current in the world. The warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico set out from here, sweeping their warmth across the entire Atlantic Ocean. The heat it carried was more than a hundred times that emitted by all the rivers on Earth.
Currents from the northern and southern equators flowed continuously from the Caribbean Sea into the Gulf of Mexico, forming a clockwise current that flowed out through the Florida Strait. The enormous volume surged into the strait, becoming even more powerful after joining the Antilles Current from the southeast.
That was what the textbooks said. Pomona did not teach geography, so that was all she remembered. Before coming to this world, she had not even known where Nassau was.
Napoleon had a teacher who had once been a light cavalryman from Nassau. Later, he became an instructor at the Bridge Engineering Academy. That Nassau was located in Germany's Rhineland.
Nassau in the Bahamas had been a gathering place for pirates ever since the discovery of the New World. Some pirates were outsiders, while others were farmers who lived in Nassau. They plundered ships, or lured them into circling among reefs until they unfortunately ran aground, then looted the wrecked vessels. Spain and France had once regularly dispatched their fleets to attack and raze Nassau, yet lawless people would return after Nassau had been destroyed and rebuild the port city.
In 1718, Britain declared the Bahamas a crown colony and appointed Roger Wood, once a plunderer himself, as governor. The governor then drove all the pirates out of Nassau, reestablished the law, restored social order, and built new fortifications.
During the American Revolution, Britons opposed to American independence moved to Nassau. Georgiana felt that it would be difficult for the French to