My understanding was that the US used the English measurements but then they decided to leave the bad King. So later, when the English decided to standardize hence, gallon was changed along with the fluid oz etc in England.The merchants in the colonies realized that they could make some sweet money. Buy a gallon of French wine from the English (Imp 160fl oz) then sell it for the old gallon (old 132 fld oz)! WOW
Nothing like that. There were multiple standards in England in the 18th century. In particular, the US chose as its "gallon" the old "wine gallon", while, when the Imperial system was instituted in 1824, Britain went with the old "ale gallon" as its standard. The "wine gallon" was the volume of a six-inch-high seven-inch cylinder, rounded up to 231 cubic inches. The "ale gallon" was defined as the volume of 10 pounds of water.
Not one single measure of volume is the same in the US and Imperial systems. Some are greater, some are smaller -- and none are related by round numbers.
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