Can I inherit backups from TWO drives onto a new Mac?

I am currently backing up my Macbook Pro to a Time Capsule which has a backup history of over a year. I am also backing up to a USB External drive.
I will be getting a new Macbook Air soon and I know that if I perform a full restore from my Time Capsule I will then be asked if I want to Inherit the backup history - which is what I want.
But what about the backup history on my USB External Drive? Can I also inherit the backup history of that? 
The main reason I am asking is I have been thinking it would be much faster to perform a full restore from my USB External Drive - but if I did so would I still be able to inherit the backup of both my External drive AND my Time Capsule? As my Time Capsule has a much larger backup history on it.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Yes you can. When you set up the system again you can add the second drive as another Time Machine destination, and when you do so the system should ask you whether you would like to inherit the backups just as it does for the first TM drive. Select yes and it will maintain the drive as a separate backup destination but continue backing up to it.

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