This is also a spin off of the time line that started with Sweden entering the Crimean War. This will be more concentrated on what happen with the emergence of the United States.
The US opened Japan to the rest of the world in the 1850's with the appearance of Commodore Perry's fleet. One of the things that did happen then was Perry stopped at the Borin Islands. The island had a settelemnt of European and Americans. The American Naval officer bought land there from the head of the settlement and he also claimed the land for the United States. He left a small detachment of volunteers on the islands and vowedd to return on his next voyage into the region.
Indeed he did return to the islands on his next voyage to Japan.
The result of American iterest was more settlers arrived.
Yet it was the Spanish American War that took place during the Freemont Administration which resulted in the Americans taking a larger role in the Pacific. The war saw the US capture the island of Guam and by the end of the war the US had title to the Maranasas Island chain.
It also claimed Wake island and Midway Island.
The Borin islands expanded as a coaling station and as a naval facility for the American Far Eastern force.
The US opened Japan to the rest of the world in the 1850's with the appearance of Commodore Perry's fleet. One of the things that did happen then was Perry stopped at the Borin Islands. The island had a settelemnt of European and Americans. The American Naval officer bought land there from the head of the settlement and he also claimed the land for the United States. He left a small detachment of volunteers on the islands and vowedd to return on his next voyage into the region.
Indeed he did return to the islands on his next voyage to Japan.
The result of American iterest was more settlers arrived.
Yet it was the Spanish American War that took place during the Freemont Administration which resulted in the Americans taking a larger role in the Pacific. The war saw the US capture the island of Guam and by the end of the war the US had title to the Maranasas Island chain.
It also claimed Wake island and Midway Island.
The Borin islands expanded as a coaling station and as a naval facility for the American Far Eastern force.