MotF 97: The Conqueror

My first MOTF entry!

Okay, this is my first REAL MotF entry.
In this scenario, the Khmelnytsky Uprising was slightly more successful, due to the presence of a talented military officer named Yuriy Nazar. Nazar was eventually elected to the Starshyna after Zaporozhia gained independence. He led the cossacks first on a war with Poland-Lithuania and then with the Khanate of the Crimea. While the strong Ottoman army was able to capture the southern fringe of Zaporozhia, the excellent Zaporozhia infantry with the superb leadership of Starshyna Nazar was able to capture large parts of Crimea. Nazar is remembered most for the Azov Campaign, in which his forces beat an Ottoman army twice their size. Nazar died in Sich in 1669, and remains on the coinage of Zaporozhia to this day.

Dun DUN DUNNNNN!!! I hope I've gotten better.

Cape Republic:

[The POD is the French victory during the Seven Years War. It led to the weakening of British position in America and in India. In 1810 and later, after a succession of events in France and Spain, the Spanish colonies declared their independence, those in Southern part of South America united and formed the United Provinces of America.]

In 1852, 10 years after the bloody civil war between "Federales" and "Unitarios", was elected Antonio Albiasu Walsh, former colonel of the Federal Army. His goal as president of the United Provinces of America was to turn the United Provinces of America into an international power. To fulfill his goal, he had three approaches:

The first was to reform the structure of the Union by rationalizing the infrastructure and divisions of the provinces, by appealing immigration with lenient laws and grants of land, by exploiting the resources of the country, and by submitting American rightful lands such as Patagonia.
The second was to create an American identity based on values of liberalism, of (relative) freedom of speech, of (relative) religious tolerance, and with the idea of “Sueño Platense” (Platine Dream). This American identity was also assisted by the patriotic sentiment emerging from the wars between the UPA and his neighbors.
The third was to create a nation with ambitions and capable to deal with the European nations as an equal. It started with the annexation of the Republic of Rio Grande do Sul in 1855, followed by the Brasilian-American War between 1857 and 1859 which ended with the cession of Brazil's southern provinces and with the cession of one of its major town: São Paulo. Antonio Albiasu Walsh's imperialistic ambitions were also economical as he started the First Guano War against Peru which ended with the taking of the province of Atica and a 50 years concession in the Chincha Islands. But Albiasu Walsh's major idea was the “Doctrina Walsh”, consisting in the desire of pull the European powers out of America by diplomacy or by force. He was going to apply this doctrine against Great-Britain concerning the Malvinas Islands, but was assassinated by an Italian anarchist at the beginning of his third mandate in 1862.

And ze map: