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In the link below are some place names given by Baudin, including whom they were named after. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Baudin_expedition_to_Australia

The various British governments seemed more concerned about the Cape eventually falling into French hands which by the late eighteenth century seemed very possible. I believe that is the reason that the Cape was kept. Up until the Franco-Prussian War, France was seen as Britain's principal...

In the age of sail, the ocean currents were important in choosing a provisioning station so it is important to look at the routes that mariners actually took. The coastline of what today is the Eastern Cape along with the Natal coast were known to be treacherous and as a result became the site...

I would imagine names of forts as most early settlements would have some sort of fortress, for instance Fort Louis, Fort Dauphin, Fort Saint/Sainte _ (with names of saints).

Versailles became the palace to imitate amongst major and minor European courts as most ruling houses wanted a Versailles of their own. What perhaps was most beneficial was the spread of French luxury goods throughout Europe. France cemented its place as the leading purveyor of luxury goods...

In the long-term the status quo can certainly hold up for another few generations at the very least, but that depends on events in Spain. In much of Spanish America it seems that masses were content enough to remain loyal to the Spanish Crown. The problems form in 1808 Napoleon has Carlos IV and...

It appears that a fleet had been outfitted to destroy English settlements in 1608, but they were diverted to the Netherlands instead. In 1611, the Spanish learned that the English were sending 2,000 colonists to Virginia and a Spanish ship was dispatched from Havana to observe the colony...

Argentina really is an economic outlier in just how poorly its economic performance has been in the last century. We can compare it with Australia, as both countries are far from Europe, but settled largely in the nineteenth and twentieth century by Europeans. Argentina's problems seem to have...

Europeans in the seventeenth century did not have an understanding of diseases, but between 1647-1650 Barbados experienced an outbreak of yellow fever which seems to have killed 6,000 Europeans, or roughly one-fifth of the population. Today it is known that yellow fever likely came to Barbados...

Many Sub-Saharan Africans (particularly in West Africa) are resistant to malaria, and this made their lifespans longer in tropical regions. The Europeans began to notice that African slaves tended to endure longer than indigenous slaves or European indentured servants in tropical areas, and as a...

I imagine that the market for such large planes would be limited by the time they were introduced and could cause financial harm to both Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. Apart from a few Asian carriers, I cannot see more than a few hundred total being sold. Busy transpacific routes such as...

It is important to remember that Dutch colonialism was prior to 1795 at least, a for profit enterprise run by private corporations, namely the VOC and WIC. Settler colonialism did not appeal to the VOC as it provided no financial return. The goal was to maximise profits, and a settler colony in...

Pedro Blanco whom was a Spanish subject and notorious slave trader whom established his base on the Gallinas River in Liberia from 1822 to 1838. During the XIX century, Cuba imported more African slaves than at any time in its history, and Sierra Leone and the Windward Coast dominated this trade...

It's interesting that British slave traders had been the primary traders in the region, though after Britain abolished the trade in 1807, Spanish slave traders were active in Sierra Leone and the Grain Coast particularly after the Napoleonic War. The Spanish founded no settlements, but the...

Below is Canada's population after 1880 with no emigration to the U.S. and only immigration from Britain, the U.S. and Newfoundland (before 1949). Newfoundland and Labrador are only included after 1950. This assumes that nothing changes. Early on, French Canadians had higher fertility rate, so...

There was no way that Canada could accommodate that large a number of Italian immigrants, as the number of jobs available was simply not there. Also, during this period nearly half of all Italians immigrants arriving in the U.S. returned to Italy, one only has to realize that by 1920 there were...

Canada has some variables as there was a huge net migration to the United States, not only from Quebec but also from the Maritimes that often headed to the New England mill towns. Should I exclude that migration? Additionally, most immigration before 1900 was from the United Kingdom and the...

During the age of sail, the Royal Naval Dockyards in both Bermuda and Halifax were quite active in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Kingston in Lower Canada also built the HMS Royal George. In British North America, New England was the largest ship-building area, with Boston being its...

If 1880 is the cutoff point, demographically the impact on the U.S. is huge, the country remains one where the white population is mostly of British, German and Irish ancestry. The 1880s experienced the largest number of Northern European immigration in U.S. history. German and Scandinavian...

Based on natural growth rates of the native born population and keeping annual immigration under 50,000 the numbers would be around as follows below. This does follow some demographic trends that likely would not occur as they did such as the post-depression slump in the 30s along with the baby...