west indies

Ok. So this is going to be an ongoing thread eliciting opinions on one of my favourite alternate history topics, British Florida. This is not my first time delving in to this idea, I have read all the threads on this site, and I also recommend @CeeJay 's Palmera: An African Resettlement TL...

According to Osmanlı İmparatorluğu Devlet Arşivleri - Dış İlişkiler 1900 - 1910, The Ottoman Empire was one of many powers approached by Denmark from 1900 as a potential buyer of the Danish West Indies. In 1909, at the height of the Second Constitutional Era, on the condition of Freedom of...

So this is kind of a spin-off on the Alternative West Indies thread , but focusing more specifically on the Italian Kingdoms/Republics and City-States as potential colonisers in a context where maybe both Spain and Portugal may be nerfed or at least less ambitious in terms of trad ventures...

I'm wondering what various patterns of colonisation for the West Indies could have unfolded: Spain was obviously the country who started it all up, followed by England, France and the United Provinces. And then through wars isles were passed between power... ... but what if those countries...