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I’ve read uncountable wank TLs dedicated to the US, Spain, England, France, Germany, Russia and so on. But TL wanks dedicated to my home country, Portugal, are rare. There is a great, not complete, pre-1900 TL: “O Renascimento de um Império” by Lusitania but almost no post-1900 Portuguese TLs.

With this though in mind I’ve been wondering the best POD to start a modern Portuguese TL, a Portuguese wank TL, and last night I remembered one: the failed Republican uprising of 31st January 1891 in Oporto.

As a consequence to the Portuguese acquiescence, by the Portuguese Government and Crown, to the British Ultimatum of 1890 which led to the Portuguese withdrawal from the African territories between Angola and Mozambique – Pink Map Project-, on the 31st January 1891 a couple of military units revolted in Oporto with the goal of toppling the Government, ending the Brangança’s monarchy and installing a republican system of government in Portugal. The coup attempted was half hearted at best and failed in a few hours, with the small group of revote’s surrounded in City Hall and forced to surrender.

Now, what if the revolt had been successful and took the city, the North of the country and, following a panicky escape of the king to Brazil – like it happened in 1910, the entire country is under republican control. The Republic is installed twenty years in advance of our TL.

An immediate butterfly I guess would be a cooling of the relationship with the UK (A friendly monarchic house is toppled on one side – British view of the situation in Portugal – and, on the other, the new Portuguese regime would want to assert itself and nothing better than to lash out against the perceived “enemy” of the moment) and perhaps the end to the old Portuguese-English alliance.

Thoughts anybody?
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