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Not really, since the "X-in-Canada" boxes have so far all been their own separate universes, with the Minnesota-in-Canada ones explicitly having the only change to Canada's territory is that Minnesota belongs to it instead of the US.
Anglo-Chilean War
The Anglo-Chilean War lasted from November 1836 to the month of April 1838, however the war itself was a part of the greater that was going on between Chile and the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, which is known as the War of the Confederation.
With the nations of Peru and Bolivia merging together to form the Peru-Bolivian Confederation by Mar. Andrés de Santa Cruz in 1836, it created great alarm in the neighboring nation of Chile. The potential power of this new confederation worried the Chileans making them feel that they could be outmatched by a strong rich neighbor that signified the area. Chilean statesman named Diego Portales and Chilean president José Joaquín Prieto Vial, were both very concerned that Peru-Bolivian Confederation would result in breaking the regional balance of power and thus be a great threat to Chile's existence. Thus it became Chile's enemy as a result.
But that was just only one of the reasons behind the war itself. On a more closer examination both the countries of Chile and the Peru-Bolivian Confederation were in a great heated competition for the control of the commercial trade routes of the Pacific; which for the Chileans especially, whose relations with independent Peru had already been strained by economic problems that centered on the rivalry between their port cities of Callao and Valparaiso.
For the war to begin between the two countries was due to a simple tariff disagreement that none of them could agree upon. The original Treaty of Friendship that was previously signed between Peru and Chile in 1835, was now declared as null and void on February 14th, 1836, by Peruvian General/Dictator Luis Orbegoso. As a result Peru raised up its tariff on Chilean wheat in which Chile responded humorously by raising the tariffs on Peruvian sugar. This led to war when Chileans led a raid into the Peru-Bolivian Confederation.
In a matter of days the Chilean military began making skirmishes among the borders of Chile-Bolivia. While at sea the Peruvian navy was bombarding and rekting the crap out of the Chilean navy.
This war continued just only between the two nations, until eventually without any reason the Chilean army decided to raid and attack British settlements in the Andes Territory, and raided the small towns of Jarrowford and Morganfield. The British of course were caught completely off-guard by the attacks made by Chile and responded by the British declaring war on Chile of course.
Though when Britain declared war on Chile, the government of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation thought that Britain would come to its aid to defeat those meddling Chileans. However funnily enough the British had no interest in aiding them whatsoever thus leaving the nation still being faced with more attacks at sea brought by the Chilean navy.
On the other hand however Chile had been too highly focused at sea paying attention to the Peruvians and Bolivians, which thus ironically made the Chileans being caught off-guard in payback made by the British forces who crossed the Andes Mountains with the help of native locals who knew the area well and then surprised attacked many Chilean towns and disrupted the Chilean supply routes.
At this point Chile was now facing two different sides of the war, it was now dealing with the British Empire and the Peru-Bolivian Confederation at the same time and the Chileans knew that there no way to turn back from this now.
The British would continued raiding more of Chilean countryside as they raided farmlands and burned major crops such as corn and wheat, resulting in more supplies being lost or destroyed and more Chilean soldiers and civilians starving. And there was also now plenty of rebellions occurring throughout Chile due to food shortages.
This kept going on until eventually by March of 1838, the Chilean president finally surrendered and asked for ceasefire with the British Empire. Since Chile was now devastated from the attacks done by the British, the British saw that Chile was now weakened and accepted their ceasefire agreement, in which Chile had to keep its promise with a 20 year ceasefire.
With the Anglo-Chilean War now over, this meant Chile could finally focus again only on the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, which by now had also been dealing with massive fatalities and lack of supplies to feed their men as well. The War of the Confederation continued onward for another year until finally both nations agreed on a ceasefire after seeing that both sides were facing too many casualties and economic problems.
This led to economic troubles for Chile as well as massive war debt and the Peru-Bolivian Confederation had also faced massive debt as well in which unfortunately ended in the confederation between Peru and Bolivia being broken up by 1842.
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Part of my timeline of the Land of Friendship
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Part of my timeline of the Land of Friendship
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I'm starting to think you don't like Conservatives
But in all seriousness, I'm a fan of Bill Walker. Seems like a good guy and a good governor. Also nice shade of blue for the Tories.
I'm starting to think you don't like Conservatives
*Points angrily to the Noemslide in the Dakota-in-Canada box*
Thanks. I figured that someone like Walker, who would have fit right in with the Republican moderates of the pre-Gingrich era, would be perfect for the Alaska Liberals.
And thanks. It was a mix of the shade used for the Progressive Conservatives and Alberta PCs.
One Tory victory does not make up for all of the blue blood you've spilled
(I kid)Aw, I thought it seemed familiar. To be honest if I wasn't already married to a particular shade of blue, I'd use yours in my TL.
The American Kookaburra is an odd case. While they were introduced over 500 years ago, there is no possible way for them to reach North America naturally. They inhabit the western coast of North America and are talked about in multiple languages. They seem to be descended from the Laughing Kookaburra of Australia.
The Dibé is another odd case like the American Kookaburra. Introduced around the same time as the previously mentioned animals, the Dibé (or the American Camel) has adapted well to live in the North American desert. The only known story about how they came to America is an old Navajo story about the introduction. They tell of a man who appeared before a Navajo chief and gifted the tribe a group of these camels telling them that they would need these in the deserts of the south. While at first the gift seemed to be the only ones, it was discovered that a large amount were released at the same time in the North American Deserts. They seem to be decedent from Dromedary Camels and not the Camelops as originally thought.
The biggest mystery is how these animals got to their locations. Most myths about it mention a traveler who appeared in the event of beasts of burden or inventions. In other cases, the animals just appear in records.
Alright, so how this works is that a party gains a seat for every 1 full percent of the vote they get, rounded up.
"The Socialist Party was the most consistent third party until the year 1923, when they merged with the Farmer-Labor party and the Wisconsin and California Progressive Parties to become the Progressive Party. After the 1924 election and the death of Eugene Debs, the Progressive Party splintered and the Socialist Party began its long decline before ceasing to exist by the 1956 election."
"The Socialist Party was the most consistent third party until the year 1923, when they merged with the Farmer-Labor party and the Wisconsin and California Progressive Parties to become the Progressive Party. After the 1924 election and the death of Eugene Debs, the Progressive Party splintered and the Socialist Party began its long decline before ceasing to exist by the 1956 election."
Another thought experiment that I'm not going to turn into a TL.
I was wondering what the 1952 election would have looked like had Eisenhower never been persuaded to run and Taft became the GOP nominee. I used the poll results reported in this archived TIME article as a baseline, then adjusted the TTL!Taft vote by the factor as the OTL!Eisenhower vote decreased from when the poll was taken (June 1952) to Election Day and adjusted the state results accordingly.
I'm kind of surprised at how relatively fluid the southwest and parts of the mountain west were at this time- with the southwest all going blue (including Stevenson eking out a 50.4%-49.6% victory in Utah) and Montana coming within 1% of flipping. Taft's home state advantage is notably the only thing that flipped Ohio to the Republicans (Truman had won it in 1948). Notably, another thing that could very well be different is the fact that Senator Harry Byrd, boss of the Byrd Organization in Virginia tacitly endorsed Eisenhower IOTL, which is a major factor in why Eisenhower won the state IOTL. Since Byrd and Taft apparently got along well in the Senate, it's likely that he would similarly tacitly endorse Taft ITTL, but since it's impossible to quantify how many OTL VA Eisenhower votes were because of Byrd's quiet support for Eisenhower, I've just gone with the result the formula gives me.
I was wondering what the 1952 election would have looked like had Eisenhower never been persuaded to run and Taft became the GOP nominee. I used the poll results reported in this archived TIME article as a baseline, then adjusted the TTL!Taft vote by the factor as the OTL!Eisenhower vote decreased from when the poll was taken (June 1952) to Election Day and adjusted the state results accordingly.
I'm kind of surprised at how relatively fluid the southwest and parts of the mountain west were at this time- with the southwest all going blue (including Stevenson eking out a 50.4%-49.6% victory in Utah) and Montana coming within 1% of flipping. Taft's home state advantage is notably the only thing that flipped Ohio to the Republicans (Truman had won it in 1948). Notably, another thing that could very well be different is the fact that Senator Harry Byrd, boss of the Byrd Organization in Virginia tacitly endorsed Eisenhower IOTL, which is a major factor in why Eisenhower won the state IOTL. Since Byrd and Taft apparently got along well in the Senate, it's likely that he would similarly tacitly endorse Taft ITTL, but since it's impossible to quantify how many OTL VA Eisenhower votes were because of Byrd's quiet support for Eisenhower, I've just gone with the result the formula gives me.
I have to say that the results are surprising. The election would undoubtedly be kinder of Stevenson than OTL, but the fact he'd in a victory of such a magnitude as that is quite astounding. Still excellent work as ever!
Thanks. I think this is a pretty good approximation of how well Taft actually would have done considering that he didn't have Eisenhower's bipartisan appeal (in fact was the complete opposite image, being viewed as a fiercely partisan Republican) or his military background, which were both vital in an era when the Democrats were the majority party in the country and when the Korean War was a big political issue.
And I think his victory looks bigger than it really is because of how the Electoral College works, especially in a relatively non-polarized era where most states are only slightly more Republican or Democratic than the national average.
A blessed image. Anything that mentions Merkin Muffley... I mean Adlai Stevenson deserves a Gold Star.
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