BDWI: Portugal not part of the United Kingdom

?So what would have happened to Portugal if It hadn't joined the UK after the Royal House of Braganza, was destroyed in the great Earthquake of 1755?
 
OOC: It's a new kind of DBWI, a dyslexic-blind (or blind dyslexic, but that has completely different implications) what-if. :D Sorry, could not resist.


IC: Would that have been enough to stop the rise of the Spanish Republic (assuming it comes ITTL too, ignoring butterflies)? Madrid fell pretty easily, and I don't know if a British presence in Lisbon could have stopped it. Maybe they could have intervened and snuffed out the republic before the Spanish Republican Wars began, which would be good for the rest of Europe.
 
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