Hannoverian colonial empire

Thanks, I couldnt think of how they could have managed it but clearly they didnt. If the Knights of St.John could manage a colony than anyone could.

EDIT - Earlier thread on it (Malta Colony Thread)
Again, the OP calls for a sizeable colony. Nobody in their right minds would call Tobago or St. Croix sizeable, and neither of these places could even be held on for very long. If some random German princedom or electorate or whatever wants a sizeable colony, they're going to be coming into contact with natives, and chances are they won't have the military capacity to take on said natives. As as been mentioned in the Pre-1900 AH cliches thread by me and a dozen others, colonization is more difficult and complex than just lobbing boats full of white people onto foreign shores. The very first European settlement in America, Vinland, was wiped out by natives. The next one, set up by Columbus, was wiped out by natives in even less time. Most of the first several English settlements in Virginia were either abandoned or burnt to ashes by natives. The first settlers in New England died in droves from the weather. And England and Spain were, needless to say, much more capable powers than Hannover. Frankly, I doubt the Hannoverian colony effort would last after a single settlement goes, which I guarantee will happen if they try to settle anything more sizeable than an empty Caribbean island.
 
By the time of Hanover's annexation by Prussia, George V's personal wealth was equal to about £1,500,000 (quick internet calculator says that about equals £600 million today (using average earnings)).

I assume that is a lot for the day; couldn't that help fund a colony?
 
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