Little known Colonial powers .

It is a wrong narrative.
The Soviet SSRs were a result of the decolonization process in the former Russian Empire.

Some of them were arguably that, though I would rather talk about ostensible political devolution of powers to subnational entities within the context of the USSR. Others, namely the Baltic SSRs, were the result of Soviet expansionism after the breakup of the Russian Empire (which in itself was an example of decolonization).
 
I believe certain Afrikaners thought that after WWI Tanganyika would be turns into a South African colony. Also, did the Flemish have seperate colonies from the Dutch? Because when people talk about Holland as the Netherlands it seems true internationally. All the sailors and financiers came from Holland, after all.
 
I believe certain Afrikaners thought that after WWI Tanganyika would be turns into a South African colony. Also, did the Flemish have seperate colonies from the Dutch? Because when people talk about Holland as the Netherlands it seems true internationally. All the sailors and financiers came from Holland, after all.

After their rebellion against the British in 1914? What were they smoking and where can I get some?

AFAIK the Flemish had no colonies of their own - excluding Leopold II's Belgian colonization, because most of the Age of Exploration they were either part of Spain/Austria or the Dutch were blockading the Schelde. But I will admit, I never understood why the Southern Netherlands didn't try to get around the blockade by using/building other ports.
 
After their rebellion against the British in 1914? What were they smoking and where can I get some?

Keep in mind how some in the Belgian government suggested to the Entente that they annex Dutch Zeeland and Limburg, while the Dutch got territory from Germany to compensate. Some people, usually only a minority of the country though, get a bit wacky. Still, up until then winning countries sometimes gave their own land to allies in trades. Like how the Italians, who only controlled the ports in Libya, managed to get huge areas of desert from the Egyptians, British, and French.
 
I believe certain Afrikaners thought that after WWI Tanganyika would be turns into a South African colony.

After their rebellion against the British in 1914? What were they smoking and where can I get some?

The Maritz rebellion in 1914? It was over by November. In the next three years, South African forces, including many Afrikaners, and under the command of an Afrikaner general (Jan Smuts) conquered German South-West Africa, and then Tanganyika.

Since Afrikaners had led both campaigns, provided many of the troops, and suffered thousands of casualties, it seemed plausible that these territories should be controlled by them. South-West Africa actually was given to South Africa as a mandate of the League of Nations.
 
Another interesting case is Félix Éboué, a Guiana-born black who served as governor of the French colonies of Guadeloupe and Chad in 1936-1944.


Also Gaston Monnerville, another black Guiana-born French, who ended up President of the Senate, which is the 2nd highest post in France (as in: he does interim when the President dies or resigns). It actually happened that the President Coty resigned in 1958 during the (very long) term of Monnerville, so he should have been provisional Head of State of France according to the Constitution! But that was during the Cold war, France was by then a very close ally of the US (no French bomb yet), and during the (end of the) Jim Crow period in the US - so out of "consideration" for the US, the Constitution was quietly overlooked (it was being changed anyway) and De Gaulle assumed the interim instead.
 
Also Gaston Monnerville, another black Guiana-born French, who ended up President of the Senate, which is the 2nd highest post in France (as in: he does interim when the President dies or resigns). It actually happened that the President Coty resigned in 1958 during the (very long) term of Monnerville, so he should have been provisional Head of State of France according to the Constitution! But that was during the Cold war, France was by then a very close ally of the US (no French bomb yet), and during the (end of the) Jim Crow period in the US - so out of "consideration" for the US, the Constitution was quietly overlooked (it was being changed anyway) and De Gaulle assumed the interim instead.

That's super interesting, I had no idea! Do you know if he was truly pushed out because of the US or because it was deemed itwould also not have been acceptable in France? AKA, was he pushed for diplomatic niceties or out of French racism?
 
Courland in their short period of independence they had settlements on the island of Tobago in the 17th century
 
I Probably shouldnt have taken the UK as an example - it's a weird place, they even get to have 4 football teams.
The United Kingdom has 4. Great Britain has 3. The British Isles have 8.

To be fair, there are only 7 native languages between the 8 as 2 would be speaking Norman French.

In addition Cornwall had it's own team in the first modern international Olympic Games; and that would be 1 more language.
 
One day I hope Canada buys the Turks and Caicos islands from Britain. With our cold climate and collapsing currency value, we need an affordable, warm place to call our own.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life...-send-a-reporter-to-find-out/article19045062/

THE LONG LOVE AFFAIR BETWEEN CANADA AND TURKS AND CAICOS

1917

Prime Minister Robert Borden floats the idea of annexing Turks and Caicos.

1974

Max Saltsman, an NDP MP, introduces a private member’s bill asking that a parliamentary committee investigate annexation of the islands in a bid to keep tourism dollars in Canada. It never reaches the House floor. Meanwhile, an independent group in Ottawa starts the Turks and Caicos Canadian Association to press for the establishment of “Muskoka South.” Turks and Caicos sends a delegation to Ottawa, but the dream is dashed a short while later by external affairs minister Mitchell Sharp, who says any union wouldn’t be mutually beneficial.

1990

Polls show that 90 per cent of Turks and Caicos residents approve a union. (That number drops to 60 per cent by 2003.)

2003

Conservative MP Peter Goldring revives the idea of making Turks and Caicos Canada’s 11th province.

2014

Goldring pitches the idea again, saying that “Canada really needs a Hawaii.” The Conservative government dismisses the idea.


It would be a great naval base too, for our single frigate or OPV to sail aboot.
 
In 1608, the Granduchy of Tuscany had tried to colonize what is now French Guayana. Why didn't it happen? Well, Ferdinand I, the expediion's main financial contributor, died of gout and his hair Cosimo didn't want to take the risk.
 
That's super interesting, I had no idea! Do you know if he was truly pushed out because of the US or because it was deemed itwould also not have been acceptable in France? AKA, was he pushed for diplomatic niceties or out of French racism?

Monnerville supported De Gaulle's assumption of power. Coty resigned on 8 January 1959; De Gaulle was inaugurated the next day.
 
Also Gaston Monnerville, another black Guiana-born French, who ended up President of the Senate, which is the 2nd highest post in France (as in: he does interim when the President dies or resigns). It actually happened that the President Coty resigned in 1958 during the (very long) term of Monnerville, so he should have been provisional Head of State of France according to the Constitution!

Coty did not resign as President in 1958.

But that was during the Cold war, France was by then a very close ally of the US (no French bomb yet), and during the (end of the) Jim Crow period in the US - so out of "consideration" for the US, the Constitution was quietly overlooked (it was being changed anyway) and De Gaulle assumed the interim instead.

This is utter rubbish. "Jim Crow" was a domestic issue which was only of real concern to Southerners. Neither President Eisenhower nor the State Department nor any national political leaders would be disturbed by an obscure black French politician becoming temporary President.

In any case, the office of President was never vacant, as Coty didn't resign until 8 January 1959, the day before De Gaulle was inaugurated under the new constitution.
 
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