Map Challenge: Latest POD

[Flocculencio]

In OTL, after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Britain gave back the Dutch East Indies to the Netherlands, while keeping the Cape and a few other places. Now, there was no need for Britain to do this: they could have kept them, and the Netherlands wouldn't really have been in a position to complain. So, say that they kept them ITTL...

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[Diamond]

For Spain, I was thinking that the borders are the after-effect of an alt-Spanish Civil War of some kind, probably around the same time; it could have been precipitated by a Spanish-American War similar to OTL - that might explain why the US has Cuba and PR. But what about Hispaniola? How did that happen?

 

[Matt]

For Spain, I was thinking that the borders are the after-effect of an alt-Spanish Civil War of some kind, probably around the same time; it could have been precipitated by a Spanish-American War similar to OTL - that might explain why the US has Cuba and PR. But what about Hispaniola? How did that happen?

Perhaps Haiti is seen as an alternate to Liberia, and is picked up sometime before an alternate Civil War(I dont see any reason for the underlining reasons for the ACW to vanish). Both places still recieve former slaves, and are placed under US protectorate after alternate-ACW. During the siad War with Spain saw the US taking the Dominican Republic side of the island, whose war of restoration failed in the 1860s.