Valdemar II
Banned
Where was that?
Can't be America, which had one of the world's highest standards of living in the 1770s, and with it one of the world's highest literacy rates.
And why would what matter? USA won for precisely the same reason the Spanish Colonies won, because the mother country had to fight against a guerilla campaign on the the other side of the world*. A invasion of Cuba by USA in 1850 gives USA none of these advantages.
*Except the Spanish did it while they were still rebuilding from a long and brutal war.