Isaac Beach
Banned
I'm curious as to how one might go about creating a Spanish Australia? What POD would you need? How would it be administrated? Could you get an influx of other Catholics (Irish, Italians, etc.) to bolster its population? Would they intermix with the Aboriginals? That sort of thing.
I do know there was a plan in the 1790s to invade Britain's Botany Bay colony, but it's been combed over on this site before and the general consensus is that it isn't very realistic, Trafalgar or not. So I was looking for an earlier POD, which plausibility aside is probably more interesting. One perhaps far fetched idea was to get some parallelism to OTL where the English get a leg up -or otherwise the Spanish get their knees kicked out- on the new world and so get the nice bits in Mexico and Peru, and later down the line the Spanish make up for it by picking up Australia. I've not thought it through comprehensively but it tickled me.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
I do know there was a plan in the 1790s to invade Britain's Botany Bay colony, but it's been combed over on this site before and the general consensus is that it isn't very realistic, Trafalgar or not. So I was looking for an earlier POD, which plausibility aside is probably more interesting. One perhaps far fetched idea was to get some parallelism to OTL where the English get a leg up -or otherwise the Spanish get their knees kicked out- on the new world and so get the nice bits in Mexico and Peru, and later down the line the Spanish make up for it by picking up Australia. I've not thought it through comprehensively but it tickled me.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.