Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread

UrbanNight

Aghasverov said:
Well, I get that most of the names for the "new states" are based on Indian Tribes, and on natural features (esp lakes and rivers), but there's a couple that are throwing me... "Wauwautania" and "Puania" for example :)
Generations of schoolchildren who have difficulty in spelling are grateful that this proposal never came to pass! :D
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As you've now got me started looking them up:
  • Tadousacaia after Tadousac, now Tadoussac in Quebec
  • Gaspesia after the Gaspe Peninsula
  • Sagadahock after an old name for the Kennebec River
  • Champlainia after Lake Champlain
  • Catarakua after the Cataraqui River
  • Senekania after the Seneca
  • Erieland after Lake Erie
  • Huronia after Lake Huron
  • Mensisipia after the Mensisipi River
  • Camanestigonia after the Kaministiquia River
  • Missisagania after Lake Mississagaigun, an old name for Mille Lacs Lake
  • Puania after the Puans, an old name for the Winnebago or Ho-Chunk
  • Mascoutenia after the Mascouten
  • Miamisia after the Miami
  • Wauwautania after one of many different spellings for the tribe now known as the Wea.
  • Chicasawria after the Chickasaw
  • Chactawria after the Choctaw
 
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Mr. Bubbles

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In 1867, not long after the purchase of Alaska from Russia, Secretary of State William H. Seward considered the possibility of annexing both Greenland and Iceland, which he called an idea "worthy of serious consideration". Seward commissioned a report, called, creatively, A Report on the Resources of Iceland and Greenland, but ultimately made no offer to Denmark.
 
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Analytical Engine

Mr. Bubbles said:
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In 1867, not long after the purchase of Alaska from Russia, Secretary of State William H. Seward considered the possibility of annexing both Greenland and Iceland, which he called an idea "worthy of serious consideration". Seward commissioned a report, called, creatively, A Report on the Resources of Iceland and Greenland, but ultimately made no offer to Denmark.
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What was it with Seward and remote, snowy places?
 

Chris S

Mr. Bubbles said:
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In 1867, not long after the purchase of Alaska from Russia, Secretary of State William H. Seward considered the possibility of annexing both Greenland and Iceland, which he called an idea "worthy of serious consideration". Seward commissioned a report, called, creatively, A Report on the Resources of Iceland and Greenland, but ultimately made no offer to Denmark.
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Wendell said:
I think the idea was to surround British North America in the hopes of one day annexing it.
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Yes, if somehow that went through (assume 1869-1870) I would imagine it would supercharge the confederation process in British North America and we MIGHT have seen Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland join sooner than they did in OTL.
 

Wendell

Chris S said:
Yes, if somehow that went through (assume 1869-1870) I would imagine it would supercharge the confederation process in British North America and we MIGHT have seen Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland join sooner than they did in OTL.
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That may well happen. On the other hand, Greenland was really still a ways away, especially in that era. The areas of Canada closest to Greenland were either HBC or unclaimed.
 
DJjablonski

DJjablonski

Mr. Bubbles said:
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In 1867, not long after the purchase of Alaska from Russia, Secretary of State William H. Seward considered the possibility of annexing both Greenland and Iceland, which he called an idea "worthy of serious consideration". Seward commissioned a report, called, creatively, A Report on the Resources of Iceland and Greenland, but ultimately made no offer to Denmark.
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"What if we did the Alaska purchase, but like, again"
-William H. Seward 1867
 

UrbanNight

GauchoBadger said:
Proposed state boundaries in South Africa after the end of Apartheid
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It looks like (a) Bosbokrand to Mpamalanga, (c) Groblersdal to Northern Province, (e) Umzimkulu to KwaZulu/Natal were the ones that actually happened.

I'm a little surprised that the border for (h) doesn't use the Orange River, which was the historic border between British Cape Colony and British Bechuanaland, but I suppose that it probably takes into account towns that have grown up along the river.
 
Crying

Crying

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TIL that Spanish colonial authorities in Quito (Ecuador) once claimed territory going all the way to the Atlantic through the Amazon
 
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