Thanks, but in the update was mentioned Sierra Leone.Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau.
Thanks, but in the update was mentioned Sierra Leone.Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau.
Thank You, we glad you enjoyed it.very interesting
Yes the Portuguese Empire will not be dependent on the British for its survival and for protection like iOTL. With added strength will come added responsibility and possibilities both good and bad. There are a lot of situations that the Portuguese were spectators either due to not being directly affected by the conflict or simply did not have the resources or ability to take advantage. While I will not specify the specific issues that affect the Portuguese in the 19th and 20th century the expanded empire will be in direct conflict or vicinity of many zones of future "conflict" or better yet problems. How it will interact both with other colonial powers and locals will determine its future.This growing militarism is going to need an outlet.
I like that Portugal is setting itself up to Rival Britain, either by being an alternative or simply making their own. I really hope it could stand toe to toe to the British Empire by the 1900s.
very good update , Portugal is advancing quite well , good i hope that we become as strong as the British empire , and when WW and WWII happen , we are on the side of the Allies . can hardly wait for the next update .
What are Portugal West African colonies?
OK we will be delving into the development of the various colonies when we post Minister of Navy and Colonies. At this time we wish to state that Portuguese African colonies along the Atlantic composition does undergo major changes. Some of which was already covered in the Angola expansion posts and more to follow in both he colonial and the three year war. As for specific Thrudgelmir2333 was correct in specifying Cape Verde and Guine since those were the two primary colonies in which the Portuguese navy and army projected power into the Atlantic while the composition of Portuguese Guinea will change and expand from our perceptions. In some ways it will be same as saying Brazil which encompassed all Portuguese South America from Amazon to the Rio de la Plata but in reality was composed of several very different provinces. So too will this be the case in West Africa where all lands there be considered Portuguese Guinea even if they encompass territory that iOTL were separate colonies from other countries.Thanks, but in the update was mentioned Sierra Leone.
We already have touched a little on this in discussing the paper industry, there will be additional discussions on this when we discuss the Ministry of Health and Agriculture. Note: In many parts of the Iberian Peninsula there would need to be investment in terms of building reservoirs to take advantage of waterpower. As for "white coal" its use in Europe more importantly Britain the primary user of it was supplanted by charcoal or coal and only recently has it regained interest. The Portuguese efforts were concentrated on coal and securing sources of it, although as outlined in post only available in both Brazil and supposable in East Africa.Given Portugal is now searching about fuel, how is going treated "white coal" or waterpower?
The time of the French are approaching
very good new update , the Portuguese armies ,and very good to defend Portugal and its Colonies , soon i suspect the Napoleonic Wars will start . can hardly wait for the next update
So for awhile in TTL Portugal will have the best equipped army. Until Napoleon shows up and tries to rule all of Europe.
As long as they fight strategically and defensibly Portugal should be relatively safe from invasion.
How's the coastal fortification going?
Portugal looks to be very progressive in the views of racial ethics compated to most europe.
Only relatively-speaking and out of necessity. Minorities are not allowed to wear the 'Bluecoat' uniform, for example, and the logistics of the ethnic manpower distribution are still very much based on convenience, proportion control and making sure you're fighting away from your native home. It is also partially motivated by Verneyist religious moralism than actual progressivism.
Yes for centuries Portuguese and Spanish rule meant Catholicism and in worse cases inquisition. For in many places being Portuguese and Catholic was one and same.Although, I could see these policies of pragmatism having a social effect on the next generation, working, living, and fighting alongside people of a different colour and perhaps even religion to themselves. They might choose to look positively at the centuries of cohabitation between Christians, Muslims, and Jews under the Al-Andalus, in contrast to the dogmatism following Reconquista that, they would argue, ultimately led to Portugal and Spain stagnating culturally and intellectually and thus being unable to keep their lead on the Dutch, French, and British in the imperial game.
Timor and Leste certainly seem to be the awkward step-children of the Lusophone family right now, but with the Portugese dividing New Zealand with the British they could potentially find new life as the hub in Portugal's Far East wheel, helping to ensure the Dutch aren't able to at will snuff out communication and travel between North Island, Macau, and Goa/the Atlantic. Of course, the Dutch are about to get very occupied in every sense of that word when Napoleon shows up, a Portugal that holds its ground in the Peninsular War is in a good spot to 'ask' the Dutch for some compensation in exchange for looking after their Far East possessions for them.
You forget the luso-dutch war that keeps being referrenced in the last updates, if the pre-"censorship" index is right, whoever is in charge of the DEI after the war is going to have a much lighter workload do deal with.
This, however, would attract Dutch rivalry, which would attempt to establish the Kupang settlement to the southeast of Timor to ultimately curb Portuguese Timor development, exacerbating the tense climate and contributing to the outbreak of the 2nd Luso-Dutch War.
Thanks to Portugal’s reinvented bureaucracy, the loans were effectively applied, and the Governor of Timor received the funds necessary to renovate the Dili port, establish a ferry-road link through Tabana into Maumere, the capital of Sicca in Flores, reorganize farms, expand coffee plantations, educate citizens and generally get an economic and internal trade effort started. This was essential to Timor being an effective province in the long run, pay off its debts to the LCC and become minimally productive. By 1780, although debts were not paid, Timor’s finances were stable enough for it to stand as a province and maintain its delicate commercial economy, allowing scientific studies to develop normally and commercial networking to develop.
It might be surprising to some, but one of the first economists to write positively about the publically traded limited-liability company (the ones that sell share on the stock market) was Karl Marx - earlier writers like Adam Smth were suspicious of divorcing the roles of management and ownership, while Marx admired the stock market's ability to raise capital on a scale no individual or small group of people could ever hope to match, no matter how rich they were, to him they were what made possible the massive steel mills being constructed in Germany in his time. The race to mobilise resources for the naval infrastructure boom could set somebody up to make a similar observation a few generations early. I'm sorry if it's been covered before and I'm simply forgetting, but what exactly is the government doing to direct private investment towards the shipyards? This is before the founding of a national bank, so one can imagine the Naval & Colonies Ministry issuing bonds affordable to the average Portugese, backed by the revenue collected from the consolidating and growing merchant fleet and colonial empire. Common Portugese people get a nice, safe, and not to mention patriotic investment to help grow their savings, and the government gets the influx of cash it needs for the Castro Plan.
I'm predicting that Capoeira spreads across the empire through the army. It doesn't matter how busy you try to keep your soldiers with drills, marches, and the building of fortifications, men stuck thousands of miles away from home are going to get bored and irritable with each other. The choice is in whether that aggresion gets let out in a nasty brawl whenever they think the officers aren't looking, or if they have the oppourtunity to release it in a way that is more controlled and consciously done as a bit of fun between fellow soldiers, and does more to exercise their bodies rather than having them risk serious damage. Returning to the topic of social changes I mentioned in my last comment, I think learning from and sparring with Afro-Brazilians in this martial art could help white troops and officers grasp an important idea; assimilation is not a one way process of an inferior people being sculpted into shape by a superior one, it's a mutual exchange where two different but equal peoples find a middle ground.
Timor and Leste certainly seem to be the awkward step-children of the Lusophone family right now, but with the Portugese dividing New Zealand with the British they could potentially find new life as the hub in Portugal's Far East wheel, helping to ensure the Dutch aren't able to at will snuff out communication and travel between North Island, Macau, and Goa/the Atlantic. Of course, the Dutch are about to get very occupied in every sense of that word when Napoleon shows up, a Portugal that holds its ground in the Peninsular War is in a good spot to 'ask' the Dutch for some compensation in exchange for looking after their Far East possessions for them.