The Southern Victory

Then you've pretty much ruined St Louis as an asset to the Confederacy as you've not only seen a majority of the population leave but it was that group which caused St Louis to expand and prosper.

Why would Spain offer to sell a colony, something they consistently refused to do throughout their colonial history, no matter how poor their finances?
 
Then you've pretty much ruined St Louis as an asset to the Confederacy as you've not only seen a majority of the population leave but it was that group which caused St Louis to expand and prosper.

Why would Spain offer to sell a colony, something they consistently refused to do throughout their colonial history, no matter how poor their finances?

Because they are loosing good men in a fruitless effort to end a rebellion....
 
Spain NEVER sold a colony, no matter how miserable the financial state of the nation nor foreign policy troubles nor the costs of fighting local insurgents.
 
Spain NEVER sold a colony, no matter how miserable the financial state of the nation nor foreign policy troubles nor the costs of fighting local insurgents.

If that's the case then the CSA may just invade it. They wanted it and there is not that much room to expand anyway.... Perhaps a French British Confederate-Spanish War? :confused:
 
The topic has been done before and the CSA lacked the military capacity to do any such thing. Not to mention the financial ability. The US didn't have a navy which could beat Spain until the 1890s.

Meanwhile Spain fielded an army of @250K in Cuba alone, the CSA only briefly had @275K in uniform throughout the entire CSA.

Neither the French nor the British have any reason to favor the idea and both have good reasons to oppose the CSA in any such effort.

So the CSA loses whatever navy it had, much of the regular army and officer corps and now has another enemy. If France joins with Spain, and convinces Mexico that support is needed against an expansionist CSA then the CSA has three new enemies and France might even grab some territory lost by Mexico as recently as 1848.
 
Perhaps a French British Confederate-Spanish War?
I doubt if France will be happy with the Confeds.
There were several prominent Southern Senators who gave speeches during the War, supporting the Monroe Doctrine, and calling on the CS to join with the US to enforce it.
Post war the CS will join in the US notes calling for France to withdraw fromMexico.
Mobile was known for it’s ironclad and frigate production and by 1868, the “Confederate States Naval Academy” was set up in the city.
I doubt if the CS would set up a Naval Academy. OTL Va's VMI, SC's Citadel, and GA's GMI, and other State Military Institutes, send Graduates to the Army on the same equality as West Point.
In a CS wins TL I see the State Run Military & Naval Institutes stepping up and taking the place of any Federal Institutes.
 
I doubt if France will be happy with the Confeds.
There were several prominent Southern Senators who gave speeches during the War, supporting the Monroe Doctrine, and calling on the CS to join with the US to enforce it.
Post war the CS will join in the US notes calling for France to withdraw fromMexico.
I doubt if the CS would set up a Naval Academy. OTL Va's VMI, SC's Citadel, and GA's GMI, and other State Military Institutes, send Graduates to the Army on the same equality as West Point.
In a CS wins TL I see the State Run Military & Naval Institutes stepping up and taking the place of any Federal Institutes.

On the second note, you are most likely true. Perhaps a re-word in that sentence is needed?

I'm guessing that the CSA would fall apart very soon if what you all say is true.... they seem to be gaining too many enemies and do not have enough men/material to deal with them in a war. Who would side with the CSA right after the war. I know that Russia and the US would be close friends but what of the other nations in Europe?
 
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