Recent content by maverick

I don't know. Is the army that competent? I of course can't be too sure about the Navy. I don't even know if we had a navy in the 1870s. :p

I merged all the threads discussing this notion of South American in the Axis because I think stupid ideas are less harmful if they're all contained in one thread rather than spread over several through the years.

Congratulations are in order. That was some good research, strong arguments and a well elaborated thesis, Phil.

Learn how to deal with constructive criticism.

Don't Spam, Dumbass.

Well, that's 24+ hrs and so far we've got one detailed and well-written comment that was pertinent to one of the points of this thread, although not the main one, and another post that dealt with the main issue at hand, but on more general terms and with a conclusion that I believe might have...

The heads wouldn't appear to be so, hmmm...off if it was a lesser quality picture, I think. I'd also make it appear vintage.

Versions 1.0 and 2.0 merged.

Thanks guys. Well, this is hardly an empire to last on the long term. IOTL, Taiwan became a Qing dependency once again in the 1680s, after nearly 20 years of post-Koxinga independence. Besides the Fukien Ports, to which Coseng is attached as his family is from there IIRC, which are...

And now, the exciting conclusion of the Adventures of Captain Coxinga and the Pirates of Dongdu. *** Tungning/Dongdu/Formosa IV Coseng the Conqueror Panic and fear had been widespread in Manila, the capital of the Spanish Philippines, ever since the return of Friar...

According to that infallible bastion of intellectual integrity that is Wikipedia, at most Italians composed a 48% of immigrants in Argentina and a 12% of the total population in 1895, with over one million Italians living in Argentina, presumably in Buenos Aires and its surroundings. So no...

Entertaining. Little crazy tidbits like this are what makes these regimes interesting to watch and read about.

Rickshaw, stop trolling. Kicked for a week. The rest of you should be ashamed for feeding a troll. I oughta kick the lot of you, but I'm feeling lazy.

Zack, I think it would be in your best interest to take a week off and reexamine your attitude problem. Cut it out with the trolling and the bizarre historical revisionism.

If anything, it's an strategic location. Good place for a naval base/coaling station?