I welcome your thoughts on the U.S. Korean Punitive Expedition of 1871. Could America have taken over Korea completely and established an Asian colony? YOU decide!
I welcome your thoughts on the U.S. Korean Punitive Expedition of 1871. Could America have taken over Korea completely and established an Asian colony? YOU decide!
I welcome your thoughts on the U.S. Korean Punitive Expedition of 1871. Could America have taken over Korea completely and established an Asian colony? YOU decide!
Could? It would take a good year or two to build up an expedition that could actually pull that off, but they could eventually occupy the peninsula if they wished to extend the effort and no other country intervened, but they had absolutely no desire to do so and the European powers would certainly have objected if they had.
I welcome your thoughts on the U.S. Korean Punitive Expedition of 1871. Could America have taken over Korea completely and established an Asian colony? YOU decide!
I welcome your thoughts on the U.S. Korean Punitive Expedition of 1871. Could America have taken over Korea completely and established an Asian colony? YOU decide!
The political will won't be there. But establishing a protectorate over Korea isn't as impossible as it's being made out to be here.
It's a long way to say NO.
It took the Qing 10 years to force Korea become its vassal. And this was after millions died and were kidnapped back to China. Protectorates also don't occur just because you invade the capital. Righteous Armies, as always, will rise up and fight against foreign invaders.
Huh? The Qing took about two months to receive the surrender of Injo. The first invasion in 1627 was only intended to make Joseon a Qing ally, not to make Joseon a Qing vassal.
I suspect that Britain wouldn't have minded much, bearing in mind that we had no real interests in (and relatively few interests very close to) Korea at the time, and might even have offered to support the American claim in exchange for American support in some other (current or future) dispute. When was the Alaska/BC border finally fixed at its RL line?Even if America had sent a larger expedition, it would have been unable to successfully withstand challenges from various other European powers
No, they did not. The point stands: Taizong of Qing took two months, not a decade, to receive the surrender of the Korean king. The Manchu invasions were fundamentally different from the Japanese invasions of the 1590s in this aspect.And they didn't exactly listen..