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The Us is going to leap over Spanish ruled lands in the middle of the continent, to colonize Texas, have a rebellion in Mexican Texas, annex it as a non connected territory, then invade and conquer northern Mexico by sea invasion, while leaving Spanish Louisiana in the middle alone until 1898...

On the contrary. The *southern* United States *like* slavery in neighboring countries, and consider emancipation, abolition, or a habit of harboring fugitives a cause to invade. If a neighboring country keeps slavery legal and returns fugitives and buys excess slaves, well that just might be a...

Nuevo Orleans, Florida, Cuba and Puerto Rico as the holdout of the Spanish Loyalistas, as they lose elsewhere? And, because of its importance to the local economy, the local viceregal authorities get no ideas or approvals to abolish slavery, which would just put a red flag in front of the...

What is the trajectory of Spanish Louisiana (& Florida) without Napoleonic France taking it back? France arranged for Spain to restore western Louisiana to French control after a lapse of 37 years of Spanish rule, by the secret treaty of San Ildefonso of 1800. The idea that Talleyrand and...