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Originally Posted by astralis
hey m21,
quick historical quibbles,
the mexican general was santa anna, and he styled himself "the napoleon of the west". the force that captured him wasn't the US, it was the texans.
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The Texans were Americans(it just wasn't formalized quite yet).
But yes, lol....i typed a LOT of history from memory, so it's no surprise i screwed up some names and had a couple typos.
Thanx for the corrections fella.
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Originally Posted by astralis
as for the spanish american war, no, spain was nowhere close to being a world power. UK, france, germany, and even italy were ahead. spain had been a decreipt second-rate power since, at latest, the napoleonic wars. it was a mere second-rate power after the 1700s.
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Disagreed. Spain was still a powerful colonial entity with a powerful blue water navy(which the US destroyed quite handily).
To prove that one only needs look at just how much territory the US siezed as a result of the S-A war.
The S-A war was also a global endeavour fought on a massive geographic scale- with the fighting raging from Cuba all the way to the Phillipines.
IMO to call the spanish a "second rate power" is a GROSS mischaracterization of the facts. Second rate powers do not deploy large fleets 1/2 way around the world in protection of their interests...and what's more, second rate powers do not have extensive global wide holdings either....do they?
http://www.zpub.com/cpp/saw.html