TL;DR, don't fuck with American ships

Fucking with American ships in various capacities was what led the US to get involved in the War of 1812, the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II

Yeah dont fuck with American ships or you may have to come and burn the capital city down

And then retreat in the face of an overwhelming American force of literally nobody

because **ANNUIT COEPTIS**

I mean Admiral Cockburn was an absolute lad

And the tornado-spawning hurricane that tossed British artillery and damaged ships while putting out their fires was an even bigger lad

Went to the office of a newspaper that chatted shit about him to take all their letters so they couldnt print his name

Then spend the night working his way through the neighbourhood's women

As god himself destroys the rest of Washington DC

Nah, that storm saved the city

extinguished the fires, expelled the invaders, and allowed for its reconstruction from the burned stone up

'expelled the invaders'

It forced a retreat

They left because they had already drank through the presidents wine supply

It had tossed artillery, damaged British ships, killed some British soldiers, and forced a retreat

It is god's way of nerfing the British

too OP otherwise

It's **ANNUIT COEPTIS**

Nodding in appreciation of the British efforts

yes

The US actually de facto gained some territory out of the War of 1812

by occupying what are now the Mississippi and Alabama panhandles, which were purchased in the Louisiana Purchase but which Spain claimed weren't, and they remained occupied until Spain ended the territorial dispute by selling us the entirety of Florida a few years later

I mean occupying Spanish territory was all the rage in that period

And it would continue to be so until the US beat them down in 1898

KNOW YOUR PLACE, TRASH

Spain is genuinely the worse colonising European nations

The Dutch looks amazing in comparison

Yup, it shocked me reading accounts comparing the US to Spain in the Philippines and Puerto Rico, just how hard Spain either neglected or actively fucked over their possessions

tbf Napoleon fucked them over badly

and it was a downward spiral from there

```In 1929 Worcester wrote of Americans giving Manila a modern sewer system, supplying city dwellers with "comparatively pure drinking water" and wiping out diseases such as small pox, cholera and bubonic plague. Worcester wrote of skilled medical and surgical services being sent to the Philippines. He wrote about teaching boys and girls "the elements of good sanitation," about overcoming Filipino prejudice against hospitals, about new care for lepers and a more humane care for the insane "who were previously chained to floors or posts." Girls, he wrote, are being taught to cook and to sew, and boys are learning woodworking, ironworking and other useful trades. And he wrote of the US policy of denying liquor to tribal peoples.```

```Worcester boasted of the US-inspired economic advances in the Philippines, of road building, an improved mail service, more and better wharves and harbors for inter-island and international shipping. He spoke of the need for improvements in the rice industry in the Philippines, for better irrigation and better seed selection. He spoke of lifting the Filipinos out of "primitive production methods" in its sugar industry, without which, he said, the Filipinos will not be able to compete successfully in the world's sugar market. And he criticized US sugar interests for conspiring to prevent advances in the Filipino sugar industry.

Worcester boasted of the US giving the Philippines "religious liberty, free speech and a free press." He wrote of a determined US effort to break up slavery and peonage, something he claimed the "easy-going Spaniards" had never done. He wrote also of the all-Filipino legislature, which he described as premature but a blessing nevertheless. Worcester favored going slowly toward independence but he saw its eventuality. "Both of our great political parties," he wrote, "are committed to the policy of granting independence when the Filipinos are ready for it."```

did they vote yet?

on?

Yeah even if you hate the British empire at the very least they were massively anti-slavery

When they weren't building Confederate ships and harboring their ships and terrorists, at least

Annoying the Yanks is top priority, even if it means siding with slavers

looks like theyre about to announce the results of the vote

this will be fun

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