Post by bytor on Sept 1, 2016 18:22:03 GMT
In my timeline, one of the butterflies is that France is not allowed to intervene in Spain in 1822, so-call "Hundred Thousand Sons of St. Louis".
As a result, the Cadíz Progresista government's attempt at a Bonaparte-list centralization and redistricting of Spain gets further along. It was very unpopular, OTL, but the French invasion stopped it. In my timeline it continues and it pisses off the varying regions which had had centuries of relative autonomy under both the Habsburg and later Bourbon monarchs. The regions revolt and we end up with new Kingdom of Aragon (a stronghold of conservatives and monarchists), Republic of Navarre (stronghold of Basques and democrats) and Léon-Asturias-Galicia (a mixed bunch who just doesn't like the Castilian Cadíz Progresista controls). Andalucía rebels but is subdued because of an alliance between moderate liberals and absolutists, leaving Ferdinand VII with greatly reduced powers and only in Castile.
Would these newly independent states claim any of the remaining Spanish colonies like Cuba or the Philippines that had not rebelled like the others? Or would they be content with letting Castile keep them?
As a result, the Cadíz Progresista government's attempt at a Bonaparte-list centralization and redistricting of Spain gets further along. It was very unpopular, OTL, but the French invasion stopped it. In my timeline it continues and it pisses off the varying regions which had had centuries of relative autonomy under both the Habsburg and later Bourbon monarchs. The regions revolt and we end up with new Kingdom of Aragon (a stronghold of conservatives and monarchists), Republic of Navarre (stronghold of Basques and democrats) and Léon-Asturias-Galicia (a mixed bunch who just doesn't like the Castilian Cadíz Progresista controls). Andalucía rebels but is subdued because of an alliance between moderate liberals and absolutists, leaving Ferdinand VII with greatly reduced powers and only in Castile.
Would these newly independent states claim any of the remaining Spanish colonies like Cuba or the Philippines that had not rebelled like the others? Or would they be content with letting Castile keep them?
