MTL - The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria’s Mandate of Heaven-v3 Chapter 21 America's Westward Expansion

Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace.

Franz looked at the map, and there was an island in the Pacific Ocean that had only been marked in recent years—Hawaii.

When you think of Hawaii, you may think of beaches, sunshine, beauties, hula dancing, durian opening with bare hands, and endless happy people.

But in fact, there was a history of blood and tears here. Before the Europeans arrived in Hawaii, nearly 300,000 indigenous residents lived here (another way of saying is 800,000, but the population declined in less than two decades. To less than 60,000.

In 1842, U.S. President John Tyler first recognized the Kingdom of Hawaii. As Franz expected, he was a very ambitious and capable president.

According to the Americans themselves, they are afraid that Japan will send troops to occupy Hawaii. Because according to the report of the American whaling fleet at the time, the Japanese had ambitions for Hawaii. If Japan forcibly annexes Hawaii, the United States will intervene on the grounds of anti-aggression.

In fact, the credibility of this is not high, because the Kingdom of Hawaii was supported by the British. Leaving aside the distance between Japan and Hawaii, the Tokugawa shogunate can be shunned by the word "Britain" alone.

Hawaii is a natural transit point in the Pacific Ocean, something that any great power could only dream of in the age of sea power. This is the reason why the United States really recognized its government. At that time, the United States, like other Western powers, hoped to control Hawaii through colonization.

It's a pity that the diplomat who was active on the British political stage at that time was Palmerston, who didn't care about the face of the Americans. After learning about the ambitions of the Americans, he directly and publicly declared that Britain has sovereignty over Hawaii.

It is 1843 in history, and it is ahead of schedule in the book.

The British approach hit the US federal government hard, but the latter had nothing to do with the former.

In fact, apart from the British and American colonists, there were also Chinese, Japanese and French on the island. The Chinese and Japanese mainly came to do sandalwood trade and work here, and of course the French also came to colonize.

However, the French obviously came later, and they were equally helpless with what the British did. Although France occupied Texas at this time, John Tyler was not a mediocre man.

He believes that although France and the United States are rivals on the North American continent, they can cooperate on the Hawaii issue and jointly fight against the British.

Although Britain is extremely powerful at this time, its front in the world is too long and there are too many enemies, so when encountering a strong enemy, it can only choose to avoid or wait and see.

However, after the French King Louis-Philippe and Minister Quizo learned that the US government proposed to join forces, they rejected it.

It is not only because of the strategic conflict between France and the United States, but also because of the unique sense of superiority of Europeans in this era. They regard all civilizations outside of Europe as barbaric civilizations, especially France.

Of course, Louis-Philippe still shy away from offending people, so Kizuo had no choice but to continue acting as a villain. In his letter, he accused the US government of acting like a villain. John Taylor just laughed it off after reading it. Just throw it away as trash.

At this time, there are still bigger problems in the United States, that is, some disobedient Indians and restless neighbors around. Printing Indians has always been a plus in American history, and almost every great American president has done something about Indians.

John Taylor was no exception. The Indian expulsion war had always been on his mind. John Taylor was a very self-denying man, and exterminating Indians was one of the few things that excited him.

But at this time, after the operation of Andrew Jackson and others, the population of American Indians has been greatly reduced, and most of them have moved to the west.

John Taylor drew circles on the map and there were only a few hundred thousand Indians left for him to toss, so he came up with the idea of ​​moving all of them to the reservation in Oklahoma.

"I'm sure this will go down in history forever," John Taylor wrote in his diary.

As Marlon Brando wrote in his renunciation statement at the Oscars:

For two hundred years we have been saying to Indians who fought for their land, their lives, their families and their right to liberty, "Drop your arms, my friends, and we will survive together... "

They laid down their arms, and we slaughtered them. We lied to them. We cheated them of their land. We starve them into making agreements to defraud them, which we call treaties, and which we never keep.

Of course, this time was no exception. At first, the Indians put up a heroic resistance, which caused heavy losses to the U.S. Army. The battle loss ratio of the two sides was about 1:15. After losing more than 200 soldiers, the Americans repeated their old tricks.

First sign an agreement with some tribes, let them help them eliminate "uncooperative" tribes, and promise to give them cattle, sheep, pastures, and they don't have to leave their homes.

The strategy worked quickly, and the stubborn tribes were defeated, and hundreds of thousands of Indians set foot on the reservation. After that, the U.S. Army did not forget those "friends who helped them~www.novelbuddy.com~ Looting was accompanied by massacres, and the last batch of Indians had to embark on this road of blood and tears.

In the end, less than 60,000 of the hundreds of thousands of Indians successfully entered the reserve, and the remains scattered on the Great Plains will eventually be buried by wind and sand.

Unfortunately, whether it was the Polynesians on Hawaii or the Indians on the North American continent, Franz was powerless, and due to the westward movement of the United States, a large number of Indian tribes poured into California.

These Indians were submissive to Americans, but they seemed to be paralyzed when facing white Hispanics in California.

It's a pity that Friedrich's second brother, Grand Duke Karl Ferdinand's second son, is stationed here. He was a man of duty, showing no mercy to the Natives of California, the Mexicans, or the invading American and Indian tribes.

There is a huge difference in weapons between the Indian tribes and the Austrian army stationed in California, and the quality of the soldiers is also different. On the one hand, there are elite regular troops, and on the other are some primitive herdsmen who are starving and skinny.

There has never been any suspense in the battle between the two sides. Most of the time it was a one-sided massacre, but even so, the Indian tribes did not give up their offensive on the California area.

In fact, the reason why these Indians are brave is precisely because the Americans promised behind them: "They will become the masters of the land they conquered."

For a false promise, a group of hopeless people embark on an impossible invasion. But as the war continued, casualties on the side of the Austrian Empire continued to increase.

And so the new acting top California official, John von Siner, decided to fight fire with fire.