Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne Chapter 281

The changes in North America have made Europe surprisingly quiet, but outside Europe, European forces are also making waves everywhere.

It turned out that in South America, the navies of the Brazilian Empire and the Kingdom of Portugal conducted naval exercises in the open waters between Porto Alegre and Rio de Janeiro. The time was from October 18 to November 3, 1866. The two countries invited Italy for Observer State.

Paraguay has no open sea, but he has an ally the French Empire.

So France also conducted exercises off Uruguay and returned to the port of Cayenne in French Guiana shortly after.

Britain is conducting maritime exercises between South Africa and Chile.

All right.

South American countries felt threatened, so Argentina proposed to the Netherlands that the members of the South American Union conduct naval exercises, and William IV naturally did not object.

However, there was a disagreement over the location of the exercise. Argentina wanted to place the performance off the coast of Argentina, especially outside the mouth of the La Plata River between Uruguay and Argentina. This would be effective for Argentina. The intimidation of the Brazil and Portugal alliance.

Argentina is naturally reluctant to face these powers, so it took the opportunity to show that Argentina is not alone.

However, Venezuela and Colombia believe that the exercise should be placed outside the Gulf of Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea, which is still the junction of Venezuela and Colombia, and outside the mouth of the bay is Aruba, an offshore territory of the Netherlands.

However, in the end, several countries in South America hesitated, because if it was in the Caribbean Sea, it was too close to the Confederate States of the southern United States of America. Not to mention the reaction of the Confederate States, it seemed that this was a kind of provocation, like a deliberate display of Support the Commonwealth of Millikin.

This seems unnecessary for Venezuela and Colombia.

So Argentina came up with the idea of ​​this direction, and in the end Venezuela and Colombia and Ecuador also agreed on the seriousness of the problem to be held there.

In Argentina, it is possible that several northern countries are unwilling to conflict with Brazil and Portugal, and even more unwilling to be easily involved in the confrontation with the French Empire. Among them, the United States of America is particularly strong.

This can make all countries understand. After all, people are still offending the British Empire. If there is another dispute with the French Empire, it will definitely be an unprecedented pressure for the Lincoln government.

During the process, the Kingdom of the Netherlands really followed suit and did not express its position.

In the end, everyone compromised, because the Commonwealth of Millikin was at war with the Confederate States of Millikin and the United Kingdom, so the last choice was and Ecuador should even propose to do it in the Pacific Ocean, outside the Gulf of Guayaquil, and advocated The Netherlands has a wide range of islands in the South Pacific, and can be in the Pacific with Colombia and Ecuador, but the location of the exercise is the Hawaiian Islands. Because this can effectively avoid the current war in North America, and temporarily stay out of disputes in South America.

So the Hawaiian Islands became the destination of the first military exercise of the Confederate States of South America under such circumstances.

On November 1, 1866, the six countries of the South American Confederation conducted a four-day army exercise on Maui, the second largest island in the Hawaiian Islands, and then on November 5, a naval battleship exercise was conducted off the third largest island, Oahu. The exercise revolves around the Hawaiian Islands.

When the British Indian Ocean navy passed through the Hawaiian Islands on November 7 and was preparing to go north to Canada for support, the two sides almost clashed with the United Kingdom because of the Commonwealth of Millikin. In the end, the Netherlands used the name of this exercise as an exercise and communicated with the United Kingdom. Just stopped fighting.

Although everyone was distressed by the conflict that Milliken seemed to have deliberately provoked, everyone was unhappy, but it had to be said that doing so was not a violation of the South American Confederate treaty.

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So everyone could only sigh that they came to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and they even provoke a wry smile.

This exercise has attracted attention, not only by the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the United States of America and the United States of South America, but also by the United Kingdom, Spain, and even countries such as Ben, and Tsarist Russia. After all, this was held in front of their colonies or territories. , do not pay attention to it.

"The grand scene is very shocking. It is different from the cold weapons of more than 100 years ago. It wasn't that you could kill the enemy by holding a sword or a shield, riding a horse, and rushing forward. Now it is a hot weapon. The guns, cannons, and the same bunker-like warships were the era when you could kill enemies on a large scale without getting close to your body.

The other day I was invited with my successor colleagues to personally follow the Dutch navy to the Hawaiian Islands, the beauty of which is absolutely stunning to all the rest of the Netherlands, and I am proud of the Netherlands for having such a beautiful place.

The military exercise in this incomparably beautiful place makes me feel very distressed, but I feel it is necessary. After all, beautiful things need to be maintained, and no one knows whether thieves will invade and rob it one day. .

I personally interviewed the acting of the 6 countries of the South American League, and I was really shocked. Of course, this is from the perspective of the enemy.

From our standpoint, what we should be most proud of is to be proud of being a citizen of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This six-nation exercise is just the beginning. I guess if necessary, the six countries will conduct more similar exercises in the future. of.

I even heard that the alliance country is going to invite a group of observer countries to watch the next performance, by the way, my name is Yadis, a reporter for the "New Rotterdam Zeitung""

Not only the "New Rotterdam" where Addis is located is reporting the exercise, but even the newspapers of various countries in the Americas are reporting it for the first time.

This time, the Confederate States of South America created the first case of military journalists accompanying the military and military operations in human history, making the entire exercise almost transparently displayed in front of the Confederate journalists.

It was extremely shocking, so journalists, who were already good at retouching, let their pen and paper maximize the impact and realism of the exercise.

This has made the people of the alliance countries feel the strength brought by the alliance countries and have more trust in the South American alliance.

On November 9, 1866, when the British Indian Ocean transport fleet in support of Canada was about to arrive at Queen Charlotte Island, Canada, Queen Charlotte Island and the Commonwealth of America in Vancouver Harbor appeared, and the navies of the two countries confronted each other.

Just as the British fleet was preparing to start the American fleet, which was a little worse than its own, ~www.mtlnovel.com~ was suddenly attacked underwater. At the same time, the surface ships of the Commonwealth of America joined the battle. The huge British fleet In addition to the limited counterattack, the losses were heavy. Even the soldiers on the 30,000 transport fleet were bombarded and sunk to the bottom of the sea, resulting in the loss of more than 20,000 people.

The United States of America lost only two second-class sail battleships. As for the source of underwater attacks, three were also sunk by the British Navy.

When the news came out, the world was sensational, and everyone stopped their movements, shocked.

20,000 people? Just gone?

The last time the British Navy was under an inexplicable underwater attack on Beitaipingyan, the loss was huge. This time, the Commonwealth of Millikin has obviously mastered the underwater weapon, which is definitely a disaster for the United Kingdom.

Many people speculate that this should be the latest weapon of the Millician Alliance - the submarine.

But when did the submarine become so powerful, so the submarine instantly became the focus of attention of all maritime countries, because its secondary achievements were too brilliant.

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