"THE BIRTH OF A NATION!" Topic

Announcing the birth of Nova Caledonia de Coahuila y Tejas!
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I will try to blog about the goings on of the descendants of the Jacobites, and Later Texans who thought joining the US was a boneheaded move.
The country is located between Bongolesia and Ifat.
President for Life Phat Daddee has appointed me as the first ambassador to them. Crittumbette will of course be the Cultural Attache.

Greetings from Texas too.

Welcome and congratulations! Yerbouti will be following shortly.

What year is it?

What's the year of the first Jacobite Rebellion?

How is the weather and what are the taxes like?

His Majesty's Government is sending a Gunboat…

So Nova Caledonia later 'de Coahuila y Tejas') appeared after Culloden?
Really curious to learn about its 18th C. ('Lace Wars times') history, culture, armed forces, flags…
Will it compete or cooperate with the Huguenots of Bonne Esperance?

Louys de Monte-Cristo link

No before. Dissidents of the overthrow in 1689 wander about looking for a new home, and find one in Africa.(??????)
Things plod along and in 1845/6, disgruntled Texans upset at the union with USA, wander off. several of the Scottish settlers tell of there family and friends in Nova Caledonia.
They pack up and take the Alamo (leaving a cunning replica in downtown San Antonio) and move to Nova Caledonia adding the de Coahuila y Tejas.

Phil 'WRG' Barker had Brittons fleeing to 'Hy-Brazil' (America) rather than Armorique / Brittany after the death of Arthur at Camlann. Stirling had, as I remember, North American loyalists contributing to the 'Dominion of Draka' after the AWI. So your starting point is not that weird, so much the more as Scots rejecting the Act of Union attempted to create a New Caledonia in Brazil (Darien), and Huguenots came in numbers to (Dutch) South Africa after the 'Revocation of the Edit de Nantes'.

Afrodizia could be an alternate (geographical rather than political?) name.

Hope you'll develop the history of the origin and early centuries of Nova Caledonia.
An intriguing, exciting project!

This better not be in the US of A or James Polk will cancel your Latin ticket. We need a strong log fence across the border. We will move the fence south if we have to.

Update (since the author seems too modest to post it himself):
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After Culloden, will widows in Nova Caledonia sadly sing 'Loch Lomond' YouTube link ?
Supposing the Nova Caledonian volunteers manage to reach Europe -given their antecedents link I doubt they'll double the Cape of Good Hope; btw, are they aware that the Suez Canal is, as yet, only a project?

The effect of the bagpipes on hostile natives was to be expected: for the uninitiated the trumpetings of a stampede herd of elephants, the roars of a pride of hungry lions, are *nothing* compared to the screams of the bagpipe. No wonder the military forces of all ex-British colonies, from Jordan to Hong Kong, maintain 'pipes & drums' bands: they remember the bagpipes, not as music instruments but as dreadful weapons of psychological warfare. Not bad as torture instruments, either: reportedly people locked themselves in an Iron Maiden to escape the noise.

In their early days such colonies generally lack women: remember the legendary founding of Rome link . If without the racial prejudices of later Afrikaners, did they took wives from the friendly native populations? Also, such colonies often lack manpower, and even the Dutch in South Africa raised an unit of local 'Pandours' [ link from TMP link ]. Combining both ideas, if the Nova-Caledonians were reluctant to train male natives with other modern weapons than bagpipes, they could have raised an unit of local 'Female Pandours' in appropriate uniform -although *without skirt*, since in Nova Caledonia it's part of manly attire: picture ?

Some (totally unsolicited) ramblings about possible 'Native' allies for early Nova Caledonia:
=> African knights:
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'Historically' certainly not from the neighboring of Nova Caledonia, but who cares? In the 'Cleopatra' movie with Elizabeth Taylor, some 'Nubian' dancers looked definitively Zulu-like….
Potentially colorful, but Irregular minis link does a single pose picture and the raised quilted collar would make headswappings difficult.

=> Black Amazons:
°Unfortunately, among the few with muskets,
- the Eureka (Pax Limpopo) ones are in 'non-fighting' pose picture (though the litter picture can be used, simply changing the 'passenger'),
- the Dixon Amazons of Dahomey, according to the few pics I saw, even painted with skill and dedication: picture from link look like female Orcs in their bad days.

°Wider choice for those with 'primitive' weapons: TMP link
Foundry offers (!) 3 sets link link link but the Obelisk ones link look better, specially the 'Elite' picture

Throat warbler mangrove.

Now this sounds like unto my colleg theory; ( A paper written to defend a uprovable hypothesis.); that the Sea Peoples in ancient Egypt were actually the 5 tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy!

spontoon on 16 Jun 2011 7:15 a.m. PST:

"Now this sounds like unto my colleg theory; ( A paper written to defend a uprovable hypothesis.); that the Sea Peoples in ancient Egypt were actually the 5 tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy!"

So would some of those tribes be the Hakowie, the Phaquaui, and the Ojitwirlost?

Note that, if you can add pistols at the waistbelt, the Obelisk elite Amazons would technically be of the same 'type' as the archetypal Highlands clansman charging with broadsword and target: some shooting capacity, but basically inclined to a 'wild charge'.
And you can paint tartan on their mini-skirts…