Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-1310192-20121224215413/@comment-1310192-20121227180154

Oh, alright then. Didn't know that. I assume the Portuguese could anticipate since they were British allies and knew Napoleon would invade them?

Well yes, but Havana's fortifications are better AFAIK, and despite Mexico being more defendable, it's farther away from Spain, while IIRC Havana was the main port off into America from the Spanish colonies? I also would've imagined the Caribbean would've stayed directly Spanish if a Kingdom of New Spain was established.

Alright, but what if it's a gradual process resulting in a larger instability in the mainland, with Carlists also demanding the complete return of Spanish supremacy and eventually the Republicans seizing power for slightly longer, despite a loyalist America? Or something gradual that ends in the Constitution of 1812, which remains permanent but affronts a larger Carlist opposition?