Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-1310192-20121224215413/@comment-32656-20121228022952

To some degree, that is how they knew. But they were also opposed to Napoleon, who was sending troops at them. Spain, however, was a French ally, so the events there were a surprise.

Havana's fortifications were, quite frankly, overrated. It wasn't the main port, either.

Mexico City was the cultural, political, economic, and military center, as well as the largest city in the hemisphere. Havana, by comparison, was a backwater.

If a Kingdom of New Spain is established, the islands would remain under it.

Fed, the attitudes of the nobility at that time basically means that any small change that limited them, in any way, shape, or form, would have gone over violently. And, like I said, any changes would be what amounts to a 100% change in policy.