Other European Powers

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The United Provinces of the Netherlands

Summary: Another state that propped up the Americans only to see them fall apart, the Dutch view the collapse of the United States as an opportunity to deepen their trading connections--or, more likely, crush the weakened potential Yankee merchantmen rivals. The Dutch navy takes a particularly low view of American smugglers operating in the Caribbean and American rivals for the trans-Atlantic slave trade, but the United Provinces are sufficiently divided by their own struggles between liberal agitators and royalist centralizers that the government does not expend too much energy considering the American problem.
Relevant Colonies: Dutch Caribbean (Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Saint Eustatius, Saint Martin)

Other European States

Summary: The rest of Europe could not be more thoroughly disinterested in the American experiment, save as a useful foil to their own potentially rebellious territories. Portugal has atrophied to the point of being more an extension of Brazil than the other way around, the Danes (while possessing a Caribbean colony) are far more preoccupied with their troublesome Norwegians, and the petty states of the Empire and of Italy are more busy feuding with each other than concerning themselves with minuscule states half a world away. Perhaps the Poles might be inclined to look favorably upon the Americans, with tales of the gallant service of Kosciusko and Pulaski inspiring their countrymen in a time of great national shame, but the Russian behemoth next door is far more import--and the American experiment, at this point, does not bode well for those hoping for unity in the face of foreign aggression.

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Thomas Jefferson, while in Versailles in 1785, sends a note to the Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He thanks the Polish nation for the support of its subjects including the late Casimir Pulaski, and notes deeds of his bravery and honor during the War for Independence. Mr. Jefferson, impressed by the long standing rights held by the Polish Nobility, seeks more information so that he may study the history of Poland in order to learn from its history. He also requests a successor of Pulaski’s to travel to Virginia to train two new companies of cavalry in the art of war.

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Thomas Jefferson, while in Versailles in 1785, sends a note to the Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He thanks the Polish nation for the support of its subjects including the late Casimir Pulaski, and notes deeds of his bravery and honor during the War for Independence. Mr. Jefferson, impressed by the long standing rights held by the Polish Nobility, seeks more information so that he may study the history of Poland in order to learn from its history. He also requests a successor of Pulaski’s to travel to Virginia to train two new companies of cavalry in the art of war.  

The Sejm wishes to send a representative off to the Americans, but, concerned over the legacy of Pulaski and Kosciusko, the Russian stooges in that body forbid any formal designation of a delegation to the nascent American states.

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