![]() ![]() ![]() Plus there are, for the last time in a long time, genuine 'pirates of the caribbean' as revolutionary governments in Central and South America issue letters of Marque to form their 'navies' while the European powers hunt each other's ships and shipping down. ![]() Meanwhile the United States must struggle to build up its government and infrastructure, determine states rights and national defense issues and prepare for involvement in the European war that will culminate in the war of 1812. The West Indies/Caribbean region was a vital economic location for Britain, France and Spain, not to mention the nascent United States and would see the rising of independence movements throughout the Napoleonic period as the former Spanish empire splinters into Mexico and Venezuela while the French are caught between revolutionary movements on the islands (Toussaint l'Ouverture in Haiti) and the schemes of the British and French Royalists to retake the French islands for the Bourbons. Since Napoleon Total War handles specific campaigns very well I was wondering about a grand campaign for a particular area of the Napoleonic Wars that one doesn't often think about and yet offers a lot of interesting and fun possibilities. ![]()
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