The first battalion of the cavalry regiment led by Torahachi beautifully defeated the enemy who was blocking their advance, and then a battalion of the hunting cavalry regiment of the Longxiang regiment also landed smoothly and was engaged in the battle. The British did not choose to put up a stubborn resistance, and after suffering heavy casualties, the British commander chose to surrender, but by this time Fort Montague was in disarray, and almost all the British garrisons were in disarray.

The inhabitants of Nassau were so frightened that they hid in their homes and knew that the gunfire had subsided before they dared to go out to investigate, and they began to patrol their streets in groups of black-haired Orientals. In fact, in Europe, a piece of land may change hands several times, and a person may be a Spaniard today, a Dutch tomorrow, a Prussian, an Englishman the day after tomorrow, and an English the day after tomorrow. After experiencing this kind of thing a lot, the concept of the state will fade, anyway, no matter who the ruler is, they need to live, except for saving their lives, any other national consciousness is superfluous.

In fact, if it were not for the ruler of his own clan, who was able to maintain relative peace, he would be more popular with the local population. Now the inhabitants of Nassau are not yet able to do anything, at least at this moment the Don soldiers have not broken into their homes, looking for young girls and rum, looting their wealth.

Incidentally, British soldiers sometimes do such things. Discipline in the regular army of the state in the eighteenth century was not guaranteed, and all soldiers had a subclass of thugs and robbers.

After breaking through several British forts one after another, Liu Fangwu completely controlled the Bahamas, to Liu Fangwu's surprise, the British Royal Navy had apparently discovered the Tang warship, a small Sloop-of-ar was originally operating in the open sea, and opened fire when it met the Tang Army, and the Yangwei sank the small ship without saying a word, and then the Royal Navy abandoned the army with great undiscipline, and walked cleanly, and the expected naval battle with the Royal Navy did not break out.

However, the Datang Navy wanted to cover its own army operations. There was no time to pursue them. This made Hong Bao somewhat regretful, but according to Jiao Qiang, who had a record of sinking and breaking records with several enemy ships, it was a bit fun to fight with the British army at first, but then it was not interesting.

It is not ruled out that Jiao Qiang has his own stinky fart. Hong Bao really wanted to fight against the British first-class battleships. It's just that the first-class battleships of the Royal Navy are all on the mainland, and North America is not.

Compared to Florida, which has almost nothing. The Bahamas was much more perfect, and the first British colony in North America was the Bahamas (officially colonized in 1717). The output here is also better than that of Florida, and it is also an important trading point and nautical transit point in North America, and Liu Fangwu has set up the main base of the expeditionary force on New Providencia.

This was due to the fact that Pensacola was a little further away from the main battlefield in New England and St. Augustine in East Florida was in poor condition, and the Don Army had decided to move its stronghold to Jacksonville on the north side, where the British captives were beginning to build houses and buildings. By the way, the British army captured in the Bahamas also ended up in the same way. Sent to Jacksonville as a migrant worker.

In this way, the Bahamas has better port facilities and convenient transportation, and residents can provide more output, but the conditions are better, and there is another reason that will not be officially mentioned, the Bahamas is a famous tourist country in the world, tourism is the country's two major industrial pillars, and the scenery is quite pleasant. Naturally, the expeditionary force was willing to be stationed in a more beautiful place.

According to the deployment of the Tang Cabinet, a series of east coast lands occupied will not become overseas territories, but will directly become directly governed states. The Florida Peninsula will be known as Florida as it extends to the border with the U.S. state of Georgia in the north and the Charterhooch-Appalachian River in the west. Slightly larger than the other Central Florida, the capital is tentatively named Jacksonville, which is under construction, and has been renamed Xinhang. That's right, you didn't end up crossing the crowd over the issue of names, but you still compromised and chose a Westerner-like approach.

From the Chathooch-Appalachian River line west to the Mississippi River. All the way to the northern side of the U.S. border, this area of more than 300,000 square kilometers, and most of them are fertile plains, was officially designated as Pengzhou, with Pensacola as the capital, and changed its name to Fuxing. In fact, Pengzhou can be divided into two or three states, but for the time being, Datang only controls Pensacola and divides several states in a hurry, which is completely unnecessary.

The Bahamas is a state of its own, becoming the smallest state in the Tang Republic, Yuzhou. This name is because the scenery here is so beautiful, the creation is magical, and Zhong Lingyu is beautiful, so it took such a name. The place is only about 10,000 square kilometers, which is equivalent to some larger cities, and the capital is still in Nassau for the time being, and it has been renamed Yicheng.

The structure has been decided, and the cabinet also has a relatively complete set of development plans.

In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the Bahamas was a paradise for pirates, and some of the most famous pirate captains in history, such as Blackbeard, used the Bahamas as their home port. The locals were also happy to serve the pirates, and merchants from the 13 colonies came to Nassau to buy stolen goods in a grand manner (the American drama "Black Sails" tells the story of this period, and those who are interested can go to restore the historical facts). Later, the British re-established order in the Bahamas and drove out the pirates, although the economy was still relatively backward, mainly serving the passing merchant ships and a small number of plantations.

The Bahamas is located at a similar latitude to Hawaii, an area slightly larger than Hawaii, and in another time and space, the British used a large number of serfs for agricultural production, and cotton cultivation was its main industry. However, with the land on the southeast continent, the Tang people did not have much interest in developing agriculture here, because the soil layer here was relatively thin and the land was very barren, which was not conducive to the development of agriculture. The Tang people have a typical concept of optimal treatment, and the Florida region they now occupy, with a land area of more than one million square kilometers, and there are many areas suitable for agriculture, so there is no need to compete with this barren island. However, there is a lot of potential for aquatic products near the Bahamas, and it should be more reliable to engage in fishing here and then supply the Florida colonies.

On the other hand, the Bahamas has become the world's offshore financial center with no foreign exchange control and good bank secrecy, and it is impossible for Datang to go to that point for the time being, and the world economy has not developed to that point. However, Datang has the intention to build Panama into a free port, with completely tariff-free access, providing services for merchant ships, and at the same time invigorating the island's commerce, and on this basis, it is also very likely to develop into a world-class free port and commercial and financial center.

For this reason, there may be more racial immigrants in the local area, and Datang will also liberalize the immigration policy here and no longer pursue the proportion of Chinese. For example, in Pengzhou and Florida, when the Tang Dynasty has the conditions, it will fill a large number of Chinese and occupy this essence of the land, and the proportion of white and black Indians will be greatly diluted. Bai Nan even considered that if necessary, he could get all the aliens on the mainland to the Bahamas or other island-type overseas territories.

After all, Datang prohibits racial discrimination on the surface, but if some ethnic minorities come out to pursue any rights, or even ask for autonomy and other things, it will be very unhappy. It makes more sense to artificially send them to an island for ethnic integration. Of course, Datang will use a lot of clever methods, such as letting these people immigrate to give preferential conditions, or directly tempting people or creating an atmosphere.

Maintaining an absolute proportion of Chinese in the states of the mainland is something that cannot be mentioned in any official document, but is tacitly accepted by the top and many nationalist-minded elites.

In this way, the Bahamas has become an area where the Tang government is engaged in "ethnic integration". After inspecting the islands, Liu Fangwu believed that it would not be good to build a large military base on New Providencia Island, but the western side of Grand Bahama Island in the northern part of the Bahamas has good conditions for harbor and deep water, and the land area is large enough to be developed into a large naval base. In another time and space was the Free Port of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, which immediately became a very important Atlantic trading port after its construction in 1955.

A certain amount of work is also needed here to build a new naval base, and Liu Fangwu is not in a hurry, he can be stationed in Nassau (Yicheng) first, and the construction of the new naval base can be done slowly.

Another surprise to Liu Fangwu is that the Bahamas, as a former pirate kingdom, has a large number of idle sailors, who come from all over Europe, have relatively rich sailing experience, and have no loyalty to any country, only know money, and can be hired in large quantities.

After the establishment of the three southeastern states, the construction required a lot of capacity, before Chu Bai in the United States put forward a request to use American sailors to serve the Tang Dynasty, now Liu Fangwu recruited a large number of idle sailors from the Bahamas, for the use of the International Trade Company and other Datang units, naturally more convenient.

Because the expeditionary force did not need to rush north, Hong Bao, as the captain of the naval fleet, led the fleet to start fighting pirates in the Caribbean Sea. He did exactly the same thing as Hu Fakui before, after overthrowing the pirates, then the pirates were absorbed, and after the formation was disrupted, he was sent to the Bahamas for training, and then boarded various ships of the Tang Dynasty and became a sailor who served the Tang Dynasty.

During this time, some sailors operating near the Caribbean Sea heard that Datang recruited seafarers with relatively good salaries, and came to the Bahamas one after another to sign up to join Datang's fleet. The Spaniards were also very discerning, and in January 1777, Spanish merchant ships went to the Bahamas, which was controlled by the Tang Dynasty, to trade. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for the recommendation ticket, your support is my biggest motivation. )