/u/MRlaw2019's posts in /r/askhistorians
In 1888, Brazilian Empire was overthrown by an Army Military coup, funded by Pro-US Sao Paulo based coffee plantation owners. Is that true that the commander of the Brazilian Imperial Navy (pro-British) had a plan to resist, along National Guard forces, and transfer the Imperial capital to Salvador?
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Are there any reliable accounts (primary sources if possible) for the atrocities, war crimes and crimes against humankind committed by US forces against Mexican civilians during the 1846-1848 Mexican-American war? NSFW
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Were there any important movements for a pan-German-Nordic integration, like, at least a common market between the Scandinavia and the German Zollverein if not proposals to unify all German-Nordic countries under a single political entity?
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Can someone describe the historical process that led the transition of Islamic Wahabism from a religious and philosophical doctrine to a system of political militant praxis? Main facts, and primary sources if possible, thanks.
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Question: the parts of Australia with a productive European climate are larger than France and UK territories together. Why didn't the English push for mass migration of Europeans to Australia to cultivate that land? Like, instead of let 1 million Irish die of hunger in 1850, just ship them all.
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