01-12-2025, 12:07 PM
This post was last modified 01-12-2025, 02:59 PM by Solvedit. Edited 2 times in total.
Advancements in cannon and steam ships may have prompted mass migrations to the South which culminated in war.
The first steam powered warship was a floating battery built in 1815.
Early paddlewheel warships could not use as much sail or place it as efficiently because of the space the machinery took up. The paddlewheels meant far fewer cannon could be placed on the sides of a ship. The paddlewheels would cause drag when sail alone was used. The paddlewheels were susceptible to battle damage
There were no global coal supplies so sails were necessary. Coal was probably much more expensive even though mechanization had started to cheapen its extraction.
Then, in 1835, two different inventors independently discovered the screw propeller which was much more efficient and allowed a much more efficient arrangement of sails and guns. By the early 1840s, France and England had put propeller driven steam frigates in service. The major navies of the world rapidly began building steam driven capital ships because they were fully capable oceangoing vessels unlike paddlewheel ships.
Perhaps cannon had advanced due to the paddlewheel era and the hope of replacing a large broadside with a few bigger cannons, or perhaps it was just the relentless march of technology. The English developed cannon which could lob an explosive shell further and with more accuracy than before.
Pirates would often strip everything unneccessary from their vessels in order to lighten them up, even the bulkheads, but navies could now avoid pirate cannon by staying out of range. The navy ships now had the power to steam upwind or in any direction they wanted, or use a combination of sail and steam.
The major European powers may have immediately sent naval squadrons out to reduce piracy by destroying the pirates' vessels and perhaps their port facilities.
The pirates must have supported an economy in their home ports. Tje people who had provided their food, clothing, housing, ship repair, and so forth were now at risk of starving. The surviving pirates were also. There may have been no room where they were from to simply take up farming or something.
Some of them may have come here and moved on to land which the Southeast tribes had vacated. It is possible they wanted to create a nation which ran the way they wanted, or maybe they returned to a bit of piracy because they had more coastline and rivers to hide their ships, more ability to false-flag them, and greater access to the shipping of nations whose navies were not so advanced. Perhaps then the nations of Europe and South America began to goad them into rebelling. The US had either agreed to take them or had failed to use adequate oversight into who was allowed to move here. Either way, the European and South American powers may have had the right to hold the USA responsible.
"Utman" is not a part of Scots dialect English or Gaelic but does mean "Ottoman" in Arabic, suggesting it refers to people from a non-Turkish-speaking part of the Ottoman empire. Perhaps some of the people from the Barbary States had to leave, especially those who had intermarried with Europeans captured at sea, because they were a part of the piracy economy which had been sharply cut back.
The first steam powered warship was a floating battery built in 1815.
Early paddlewheel warships could not use as much sail or place it as efficiently because of the space the machinery took up. The paddlewheels meant far fewer cannon could be placed on the sides of a ship. The paddlewheels would cause drag when sail alone was used. The paddlewheels were susceptible to battle damage
There were no global coal supplies so sails were necessary. Coal was probably much more expensive even though mechanization had started to cheapen its extraction.
Then, in 1835, two different inventors independently discovered the screw propeller which was much more efficient and allowed a much more efficient arrangement of sails and guns. By the early 1840s, France and England had put propeller driven steam frigates in service. The major navies of the world rapidly began building steam driven capital ships because they were fully capable oceangoing vessels unlike paddlewheel ships.
Perhaps cannon had advanced due to the paddlewheel era and the hope of replacing a large broadside with a few bigger cannons, or perhaps it was just the relentless march of technology. The English developed cannon which could lob an explosive shell further and with more accuracy than before.
Pirates would often strip everything unneccessary from their vessels in order to lighten them up, even the bulkheads, but navies could now avoid pirate cannon by staying out of range. The navy ships now had the power to steam upwind or in any direction they wanted, or use a combination of sail and steam.
The major European powers may have immediately sent naval squadrons out to reduce piracy by destroying the pirates' vessels and perhaps their port facilities.
The pirates must have supported an economy in their home ports. Tje people who had provided their food, clothing, housing, ship repair, and so forth were now at risk of starving. The surviving pirates were also. There may have been no room where they were from to simply take up farming or something.
Some of them may have come here and moved on to land which the Southeast tribes had vacated. It is possible they wanted to create a nation which ran the way they wanted, or maybe they returned to a bit of piracy because they had more coastline and rivers to hide their ships, more ability to false-flag them, and greater access to the shipping of nations whose navies were not so advanced. Perhaps then the nations of Europe and South America began to goad them into rebelling. The US had either agreed to take them or had failed to use adequate oversight into who was allowed to move here. Either way, the European and South American powers may have had the right to hold the USA responsible.
"Utman" is not a part of Scots dialect English or Gaelic but does mean "Ottoman" in Arabic, suggesting it refers to people from a non-Turkish-speaking part of the Ottoman empire. Perhaps some of the people from the Barbary States had to leave, especially those who had intermarried with Europeans captured at sea, because they were a part of the piracy economy which had been sharply cut back.
