About that Texas can split into four states thing

[james_davis_nicoll]

Which piece was to have kept the name Texas? What would the lesser fragments have been called?

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[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

> Lose a third of your territory to Russia in the Napoleonic wars?

Several times in the grand strategy game Victoria: Revolutions I've played out the 1836-to-1936 timeframe as the United Kingdom and managed to weasel my way into the Texas-Mexico war going at the start of the game, and end up with Texas a British colony. This is so wonderfully impossible that I cherish it. I just haven't figured out any way to give Texas to Canada afterwards.

(The game does not quite adequately model how tetchy the United States got when the British Empire did anything in that hemisphere, but I do try to butter up Washington early and often and lavishly.)