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After decades of financial hardships in 1788, the French government announced that the national treasury was empty. This along with the volatile political climate of France at the time caused the collection of Tuscan, Ligurian & Corsican merchants with contracts in the region to start to coalesce into a consortium. In between 1788 and 1793 seeing that the French position in the colony was very weak a collection this consortium started to discuss the future of their interest in the colony and decided that French rule was both unstable & un-needed. In 1793 after Philip VII's Flight to New France during the French revolution this consortium approached Philip VII and offered to purchase the rights to colonize what was at the time French Guiana. After Auguste Spiga declared the establishment of the 1st French Republic in May 1794, Philip Vll started to consider the offer of the Italian merchants and finally sold the rights to colonize Guiana in September of that year. During the Augustine wars French forces captured the newly founded city of Nuova Lucca in 1799 but the abandoned their position only a few months later to protect Saint-Domingue. In 1805 the consortium of Italian merchants approached the King of Tuscany with an offer to be benefactor of the colony to give their claims further legitimacy. In 1814 the Treaty of Vienna was signed and Britain backed up Tuscan claims on former French Guinea (now re-named Palissandria) in an effort to further weaken the French position in South America & the Caribbean. |
After decades of financial hardships in 1788, the French government announced that the national treasury was empty. This along with the volatile political climate of France at the time caused the collection of Tuscan, Ligurian & Corsican merchants with contracts in the region to start to coalesce into a consortium. In between 1788 and 1793 seeing that the French position in the colony was very weak a collection this consortium started to discuss the future of their interest in the colony and decided that French rule was both unstable & un-needed. In 1793 after Philip VII's Flight to New France during the French revolution this consortium approached Philip VII and offered to purchase the rights to colonize what was at the time French Guiana. After Auguste Spiga declared the establishment of the 1st French Republic in May 1794, Philip Vll started to consider the offer of the Italian merchants and finally sold the rights to colonize Guiana in September of that year. During the Augustine wars French forces captured the newly founded city of Nuova Lucca in 1799 but the abandoned their position only a few months later to protect Saint-Domingue. In 1805 the consortium of Italian merchants approached the King of Tuscany with an offer to be benefactor of the colony to give their claims further legitimacy. In 1814 the Treaty of Vienna was signed and Britain backed up Tuscan claims on former French Guinea (now re-named Palissandria) in an effort to further weaken the French position in South America & the Caribbean. |
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In the aftermath of the Tuscan claim on the colony solidified, the former consortium of Italian merchants was re-organized into the '''Tuscan West Indies company''<nowiki/>' which ran the colony near-autonomously from the Tuscan government. |
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=== Tuscan Palissandria === |
=== Tuscan Palissandria === |
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