Third Anglo-Virginian War: Difference between revisions

BY 1874, there were nearly 5010,000 colonist in Salvatia and dozens of minor settlements across the coast. Though the only major ones were Clarke, Grandchurch and Port Victoria. Clarke was the military stronghold of the colony. The colony's arsenal and command center was in the town. General Matthew Washington, who had resigned from Parliament and accepted a commission following Clarke's death, set up his residency there. Grandchurch was the first place the Zoerkerist colonists arrived and they treated it as a holy city. They made pilgrimages to it and traveled to it for special holidays. Port Victoria was the largest port in the colony. Salvatia held large deposits of gold that attracted colonists to abandon homesteads to instead mine for gold. Walker condemned those who did but Washington and other VAC officials only saw the profit the gold could gain. The British noticed this too and along with fears of a strong Virginian colony divided their colonies in West Africa, they were ready to fight.