Russians in Hawaii!!

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hello

Well here is something of which I wasn't aware. The Russian American Company had a presence in Hawaii and had built a fort in 1815ish. Maybe a fertile ground for what-ifs.



https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/Asian_American_and_Pacific_Islander_Heritage/Russian-Fort.htm

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[Glorfindel]

Interesting stuff - I'm sure I've seen mention somewhere of similar
Russian colonies / forts in other parts of mainland US (Wikipedia
confrms there was a Fort Ross in California).   Hard to imagine
today !

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

It was open territory!
We played a us vs Russia in Alaska campaign a while ago, Custer was offed in the first charge!

[paulr]

New Zealand built coastal defences and acquired spar torpedo boats due to fears of Russian invasion in 1885

[profjohn]

The forts in sydney harbour were also, I believ, built to defend against the Russians. I have a naval forces for the late 19th century Victorian and Tasmania navies and a couple of Russian dreadnoughts. The really interesting Russian stuff though is the Tlingit war - you can bet 15mm figures for it from Eureka but I'm not aware of any 10s.

[sunjester]

Very interesting! Gives me some ideas.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Means you get to field this (available from Brigade models) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMVS_Cerberus