We only wish to be independent of the Yankee tyrants, we never wished for war, but you asked for it!
Well you were the ones who seceded and you were the ones who fired first.
We only wish to be independent of the Yankee tyrants, we never wished for war, but you asked for it!
We maintain that it is only the South that has so far acted aggressively in it's assault of Fort Sumter
From Wikipedia.The Armada was constantly being modernized with the latest developments in naval warfare. It adopted steam navigation in the 1830s, ironclad plate armor in the 1860s, and torpedoes in the 1880s. By 1889, Brazil had the fifth or sixth most powerful navy in the world and the most powerful battleships in the western hemisphere. The Army, despite its highly experienced and battle-hardened officer corps, was plagued during peacetime by units which were badly paid, inadequately equipped, poorly trained and thinly spread across the vast Empire.
Yes. I do not expect orders fully in until Friday.