As it happened, the timing was perfect. Just as the British were thinking of finding the French some trouble, the French themselves had not been idle.
The matter of the Lone Star Republic had practically been laid bare. Although the French were deeply worried about it, they had no particularly good solution.
After all, France had no territory in North America at this time. Though it controlled three republics, stationing troops in all three was still rather difficult.
Besides, America was the Second Great Power at the time. Any country that had split away from America naturally possessed a certain amount of pride.
Once they understood their own shortcomings but found themselves unable to resolve them, the only thing the French could ultimately do was create a shortcoming for the British.
Although the British Empire was honored as the world's foremost great power, possessing the world's strongest navy and the broadest colonial holdings,
this enormous colonial empire was not as bright and glorious as it appeared on the surface. Inside, it was already like an old tree, rotten through and through.
As everyone knew, the strength of the British Empire came from the First Industrial Revolution. It was precisely that Industrial Revolution that sent the British Empire's industry and economy soaring, rapidly making it one of the strongest countries in Europe.
On top of that, its colonies in Africa and India, acquired through colonization, steadily deepened the British Empire's foundations and created the celebrated Victorian Era.
If the early nineteenth century had been the French people's golden age, then from the middle of the nineteenth century onward, the British became the leading actors on the world's grand stage.
Although other important actors, including Germany, had taken part in this performance one after another, no one could conceal the splendor of