And the Oregon Question, the issue of the western border between the US and Canada, which did sour Anglo-American relations and dragged on until the 1840s, didn’t kick off until well after the War of 1812.
The programme did mention Spanish North America, but Spain had pretty much backed off from anywhere that far north by then. The US just wasn’t involved in it all, and it certainly had nothing to do with the War of 1812. Then, once the French Revolutionary Wars broke out, Britain and Spain needed to work together and couldn’t afford to be getting into a conflict in the Pacific at the same time, so it was agreed that neither country would establish a settlement in the Nootka Sound area but that the ships of both would be able to use it. Spain was reluctant to get into a fight with Britain unless France would get involved too, which France wouldn’t. And it was all sorted twenty years before Taboo”s set. In fact, if any third country had interests in that neck of the woods at the time, it was Russia, which held Alaska and had its eye on getting stuck into the fur trade. However, that’s nonsense! The Nootka Sound dispute was between Britain and Spain! The United States wasn’t involved in it. The idea is that Nootka Sound is the subject of a dispute between Britain and America as part of the War of 1812.
Even supposedly turning to torture to try to get what they want – er, excuse me, it’s meant to be the 1810s, not the 1530s!
TABOO NOOTKA SOUND SERIES
I am really trying to like this programme, because it’s entertaining in a weird sort of way, and I’m missing Poldark and Victoria but the historical inaccuracies are just too much to take!! The whole premise of the series is that, in 1814, James Delaney has somehow inherited control of Nootka Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, and the British government, the American government and the East India Company are all desperate to get their hands on it. Setinthepast on Three Twins at the Crater Scho…ĭorian gray on Three Twins at the Crater Scho… Katherine on Flight of a Chalet School Girl… Setinthepast on Flight of a Chalet School Girl… My Grandparents’ War (series 2) – Channel 4ĭust Up at the Crate… on Three Twins at the Crater Scho….Three Twins at the Crater School by Chaz Brenchley.Dust Up at the Crater School by Chaz Brenchley.
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