Good thing that ocean was there or 1600s Virginia would have claimed the entire planet with their innovative "peeling the label off a biscuit can" approach to real estate.
Fucking love that name you gave for the approach
Of course. They couldn't though, because the Spanish had already claimed the whole Pacific ocean as their territory. (/s, but only on the connection between the two things)
Good stuff hung
Reminds me about the Treaty of Zaragoza between Castile (Spain) and Portugal, where they divided the world in two half between each other. Just claim big.
Context: The "new world" was just discovered 35 yeas earlier and the world map was still very crude in the east indias and the new amazonas region - worldmaps 1530
The Portuguese perfected early cannons and had pretty good ships. You can win lots of coastline if you can just aim 20 guns at a city in the 1500s. That's like having jet aircraft in the 1800s.
How it started versus How it's going.
1609 would be more understandable if it wasn't for the meander between Lakes Superior and Winnipeg.
western VA can go next
According to putting that means they still have a claim on it
