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Chapter 32 - Russia in the Pacific (July-September, 1871).

Russia-Mexico in aid of Hawaii]

In August the kingdom of Hawai'i led by King Kamehameha V is hit by one of the largest hurricanes in its history, damaging the infrastructure, and more importantly, the population of the islands of Hawai'i and Maui.

Emperor Alexander III of Russia and Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico had different reasons to help. Maximilian I had a deep moral code and good feelings, while Russia saw no harm in helping a small business partner.

Russia offered Mexico one of its non-profit organizations to coordinate Mexican aid to the region, something that Maximiliano I and his cabinet accepted.

Russia's Committee for the Provision of First Aid was sent to Hawaii on the Mexican aid ship after a stopover in California.

Unlike the Russian Empire, the Second Mexican Empire did not have an organization similar to the Committee, although Empress Carlota was tempted (she and her husband, Emperor Maximilian, promoted the construction of hospitals in Mexico, even if the funds were ... scabs).

Víverez and humanitarian aid were distributed among the local population regardless of culture or religion.

Russia began to invest money in rebuilding damaged businesses and local tourism. Eventually getting some advantages for this.

Mexico on the other hand gained greater commercial and diplomatic ties with the Pacific monarchy in an honest way, something that satisfied Maximiliano (not being completely alone on the diplomatic front).

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[Whaling accident]

In September, crossing the Bering Strait after a Greenlandic whale hunt, a total of 40 boats crossed north of Alyáska. However the climatic situation abruptly changed from Siberia towards the direction of the ships.

7 ships managed to escape, but 33 were stranded and trapped by the ice, 4 of the 33 began to be crushed by the ice, being a danger for the crew of 1219 men.

All this was seen from one of the military posts north of the Russian Alyáska coast. Military Governor Johan Hampus Furuhjelm was promptly briefed, beginning preparations for a rescue mission to the American whaling crew.

A small flotilla composed of Cossacks and Russians from the Russian army from Alyáska was ordered to notify the captains for the preparation of the rescue.

Due to the weather, however, the Russian flotilla could not arrive until 10 days later (on September 12), fortunately the crew still had the resources to survive.

On September 14, the Russians mobilized to rescue the whalers. To transport you all back home, US $ 1.6 million in loot (whale) and fishing gear had to be abandoned.

But finally 1,219 men return safely to the United States, this has been remarkable news in the United States (particularly a blow to the whaling industry, already in decline in the United States).

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[Chedzhu]

The island of Quelpart, called Chedzhu by the Russians, continued to grow once the great expansion of the Russian Tsushima took place.

The Russian Tsushima was growing in population and infrastructure, the Japanese on the islands continued to be instructed in Russian while practicing their traditional forms of religion.

Chedzhu on the other hand was mostly Korean, this indicated different ways of thinking and living.

While Tsushima's expansion also involved increased investments in Chedzhu, growth was uneven and pointed in a few different directions.

The city of Chedzhu grew more slowly, the local language was perpetuated in texts and orally, while the local military academies taught in Russian.

A de facto autonomous bureaucratic system developed on the island, with the Russian navy as the military force. These Chedzhu bureaucrats quickly adapted into Russian society, taking care of much of the island's logistics.

In Chezhu, at the initiative of the government of Tsar Alexander III, urban planning experiments were started on the island (which could be carried to higher degrees in the mainland Russian Empire).

The experiment took some successful steps in the construction of ports for ship repairs, fishing sites, military academies and local farms. The first primary schools in the area (secular and teaching young children in the local language of the island) were also built.

Even the small island (small compared to the rest of Russia) grew a little, slowly, but it grew.

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[International]

Ignoring the most disastrous events of the time, perhaps most notable is Adolphe Thiers's resignation from French politics, retiring after the failures of the national defense government and the government of Napoleon IV (not led by the emperor but he is the central figure).

Prince Henri, Count of Chambord recognized by his supporters as Henry V, legitimist claimant (in alliance with Orleanists) of the French throne, begins to seriously criticize the Bonapartist government. Chambord has accepted (on the serious recommendation of the alliance of Orleanists and Loyalists) the French tricolor, actively meeting with some of the elites of Paris and being seriously considered for the throne of France.

One of the Orleanists, Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale, joins the French army, where he is put in command of a young Georges Ernest Jean-Marie Boulanger.

Radical-Republican majority neighborhoods in Paris are getting more upset about the monarchy, moderate Republicans on the other hand have been losing considerable support with weak leadership.

On the other hand, in foreign policy, the foreign minister visits the city of Vienna, capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to discuss relations between Vienna and Paris, with the interest of reestablishing more positive and productive ties.

Alerting Germany under Otto von Bismarck, who can do nothing to try to stop this.

In Austria-Hungary, Count Gyula Andrássy of Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka was kicked out of important diplomatic positions after his neutral and moderate views on the Franco-Prussian war (now against the Vienna direction).

Returning to the leadership to Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, who is also trying to approach Paris against Germany.

The Vienna-Paris meetings cause alienation in Italy, with Austria-Hungary a "natural" enemy of the Italian state, there are concerns of a joint Franco-Austrian attack on the Italian peninsula by certain traditionalist politicians.

As much as France helped Italy during her unification, they were banned from Rome, and when the Italians drove the French out of Rome, the French got angry.