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  • Chapter 3 – Interim | Xin-Mei Wars Vol. 1

    [First] [Prev] [Next] 3.1 – Hostile Takeover (1548-1549) Back in August of 1548, Lin Weishi had arrived in Dongguang with an army of 6,000 men. His orders had been twofold. Most importantly, he was to aid Governor Bai Guguan in the 2nd Silver War against New Spain, but before that he had something else to…

  • Chapter 2 – The Battle of Acapulco | Xin-Mei Wars Vol. 1

    [Prev] [Next] 2.1 – The 2nd Silver War (1546 – 1548) In 1546, Governor Bai Guguan of South Province resumed his policy of sponsoring pirates to wage war on Spain, specifically in the form of raiding shipping around Mexico and launching strikes against settlements on the Pacific coast. Bai offered to pay a bounty in…

  • Chapter 1 – First Contact | Xin-Mei Wars Vol. 1

    [Next] 1.1 – First Contact (c. 1519 – 1540) In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue, but he couldn’t have predicted that others had tread his path before him. As the Spaniards colonised the islands off the new continent Columbus had stumbled across on his way to Asia, they kept hearing more and more…