The sky over the Strait of Gibraltar was cloudy, just like the face of General Walibegg, the supreme commander of the British army in Gibraltar, Gibraltar was not a city, and even the British garrison in Gibraltar had more British troops than the local residents, so the British government did not set up a governor in Gibraltar as later generations.
But as commander of the British garrison in Gibraltar, General Walibeg was undoubtedly the most powerful man in Gibraltar, although this power was much less powerful after the approach of the Franco-Spanish Combined Fleet.
From the tallest building in Gibraltar, where Walibeg is located, he has an unobstructed view of most of the Strait of Gibraltar.
In the Strait of Gibraltar, close to Gibraltar is the British Royal Navy fleet, the fleet's twenty warships are lined up in a zigzag, and it is the Franco-Spanish combined fleet that confronts the British Navy, and it is obvious that on both sides of the British fleet are dozens of warships of the Franco-Spanish combined fleet.
This state of confrontation had been going on for several days, and in the north of Gibraltar, where the flag of the Spanish army loomed, a haze had cast over Walibeg's mind.
The British garrison in Gibraltar had been converted to combat readiness, and on the north side of the fort, British soldiers were staring nervously at the northern land with weapons in their hands.
Before the North American War, although the British Empire was all over the world, but the strength of the British Army was not even comparable to the second-rate countries in Europe, fortunately, the North American War woke up the British government's old men, and thanks to the expansion of the North American War, the British garrison in Gibraltar increased from the original 800 to the current 5,000.
However, the large-scale expansion of the army also brought a disadvantage, that is, the British ** team generally lacked combat experience, although the British and French world hegemony made some of the British ** team experience undergo the baptism of war, but most of these troops with combat experience were deployed in the West Indies and the North American continent, and the 5,000 troops on Gibraltar had no combat experience at all, which made Waliberg's heart quite anxious.
Although the Spaniards' army was no better than the British, looking at the faint banner in the distance, Waliberg understood.
The Spanish army to the north was several times as strong.
At a time when Valiberg was unusually worried, the British government was in urgent negotiations with the Portuguese.
The Portuguese were allies of the British, and since Portugal and Spain were both located on the Iliban Peninsula, and the feud between the two countries could be traced back hundreds of years, the British hoped that the Portuguese would send troops to help the British contain the Spaniards.
But for the first time, the demands of the British were not adopted by the Portuguese government, and the strength of the combined Franco-Spanish fleet, the Portuguese had already seen it.
After all, the French fleet went to the southern tip of the Ilibby Peninsula from the open sea of Portugal, and the French fleet with more than 30 warships was almost equal to the total number of warships deployed by Portugal on the mainland.
Like the British, Portugal was a colonial power, and even the Portuguese had a longer colonial history than the British, and in Asia and the New World, Portugal also had a large number of colonies to defend.
Therefore, the focus of the Portuguese navy was also on overseas colonies.
As for the army, Portugal had less than 20,000 troops on its own soil, which made Portugal a little overwhelmed by the British demands to contain the Spaniards.
Not to mention, Spain has expanded its army to more than 100,000 troops, and in addition to 30,000 troops going to Gibraltar, nearly 50,000 troops have been deployed on the Portuguese border!
As soon as Portugal helped the British, the 50,000 Spanish troops would definitely immediately move west towards Lisbon.
Portugal had an army of just over 20,000 men.
In the face of the Spanish army, they had no choice but to hold on, and once the war started, it could be seen that Portugal itself would definitely become a battlefield, which the Portuguese government did not want to see.
Of course, this is not to say that the Portuguese army does not have the confidence to defend itself against the enemy, but the fact is that Portugal's borders are long and narrow, and it can be said that there are loopholes everywhere.
Unless Portugal first declared war on Spain and sent troops to invade Spain, war would surely have taken place on Portuguese soil.
Although the Portuguese hesitated to annoy the British, they had no choice but to persuade them with good words, and the British declared that if Portugal only sent their navy to help the British fleet in Gibraltar against the Franco-Spanish fleet, then the British would send their land forces to help the Portuguese resist a possible Spanish attack.
Despite the promises of the British, the Portuguese government was not at ease or even worried about the British team setting foot on Portuguese territory.
The Portuguese government is also very unhappy.
On the one hand, the army is a weapon of the country, but on the other hand, it is a source of disaster.
Although the countries of the present era have vigorously reformed the discipline of the army, there has never been an army that can be undisturbed by civilians in war.
War is a catastrophe for the inhabitants of the warring grounds, a catastrophe that lies down and is shot and dies at the same time and does not know how to die.
And Portugal once suffered an epic disaster.
It was in 1755 that a magnitude 9 earthquake struck Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, and the tsunami and fire that followed the earthquake leveled the whole of Lisbon.
Tens of thousands of people were killed or injured in the disaster, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced, half of Portugal needed to be rebuilt, and the entire country was devastated.
Although thirty-five years have passed, Portugal's economy has not even recovered to its pre-disaster level.
All this made the Portuguese government hesitate on the question of whether or not to support the British against Spain.
Seeing that the Portuguese might refuse to join their camp, the British gritted their teeth and offered to help Portugal seize Spain's colonies in South America.
This condition can be said to be quite attractive, the land in South America is basically divided between the Portuguese and the Spanish, Brazil is the Portuguese colony, and the other colonies in South America belong to Spain.
And once the British can fulfill the conditions, then it means that Portugal will occupy 90% of South America as its own colony!
Portugal had a glorious past, and during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the emergence of a number of navigators such as Vasco da Gama and Magellan put Portugal on the path to becoming a world power.
However, at the end of the 16th century, Portugal was occupied by Spain due to royal marriages, and it was only in the middle of the 17th century that Portugal was freed from Spanish rule.
During this period, Portugal's colonies were divided by the Dutch and the British at the same time, resulting in Portugal becoming a third-rate country in Europe after regaining its first status.
The arrival of a large number of Portuguese people to Brazil also led to the collapse of the Portuguese economy, and it was not until 1709 that John IV banned Portuguese immigration.
But like every great power that has ever been glorious, the Portuguese have never given up on their dreams of revival, and the conditions offered by the British will undoubtedly help the Portuguese to realize their dreams of revival.
At a time when a new round of quarrels was raging over whether to accede to the British demands, the Brandenburg Military Academy in Prussia was full of lights.
November 10 was the day when the cadets of the Brandenburg Military Academy left the military academy to go for military internships.
At the Brandenburg Military Academy, Wilhelm followed the same model as later schools, and although the duration of the school was three years, each student spent two and a half years in the academy and then went to the army for an internship, and this internship lasted exactly half a year.
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Examinations are held in February every year, an entrance ceremony is held in May, and a graduation ceremony is held after the entrance ceremony, when every graduate will leave the college and take up their official positions with the blessing of all the students of the college.
This six-month internship not only allows the cadets to integrate into the Prussian army family, but also allows the cadets who have received military theories to experience the real army through their own practice, of course, those who apply for the academy from the army are not the same.
With the expansion of the Prussian army, the thirst for literate and knowledgeable junior officers gradually increased, and through Wilhelm's special approval, the enrollment quota of the Brandenburg Military Academy reached 1,300 in 1789.
In nine years, the Brandenburg Military Academy trained nearly 10,000 grassroots cadres for the Prussian army, and all but a few hundred of them joined the Prussian army for various reasons.
More than 1,000 of them were sent to North America to join Brüneke's command, and the rest of the cadets, with the exception of some joining the local garrison, were mostly in the regular army of the kingdom and the royal guard.
On the occasion of the internship ceremony of the Class of '88, William was invited by the Military Academy to attend the internship ceremony.
The director of the Brandenburg Military Academy was originally the veteran Marshal Ziten, and after the death of Marshal Ziten, Dessau served as the director of the academy, but now Dessau is out of Denmark, so the director of the Brandenburg Military Academy is Morpheus.
Morpheus was his deputy at the beginning of the Military Academy, and was appointed vice president of the Academy after Dessau became the head of the Military Academy.
After Dessau left Denmark, Morpheus was the perfect successor.
After nine years of development, the Brandenburg Military Academy has nine sections, including the Tactical Command Section, the Infantry Section, the Cavalry Section, the Artillery Section, the Logistics Section, the Administrative Section, the Naval Command Section, the Naval Management Section, and the Intelligence Section.
And this year, there are 1,000 cadets who will enter the military internship.
Among these nine sections, the Tactical Command Section had the largest number of trainees, followed by the Cavalry Section, and the Intelligence Section had the smallest number of students.