From An Oral History Of The Spanish-American Naval War Of 1820:

The engagement between the Susquehanna and the Barcelona was the first act of a brief but ferocious undeclared naval conflict between the United Kingdom of America & Canada and the Spanish Republic. In the months that followed, similar skirmishes would take place between the two countries’ respective warships in the course of which the UKAC would learn a great deal about their European adversaries’ strengths and weaknesses....

From a Spanish Republic anti-UKAC propaganda poster printed circa 1941:

AVENGE YUCATAN!

DEATH TO AMERICA! DEATH TO CANADA!

JOIN THE PEOPLE’S DEFENSE BRIGADE TODAY!

From the book For Want Of A Shoe by Sir Robert Gable, copyright 1974 Royal American Historical Press:

Spanish-American relations, already hostile in the first place after the Naval War of 1820 began, became even more so after American troops staged an amphibious landing on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and sacked the region’s largest Spanish military base...

From a plaque erected near a beach at Progreso, Mexican Republic:

On this spot in 1822 10,000 Spanish soldiers died resisting an attack by the United Kingdom of America and Canada on Spain’s largest military outpost in the Americas

From the book Whiff Of Grapeshot: The 1820 American Invasion Of The Yucatan Peninsula by Carlos Estevez, copyright 2005 Royal University of California at Saint Francis Publishing:

Fortress Isabella’s defenders put up a valiant fight against the American vanguard, but the invasion forces had better numbers and weapons; within just over three hours after the initial American landings on the Veracruz coast, the fort was in flames and most of its men were either dead or surrounded. When it looked as if there was no chance of escape, the surviving Spanish troops dug in for a fight to the death....

From For Want Of A Shoe:

The true story of what happened in the final hours of the American attack on Fortress Isabella is obscured not only by the lurid propaganda claims put out by both the UKAC and the Spanish Republic, but also by the simple fact that many of the pertinent records about the battle have been lost or else sealed away in archives accessible only to a privileged few....

From Whiff Of Grapeshot:

By sunset, the last of Fortress Isabella’s soldiers were dead and Fortress Isabella itself was in flames. The American invasion party torched every building that could set on fire, and those which couldn’t be burned were smashed to rubble by multiple bombardments from the ships which had carried the invasion force to the Yucatan beaches....

From Winters Of Our Discontent:

From the moment Henry VIII’s corpse was burned-- after having first been thoroughly desecrated by the Locksleyites, naturally --there were those who sought to topple the new regime and replace it with a more humane government. Ironically one of the first such insurgencies was organized by a man who for a long time had been a dedicated supporter of the Locksleyite movement...

From the book The Hand That Held The Dagger: The Bascombe Rebellion Of 1526 And Its Consequences For The History Of Western Civilization by Prof. Sir Archibald Leach, copyright 1967 Royal College of Canada at Saskatoon Press:

Ivor Bascombe started his public career as a loyal follower of the Locksleyite cause; such was his devotion to it in the early days of the anti-Tudor rebellion that when Henry VIII was captured in 1523, Bascombe volunteered to personally lead the arrest party. But as the true abusive nature of the Locksleyite regime became more and more apparent he began to question his own role in the post- monarchy British government, and when he witnessed an innkeeper’s daughter being brutally raped for no reason other than that she had complained about the exorbitant taxes the government had placed on her father’s inn, Bascombe found himself disillusioned with the leadership he had once fervently backed, and by the summer of 1525 had made up his mind to abolish the Locksleyite regime...

From Winters Of Our Discontent:

Little is known about when precisely the Bascombe Rebellion started, but scholars generally agree the uprising began in late April of 1526 with a skirmish between rebel militias and Locksleyite troops. While the rebels won the day in that first engagement, subsequent battles would not go so well for the Bascombite insurgents...

From The Hand That Held The Dagger:

It was not lack of valor or military ability that caused the Bascombe Rebellion to collapse; rather, it was the simple fact that the rebel forces lacked enough manpower to keep their insurgency going for any substantial length of time. In fact, knowing what we know today about the internal discord which plagued the rebels it’s something of a miracle that the revolt didn’t self-destruct in its infancy....

From A Monarchy Shattered:

Bascombe’s perfidious decision to rebel against the rightful authority of the people’s government was a betrayal of the worst form and an act of cowardice deserving of the harshest possible condemnation from all decent people. Thankfully, when his treacherous uprising collapsed, he paid the supreme price for his unforgivable crimes...

From Winters Of Our Discontent:

Though the precise motives of the man who betrayed Bascombe to the forces of the Locksleyite regime remain to some extent a mystery, all the evidence available to us at present suggests those motives most likely included despair over the rebel army’s increasingly sour fortunes and a distrust of Bascombe’s long-term political ambitions....

From The Hand That Held The Dagger:

In early 1527 the Bascombe Rebellion collapsed once and for all after Bascombe’s second- in-command, Trevor Johnson, secretly tipped off the Locksleyite armies to the insurgent leader’s plans for a march on London. Thus alerted to the rebels intentions, the government army struck at Bascombe’s rear flanks in one of the most stunning and effective surprise attacks in military history....

From the 1997 documentary Death Of A Rebellion:

It was just after 5:00 in the morning on February 8th, 1527 when the Locksleyite armies struck at the rear echelons of Bascombe’s forces in one of the weakest sections of the rebel front at Maidstone. Caught off-guard by the suddenness of the assault, some of Bascombe’s troops panicked and ran for their lives; the rest fought with almost suicidal courage against their attackers....

From a plaque erected in 2007 on the site of Ivor Bascombe’s final battle:

On This Spot In 1527 Ivor Bascombe Fell In Combat In The Last Major Military Engagement Of The Bascombe Rebellion. He Gave Up His Life In The Struggle To Liberate Britain From The Locksleyites’ Tyranny.

From The Hand That Held The Dagger:

While the accounts of Ivor Bascombe’s last moments differ from one to the next about many of the details of his demise, they all agree on this: he met his death fighting the Locksleyites tooth and nail. By the Locksleyite armies’ own account, it took multiple sword thrusts before the rebel leader finally went down for good....

From Winters Of Our Discontent:

When the Battle of Maidstone was over the Locksleyite soldiers who recovered Ivor Bascombe’s body counted twenty-nine stab wounds in his torso alone. Indeed, the commander-in-chief of the Locksleyite army was later heard to marvel there was any blood left in the rebel leader’s body…

From a British Social Republican government propaganda leaflet made circa 1927:

DESTROY ALL ENEMIES AS OUR GALLANT SOLIDERS ONCE DESTROYED THE TRAITOR BASCOMBE!

From a Canadian school history book chapter on 19th century Anglo- European relations:

The undeclared but intense short naval war between Spain and the UKAC provoked the British Social Republic to invest a growing amount of material and financial resources in expanding its own navy. It also prompted the BSR to begin making friendship overtures to one of Russia’s southern neighbors...

From a plaque outside the central railway station at Istanbul, the Turkish Confederacy:

On This Spot In 1822 Representatives Of The British Social Republic And The Turkish Confederacy Began Negotiations For The Manchester Pact Between Britain And Turkey