Great Britain and the War of the Triple Alliance: The Lincolnshire Farmers' Colonization Plan to Paraguay and the "Fourth Ally" Thesis
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War of the Triple Alliance, British imperialism, Lincolnshire Farmers, postwar, settler colonialismAbstract
This article challenges the fourth ally thesis, which argues that Great Britain was a crucial actor underpinning the combined forces of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay that defeated Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870). To date, the debate has focused on British involvement in the genesis and financing of the allies' war effort. In contrast, this article focuses on the behavior of the British government in the immediate postwar period by analyzing its attitude toward the 892 settlers, mainly English, of the failed plan to emigrate farmers to Paraguay, the so-called Lincolnshire Farmers, in 1872-1873. The British government's open hostility to the plan and its lack of concern for the settlers' plight offer new evidence suggesting that the War of the Triple Alliance was of little interest to British imperialism in general and to 'settler colonialism' in particular.
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