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Strategic Command: Wars in the Americas offers the opportunity to fight five new campaigns, covering some of the greatest conflicts of the mid/late 19th century. Featuring battlefields ranging from the deserts of Peru to the jungles of Cuba, these campaigns will provide countless hours of entertainment, challenging your strategic skills to the max! Of America's manifest destiny, a dream of expanding the country's borders from the sea to the shining sea. It was a war that would see the return and fall of Santa Anna, thousands of miles long marches as the United States struggled to control California, and a peace treaty that would bring America to the brink of civil war. As Mexico, can you defend your vast nation from American invasions? As the United States, will you march along the route of the conquerors, to the corridors of Montezuma? Influence in the Americas, launching an invasion of Mexico. In this alternate history campaign, President Lincoln's tacit support for Mexican Republicans leads to French recognition of the Confederacy and a declaration of war against the United States. With battles raging from Gettysburg to Mexico City, can the Union regain the initiative or will French intervention be the key to Confederate victory in this expanded conflict? Argentina, the Triple Alliance armies pushed the remnants of the Paraguayan army across Paraná. Between them and Asunion stands the fortifications of Humaita: the strongest citadel in South America. In signing the Treaty of the Triple Alliance, the governments of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay pledged to continue fighting until the government of Paraguay is overthrown. To oppose them, Lopez – and Paraguay – are prepared to fight to the death.1879 Ghosts of the Pacific For six months in 1879, the Peruvian Ironclad Huascar, commanded by the talented Admiral Grau, challenged Chile's efforts to conquer the rich nitrated and copper mines from the Atacama Desert. In a series of daring attacks, Huascar sank Chilean warships and captured their transports, and would eventually lead the entire Chilean Navy to finally defeat the “ghost of the Pacific” at the Battle of Angamos. In this campaign, you will take command of Chile or Peru during the dramatic iron battles and amphibious landings of an epic South American conflict. Can you win the Pacific War? 1898 Remember Maineby 1898, many Americans believed the time had come to remove the last major European presence from the Americas. The ancient empire of Spain was destroyed by rebellion, and the yellow press called on President McKinley to help the rebel forces. When the USS Maine exploded in Havana harbor, her destruction ignited a war cry. Can you save Spain's empire from the brink of collapse or is a new set of powers set to take its place? Events of Bazaine, Escala, Caxias, Shafter and Scottnew, including the return of Santa Anna from exile, the Philippine revolution and the construction of the great 'Cristiano' mortar of Paraguay

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