The Kingdom of Brazoria, which won its independence from the Centralist Republic of Mexico in 1836, had recently undergone an intense period of economic development which coincided with the Second Industrial Revolution and the build-up of politicised tensions over the future direction of the Kingdom. By the beginning of 1890, Brazoria's first true political party, the Progressive Party, was aiming to build confidence in future political ventures into Latin America, a policy known as the Hogg Doctrine that became key to the election of James Hogg as Chancellor. Seeking a European colonial power with active possessions in the Americas to target, Hogg and his government secretly selected the Kingdom of the Netherlands due to their investment in the Aceh War and their weak standing in comparis