Spain

Spain is a nation in southwestern Europe.

Spain in Worldwar
Spain was easily conquered by the Race, providing the Race with one of only two colonies on the European continent; the other is Poland.

When the Race fought a war against Germany in 1965, the Race invaded German-occupied France across the Pyrenese Mountains using Spain as a launching point. The invasion was easily defeated by German forces, the only front of the war on which they decisively won.

Spain in Southern Victory
Spain was neutral in the Great War; the Spanish Red Cross handled some prisoner exchanges between belligerents and returned George Enos to the United States aboard one of their ships from his imprisonment in North Carolina.

In the interwar years, civil war erupted in Spain between the Monarchists, who were supported by Germany, and the Nationalists, who were supported by Britain and France. Though Germany had defeated the other two nations in the Great War and was assumed to be the most powerful nation in Europe militarily, the Nationalists won and Spain became a de facto Entente nation.

Spain in Ruled Britannia
Under King Philip II, Spain became the most powerful Catholic nation in Europe. Philip devoted his reign to attempting to build a Spanish Empire. Spain fought a war against France for hegemony in western Europe; it fought a war against Portugal to shunt the smaller nation into its territory; it fought a war against the Turks to expel their ships from the Mediterranean; it fought a war against the Netherlands to colonize that nation; it aggressively colonized the New World; and in 1588, it launched its Armada against England to punish that Protestant nation for supporting the anti-Spanish Dutch rebels and for executing the Catholic Mary Queen of Scots, with whom Philip and most other European Catholic monarchs had hoped to replace the Protestant Queen Elizabeth.

Following the invasion and conquest of England, Philip's daughter Isabella became Queen of England. Throughout her ten-year reign, a large Spanish military presence was maintained in England to support Isabella's rule. These forces, along with Isabella and her husband, Albert Hapsburg, were expelled by an English uprising led by Sir Robert Cecil in 1598. Several weeks earlier, Philip II had died and been succeeded by his son, the far less capable Philip III.