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Many died from disease and malnutrition before the work was complete, but the dockyard proved to be a bastion of the British Empire and served to protect the motherland even as recently as World War II.
Puerto Rico quickly developed into a major port and trading post — it was one of the last major ports Spanish galleons stopped in before sailing back to the motherland.
Bermuda sits astride the main whale migration route, and because the motherland and other colonies demanded (and paid well for) the oil, the local population went into the whaling business.
This, too, caused major upheavals, and a million permanent refugees rushed the motherland, aggravating the shortage of housing and jobs.
The emotional connection to the motherland becomes more intense than the connection to reality.