American King 2.0 - Timeline Only

To fully understand the events of the Great Revolution, we must go back to earlier decades of the Glorious Century, the 1700's. Following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War (1756-63), and the rise of Britain as the supreme world power, Louis XV, great-grandson of the Sun King himself, was forced to sign away most of France's New World colonies. This left Britain extremely wealthy. But still, it had war debts, as it also fought alongside Frederick II, the Great, against the Austrians and French in mainland Europe. King George III (who succeeded his grandfather George II in 1760) was the latest British sovereign of the House of Hanover, and he needed tax money, and the American colonies were a great source of income. After all, the colonists had had the protection of the mighty British army and navy during the Seven Years' War, so why should they not pay for it? The King could not run the government for free, after all. Even after the Seven Years', as late as 1766, the Redcoats were fighting Pontiac's Rebellion against those Indian tribes formerly allied to the French. On October 7th, 1763, George set up the Proclamation Line to protect those "infernal colonists," and they were not even grateful! Taxes, taxes, and, above all, more taxes, were required to pay for the New World shenanigans and the expanding empire. The Parliament soon issued the Sugar and Currency Acts (1764), taking away the colonies' rights to print money, and claiming, "It is expedient that new provisions and regulations should be established for improving the revenue of this Kingdom ... and ... it is just and necessary that a revenue should be raised ... for defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the same." Shockingly, these acts proved wildly unpopular and the colonists rioted in the streets. Late to the party was the Stamp Act (1765), which infuriated most Americans. Riots and violence broke out, which the British mercilessly crushed. Virginia's Burgesses claimed the motherland could not tax Virginians under British law; "only Virginians can tax Virginians." The final kick in the crotch came with the enactment of the Quartering Act, allowing roving mobs of British soldiers and sailors to "loot, pillage, and make themselves at home on private property."


The Parliament's refusal to repeal the Stamp and Quartering Acts resulted in the New York Rebellion of 1766, when New Yorkers took up arms against the British garrisons. After the quickly-but-bloodily-won victory by the British government, New York's government was suspended and numerous arrests ensued, including that of revolutionary Seven Years' War veteran Captain James DeLancey, a member of the radical Sons of Liberty movement.

After squashing the New York Independence movement, the King and Parliament flaunted their victory with the Declaratory Act, essentially rubbing in the colonists' faces that, "We can do what we want, when we want, for whatever reason we want, and you cannot do anything about it," along with the Townshend Act, yet another tax.

Burgeoning under all these unwanted tyrannies, many colonists became open opponents of Britain. King George watched with shock and anger, in March 5th, 1770, shortly after the election of Lord North as Prime Minister, as Americans, upon reading To the Betrayed Inhabitants of the City of Boston (a Sons of Liberty broadside), seized fifty sleeping British troops garrisoned in Boston, dragged them out of their barracks, impaled them "like flags" upon pikes, and hoisted the corpses at Boston Harbour for all to see. It was known as "The Bostonian Massacre," and it made the English cry out for revenge. It was not long before they would have it.

The so-called "War of the Regulation" (1765-1770), in western North Carolina, was a rebellion of the citizens against the colonial government in protest to the "Intolerable Acts" passed by Parliament. The British knew it could incite unrest in the other areas, especially after The Bostonian Massacre, and immediately brought in professional soldiers to assist Governor William Tyron in crushing the insurgency. At the Battle of Alamance, over three hundred rebels were captured by Redcoats and executed. In retaliation, a mob in New York City, a location under martial law since the Rebellion of '66, stormed a compound, freeing numerous prisoners and taking hostage five hundred British troops. They then declared that they would execute ten soldiers every day until the Intolerable Acts were repealed. They practiced what they preached: the next day, ten bodies were hoisted on pikes at Wall Street. After ten days, and one hundred executions, a British counter-attack liberated the prisoners and forced the rebels to flee for their lives. The Wall Street Hostage Crisis was over.

From this time forth, North America plummeted into violence and riots. Following the Hostage Crisis, Sam Adams, a leader of the Sons of Liberty, formed the Committee of Correspondence. This heavily-Masonic organization pulled the strings of power in America, much to the disgruntlement of King George. A further black eye for the crown was the newly-formed (1772) Watauga Republic, along the Louisiana border, which was formed by settlers pushing the limits of the Proclamation Line.


Britain responded with the Tea Act. This new act was designed by the East India Company to sell its hugely overpriced tea to the colonists, who would have to pay Townshend Duties, making it even more expensive. The Sons of Liberty, now on the ascension to supreme power over all independence/anti-Britain movements, retaliated with the Boston Tea Party. The Sons of Liberty chapter in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, disguised themselves as Indians, complete with tea-stained skin, turbans, scimitars, and explosives, and attacked the ships tied to the docks, massacring the sailors, throwing the tea overboard, and burning the boats. Numerous ships, however, were privateered and taken to an undisclosed location, crewed, repainted, and sent out to sea. That marked the start of the Pirate War (1773-75). British civilian ships were seized, hostages taken, property destroyed, and sunk-- if they could not be used as yet more pirate vessels. The Royal Navy was then stretched to its full capacity as piracy broke out all over the empire, inspired by the Tea Party.

Parliament had had enough. They quickly passed the Massachusetts Bay and New York Governing Act, which removed all colonial authorities, installed new ones, raised taxes, beefed up occupational troops, and made support of revolt punishable by death. It was followed quickly by the Proclamation Line of 1774, which pushed the Line of 1763 back east even further, and sent in troops to order and monitor settler relocation. While this helped the all-seeing eye of George watch and control more easily for a while, it made the western rural families and towns hate his guts. The Watauga Republic prepared violent resistance against the Line of 1774. Making the matters worse was the Second Quartering Act and the Administration of Justice Act of 1774, which essentially allowed local officials to persecute, execute, or exile anyone they wanted and crush uprisings and protests by whatever means necessary.

Violence was to reign supreme during the Powder Confiscation of September 1st, 1774, when British general Thomas Gage, military governor of Massachusetts Bay, seized gunpowder supplies and brought them to Boston, where he could keep an eye on the captured goods and keep it out of the hands of "the unruly elements of society." Unfortunately, in a violent, brief skirmish, the same Sons of Liberty members who had started the Boston Tea Party stole most all of it and dispersed it across the colony in all manners of hiding spots, making it impossible to retrieve it all again. Furious, Gage cracked down, triggering riots which resulted in the deaths of fifty civilians. The Sons of Liberty quickly took hostages of soldiers stationed on the Proclamation Line and executed five for every one of the fifty civilians killed. More troops were brought in to "teach those d*** colonists a lesson," as King George so nicely put it to Lord North. Shortly after, the colonists, being pushed to their limits, formed the First Continental Assembly, under the firm control of the Sons of Liberty, and met at Carpenter's Hall, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Assembly warned King George III that the colonies were being pushed as far as possible and the Intolerable Acts should be immediately repealed. The Assembly, consisting of 12 colonies (Georgia was not invited because it was a penal colony), went about forming local chapters of the Sons of Liberty to act as militias and police. Gang brawls between the militias and Redcoats became a common sight, and numerous deaths ensued.


On October 19th, 1774, the HMS Peggy Stewart, a Maryland vessel attempting to bring in more "accursed ETC tea," was burned by the Sons of Liberty in Annapolis. It quickly became known as the Annapolis Tea Party. In December, New Jersey members of the Sons of Liberty, acting upon the direct orders of Sam and Johnny Adams, dressed themselves as Indians, again, complete with turbans, scimitars, and tea-stained skin, and burned a massive overland shipment of tea bound for Philadelphia. It became known as the Greenwich Tea Party.


Finally, it came to a head. On April 19th, 1775, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith marched 1000 British regulars to arrest and/or disperse (and confiscate the supplies of) the Massachusetts Bay militia, lead by silversmith Paul Revere, at Concord, which was especially infamous for massacres of Redcoats and the burning of tea. At Concord, the British army faced the Sons of Liberty down the barrels of their muskets. As soon as dragoons moved to arrest the leaders, shots were fired. Within thirty minutes, 100 "Lobsterbacks" had perished. Revere ordered his troops to advance, heads of British soldiers mounted on bayonets. Terrified, the British gave ground, only to be hewn down even more. The casualties' heads were quickly mounted, and rebel colonists, now covered in blood, gave chase. The entire army routed and Smith was captured during the retreat. Revere had won a huge victory.



Simultaneously, in Boston, revolutionary fervor spread like wildfire. Radicals under the command of Samuel Adams stormed the British stronghold in the city and killed all the defenders. Elsewhere in the town, widespread looting and burning was ensuing as the British were evacuating. The Battles of Boston and Concord had ended. The Great Revolution had begun.








"These are the times that try Patriots' souls. Until the Tories are exterminated the continent will feel itself like a man who continues putting off some unpleasant business from day to day, yet knows it must be done, hates to set about it, wishes it over, and is continually haunted with the thoughts of its necessity."

"If we have to send one million British soldiers, or even George himself, straight to Hell to win our independence, then send them we should and shall."

"The Sons of Liberty warm the hearts of the continent with their quest for Liberty, Brotherhood, and Justice."

"In our search for the blasphemous Tories, we should base our tactics on Numbers 31: 'And they slew all the males.' "

This pumped radicalism to new heights, and Plain Truth was printed by the hundreds of thousands. It became standard issue for all Continental Army troopers, and if they could not read, they were to have someone read it to them. A huge increase in the number of volunteers, and in Tories becoming Patriots, was likely a product of civilian readings. Paine was on the political ascent as "The Thinking Man's Rebel."

Upon the huge surge in patriotism, New England's armies doubled and resulted in the Liberation of the Bahamas in March. The amphibious invasion pummeled the British garrison there and set up a Council of Public Safety. When copies of Plain Truth were passed out, all of Nassau draped green, white, and red banners over every nearby railing. In a month, the Caribbean sank into civil war and revolt, which the British Royal Navy, busy combating the Second Rise of Piracy, was unable to cork. Prices for sugar in Britain soared, and extensive smuggling operations began, swelling the Continental coffers. A Caribbean native, General Alexander Hamilton, was placed in charge of conducting Caribbean military operations. A member of the Fraternity, Hamilton was a moderate, but he got the job done. In July, he had sent copies of Plain Truth as far as British and Spanish possessions in South America. A failed uprising in Colombia got so far as to have established a Council of Safety before the Spanish came in and wiped it out.

On June 4th, 1776, the Second Assembly signed and approved a unanimous Declaration of Autonomy, severing all chances for any kind of repatriation under the British crown. It was war, total and unceasing, until one side was beaten.

Shortly after the Declaration, a new mercenary force arrived from Europe. 5,000 Poles, French, Russians, and Germans, and at their head was 56 year-old ex-Jacobite, William "Claymore" McClintock, also known as "Bloodie Billie." The Scot had fought in the Rising of '45 under Bonnie Prince Charles, where he had earned his nick-name following the medieval butchering of fifty British soldiers with his claymore, a huge broadsword he kept with him at all times. His troops were at the front of the American phalanx at the Battle of Long Island, where, under his and Israel Putnam's inspired leadership, the Continentals heavily defeated both Howe and Cornwallis. A series of forced retreats following suicide assaults by the British eventually forced them to evacuate Long Island to the British.

McClintock had proven himself; he was quickly chosen by the Assembly as Commander-in-Chief of their joint forces. He foiled Howe again at the decisive Battle of Morningside Heights, which sent Howe's forces scurrying in disarray thanks to a badly-organized retreat. This enabled American snipers to have field days, and dead soldiers mounted on pikes on the sides of the roads were common sights for the Redcoats. Numerous groups of pro-British German and Russian mercenaries fled after witnessing the brutal backwoods campaign.

As the British army ran south to New Jersey, Benedict Arnold, newly arrived from roaring victories in Quebec and New York (where he fought for the Green Mountain Republic) gave chase with several thousand volunteers. They pestered the British unceasingly, Arnold stating that "George's army shall die of a thousand mosquito bites."

Howe decided to make a stand in New Jersey. Things were about to get nasty.




Georgia's relations to Spain had been bad before the Revolution, especially over the highly-disputed areas of northern Florida. When Georgian troops crossed the border in January of 1780 to evade capture by British soldiers, Spain warned Georgian dictator Bulloch to get his men out. Riots triggered by propaganda spread by the Georgians on their march broke out in early February. After rioters stormed a government building in St. Augustine, Spain blamed the Georgians. War was declared and the Alliance of the Monarchies was formed between Britain, Spain, Prussia, several German states, and Portugal. It was famously declared by King George III that, "The Monarchies must all hang together, or else we shall surely all hang separately." The American ideology was seen as infectious, and kings worried about unrest breaking out in their own colonies and even their own countries. France decided not to support the Alliance, as it was not willing to form an agreement with Prussia or Britain for any reason. It was not extremely friendly with the Americans, but extensive smuggling operations were carried out to arm the rebels to avenge the French territorial losses of the Seven Years War.


Bernardo de Galvez y Madrid, the 5th governor of Spanish Louisiana, took control of the Army of New Spain upon Spain's entrance into the Alliance. Militias were raised from New Orleans to Canada, Spanish troops were crossing the Atlantic, and Georgia was inundated with attacks.

In Prussia and the other German regions, thousands of soldiers were being transported to the New World. While the soldiers cared little for the conflict, the Germanic leaders had formed a blood pact to help George III, who was also Prince-elector of Hannover, crush the American anti-monarchists and usurpers. General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben commanded the first Prussian army to land, a small token force of 5,000. This brigade crashed its way through the Georgian defenses and humiliated General McIntosh in several pitched battles. Things were looking grim for the Rebellion.

Georgian, Wataugan, and Colonial leaders met in secret at Lexington, Virginia in mid-1780 to plan a new strategy. It was decided that Alexander Hamilton should leave the Bahamas before he was trapped and sail for South America. Hamilton did as ordered and was about to be the originator of guerrilla warfare.

In early August, 1780, Hamilton and 1,000 Patriots landed in Colombia with the intent of spreading the "Revolucion." Immediately, the Spanish authorities closed in for the kill, only to have him evade capture and kill 500 Spanish soldiers. Hamilton marched into the jungles, where he preached rebellion to the villages of New Spain. In a month, revolution was sweeping the continent as copies of the banned Plain Truth miraculously appeared by the thousands. Hamilton had several disciples that he was grooming, including a young Colombian named Jose Fernandez. Fernandez soon found himself a general, and he organized a small army to begin the Liberation of Gran Colombia. It was a wildly popular uprising, and it spread into other areas. Just as planned, the Spanish suddenly withdrew to Louisiana and Georgia regained some strength. The Spanish government tried to brutally suppress the rebellion in South America, but it was too late. Soon Plain Truth became all the rage in Brazil, and the ancient and decrepit Portuguese empire was totally inept at deterring revolt. Violence rocked the entire New World. In the Spanish Tejas region, just below Louisiana, the lower classes revolted and set up the Tejas Republic. Spain was regretting its decision to enter the war. By the end of 1780, Georgia was meeting and defeating the feeble Spanish army in the field and cutting away at morale in the Imperial homeland. In Madrid, the people said the royals were destroying the Spanish Empire. The final straw was the New Orleans Uprising, during which the entire Spanish garrison of the key strategic city was massacred.

All of New Spain and New Portugal was on fire, literally and figuratively. Maria I Francisca of Portugal withdrew from the Alliance and sent all troops to Brazil to try to crush the uprising. As Charles III of Spain tried to still support George III, he was losing his territories and men. Mass executions in New Orleans of rebels in retaliation for the Uprising made things even worse, and in February 1781, Spanish rule in the New Orleans area was finally toppled and a republic proclaimed.

Finally, in May of 1781, Spain withdrew from the Alliance. The Alliance of the Monarchies was finished and failed. One of the main reasons was the fact that Czarina Catherine was shipping arms and munitions to the Americans. Thomas Jefferson himself was, from 1780-82, the Continental ambassador to the Russian Imperial court, where he slowly-but-steadily gained the Czarina's ear. Russia became increasingly hostile to Great Britain, along with France. If France would come to the rescue of the Americans, and Russia attacked Prussia, then the Revolution would succeed.


It was time for payback. The Seven Years' War had resulted in the victory of Britain, Portugal, Hannover, and Prussia over France, Russia, the Holy Roman Empire, Mughal Empire, and Spain. Now, in 1781, seeing a chance to avenge their losses, Russia, France, and the Holy Roman Empire declared war on Britain. Britain was caught so off-guard that France actually was successful in the Thames Raid, when several French warships sailed up the river and blasted London before promptly returning to Normandy.

Prussia, under the elderly Frederick II, engaged the Russian army five times before a peace was negotiated. Prussia's alliance with Britain was for all practical purposes dissolved. This left only Britain and Hannover to fight on.

In early 1782, McClintock was about to be reenforced by French and Russian troops in New York, Britain was about to launch a huge assault from Canada into New York, the Green Mountain Republic was finally crumbling, and New York City was about to come under siege once again. On February 5th, 1782, Britain began intense bombardment of New York City. The Second Siege had begun. McClintock, desperate for new troops, found a world of relief as the French and Russian navies engaged the British fleet in New York Harbor. Howe, commander of the British and Hessian forces, found himself trapped with no where to go. Faced with no other option, Howe stormed the city. With unbelievable ferocity, the British defeated the Americans and left mounds of stinking corpses laying in pools of blood in the artillery-pocked streets. As McClintock evacuated, however, the British fleet was destroyed. On February 10th, the Franco-Russian army landed and began a counter-siege. Howe was trapped, and the French controlled the seas. On the 11th, a Russian force stormed the walls and took over a portion of the city before being pushed back. Finally, after fighting and losing so many soldiers that his position became unsustainable, Howe surrendered. McClintock made a triumphal procession back into the city.

Britain was not about to admit defeat. In the south, George was using military access agreed upon with Spain to march down from Canada, through Louisiana, and down to New Orleans, where the nascent republic was crushed by General Banastre Tarleton. Using it as momentum, he steamed ahead into Georgia, where he defeated two rebel armies. Finally, McIntosh handed "Bloody Ban" defeat at the Battle of Johnson's Swamp, near the Florida border, where Georgian sharpshooters massacred the bogged-down British army in a manner akin to Braddock's Defeat. Tarleton was severely wounded when his wet flintlock pistol blew up in his hand, and was carried away on a stretcher. He died two hours later when his army was "regrouping."

Tarleton's death was, for all basic purposes, the death blow to the British cause. It had been far too costly and bloody, and on June 13th, 1782, Britain informally recognized American Independence.


After the unofficial peace began, more thought was given about governments for the new independent nations. Georgia remained essentially the same under Bulloch's "loving dictatorship." Watauga elected to follow a fairly free, republican style government. The Green Mountain Republic, with its low population and high casualties during the war, was a dictatorship under Allen, but was actually quite open and free, almost libertarian. The other states, however, chose something else entirely.

During the war, the Continental Assemblies were the leadership of the colonies. But in actuality, local Councils of Public Safety, ran by Deputies of Public Safety, ruled with iron fists. After the war, the ramshackle group of regions needed a solid government to prevent collapse. So, in January of 1783, a vote was taken in the Continental Assembly as to which form of government should be adopted. With delusions of Roman Republican grandeur, the voters chose a triumvirate. On January 10th of the same year, Thomas Paine was elected First Triumvir of the American Republic. Aaron Burr was elected as Second Triumvir of the Republic. Finally, Thomas Jefferson was elected Third Triumvir of the Republic. The three men effectively took on the Assembly's duties upon being sworn in. The Oath of Office was as follows:

"I, (name), do solemnly swear upon my blood and my sacred honor that I will faithfully execute the Office of Triumvir of the Republic, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend our glorious enlightened nation at whatever cost."

This of course meant dictatorship.


Thomas Paine dominated, and he and his pawn Burr helped silence Jefferson. The first few days in office saw the withdrawal of the Kaintuck Territory, Virginia, and the Carolinas from the new nation, who did not trust the new system. They in turn became the Kaintuck Republic, the Commonwealth of Virginia, Democracy of South Carolina, and the Republic of North Carolina.

The use of military force was considered to bring the small countries back into the fold. General McClintock was appointed Commander-in-Chief, but he was disillusioned by the new government. Nevertheless, he fulfilled his duty.

Virginia was the country to look out for. It would have the ability later to go against and possibly beat New England. This would not do at all. So, as a solution, rebellion was stirred up in Richmond and several regiments sent in to wreak havoc. In October, 1783, the Richmond Deputy of Public Safety, James Monroe, who had served as an aide to General McClintock during the war, conspired with the Bostonian General Henry Knox to overthrow the Virginian government. In a bloody assault, the Virginian capitol building was stormed and the garrison of elite foot guards massacred. The anti-Triumvirate government officials were arrested and exiled. Virginia rejoined the Union.

Following the Virginian coup, a peace treaty between Britain and all its former colonies was drawn up in Brussels. Now, the new countries could focus on each other and the unfolding New Spain crisis.

And if you see I've left out any chapters from the regular thread, please notify me!

And here's a map:




Louisiana Republican Army, from left to right: General, Acadienne Régiment de Cavalerie (Arcadian light horse), dragoon, drummer, Volunteer Regiment of Minnesquotah, standard infantry, Saint-Louis Carabiniers de Foot, artillery. Fur hats are all beaver, because I was thinking of the pelt trappers in Louisiana.





Field marshal (and uniform of Archibald Bulloch), general, Republican Guard, infantryman, artilleryman, drummer, bugler, and hussar.

The attempts at revolution in France stopped for good at the Fête de la Fédération, on July 14th, 1790, when King Louis XVI agreed to the formation of a constitutional monarchy. Satisfied, the revolutionary leaders ordered all citizens violently pushing for the toppling of the government to give themselves up and go back to work, "to restore the glory and economy of France." And they did, and France's weak economy started improving for the first time in a good while.

The expenses of the First Seven Years' and supporting the Americans in the Great Revolution had taken its toll on the royal coffers. For a while, a downsizing of the armed forces was considered, but the French Admiralty advised the enlarging the navy and sending it to protect trade fleets to places formerly dominated by Britain, such as the Indian Ocean and Africa. Britain did not take kindly to this "invasion," especially around India. However, following the catastrophic defeat in the Great Revolution, and even worse, the loss of its ally Prussia, it could do nothing. France wasn't committing a hostile act of aggression, it was just sailing in, and trading in, waters it used to not have the guts to go into. Before long, French ports had popped up on the west coast of Australia, which the British had regarded as safe before the Great Revolution and hadn't bothered officially making it a part of the empire. Now, they could do absolutely nothing as then-Captain Michel Ney declared West Australia Nouvelle-Normandie. New Normandy was officially a part of Louis' constitutional kingdom. It marked an about-face for France's massive (since the First Seven Years' War) territorial losses to Britain. Next, in a offer the defeated Spanish couldn't refuse, and in an act harking back to France's former friendship with their Bourbon cousins to the south, Louis payed a hefty sum for the Philippine Islands. France was on the way to economic and colonial recovery, and Britain needed to do something or face the fate France was facing at the end of the First Seven Years'.

When Britain's navy was epically destroyed at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1806, the French navy became the ultimate authority on the seas, and the large British navy was too afraid to set sail for the Atlantic because they worried about a sneak attack on India, Britain's last remaining colonial stronghold. If even a small invasion occurred that was immediately defeated, the native Indians could rebel while the Redcoat army advanced to meet the French, possibly triggering a massive uprising in all of India. Canada was likely going to be lost, and George (who started having mental fits and breakdowns in 1805) wasn't going to compound his grief by losing "Tealand" along with the "Land of Igloos." With France in control of the Philippines, an attack could be launched, so Britain's India fleet stayed where it was.

Then, in early 1807, France announced an alliance with the Netherlands, already a good friend of the URAS, bringing that country into the war against Britain. Soon after, Bavaria, the Holy Roman Empire, and Russia all entered the side of the URAS.

Almost no one came to Britain's aid except some small German states bound by blood to do so. Prussia would have joined George, but its new king, Friedrich Wilhelm III, was growing ever-so-close to allying with Russia in an attempt to make sure Cossacks wouldn't come rampaging on his eastern frontier if he decided to expand into Central Europe. He started shifting his hungry gaze from the countries Frederick the Great had fought, to the ones Frederick the Great had been allied to. If he decided to cakewalk across the weak British-supporting states, no one would stop him, and the Prussian Empire would be born, sufficiently large enough to make conflict with the Habsburg Emperor unlikely.


This concept of a "Prussian Empire" and its manifest destiny motto of "all your Germanies are belong to us" was put in the young Prussian king's head by none other than Andrew I, who he had written extensively too. Friedrich was just young enough to think Andrew very wise and more experienced than himself, which was a key factor in Prussia not joining England.

By the end of the Second Seven Years' War, Friedrich Wilhelm would be a neutral player waging war against England's old German allies. The Prussian Empire was growing to closer to existing.




In the Holy Roman Empire, Kaiser Franz II was not fazed by Andrew's personality at all. He considered him inferior, and the URAS insignificant compared to the almighty Enlightened Empire of his own. Still, Austria, the New Rome, had had a good relationship for many years with America, and America was no more insignificant than some of the European kingdoms that Austria bordered. Kaiser Franz soon officially agreed to a continuation of the Austro-American Alliance.

In Constanto-Istanbul, the Kaiser was cracking down. Slowly, the city was westernizing. Even in the Turkish-controlled areas, German language rang through the air, and Dalmatian merchants came in from the Mediterranean bringing with them goods, products, and Catholicism. Franz knew that if he made the Turkish area overrun with Austrian culture, the Turks wouldn't be able to hold on to any part of the city once Austria's 50 years of occupation were over. And then, Austria would cakewalk over the city and put the Mohammedans down and reclaim all of the Eastern Roman Empire, the dream of all Europe for centuries, even of non-Catholics; better Catholic than Muslim, was the saying popular in Prussia and Britain.

The Turks were officially an Asian country to most the Western World. The threats of an actual Ottoman assault on Vienna or anywhere else were literally laughable.

In late 1807 and early 1808, Russia finally stepped in on the American Mainland, joining forces with that of Chihuahua and Rio Grande. Tejas's massive shared border with Lousiana was cut down to size as the "Cossacks" ate up hundreds of miles of "claimed" Indian-infested wasteland. The utter emptiness of the territory made progress extremely rapid. By February, 1808, during the sixth year of the war, Russian troops were combating Tejas troops in the actual country itself, leaving a trail of carnage and burned frontier towns.

The Rio Grande army, now feeling less overwhelmed due to the URAS and Yucatan finally seizing Belize from Britain, then pushed north and invaded Tejas with the intent of destroying it completely. Long-time Tejas President Nicholas Young personally took control of the army after General William G. Madden was killed at the Battle of Hernandez Ridge (March 6th, 1808), and called all the troops in the country to arrive at Fort Poplar, the main defensive building around the capital city of Tiberius. The Rio Grande army was soon joined by the Chihuahuans, and together they laid siege to Fort Poplar. Young, now Emergency President-General, blasted away with all he had as thousands of enemies deluged the area. The attackers were so densely packed on the fields outside the fort that it was said one cannonball killed twenty men at a time. Finally, the Chihuahuan 6th Foot Guards, the most battle-hardened formation in any army south of the Louisiana border, charged the walls and put up ladders. Intense small arms fire ensued as the 6th tried to pick off Tejas troops before they knocked the ladders down. Once on top of the walls, it shifted to bloody, chaotic hand-to-hand combat, fought with knives, swords, and bayonets. The Tejas defenders retreated from the wall and down into the courtyard just as the 6th opened the fort gates. Rio Grande cavalry charged in and pummeled the remaining defenders. Young and his remaining officers then barricaded themselves in the armory. The soldiers of the 6th battered down the doors and flooded in like ants. In a few minutes, Young was the last defender alive. Cursing loudly, he broke his saber over his knee, threw it at the attackers, and was then shot dead by twenty-seven bullets. Respecting his tenacity, the 6th's color guards took down the fort flag, wrapped Young's body in it, andd buried him immediately outside the fort. A headstone was placed soon after.


In the new, much smaller Confederate States, Barton was overthrown in a violent coup by Generalissimo Juan Juarez, who had commanded the CSM army during the Yucatan Campaign. He soon proved to be an ally of Russia, which maintained a military presence in the CSM for many years. He adopted czarist tactics for keeping the population under control, and under his rule, Russian culture dominated the nation. The Russians influenced everything from food and clothing, to music, where mariachi bands adopted stomp dancing and accordions.

Russia remained in the frontiers it had taken from Tejas, starting a new era of Russian colonization. The Empire developed a plan to connect West Tejas, renamed Petra Zemlya ("Peter's Land," after Czar Peter the Great), to Alyaska (Аляска). The stretch of land in between was named Kaliforniya, based on the original Spanish spelling. A large number of Russians and Slavs went to Kaliforniya seeking a better life with less Czarist control. Americans only started to arrive when gold was discovered at Yuzhanin's Mill in 1827. Those Americans who did arrive became de facto Russian citizens. The Russians made their capital in Gorod Sankt-Adrian, a temperate village they forced to grow larger.

Back in Europe, Britain, one of the last nations still at war, was refusing to give up. It's navy had been defeated, it's possessions in North America almost totally annihilated, it knew it could not expect a fair peace. Most likely, India would be targeted for concessions, concessions which would destroy the British economy. Prime Minister Sydney Smythe, still serving at His Majesty's Pleasure, was absolutely single-minded and tenacious about carrying the conflict on to the end, however bitter. Recognizing this, France realized what they had to do.


In late 1808, the French navy sailed into the North Sea and started landing troops, blockading ports, and barraging towns all along the British coastline. The dream of multiple European dynasties for generations was finally coming to pass: the Invasion of Britain. On February 12th, 1809, Admiral Ney's fleet sailed up the Thames and utterly exterminated the horrendously small English navy. French soldiers under the commands of Marshal Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, General Jean Baptiste Louis Francois de Pouey, and General Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, fought through a hornet's nest of British troops, both trained and militia. In the chaos, Sir Hew Dalyrimple and George III's seventh son, Prince Adolphus the Duke of Cambridge, were killed by friendly fire from artillery crews stationed at the main docks. Leading an infantry rush on the same docks, de Moncey was stabbed with a bayonet by a British militia man.


George III watched the battle from his castle, and while surveying the coming violence with a spyglass and hearing the news about Adolphus, with some of his family, he collapsed and suffered a severe seizure and stroke. Barely alive, he was evacuated from London and was taken to an undisclosed location somewhere in the north.

The French suffered massive casualties. Admiral Ney, on his flagship La Victoire, instructed his signal corps to put up code pennants on the masts to help morale. The message read, "France expects that every man will do his duty." This was all that was needed to inspire the final push. The French ground forces attacked with all they had. Blood turned the Thames crimson and fires reflected off the water's surface. The British army, now under emergency command of the Scottish Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch, withdrew from the city, burning any spare supplies they could find. Already, citizens had Union Jacks over their houses and doorways with "Rome is Sacked" painted on them.


Marshal de Vimeur marched with a Swiss battalion to Windsor Castle, which had been evacuated by the Royal Family no more than an hour earlier. Word had spread through the city that the monarch had fled, but de Vimeur wasn't a man who believed rumors. Also, Windsor Castle was the target specifically requested by King Louis to be occupied first.


De Vimeur was not playing around or being ceremonial; the Swiss troops blew the doors down and didn't stop searching for royals until every table, chair, painting, tapestry, bed, and shelf had been thrown on the grown or overturned. Several famous paintings were completely destroyed by the soldiers, but when de Vimeur learned of this, he put a stop to it... and started packing them up to send back to Versailles.


Prime Minister Smythe had intended to evacuate with George and several other government leaders, but trying to save his library had slowed him down. Approximately three hours after George had fled, de Pouey arrived with some marines and ordered Smythe's elite guards to surrender. The guards were supposed to be under oath to never surrender, but half of them did, less in cowardice and more in hatred of Smythe. The remaining guards were shot dead in seconds. Smythe, an original copy of Shakespeare under his arm, came out with his servants under a flag of truce. For the first time in Britain's history, the Prime Minister had been taken prisoner by a foreign army.

As if God wanted to top off England's Day of Misery (as it became known later by Englishmen), George III died following a second seizure near midnight in a small hamlet cottage. George IV was now King of the British Empire.

The French army had to kill numerous entire families who refused to follow the new martial law. De Pouey was known to have said to Ney, "By thunder, these people are stubborn."


In April, Windsor Castle was cleaned up and repaired for the most part and the final wreckage in the Thames was cleared. The War was effectively over in Europe. De Vimeur met with ambassadors from George IV in the middle of the month. Reluctantly, he released Smythe from the Tower of London, where the overweight politician had been kept under heavy guard. In return, all French prisoners Britain had in the Islands were to be released. Smythe was given a stare by the ambassadors and told he no longer served at His Majesty's Pleasure.

Following the release, the British ambassadors negotiated a painful peace:

The British army was ordered to stand down. They were allowed to keep their weapons and do necessary tasks, but combat and/or resistance of any sort was strictly forbidden, and would be rewarded with the execution of prisoners piecemeal.

All of Britain's Chinese possessions--which were many, thanks to George III's plan to expand there to make up for North American losses--were to be transferred to French control. India would remain under British control, except for Mysore, which had proven a good possible ally of France in the past, but the massive amount of money to be paid to Britain's enemies balanced out that leniency. These Chinese possessions were convenient for France, who had earlier, as mentioned before, bought the Philippines from destitute Spain. A French Pacific was slowly taking shape.

Mysore, as stated before, was the only part of India granted independence. Tippu Sultan, the ferocious Muslim Tiger of Mysore became undisputed ruler. However, the new Mysore was about three-quarters less expansive as it had been before British rule.


The British Navy could consist of no more vessels than France deemed necessary to protect its holdings and trade zones. Any time France decided that the navy was too large, it could demand that the ships either be handed over or scuttled.

Britain was not allowed to claim any part of Australia. Any British currently on the continent were to either get out or swear allegiance to King Louis.

The Dutch were to have ultimate power over the Greater Java Sea Area. All British tradesmen and colonists were to leave immediately.

The entire remaining British navy was ordered to hand themselves over to French authorities and, depending on their condition, were either scuttled or turned over to French crews. With either fate, the Royal Navy, a staple of British survival and symbol of power since Queen Elizabeth, was no more and ceased to exist.

The Nationalists in Ireland were to be granted independence from the Crown. Ireland had rebelled in late 1808, and the British were still trying to put them down. All British troops who resisted this were to be shot. A formal election would be held to elect a constitutional monarch to reign from Dublin and a constitution was to be drawn up.

Quebec city was to be occupied by the American army until stability under a new government had been achieved. Like Ireland, a vote would be held to decide who would rule the Francophone nation. Wellington had already surrendered Quebec in October of 1808, but scattered resistance was still continuing. All British troops found still fighting after the Peace of London had been achieved were to be shot. Thus began the history of the Kingdom of Canada.

The western-most areas of Canada were to be given to Russia. The desolate wilderness was almost completely unpopulated, however.

New Guinea, which England had landed on numerous times and had thought about colonizing, was to be divided down the middle between the Netherlands and France.

Ontario was to be declared the Grand Duchy of Ontario, and was to be led by Louisiana President Bonaparte's brother Luigi, who became Grand Duke Louis I.


The rest of Canada was to be transferred to Bonaparte and King Andrew, who were to divide it up as they they saw fit. Much surveying was to be done before a definitive border could be drawn up.

About midway into the London Peace Talks, diplomats from the other countries involved who were not already present arrived. Georgia and South Carolina, represented by Barnabas Bachinski and Hobert Dernier respectively, finally kowtowed for peace. The American and Louisianan armies were literally having field days across the two southern countries. The population compared to the north simply made a continued war effort unsustainable.

Muskogee was to be formally recognized by Georgia and its allies as being part of the United Royal American States. A small cluster of islands off the coasts of Panama and Gran Columbia was to be recognized by all as property of America, and was dubbed King Andrew's Land. Also, Cuba was to be officially recognized as an equal state within the URAS. This was all procured by "Lady Liberty," Gwendolyn Jones, who was supposedly the sneakiest, most clever politician at the talks.

The Green Mountain Republic was to get some small amounts of Canadian soil to add to its northern border.

Belize was to be formally annexed by the Yucatan Republic.

In the earlier, separate peace between Joseph Barton's Confederate States of Mexico and its enemies, Guatemala was still under Mexican control. Following a free election, the citizens of Guatemala voted to join the Central States Republic.

A small cluster of islands off the coasts of Panama and Gran Columbia was to be recognized by all as property of America, and was dubbed King Andrew's Land.

Sri Vikrama Rajasinha, of Kandy, Ceylon, had successfully driven off British-Indian attempts to invade and colonize his island in 1801-5, during the First and Second Kandyan Wars. Now, in recognition of the monarch's efforts and victory over George III, he was declared Undisputed King of All Ceylon.

The definition of Ultimate Edition.

And courtesy of the awesome Marc Pasquin, flags of monarchist Quebec:



And my own flag of the Confederate States of Mexico: