Our Fair Country: The Commonwealth of New England
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I'm assuming that Dutch is still spoken there. It was in OTL until the 20th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States#Dutch
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Lord Mayor is used in the major cities (Boston, Brooklyn, Halifax, New Haven, Hartford, Worcester, Providence), while Mayor is used elsewhere. Some cities do not have Mayors, instead work on a Town Manager-Council system, although most large cities have Mayors.
I think I understood this question...
4th Regiment of Foot, Boston Division (Added to the Household Division after the Second Boer War, and the successful capture of Bloemfontein and capitulation of the Orange Free State by General Robert Shaw)
2nd Regiment of Foot, Halifax Division (Added to the Household Division during the Great War, for valiant efforts on the Western Front for capturing a German position whilst sustaining 80% casualties)
1st Colonial Militia (depreciated name -- this acts as a Regiment, and it was the very first all-New England military unit formed in 1777)
Mostly historical. New England never had any type of large-scale drive to force (non-French speakers) to learn English. Given that Adirondack's borders were derived from a former Dutch Manor, it was naturally a draw for explorers and other Dutch folks who felt alienated or seeking to escape the chaos of the early United States. Their legacy mostly lives on in first and last names, but a small minority can still speak Dutch, but it's nothing major, and all are virtually guaranteed to speak English.
Kanan will probably explain this better, but a quick check on Wikipedia states that New Britain, Connecticut, is part of the Hartford metro area. I can only assume that New England prefers to lump metro areas together into single municipalities ITTL, rather than keeping them apart.
Not quite! Take a closer look at the town map from the Local Election update:
Town consolidation is much easier in the Commonwealth than IRL.
Metro areas IOTL follow county lines, so a specific town being part of one doesn't actually mean anything.
Amazing entry on the Francophone Awakening! Are Adirondack and Maine then the only monolingually French provinces in terms of administration? And does the Minority Languages Act make NE officially bilingual, or simply elevate French to a level at which federal gov. services are mandated to be provided in French in certain communities, etc?
Town Map of Massachusetts Bay
With Kanan's approval, here's a map of all of the town/city names in Massachusetts Bay. Many of the town names are the same, but especially in the western part of the province most of them are different. Most of the alternate names are English in origin (be it from the a town in England or the name of a person), some of which were originally proposed names for towns. Several are named for locations in Ireland and Scotland, reflecting Irish, Ulster Scots/Scots-Irish, and Scottish settlement patterns. Additionally, a few of the names are derived from indigenous toponyms.
EDIT: gave Boxford the name "Boxham" by mistake, fixed that in the image
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Love this. Reverting Colrain to the original spelling was a nice touch, since the OTL spelling was an accident IIRC.
@Kanan, the original map had Franklin County remaining part of Hampshire County. Has this now been retconned?
Following the passage of the Local Government Act 2018, provinces are now permitted to once again modify county borders and county governments within their borders. As such, Hampshire County has been split up to become Hampshire County and Greenfield County, effective 1 August 2019. It was the only change in county administration in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
I'm glad you noticed that detail. Townshend also uses its original spelling (the OTL town had its spelling changed to "Townsend" without the H).
I fell behind on reading this for a few months and spent last night catching up on it. Wow, every time I didn't think the level of detail could be topped my expectations were just blown right out of the water. Well done Kanan, fantastic work!
Operation Carrot Stick
Operation Carrot Stick was was a planned U.S.-military intervention planned in Cambodia in the event of a British-backed Vietnamese invasion of the country. The plan was formalised in 1963, in the midst of the Peculiar Relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. The government of Cambodia, known know as Kampuchea, was an unstable Republic, engaged in an insurgency that was backed by Vietnamese communists, the government of Vietnam, and the United Kingdom. Both the United States and the Soviet Union supported the Cambodian Government of National Unity, which included monarchists, republicans, socialists, and communists. Cambodia's unstable position threatened the British War in Vietnam, as well as Britain's good relations with Thailand. The recent Laotian Revolution meant that the Soviet Union held some positions within the country, and shared information with the United States.
The plan was to unfold only in the event Britain also went to war against Cambodia, as it was potentially seen as a move to try and prevent the United States from maintaining safe passageway to the Panama Canal through the South China Sea and to remove another U.S. Ally from the region. The operation was one of many produced by the United States during this time period, primarily involved with defending free access to the seas, as well as advancing anti-colonialist sentiment throughout Southeast Asia. With the joint British-Vietnamese victory in the Vietnam War, there was little need for the operation as their position was secure. However, defeated revolutionaries from Vietnam assisted the Workers Party of Kampuchea in successfully overthrowing the Cambodian government, and forming the first non-Soviet backed Communist state in 1972.
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Well, that's interesting. Is this the first we've heard of British involvement in Vietnam? What drove the UK to involve itself in a former French Colony?
With Britain's experience in fighting insurgencies and, well, having a healthy supply of Gurkhas, it's no wonder Vietnam went better for the Commonwealth than the OTL US involvement. I'm assuming that as with the War in Burma, forces from other Commonwealth nations and colonies were used alongside the UK force?
Actually, speaking of which, without any Fall of France ITTL, what precipitated the French collapse in Indochina?
The whole peculiar relationship really makes TTL's Cold War period fascinating.
With Britain's experience in fighting insurgencies and, well, having a healthy supply of Gurkhas, it's no wonder Vietnam went better for the Commonwealth than the OTL US involvement. I'm assuming that as with the War in Burma, forces from other Commonwealth nations and colonies were used alongside the UK force?
Actually, speaking of which, without any Fall of France ITTL, what precipitated the French collapse in Indochina?
The whole peculiar relationship really makes TTL's Cold War period fascinating.
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