With an aggressive foreign secretary will the Americans try purchase any more islands globally to act as naval bases?
I am sure that they would like to but I'm not sure what is left open for them.
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With an aggressive foreign secretary will the Americans try purchase any more islands globally to act as naval bases?
Will we see a personal Union between Tikhookeaskoya and KNA? Having a Russian West coast would be pretty freaking cool. Plus, we could finally remove the eye-watering Russian-American border. Manifest Destiny will be realized!1875
Manhattan
For the second time in history, the King of British North America would Knight a man of color. This one was a semi-professional mathematician and astronomer who had successfully estimated the orbit of the eight plant in the solar system in 1864 and found it in 1866. Naming the planet "Hades" after the God of the underworld, the solar system would grow greatly. Indeed, the large moon orbiting the planet was even named after Hades' wife, Persephone.
With his eldest son (of two) off on his "North American Grand Tour", the King concentrated on mundane issues. He would travel west again this year to Cilisia where yet another Dominion was due to join the nation. He assumed some ribbon cutting or something would occur.
Fortunately, this was a quiet time in America, relatively speaking. The economy was good in most regions as no banking failures had occurred since the last major retoggling of the banking system. Peace did not seem to be disturbed in Europe or Spanish Latin America (no further rebellions).
Immigration was beginning to become an issue as the cities were becoming swamped with foreigners. Half of Brooklyn and the Bronx was German even as Irish immigration had finally tapered off after the "Indenture Act of 1874" officially banned most forms of Indenture, particularly relating to foreigners. Naturally, the south-central coastal regions like South Carolina would protest but there was little they could do as their workforce dried up. As it was, the recovery of Ireland from their Famine had reduced the number of Indentures to a nominal amount by the 1860's and the institution had apparently run its course.
It was under these circumstances that the King was informed that the tumor on his throat appeared to be malignant.
The Ottoman Empire
By 1875, the last remnant of the old Ottoman Empire was cast aside when the new Sublime Porte formally renounced any further claims outside her borders and withdrew any persecutions upon the by-now tiny non-Muslim minority in the Empire.
The Ottoman Empire was declared defunct and the Sublime Port officially renaming his country "Anatolia". He publicly vowed to make his nation the most modern in the world and thus commenced a massive campaign of social, religious, educational and economic reform. Many western and eastern rulers (including Spain, Egypt and China) had attempted to do this but few with such dogged determination as the Porte. He would close down dozens of religious institutions and move the money towards "modern" centers of learning with an emphasis on engineering, economics and other suitable "modern" pursuits.
Though many of the old guard would object, the Porte had the backing of the military, industrial and reformist sectors and the Imams and other groups were pushed aside. Within a few years, Anatolia had a greater percentage of her youth studying industry and technology than any other on earth.
Paulgrad, Tikhookeaskoya
Prince Alfred of British North America would not realize at the time (though he would by the end of his life) that kneeling before his beloved would become tradition, the act of the Prince on bended knee offering his beloved a diamond ring would carry on through the ages.
Knowing that marrying a common like some of his aunts had done was utterly unacceptable for the future King, the Prince would think more and more about the pretty Russian princess he'd met years before and pressed his father to allow him on a good-will tour of Tikhookeaskoya (and other North American regions, of course, but the Prince only cared about Paulgrad).
If anything, Princess Drina had grown only more beautiful in the years since they'd met and her genuine warm personality (so different from her bitch of a mother) could not help but come through. Surprisingly, the Princess had learned English (the King of Tikhookeaskoya believing that a match with British North America may do much to preserve his own Kingdom) and the two were able to converse in relative privacy (always observed but not always within earshot).
As a sign of his earnestness (not to mention desire), the Prince knelt and offered the Princess his ring in representation of his intention to demand her hand once his father approved. Tired of her parents, the Princess was more than happy to agree (again, pending her father's approval).
Only the most dire urgings of the Prince's escorts and advisors (including the elderly Abraham Lincoln) would even get the Prince to continue his Grand Tour to the regional Kingdoms and Vice-Royalties. It was pointed out that California, Anahuac and New Spain would be insulted if the Prince failed to arrive per his plans. Fortunately, the Prince WAS persuaded by worried and amused attendants to continue the adventure (these men ASSURING him that the Princess would not change her mind in the following few weeks) and the general experience proved positive both for the Prince and American relations with her neighbors as Alfred proved capable of diplomacy once his hormones calmed down.
But his self-pleasuring pursuits behind closed doors would not allow for the Prince to wait a single day after arriving home in Manhattan to demand that the King agree to the marriage. The King assumed that he had a few months to "think about it" but the alarmed Prince would so vehemently stalk his father than Henry II agreed just to shut his son the hell up.
By the end of 1875, the marriage negotiations were complete and the Prince already pining for spring of 1876 in which his beautiful Russian bride arrived. The Prince had been raised to respect the Church and therefore pre-marital sex was not accepted. However, the Prince was already being advised by friends, advisors and his father of what to expect and Alfred was more than ready to go.
Some Americans would be put off by the girl's religion (though she agreed to abide by the Church of America (the Church nominally led by the King) but the King would point out that the Queen had accepted this faith, thus who in America would deign to argue with the throne?
In the end, there would be some short-term resentment when Drina arrived but this would not last long, particularly when the young couple began shooting out heirs.
Will we see a personal Union between Tikhookeaskoya and KNA? Having a Russian West coast would be pretty freaking cool. Plus, we could finally remove the eye-watering Russian-American border. Manifest Destiny will be realized!
(Now all that's left is absorbing the Kingdom of California, and America's N A T U R A L B O R D E R S will be reached.)
I know that "Manifest Destiny" is a meme with any expanded or alternate US thread, but I doubt there will be any more territorial growth outside of some Pacific islands and maybe some parts of Africa.
Maybe by diplomacy but from the authors previous comments I do not believe that is how he wants to proceed with this storyI could see the kingdom of California being annexed, either through diplomacy or conquest. Other than that I agree.
Maybe by diplomacy but from the authors previous comments I do not believe that is how he wants to proceed with this story
I noticed a long time back that this TL avoided the French Revolution and the subsequent mass disruption of Europe in the Napoleonic/Coalition wars. That I think helps explain Russia a bit, though now it is 70 years on. I was noticing a lot of expansionism, especially by the Russians, early in the century--clearly as the Russians succeeded in grabbing some territory and hegemonizing other lands, this was the basis of something of a boom for Russia and ethnic Russians--some settling in new acquired lands as overlords more or less, others doing well in the general boom. This could sustain Russian growth rates, as does the larger population base already inherited.Any reason why India did not have a similar population growth rate like China or Russia?
No, what was shocking was that the somewhat flighty Princess Tara had married.....Henry Smith.
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The Legend Continues. What do you want to bet that his son inherited ALLLLLLLLLLLL of the legendary Thruston luck?
(Not my meme)
I'm actually hoping his son is the exact opposite and goes from success to success. If only to further annoy the ghost of his dead father.
South America is still 100% Spanish right?Would it be possible for you to make a map of South America? Also, will Brazil be a rival to British North America?