Recent content by Reydan

Chapter One - Drums in the Heat of the Night An Estate burns in Matanzas - June 1825 The first most plantation owners around Guamacaro knew of the slave uprising that had broken out was when drums began to sound it the darkness of the forests. It was a call to arms, although few startled...

I'm hoping to keep some of the global stories aspects from the original timeline, but a focused story is the only way I can make it manageable. Plus as fun as the original one was, I felt it got harder and harder to talk about what Communal France was actually like! Hi all - sorry, that was...

Chapter Five - The Three Frances "I will end this Republican menace inside Paris and without" Francois Achille Bazaine, Letter to German High Command, February 1871 "Ultimately there are three Frances - the Republican one, the Parisian one, and the Bonapartist one - none of which have the...

Chapter Four - The Army of the North "Allow Faidherbe just enough rope to hang himself" German High Command's instruction to commanders north of Paris, January 1871 "To me you bastards, you glorious bastards. TO ME!" Jaroslaw Dabrowski during the Battle of Dugny, 29th January 1871...

Chapter Three - Under Siege 'This too will blow over. Paris is always given to outrage, to turmoil, to excess. This will pass as night follows day" Adolphe Tiers - private correspondence January 1871 'There is absolutely no doubt that those crucial early months between seizing power in late...

Chapter Two - In the Hotel de Ville 'The essential thing is to organize...no racing about, hurly-burly, clamouring! Every minute and every step is precious!' Louis Auguste Blanqui - Manual for an Armed Insurrection 1866 Blanqui presides over the tumultuous seizure of power in the Hotel de...

Chapter One - Action at Le Bourget Standing on the shattered remnants of the barricade, his boots grey with the dust kicked up by shrapnel and bullet, General de Brigade Carey de Bellemare could...

Hi All, you may remember me from Spectre of Europe, a timeline that I began in 2015 to describe a world in which the Paris Commune not only survived but flourished. It was my first ever timeline, and received a lot of very lovely comment and support. But, like a lot of first timelines, it was...

Chapter One Hundred and Seventy Six - BANG BANG 'When you are fresh meat, kill and throw them something fresher' The bullets were five .30-06 rounds, the entire contents of a magazine, fired from an M1903 Springfield sniper rifle. Investigators afterwards would determine that the shooter...

Thanks for the comment! Mexico we might have to revisit, as its presently under a defacto US puppet government put in after the Christero Regime fell. Essentially a front for big US businesses in oil, fruit, and other raw materials. Canada, I don't think, has ever been mentioned in this...

Chapter One Hundred and Seventy Five - Hot Tempers As the virus began to tail off in the United States, as it was around the world in the late summer of 1940, it was replaced by a different existential threat. 'Not since Bleeding Kansas' opined the New Yorker that August 'have tensions been so...

Not to plug the unfinished timeline in my signature too much, but I think with a few tweaks they could also have headed north into the Canadian West.

Chapter One Hundred and Seventy Four - African Influenza - The US Experience I've hidden this chapter in a spoiler, for now, as it details a pandemic's effects on an unprepared America. It was largely written months before the current situation, but I'm aware that it might be upsetting for...

Hello All - apologies. I know people want to read this story, and I wish I had time to finish it. I'm working on updates slowly as time allows but I'm afraid I'm going to hold off from posting at the present - trying to map out the ending of TTL's global pandemic during an ongoing real world...

Oh Honey. I mean, yes. But that's the least of this thread's problems...