A Concise History of the New Revolutionary Era

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Part One: The Early Struggles
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The events leading up to the New Revolutionary Era begin with its spiritual forefather, the original American Revolution, and subsequent ill-fated rebellions against British hegemony in North America.
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Without any French naval support, General Washington consistently outmaneuvered the British, despite the Royal Navy's increasing stranglehold on the seas. Exhausted with the war, Great Britain gave up on trying to control the Patriot-dominated countryside and resorted to a new strategy: the United Empire Plan. In accordance with the UE plan, Britain stayed away from the negotiating table until after a massive redeployment by sea put them in control of most of the major coastal cities of the nascent United States. In the peace agreement they remained British territory as “Treaty Cities”, a humiliation to the Americans equivalent to the one they had dealt to the Empire. From these ports Great Britain would continue its economic dominance of the States, ruthlessly suppressing unlicensed (as in unlicensed with them) maritime trade and keeping out foreign merchant vessels (forcing the US to continue to export raw materials to and import manufactured goods from Great Britain).


Patriots and Empire would face down again in the Maritime War, where the US navy (officially referred to in the following treaties as a “pirate fleet”) was defeated and then scuttled and Congress forced to accept terms surrendering the States' right to build a navy ever again. Treated as a separate issue was the utter destruction of American militias at the hands of the British Army in the frontier and the reaffirmed mandate of the Empire over the Old Northwest Territory, putting the American settlers there under British military rule. Followed with the British defeat of France in the Continental Wars and the subsequent transference of Louisiana Territory to the British Empire, US expansion would be completely cut off.


Trapped behind layers of British imperialism, the misfortune of the United States would continue with the Slave Uprising; in which revolting planters led armies against armed abolitionist forces in a clash that delivered unprecedented carnage among civilians and property and showed the official government as weak and without the faith of the people due to years of humiliating obeisance to Great Britain.


This anti-British, anti-Congress feeling would boil to the surface in the Labor Rebellion; where workers, kept starving by minimum quotas on imported British goods, surged into the Treaty Cities and rioted against Imperial officials and Loyalist-descendant merchants. The Laborers, who believed the righteousness of their cause could defeat superior weapons and training, were obliterated nearly to the last man by Anglo-German forces (fresh from their victory over Franco Alliance forces in the Second Continental War and their subsequent division of Europe into British and German spheres of influence). A fresh wave of treaties guaranteeing British and German privileges throughout the interior of the States sealed the fate of Congress in the eyes of the people.
 
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Part Two: Birth of the Second Republic


Following the failed Labor Rebellion, revolutionary sentiment in the United States turned inward; directed at the corrupt institutions perceived as keeping the destiny of the nation in bondage to foreign powers. New England, long kept destitute by British measures against American commerce and industry, proved fertile soil for this new thinking, which represented a massive paradigm shift that had slowly been building up in the States for nearly a century. The nation's impotent Congress had once been a source of irrational pride but the Slave Revolt had proved it was unable to keep peace in its own lands, much less challenge the foreign invaders. Even it's eventual support of the short-lived Labor Rebellion could not save it now from the revolutionary forces building up across the nation. And nowhere were these forces better organized then in the New England camp of Hamilton Breeg, president of the Liberty Council of the self-proclaimed Second Republic of America.


When the Second Republic campaigned for support in the Mid-Atlantic, threatening the Congress in Washington City, the US Senate wrote a letter in the name of the figurehead president (Franklin Jay) to General Ed Collins of the Southern Army. Collins saw this time of turmoil as his opportunity and refused to answer the call, instead taking his army and securing his independent dominion over the Deep South. This left the loyal Upper South to face the oncoming forces of Breeg and his commander, Robert T. Pratt.


While Congress fled the capital to their redoubt in North Carolina, the two armies stalemated in Virginia. Both the Liberty Council and the Congress sent letters to Collins requesting his assistance. Finally, as the winter snows began to melt and battle started to resume in Virginia, the General made his choice.
 
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Part Three: Rise of the Warlords


Following the defection of General Collins to the Second Republic, Congressional forces quickly fell. President Jay died fleeing Washington City when his convoy was attacked by bandits on horseback, these suspects in question never officially being linked to the revolutionaries. Congress was scattered to the four winds and for a while it seemed like the Liberty Council was in firm control of the States. However the death of Breeg, the unifying force of the revolution, resulted in the Council splitting into rival factions. No two were more divisive than those of Breeg's star commander, Robert T. Pratt, and General Collins; both of whom had ambitions far beyond their current stations as generals in the Second Republic.


Collins, a mercenary to the cause in the first place, was the first to move. He gathered together scattered members of the disbanded Congress and had himself declared Commander-and-Chief of the old Republic. For his part, the furious Pratt used this as an excuse to seize the reigns of the Second Republic under the guise of martial law and to dismiss the Liberty Council that had been vested with rule of the States. As the two renegade generals clashed, the dismissed Councilors each fled to their individual bastions of support, exclaiming the ideals of the Second Republic but in reality becoming little more than warlords.

 

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Part Three: Rise of the Warlords


Following the defection of General Collins to the Second Republic, Congressional forces quickly fell. President Jay died fleeing Washington City when his convoy was attacked by bandits on horseback, these suspects in question never officially being linked to the revolutionaries. Congress was scattered to the four winds and for a while it seemed like the Liberty Council was in firm control of the States. However the death of Breeg, the unifying force of the revolution, resulted in the Council splitting into rival factions. No two were more divisive than those of Breeg's star commander, Robert T. Pratt, and General Collins; both of whom had ambitions far beyond their current stations as generals in the Second Republic.


Collins, a mercenary to the cause in the first place, was the first to move. He gathered together scattered members of the disbanded Congress and had himself declared Commander-and-Chief of the old Republic. For his part, the furious Pratt used this as an excuse to seize the reigns of the Second Republic under the guise of martial law and to dismiss the Liberty Council that had been vested with rule of the States. As the two renegade generals clashed, the dismissed Councilors each fled to their individual bastions of support, exclaiming the ideals of the Second Republic but in reality becoming little more than warlords.


This is nice, but I've got a question, when exactly is this TL taking place?
 

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The American Revolution was of course late 1700's, Maritime War early 1800's, Slave Revolt mid 1800's, Labor Rebellion late 1800's, Second Republic era early 1900's.
 

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My first timeline, not too comfortable pulling dates out of thin air (and even less comfortable cribbing dates from the Chinese modern history I'm displacing to American history).
 
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