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Well, I figure I should just get down to business.

My idea starts in the year 1620, with the Mayflower taking its fateful journey. Instead of the wind knocking it off course to Cape Cod, the ship is steered into more treacherous waters, and sinks, killing every Puritan on board. This discourages the Puritans in England from heading to North America, and instead, the people set their sights on what is now Brazil. However, when the people land there, they find rather aggressive push from the Portuguese, who feel that it is their territory. This push results in the Puritans fighting back, and unfortunately, killing a rather high-ranking official overviewing the territory.

Portugal is outraged, and tensions rise to dramatic lengths between it and England. Spain, itching for a chance to strike back at Britain for its humiliating defeat, forms an alliance with Portugal, and convinces the Portuguese king Felipe IV to make war on the island nation. Spain and Portugal also sow seeds of discord in Ireland, who was bitter with England about conquering them once more in the 1530s. So, England had three nations against it, but was sure that it could take them, for "God is English".

Sadly, this did not hold true as the three nations struck against Britain in a massive siege in 1642, and conquering the island entirely in 1647. The British monarchy fled to France with many loyalists. For reasons unknown, the French monarch, Louis XIV pushed Cardinal Mazarin to allow the British to establish a small territory in Normandy, on the condition that Charles I converted to Catholicism once more. In a bind, the king agreed, and recieved the territory of British Normandy to rule over with the few remaining "English Diaspora" as they are now known.

England's territories were quickly swept up or left to rot on their own, with the neglected colonies in North America, which were fewer than in our own history, forced to ally with the French who had given their monarch a home. The British East India Company dissolved quickly, and the merchants there were forced to remain in India and become part of the community there. Ireland was allowed autonomy by the Portuguese for their aid, and became the Gaelic Free State.

Thus, the English empire was destroyed before it could even really begin. In spite of this, the New World still beckoned, and a man by the name of Sir Forsythe of British Normandy traveled to the throne of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, and attempted to convince him to send colonists over to what is in our world, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Originally, the Emperor was not interested, more focused on reuniting the Holy Roman Empire. In 1652, the Emperor reconsidered after a long debate with his advisors and sent a small amount of colonists with Forsythe to Plymouth. The colonists landed there, and named the settlement "Eronebung". The Protestant members of the colonies there were less than pleased about the new Catholic residents, and forbid trade for a while, but a devestated economy and famine forced the people to join with the settlement, if only for trade, as well as the fact that they were already well aware of working with the very Catholic French. Amazed with the success of the colony, the Holy Roman Emperors started to send more and more colonists to the New World, eventually occupying all of where the 13 colonies originall were.

In this time, France had slowly progressed into a Constitutional Monarchy, under impression from the British Normans, who seemed to be more or less stable under such conditions. The French Constitution, the "Declaration of Rights of The Frenchman Under the Rule of the French Monarchy", was drafted in 1664, under Louis XIV, and fully implemented in 1665. It outlined the rights and responsibilites of every citizen and noble, and gave special outlines for Nouvelle France and its governance.

Meanwhile, Russia slowly moved down from Alaska thanks to peaked interest in the New World, sending most of their criminals to Alaska and Russian Kolumbiq.

This is just the first bit. The timeline continues to 1910, where I plan for the stories to take place. I've noticed a few problems with how things work, like France granting England a territory at all, or Portugal really overtaking England, not to mention the lack of interest the Holy Roman Empire had in the New World at the time. I would like help in making this feasible, in any way possible.
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