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A couple months ago I posted something along these lines, and took the suggestions I recieved, though few to heart, and this is a slight rework of this AH. Its a little more fleshed out, but I hope it is enjoyable none the less.

French-Indian War: The only difference between this ATL and OTL is the Treaty of Paris ending the war. France is forced to cede Haiti to Spain, and Louisiana, Guadeloupe & Martinique to the British Empire, while keeping Canada.

American Revolution: More than less the same as OTL, after the war all British territory east of the Mississippi, including New Orleans is ceded to the United States. Loyalists from the colonies are resettled in British Louisiana Territory. Georgetown founded at the site of OTL Morgan City grows overnight to be the territories largest city and most important port. With the help of the French from Canada, Nova Scotia is incorporated as the 14th State.

The cause of the American Revolution is similar but with differences the Quebec Act does not happen for obvious reasons, however there is still issues that has yet to be butterflied away such as the British Royal Proclamation of 1763, a bunch of new taxes such as the Sugar Act are put in place, there is still no taxation without representation, the Townsend act, etc, etc all lead to the Revolutionary War.

The war itself sees little changes; the most notable is the early death of Benedict Arnold which makes him an American hero rather than traitor.

French Revolution: Same as OTL, only the future Louis XVII escapes death when he is whisked out of France by Gabrielle de Polastron to the safety of London. After the death of King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette in 1793, the young Dauphin was proclaimed King Louis XVII of France, and recognized as such by the courts of Britain, Spain, Portugal, the Papacy, Russia and other European monarchies.

With British aide Canada remains loyal to Louis XVII and acknowledges him as the righful ruler of France. The United States rejects these claims but is really too weak to do anything about it.

Napoleonic Wars: The wars remain unchanged until the Sixth Coalition, Napoleon temporarily is able to distract Russia and other powers under his control from the failures of the Contiental System by focusing their efforts on the Ottoman Empire.

In the War of the Sixth Coalition, France allied with Russia, Italy, Warsaw, Naples, Holland, Confederation of the Rhine, Swiss Confederation, Austria, Prussia and the forces of the Serbian uprising to fight against the Coalition of Britain, Sicily, Spain, Portugal, Sweden and the Ottoman Empire. The war lasted from 1811-1814 resulting in a victory for Napoleon and his allies, and the establishment of new puppet states in the Balkans.

Napoleon named his brother in law, Camillo Borghese as the King of Wallachia, other new states created are the Kingdom of Serbia, Kingdom of Rumelia, Principality of Bulgaria and the Republic of the Hellenes. Napoleon and his forces were unable to capture Constantinople, Thessalonki or Adrianople. In the east, Russia took possession of the Caucasian Mountains and created its own puppet states in the form of the Kingdom of Georgia and Kingdom of Armenia.

Three years later the Continental System had worn the Coalition thin and Russia opened trade with the British. Angered Napoleon declared war on Russia and led a mighty invasion force of half a million men into Russia. It would prove a disaster, Napoleon himself died of pneumonia in 1817, his young son was proclaimed Napoleon II in Paris.
Without his leadership the war turned decidedly against France, the Republic of the Hellenes, Prussia, Austria, the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and French Royalists joined Britain and Russia in the War of the Seventh Coalition, resulting in the overthrow of the Bonapartist Regime and the restoration of the Bourbons.

Congress of Vienna: Russia was allowed to retain control of Finland and annex most of the Duchy of Warsaw, and Moldova. Joachim Murat was allowed to retain the title King of Naples. The Ottoman Empire was restored except for the Kingdom of Serbia and the Republic of the Hellenes, both newly created states with reduced borders. Britain acquires land east of the Brazos River from Spain in North America, which is then attached to British Louisiana. Other than these changes, the Congress of Vienna is much the same.

Many Bonapartists including Napoleon II flees to the Kingdom of Naples where they are offered sanctuary. Due to his part in the Napoleonic Wars Pope Clement XV (Pope Pius VII dies in 1817) excommunicates the Kingdom of Naples as long as it is ruled by the Murat dynasty.

Alternate Marriages: After the war there is much need for a return to normalcy as quickly and promptly as possible. King Louis XVII marries shortly after his return to Paris in 1818 marrying Infanta Maria Isabel of Portugal, in 1820 they welcomed their first son Jean.

King Ferdinand VII of Spain marries the recently divorced Caroline Augusta of Bavaria in 1815, their marrige produced off-spring including a son, Carlos.

Emperor Francis I of Austria married Princess Adélaïde, the sister of OTL King Louis Philippe. This marriage produced no off-spring.

Alternate Dynasties: In London, Princess Charlotte Augusta and her husband Prince Leopold welcomed the birth of a baby son, Prince Henry in the autumn of 1818. Upon the death of her father in 1828, Princess Charlotte took the throne as Queen Catherine of Britain.

With Prince Leopold unable to take the throne of Belgium, I am going to need help here; any other candidates come to mind? I sort of think having Prince Albert (Victoria’s husband) taking the throne would be an interesting twist, especially if he marries Victoria still.

Napoleon II is still alive and well in this TL, I am considering having him stage a coup in Naples and proclaim himself as the King. He can then “steal” Princess Sophie from Archduke Franz Karl setting up a heated rivalry between Naples and Austria. If this occurs then it is very possible, the younger Napoleon can go on to unite Italy under his banner, it will also mean Franz Karl will likely have to find another wife. Perhaps Maria Josepha of Saxony will fit the bill here, especially since King Ferdinand VII is still married to Caroline Augusta.

Alternate American Path: In the United States, a very different path is taken for obvious reasons. With Britain blocking American expansion to the west, the French blocking expansion to the north and the Spanish dominating the Caribbean to the south the US is beginning to chafe. Different policies are pursued and eventually a Spanish-American War engulfs both nations in the 1820’s. It is more of a major campaign of the United States than it is for Spain, and is a defining moment in the young American republic. In order to retain control of Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Central America, Spain relinquishes control of (East) Florida to the United States after suffering from minor defeats. Andrew Jackson, Winfield Scott, Sam Houston and Henry Dearborn become American heroes, and gave rise to the Nationalist Republican Party.

Alternate list of US Presidents:
1789-1797: George Washington (Federalist)
1797-1801: John Adams (Federalist)
1801-1809: Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
1809-1813: Alexander Hamilton (Federalist)
1813-1821: James Madison (Democratic-Republican)
1821-1825: Aaron Burr (Democratic-Republican)
1825-1833: John Quincy Adams (Federalist)
1833-1841: Andrew Jackson (Democrat)

Mormon Wars: In the United States in the 1830’s a new religious movement was taken hold known as the Church of Latter Day Saints. The new church did not meet with the approval of the American people, forcing the Latter Day Saints to move westward to the American frontier of Illinois and Kentucky. The Mormon Settlers and their leader Joseph Smith Jr. were massacred by the local populace who did not approve of their teachings. Now under the leadership of Brigham Young the Mormon’s settled in Patagonia in Argentina, where they found no more welcome in the very Catholic country, after another massacre in 1839, the Mormons again migrated this time to South Africa where they began to colonize the Karoo. Aside from problems with native Africans, the Mormons fought with the Boers as well, but nothing resulting in the massacres experienced in the United States and Argentina.

Changes in Europe:
King Ferdinand VII dies in 1832 and is succeeded by his son Carlos (King Carlos V)
King Louis XVII dies in 1839, and is succeeded by his son Jean (King Jean III)
Queen Catherine dies in 1844 and is succeeded by her son Henry (King William IV)

Gold, Famine, Revolution and War: A border war between American and French settlers in the Great Lakes region nearly erupts into a full-scale conflict between the two nations. The United Kingdom mediates the dispute preventing a major war in 1842.

The United Kingdom meanwhile had its hands full with the Chinese in the first of the Great Opium Wars, opening up the Chinese Empire to trade and the profitable drug from across the Empire.

The revolutions of 1848 brought many European countries to its knees and changed forever the landscape of European politics. Although reforms were agreed to and made, the conservative aristocracy remained in power, many revolutionary leaders in fear of their lives fled to the America’s. That same year gold was discovered in the Mexican province of California settlers from all over Europe, Mexico, British Empire, the United States and as far away as China sought their fortunes in California’s hill’s. After five years of dealing with the despotic and corrupt regime of Santa Ana, the settlers took up arms and declared the independent Republic of California. Santa Ana led his Army to crush the Rebel’s, but was ultimately defeated when the Great Powers supported the Republic over his ambitions, California was declared an independent Republic in the Treaty of Philadelphia in 1852.

The Potato Famine of 1848 resulted in the mass migration of the Irish, many Irish immigrants settled in the Appalachian Mountains in the US.

Whereas slavery was being abolished throughout the world, the United States was one of three nations (four if you count Russia’s serfdom) that still allowed slavery, though not without its controversy. The South feeling as though it was losing control of its long enjoyed political monopoly seceded from the Union in 1856, resulting in the American Civil War (1857-1860). With Union victory over the Confederation of American States, slavery was finally abolished. Leaders of the southern states including General Jefferson Davis and the President John Tyler were hung for treason.

Union President Winfield Scott, a war hero himself, further increased his legend in American folklore, making him second only to George Washington in importance to the American Republic.

The American Civil War is credited for advancing battlefield medicine.

US Presidents Update:
1841-1849: Sam Houston (National Republican)
1849-1851: John C. Calhoun (Democrat)
1851-1853: John Tyler (Democrat)
1853-1861: Winfield Scott (National Republican)
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