Your challenge is to make this region a french territory instead of Russo/British/American, with a POD after the seven year's war. Bonus if they keep it until ttl's decolonization
AHC: French Cascadia
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Your challenge is to make this region a french territory instead of Russo/British/American, with a POD after the seven year's war. Bonus if they keep it until ttl's decolonization
The Verendrye brothers accompanied their father on an expedition overland from New France in 1742-43; they are supposed to have reached the Rockies (OTL}), The expedition was judged to have failed because it didn't reach the Pacific and the effort was abandoned. Suppose they try again in, say, 1745. They successfully reach the coast, discovering the easier South Pass route, later the Oregon Trail. They follow the Snake R. and Columbia and leave a cache on the coast, claiming the land for France. A French naval expedition sets out and finds the marker, and also discovers the value of the sea otter fur trace with the Qing (Manchus) in China. They set up a series of forts, overriding the Spanish.
Oh, damn- just realized the POD is after the Seven Years War. I got nothin'
Oh, damn- just realized the POD is after the Seven Years War. I got nothin'
ASB in my opinion with a POD after 1763. The most realistic route might be a successful La Pérouse discovering the North Pacific shores while France escapes the Revolution as we know it and becomes a constitutional, parlementary monarchy. Avoiding the demographic slump consecutive to the revolutionary and napoleonic wars, France might settle for an agreement with Russia to colonise the zone (fish trade first, then lumber and various commodities) with a mix of French settlers and Acadian refugees, with the agreement of the United States which, although far from the Pacific shore at the time, may be wary from British actions in the area. A Métis nation emerges during the 19th century by intermarriage of French people with local tribes, attracting also English-speaking, Russian, possibly Chinese and Japanese immigrants from 1850 onwards. Becomes independant from France at some point during the 19th century, maybe after a war lost during the German or Italian unification process, maybe after a revolution in mainland France, maybe after a victorious fight for independance.