So, I finally realized just how astonishingly large I made this conflict be, so here are the fronts that occurred in Europe and North America, which, in light of the sheer size of this thing and my own status as not being that well versed on OTL WWI, will be the only ones to be posted until second notice. Details of the fronts can be asked, but I won't promised a version like this one for the others unless I'm really into it and inspired
EUROPE
The Western Front
Started on the 2nd of May 1910, the Western Front went through three phases during the war:
The initial advance by France, who managed to get Germany by surprise by invading in a two-pronged attack through Alsace-Lorraine and the Low Countries, during the first week of the advance Belgium and Luxembourg fell to the French, their governments, leaded by Queen Stéphanie[1] and Grand Duke Guillaume[2], fleeing to Germany; and in the following months (as the advance continued in some way until October) the French managed to take control of most of the lands west of the Rhine, together with managing to cross into southern Baden before their advance was stopped at the battles of Mainz, Bonn and the Black Forest, stabilizing the front.
Following the initial advance, what followed was the time of the trenches, which lasted from late 1910 all the way to 1919, during it the war was one of attrition as the frontlines rarely changed positions. It was also during it that some of the most brutal and devastating battles in the war occurred, with the most memorable one being the Battle of the Rhine (technically the third or second one, but is mostly remembered by that name), which was a weeks-long orgy of mindless suffering and destruction around the western banks of the Rhine from Dusseldorf to Coblenz, and saw during it the single most deadly day in the Western Front[3].
The final phase was the German retaliation that started in mid-to-late 1919, when, after an uprising in Belgium forced to French to divert troops, the Germans took the opportunity to break the lines to the north, starting a slow but sure advance that lasted for the remainder of the war, retaking most of the northern Rhineland as well as Belgium[4] and by the time of the armistice having already reached the border. It was also during it that most of the aerial fighting of the front was seen as airplanes were introduced to the battlefield, with the Battle of Antwerp in April of 1920 being remarked on the fighting in the sky[5].
During the final phase, there was also a short comeback by the French during the 100 Days Offensive, which saw them managing to regain large swathes of land in Belgium (as well as some in Southern Germany) in what was a hollow victory, as most of those territories taken were not strategically important and caused the tiring army to finally be depleted of reserves.
Besides the land, the front also saw fighting on the see as the French and the Albish battled for the control of the Channel[6] in a three-years-long battle which involved the widespread use of naval mines and torpedoes, sinking hundreds of ships before Albion rose victorious, cementing her control over the Channel and taking control of both Dunkirk and Calais[7].
[1] Daughter-in-law of Emperor Franz Ferdinand, having been married to Crown Prince Rudolph before his suicide, Stéphanie I of Belgium was originally a minor Belgian princess until 1905, when her uncle, Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, died without male heirs, causing the Belgian Succession Crisis as, with his death, the last salic descendant of Leopold I outside of the king died, which, seeing as the monarchy barred female heirs until then, meant that the throne was heirless. Chosen over her older sister, Louise (and her children), as the Belgian heir (in light of her familial connections to most of the states around her and the major states of Europe), Stéphanie I ascended to the throne in 1907 with her father’s unexpected death, and would later be succeed by her daughter, Stéphanie II
[2] Dying in exile in 1912 (and being posthumously buried in Luxembourg), Guillaume was, besides being the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, also Prince-Elector William II of Nassau in the German Empire (originally a Duchy, elevated when his family gained the Grand Ducal throne), and, upon his death, the two thrones, per the 1906 Moresnet Agreement, were divided between his children, with his eldest daughter, Marie-Adélaïde, inheriting Nassau while his second, Charlotte, inherited Luxembourg
[3] July 8th, 1916, it saw the deaths of around 65 thousand people
[4] The Belgian Government returned to Brussels on the Christmas of 1920, having beforehand stayed in Aachen and Frankfurt
[5] The aerial battles of the front were marked by the actions of
Freiherr Manfred von Richthofen (also known as “Manfred, Duke of Kleinburg and Everett” following his marriage), who became known for his incredible and deadly talent as a fighter pilot (having a kill-count on the hundreds) as much as for the garish purple color of his aeroplane
[6] Lasting from 1912 to 1915, the Battle of the Channel was a front all on itself almost, and saw naval and amphibian battles both on the sea as well as on the shorelines of England, Normandy, the Channel Island and Brittany; many people credit the length of the battle as beign both due to Albion’s other matters outside of the Channel and that from 1911 to 1914 the battle was made of smaller naval skirmishes following the brutal encounter of All Hallows’ Eve. It is quite interesting, but the war did not, as both the French and Albish expect, damage the Albish’s access to the world, as the larger Atlantic was mostly under their and the German’s control, with Albion controlling the above water with their navy while the Germans held the rule of submarine (the saying “When you see His Majesty’s Ship’s, you’ll not ever see the Kaiser’s fleet” begun among the members of the Navy during the war)
[7] Both cities became basically two small frontlines, as they were surrounded by trenches dug up by the French in their retreat
The Eastern Front
Fought mainly between Russia and Germany[1], the East, unlike the West, saw a much greater change and fluidity on the lines as the front was constantly changing due to the variable competency of its leaders and the general lack of trenches as the main way of fighting[2].
Not marked by any specific phase, as both sides tended to change fortunes on a dime, the eastern front is more often remembered by the fact that it saw the most changes in territory, the use of revolutionaries and nationalists to stir up trouble[2], and the fact that half of the major military leaders on it were royalty and/or cousins, with both the Crown Prince of Prussia[3], the Queen of Romania[4], the Russian Tsesarevich[5] and the future monarchs of Poland, Livonia and Ukraine[6] all being directly involved on the commands of the front, causing it to be often known as “The Cousin’s War”.
The Eastern Front also ended much earlier than the West, as after a failed revolution/coup led by Alexander Kerensky[7] in February of 1920, the Russians, which had been fighting for nearly a decade without a break, finally reaching their breaking point, and as Petrograd suffered through political turmoil[8] the Romanov’s empire, including areas ruled by its princes, started to break apart.
By October of 1920 Russia had all but pulled out of the war to focus inward and the front ended.
[1] The Hapsburgs, while involved, also diverted much of their focus to Italy and the Balkans, and mostly acted as Germany’s flank
[2] Both sides mastered the use of nationalist extremists and revolutionaries on their favor, the result: a mess of political and ethnical unrest across Eastern Europe and such a confusing mess of successor states that some mapmakers gave up and just wrote “chaos” on the region when having to map Europe for the following decades. One of those examples was the “Popular Byelorussian Vanguard”, which ended up as one of the most disgusting nations in the world in their mixing of socialism with eugenicist levels of nationalism; accidentally created by the Germans, this beast of state lasted for over 2 decades before finally dying in the 1940s
[3] Known for the fact that he spent most of his time commanding sipping tea in between his orders
[4] Maria I of Romania (the daughter of Carol I who survived ITTL and inherited his throne, marrying one of her noblemen), who became infamous for the fact that, after years of military defeats under a string of incompetent commanders, deposed her own military high command and took the reins of the army, surprising everyone by going from the amiable, mother-like figure she had beforehand into a harsh general who retook Moldova and conquered Bessarabia in the span of a year
[5] Known as “Ivan the Boneless” due to his brittle-bone disease and deformed legs, he commanded the Russian Army from his wheelchair between 1918 and 1920 and was considered a majorly capable military leader who brought renewed victories to the Russians, only having to abandon it to deal with growing unrest at home
[6] All of whom were generals or military leaders of some sort on either side, with Oleg leading the Russian forces in Ukraine as a general, Viktoria
de facto ruling over Livonia well before she became its ruler and Kazimierz being the German-Hapsburg backed leader of an independent Poland (and their first cousin/brother-in-law)
[7] With the support of one of the Emperor’s cousin’s, Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich (who was a political liberal who veered towards what he called “authoritarian republicanism”), he and his supporters tried to create a “revolution” (more of a coup) using of the popular protests that were happening in Petrograd due to the rise in the price of food. The revolution died after it failed to gain enough popular support (most the population were on the belief that the Emperor’s “evil ministers” were bringing the rise in prices, and even the communists were divided on the matter due to the rising Leninist ideologies among their ranks). In the end, Kerensky and his supporters ended up being routed out and killed when Tsesarevich Ivan ordered the Taurida Palace (the seat of the Imperial Duma), taken over by the revolutionaries, shelled into rubble
[8] Following the February Revolution, Russia’s government and military were a mess as the empire started to collapse, with Tsesarevich Ivan enacting a palace coup in March against his father and becoming Tsarevich Regent (a position he would hold for less than two years until his father abdicated, although he is mostly known as the “Tsar of Muscovy” instead of Emperor of All Russia) in an attempt to save the empire, as he saw his father as not being the type of ruler the empire needed at the moment, he both failed and succeeded on it
Italy
A somewhat confusing front of the war, in part due to the fact that it had an incredible variety in the way and the terrain it was fought, the Italian Front was, for the lack of a better term, a dumpsterfire, as during it the nations of the peninsula fought from the Alps all their all to Sicily, with Italy and the Hapsburgs going from closed fighting and ambushes on the Alps[1] to the network of trenches of the Po Valley, while to the South Italy and the Two Sicilies did the same, with the conflict looking almost like a rehearsal of the War of 1860 in its brutality, as both sides committed atrocities left-right-and-center in their fight by every tooth and nail, like the Tragedy at San Marino[2] or the Battle of Pontecorvo[3].
Exhaustive to the max, Italy was the second of the fronts to end in Europe, as the Italians, exhausted by fighting a three way-battle and having lost their funding from the French, surrender on the 1st of January, 1921.
In an interesting note, Monaco could be considered as the nation that gained the most from the front[4]
[1] Like, for example, that time in 1914 when an entire battalion was buried when two Tyrolese men used dynamite to blow up the side of a mountain and close one of the mountain passes leading to Innsbruck
[2] Where a quarter of San Marino’s entire population died after the Imperial used the mountainous republic as a stronghold (as besides being put in the crossfire, the republic was devastated when, during the Siege of San Marino, an Italian charge hit the imperial storage of gunpowder and explosives, creating a 1-megaton explosion
[3] Which saw the ancient city be razed almost to the ground over the course of the fighting
[4] Although surrounded by the French at the start of the war, the Treaty of Zarzuela, which decided Italy’s post-war borders, not only returned Savoy and Nice to Italy (while taking much more than that from them), but also returned the territories of Menton and Roquebrune to Monaco, meaning that the country grew by about 20 times in size
The Balkans
The shortest of the European fronts but also one of the most emotional due to the deep-seated enmities and rivalries of the region, the Balkans Campaign was basically one long dogpiling on Serbia, started by the Hapsburgs invading her in 1910, that saw the kingdom under Peter I hold out for 5 years[1], mostly using of the Ottoman[2] and Bulgarian neutralities as her lifeline, until the latter entered the war in 1915, with the last remnants of the Serbian military being defeated in January 1917 while the Karadjordjevics escaped to Ottoman Macedonia[3].
[1] Although from around 1911 to 1915 Serbia and the Hapsburgs were in a species of stalemate while the latter focused on other parts of the conflict, in special the heating state of affairs in Italy, and her colonial empire’s war with France
[2] Following the First Balkan War (in which the Ottomans still held onto Thrace and Macedonia), the Ottoman Empire was a decrepit sleepy lion, and although her government may have been interested in entering the war in hopes of regaining some of her old territory, neither the military nor the people were in a state capable of entering
[3] Where they would stay low for some years, until rising again as the rulers of Paeonia when the Ottomans finally exploded
NORTH AMERICA
The Northeastern Front
Although started by the Albish with the invasion of Main on the 26th of April, 1910[1], the front was, through its run, almost evenly matched between both sides, who had some of the best military commanders of the era, like: Prince-Marshal John[2], General Roosevelt[3], Black Jack Pershing[4] Admiral Sims[5], Cold-Hearted Currie[6] and the future emperor Henry[7]; and saw a highly mobile warfare for most of its run, with fighting occurring from Acadia all the way to Minnesota.
The front was also in par with Western Europe on the sheer scale of death and destruction it had, as both sides were brutal in their march for victory and, in total, are believed to have represented about a quarter of all deaths in the War[8]. A long conflict, with only 1916 being considered as a decisive year on the war, the front’s timeline can be divided between:
1910 to 1912: when there was Albion’s initial advance into New England, although the Americans managed to hold their line at the Niagara[9], with the Albish Army under then Prince-General John reaching as far south as the outskirts of Boston. In the west the Great Lakes saw the Albish and Americans fighting in the waters and land, with the Battle by Isle Royal[10] and the Siege of Detroit[11] being the most well-known confrontations of it, although it stayed mostly stable overall.
1912 to 1914: there was a lull in the war as trench warfare became more common while both sides focused on other regions of the conflict, in the Great Lakes Albion saw clear victories as the then Prince-Admiral Henry managed to establish control over the Huron and the entrance of the Michigan following the Battle of the Mackinac[12]
The turn of 1914 to 1916: it saw the Americans manage to make a large comeback under the command of General Roosevelt, who, after managing to force the Albish into a full retreat on New England, broke their defenses in the Niagara Peninsula[13], entering Ontario and threatening Toronto. While to the west Albion made major gains, taking over most of the Upper Peninsula, the Americans continued to advance into the heartlands of Canada through 1915 and 1916, which culminated in the Burning of Toronto[14]. In retaliation, the Prince-Admiral enacted the Razing of Chicago[15], which was of an equally vile pedigree, before being forced to return to the Home Islands[16].
In the aftermath of the two most brutal moments of the war, both war crimes by modern standards, the war saw an era of frenzy that lasted to the end of 1917, as the Albish, under the command of General Currie, continued to advance through the Midwest, taking large swathes of land and advancing into Pennsylvania[17], where their stem was stopped at the First Battle of Pittsburg. The Americans, in other hand, managed to take much of the Maritimes and of Quebec, as well as northern Ontario, forcing the Canadian Viceroyal Government to flee to Winnipeg after the Siege of Ottawa[18], while the Americans established two puppet governments over the region[19].
1918 to 1919: there was a return to the trench warfare that existed in the past, with both sides playing the long game in their fight against each other; this period saw the Albish holding their ground while the internal situation of the US became worse and worse, with the November Coup in 1919 marking a turn of tides as Currie took the opportunity and ran with it, crossing the Roosevelt Line[20] less than a week later.
The last year of the front, 1920, saw the American government, who recalled Roosevelt in December[21], try to salvage the situation while stubbornly remaining on the war even in light of their massive losses[22], only worsening their standing until they were overthrown by the February Revolution[23].
The war front officially ended on May 21st, 1920, when both sides signed the Treaty of Cleveland[24]. After that, North America’s conflict would be the American’s civil war.
[1] With a two-pronged advance made by an amphibian invasion of Bay Harbor and the crossing of the St. Croix River at Lubec
[2] A bachelor his entire life (John was pretty openly gay and had a series of same-sex relationships during his life, he never married in part due to his lack of a desire for making himself and another person miserable for the sake of appearances), John also served as Canada’s Viceroy before the start of the war (abdicating in the name of his sister Margaret when it started), and to this day is remembered in the country’s history due to his love for Canada and his establishment of important social works like the Public Health Service and the Free Schooling Act. John is in special beloved by the Mormon-Canadian population (mostly followers of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which considers their Utah cousins wankers) as he was responsible for lifting the laws that made them
de facto second-class citizens in Canada, as well as being responsible for permitting their conscientious objection to fighting, establishing the modern system where drafted objectors are instead used as support workers
[3] Cousin and nephew-in-law to President Theodore Roosevelt (somewhat different from OTL), Franklin Delano Roosevelt was considered by the Prince-Marshal as being his “only equal” and is to this day remembered as one of the greatest military leaders in the First World War. Also serving in the Second, this time he was a part of the Canadian divisions of the Albish Army, seeing as during the Second American Civil War he took control over much of northern New England and formally changed sides by asking Canada to annex his territory, becoming afterwards the main leader of the expatriates and a respected political and military figure
[4] The leader of the american forces in the Great Lakes for many years, died in the Razing of Chicago when a building fell on him
[5] The leader of the american navy in the East Coast and Commander in Chief of the U.S, Atlantic Fleet, during the second half of the front, who had beforehand been quite content with his work mostly as a trainer on the naval reserves, he fought bravely and is today remembered as one of the country’s greatest naval commanders; during the American Civil War he allied with Roosevelt and later served in the Royal Navy as an instructor and professor for new cadets
[6] Sir Arthur William Currie, a born and bred Irish-Canadian, whose parents had come as children from Ireland during the Great Famine, he has the distinction of not only starting his military career at the very bottom of the ladder but also for completely revitalizing the Canadian war effort following the fall of Ottawa. Before rising to the command of the Canadian forces, he had served as the Prince-Marshal’s second-in-command
[7] Who some considered a madman, outside of his talent as a commander, he is remembered in the front for the fact that even during it his wife stayed mostly with him (Mary of Teck took a ship through the Arctic Circle to evade the Americans following the birth of their last son, and stayed with him at his flagship even in battle, where she learned the radar) and for actually loving the Great Lake’s absurd weather, considered their temperament and rough climate as being “invigorating”
[8] Much of the Ontario Peninsula and the shores of the Great Lakes were depopulated by the war, as people fled or died, and it would take years for the millions who had been forced to migrate to return, even then, the populations of the regions were still visibly smaller than before the war
[9] Albish tried crossing it over ten times, being stopped by the Americans at every turn while bombs and gunfire ran from both sides, and by 1913 the entire isthmus had become a marshy wasteland (even the famous Falls didn’t come from it intact, as a shell that had somehow lost its route ended up blasting a hole in one of them, which has become a strange memorial for the war)
[10] Occurring on November 7, 1911, the Battle of Isle Royal was one of the most impressive naval battles of the war, being fought between 12 American and 8 Albish ships under the leadership of Prince-Admiral Henry (who was a known frontline commander) and Admiral Hugo Osterhaus; it is known for not only giving the Albish control of Lake Superior but also for the fact it was fought in the middle of one of the lake’s infamous storms, which by itself resulted in six ships capsizing (reason why many joke that it was a melee of three, the Albish, the Yankees and the Superior)
[11] Lasting from June 18th to July 5th, 1910, the Siege of Detroit was the first major battle seen on the Great Lakes, being a mix of trench, naval and urban warfare as both sides started on the lands and waters around it before the battle moved onto Detroit on herself, seeing fighting on parks, streets and buildings alike
[12] Fought this time between the Prince-Admiral and Admiral Sims, the battle over the Strait of Mackinac lasted three days in November of 1914 and saw fierce naval and amphibious fighting on the strait, its islands, and its shores
[13] In a battle that saw the deaths of around 10.000 combatants and the flooding of some trenches
[14] Under the leadership of Colonel Jesse James Jr., the American forces besieging Toronto finally managed to break into the city on the 8th of April of 1916 and proceeded to pull a Sherman in burning and pillaging it while the American army looked away, resulting in over 90% of the city being burned to the ground by the end of it. Prince-Marshal John, who had been stuck on the city since the beginning of the siege in January (having mostly commanded his other forces through radio or by placing his trust on his second-in-command), died in a last stand at the Third Government House. Following his death, John’s body was desecrated and, later, when he was himself killed in action, Colonel James was found with the prince’s scalp still on his possession, having been preserved and kept as a trophy
[15] Under the leadership of Prince-Admiral Henry, the Albish forces in Lake Michigan enacted a massive amphibian and naval assault on the city of Chicago (who had been serving as the center for the Americans in the western great lakes) and proceeded to do wholesale slaughter and wanton destruction onto the city and her inhabitants. After 4 days of fighting and pillaging, as well as some light shelling (which ended up killing General Pershing), the Albish left the city, but not before shelling it by land and sea, leaving a burned and poisoned husk that would take decades to rebuild
[16] His father, Emperor Arthur, died only three days after the razing when he heard the news of Toronto’s sacking, he never heard of Henry’s own retaliatory actions, although the Empress Mother Alexandra, when asked about it, did say that he would have probably cheered their son if he heard, after all,
she did
[17] The Albish advance through the Midwest (which saw them taking control over much of Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana) was also marked by a massive forced migration, as Currie (under the command, it seems, of the Prince-Admiral, possibly predicting the effects of the war on Canada’s population) often times took stranded populations (mostly poor and immigrant) and forced them north to Canada, which (as the region was heavily settled by German immigrants and Afro-Americans, which had both been under discrimination by the US for some time already) resulted on much the country’s modern Germanic and Afro-Descend minorities (as most of them do not identify with the American Expatriates, either by the war having bolstered their previous identity or due to the government beating it out of them through education programs)
[18] Which had the lasting effect (together with the devastation brought to Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes) of bringing more importance to the Prairie Provinces of Canada, as they had been, in general, unaffected by the conflict (or even helped due to the population boom from people fleeing the front). Following the end of the war Winnipeg remained the political center and capital of Canada, a position it holds to this day even while the population center remains the St Lawrence Basin
[19] The Republic of Canada and the Free State of Quebec, two collaborator states that would see themselves end with the collapse of the US; most of their leaders were either executed as traitors or exiled to the District of Franklin in the Arctic Islands (most of them would die from the region’s cold
[20] The TL’s equivalent to the Hindenburg Line, it went from the Ohio River all the way to Buffalo, mostly following the continental divide before cutting through Upstate New York
[21] No-one is certain of why, although many believe it was due to the new governments fears in relation to Roosevelt’s loyalties as he was registered Democrat and had enough political clout that they feared he may do a coup against them, but, nonetheless, it was undoubtedly the nail in the US’ coffin
[22] The Albish had not only broken the Roosevelt Line, but the Royal Navy now also did amphibian attacks on New Orleans, the major cities of the Southeast, and had landed in Long Island, advancing to New York City
[23] Led by Eugene V. Debs, who had been beforehand a Senator and had run as a socialist for the Presidency in 1914, the revolution established the People’s Government (who later became the United Socialist States of America) under Debs’ rule as a temporary acting president
[24] In which (besides other losses that will be commented in relation to Mexico) the United States had to officially give up all of her overseas possessions (by then already lost to the Imperial Powers) as well as large swathes of land in the West and the Great Plains, including a chunk of the Michigan Peninsula. On the northeast, the US also had to give Maine to Canada (which later, with *the civil war, extended to much of New England) and, possibly the most humiliating of all the punishments, they also had to give up to the Albish both the Long Island Archipelago and New York City
The Western Front
Often called the “Italy of North America”, the Western Front (sometimes known as Northwestern) was, for the lack of a better term, a raging dumpsterfire, as it was divided into three different pseudo-fronts and saw a wide array of fighting. It was also mostly fought by the Kingdom of Oregon by herself[1] against the United States and Russian America[2].
To the southwest, along the coast, there was the American advance, which managed to go as far north as Newport before being bogged down by trench warfare and a vicious guerilla campaign; it also saw a great deal of colorful characters, like the Earl of Corvallis, who only spoke through a parakeet[3] and led the Oregonians on the front, or Princess Mary, who was the mistress of the airs of Oregon[4], The sea was also home to an incredibly messy fight, as the American Pacific Fleet tried to take control of strategic positions in the coast only to be met with fierce resistance[5], culminating in the Battle of Juan de Fuca, where Queen Emma herself[6] led the navy in an ambush that managed to route and destroy the American fleet[7].
To the east, there was the insanity, as at the same time that Samuel Donner[8] led an invasion of Utah[9] and stirred up the Great Basin Uprising[10], the Americans, also through Utah, invaded eastern Oregon, taking most of the Snake River Plain before being stopped on their tracks by Princess Alice[11] at Fort Briggs[12], who broke all 15 American charges against her defenses and later would retake the entire plain in a spring[13].
And, to the north, there was the snowy relentless fighting against the Russians of Alyeska, who under the command of the Grand Duke Alexander[14] fought for an excruciating decade in frozen trenches while their meager navy fought for her life in the meandering coastlands[15].
In the end, the front ended in two sets, the first with the Treaty of Cleveland[16] and the second when Tsar Alexander[17] sued for peace on June 19th, 1920[18].
[1] Showing her first major moves to becoming an independent member of the Commonwealth instead of an imperial kingdom, a status that was only officially changed in the 60s but that had already become the norm for the previous decades
[2] Who was also mostly on her own due to the Royal Navy’s control of the Northern Pacific
[3] Damien Mackenzie-Arminger (whose grandparents had been American Pioneers who sided with the Albish during the Willamette) had lost his tongue from an infection at age 15 and somehow trained a parakeet named Geneva (who when in battle wore a literal armor) to not only known what he wanted to say but actually be capable of stringing the words together for him
[4] Called “The Silver Devil”, Princess Mary (who received her nickname both from her albinism and for her silver-and-blue aeroplane), became known for having the highest known kill-count of the war (the Oregonian pilots keeping a tally on each other due to their historical custom of competing with each other for kills), as she not only was a bloody psychopath on the sky, killing at least fifteen people a day when she was on it, but also one of the world’s first bombers, being responsible for commanding the kingdom’s chemical and explosive aerial attacks
[5] Including the case of a town whose only pub was used by the Americans, and whose cook used the opportunity to poison
[6] A lover of the sea and a military genius, Queen Emma I was the first woman to ever serve in the Royal Navy, entering it when she was only 15 in 1898 and rising to the rank of Rear-Admiral by the age of 21, when her mother finally passed the reins of the kingdom to her
[7] In the night of June 1st, 1915, Queen Emma used her nigh supernatural intuition and the fog of the strait to, using the entire royal navy of Oregon (which was made of 5 ships only), ambush the incoming American fleet (in route to Victoria) less than fifteen miles from the capital. She didn’t lose a ship, the Americans only had 1 when it ended
[8] A survivor of the infamous Donner Party (he was 1 when they left west from independence in 1846) who at age 14 moved to Oregon and made a career for himself in the army, he was known for having a talent in mountain warfare, liking to smoke a mix of tobacco and cannabis from a clay pipe, having lost an eye fighting a mountain lion (who he took as a pet), and
maybe having murdered and eaten his wife's lover
[9] At the time a still rather complicated territory of the US, as the Mormons had the tendency to stir up trouble every decade or so (not due to a want for independence, like under Oregon,
per se, but in special due to wishing for both their religious customs to be permitted (as a major source of contempt was the fact that the Utah Mormons had, over the years, become more firm and radicalized in their beliefs, with polygamy being the norm to many) on the region and for the army to leave their damn lands)
[10] Mostly made of the various native peoples of the region, who, armed by the Oregonians, rose up in 1915
[11] Known as the “Iron Lady”, she became infamous both for her capacity as a commander and the brutality dealt on her enemies
[12] Sometimes known as the “Gate to Oregon”, the Fort Briggs (located around the same location as Huntington, Oregon), is a towering fortress, controlling the main entrance to the Columbia River Valley through the East, built between 1902 and 1910 and renovated in the 50s and 90s. It has never been taken by either treachery or frontal assaults
[13] In part with the help of guerilla groups
[14] Younger brother to Tsar Nicholas II and a first cousin to Queen Emma, he had been living in Alyaska for almost 15 years by that point, and had gone so acclimated to the region that he had become a member of the Russian Orthodox Old Believers, which had been move
en masse to the colony
[15] Although since the Oregonians were also not a great navy this meant that they mostly had a battle a year, maybe two
[16] Which saw Oregon annexing much of the Great Basin region, much of the lands west of the Colorado, and northern California
[17] After Outer Manchuria broke away in May 1920, becoming the Socialist Republic of Eastern Russia, Alyaska’s connection to St. Petersburg, already flimsy at best due to the Royal Navy’s control of the Northern Pacific, was permanently lost, and by that point Alexander had already understood that trying to remain fighting was a moot point, so he unilaterally separated the colony from Russia and declared himself the first ruler of an independent Alyaska (with massive popular support)
[18] The Peace of Vancouver saw the newly founded "Tsardom of Alyeska" (or, at the time, "Alyaska" locally) become an Albish protectorate, and remains to this day a member of the Commonwealth
The Southern Front
The absolute first conflict of the war, having started the entire conflict with the Shelling of Brownsville on April 25th, 1910[1], the Southern Front]2] was, of the ones in North America, the most marked by trench warfare, as outside of the Latino Uprisings[3] and the Zapatista Rebellion[4] the conflict was entirely made on the patchwork of trenches stretching from Corpus Christi to Guadalajara[5].
Brutal and bloody as a side-effect of the deep seethed and old animosity between both sides, the front saw a wide array of war crimes and massacres as both Mexicans and Americans committed themselves to devastating the regions of what is now Northern Mexico[6].
Won less by the capacity of the Mexicans, who while masterfully holding their ground were woefully unprepared to fight the Americans[7], and more from the fact that the US had to focus on a variety of fronts at the same time, the Southern Front ended, together with most others in North America, with the Treaty of Cleveland, and saw one of the most massive changes of territory and population caused by the war[8].
[1] Sometimes known as the “Second Battle of Palo-Alto” (in reference to the historic battle during the Mexican-American War), at the start of 1910 it had a population of almost eleven thousand people, but nowadays it is a ghost town, its crumbling ruins a grim memorial for the death and suffering that occurred in the First and Second World Wars
[2] It has also been called the “Second Mexican-American War” by some
[3] A series of low-key ethnic uprisings that occurred in the American southwest during the conflict, backed by Mexico and motivated by the treatment of most Latin-Americans as second-class citizens and the forced expulsions done in the late 19th century (which saw most of the local Latino and Native American population of the region to either move out of the US by declaring them illegal immigrants or be confined to reservations), of whom the one leaded by Francisco “Pancho” Villa (born in Durango) is the most known, as his forces managed to hold much of northern Chihuahua for years
[4] Named after its leader, Emiliano Zapata, the Zapatista Rebellion was a republican left-wing rebellion that controlled the state of Morelos for various years during the war, being supported in part by the Americans
[5] Although the Mexicans managed to make an advance into Texas, reaching into the middle of Corpus Christi (which was heavily damaged by the fighting as trenches sometimes gave way to buildings), the Americans (we must remember that at the time the states of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua and Sinaloa were all territories of the US) managed to make a large advance into Mexico, reaching as far south as the River Ameca
[6] To this day the region is littered with the bones of the dead, ruined and abandoned settlements, and the deep gashes made onto the literal land by the war
[7] Although there had been some modernization with help of the Albish during the previous decades, the Mexican Army had not fought a war since the establishment of the Empire in the 1860s, and so was almost completely unprepared to modern war in comparison to their enemy
[8] The Treaty of Cleveland saw much of the territories annexed by the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo being returned to Mexico (who promptly changed the territories of Lincoln, Jefferson and Washington back to their original names of Sonora, Chihuahua and Sinaloa, while Texas was returned to the Spanish pronunciation) and in the following years the country enacted a massive expulsion of their Anglican (a name used by the Mexicans to refer to American Settlers) population (who either fled north or settled in Tejas, which had a too-large population for Mexico to be bothered with), settling in their place Mexicans and the odd native american. Of their pre-war Anglican population, only around 30% remains (having been even more depopulated during the 40s and 50s), mostly inhabiting Baja California and Tejas, and to this day the effects of the migrations can still be felt on the region through its society, economy, and ethnic makeup
The Great Plains
Traditionally considered the most unremarkable of the fronts and sometimes not even counted as one, most of the fighting was based on skirmishes between armed farmers and the odd cavalry union, with some raids made by the Cree and Metis Regiments