I do wonder how will this royal france handle the algeria crisis
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Good job, if I can admise you something you can give the classic Bourbon coat of arms to Henry V. The coat of arms with fleurs-de-lis crossed with dolphins is the one that was traditionally given to all heirs to the throne of France (the heir was even formally called Le Dauphin "The Dolphin"), Henry kept it all his life as he never ascended the throne (well not at that time in his life). A third restauration King Henry V would therefore have a coat of arms similar to those of Louis XVIII or Charles X
Alright, TwililAlchemist, I'll fix my posts to correct the terminology. Sorry about that.
No problem, I only recently started being more open on it and thought I’d let you know.
From the "Beyond the Ice Wall" setting, a pretty insane setting about land beyond Antarctica, the Earth being flat (but not really), magic being a thing since 1522 and liberal usage of alternate history to get weird results. If interested here's a discord where we work on the setting, everyone's welcome to contribute. https://discord.gg/tuUtnuaY
After the Mexican-American War, Mexico accepts the California Purchase, making the Rio Grande and the 37th parallel the official borders of Mexico and the United States. However, Mexico is still unable to properly secure its northern regions, leaving them with sparser settlement than its northern neighbor and largely neglected, areas like Arizona become largely lawless, with Hispanic settlers, Anglo-American immigrants and Indigenous tribes trading amongst eachother and living off of raids across the border into both the United States and other Mexican states. Despite the small economic respite given by the purchase, Mexico was still unable to pay off its debts to the French Empire (Napoleon won the Napoleonic Wars, then got shanked by the Reasoncultists, it's a long story) resulting in a French intervention and the formation of the Mexican Empire under Emperor Oréile Antoine I. Despite his best efforts, Oréile never gains much support for his rule other than from the urban elites in Mexico City, and tensions, small skirmishes and assassinations become a common ocurrence throught the 1860s, 70s and 80s. By 1889, emboldened by French defeats in Europe against the United Kingdom and the Prussian Worker's Republic, US-backed Mexican republicans in Ciudad Juárez under Venustiano Carranza rose up against the Imperial Government and quickly began taking control of several northeastern states. Almost like a house of cards, the Mexican state began collapsing, with local governors, warlords, bandidos, peasant movements and indigenous communities began rising up and taking land for themselves. In the Northwest of Mexico, four main warlord states established themselves in the largely neglected territory: The US-backed Republic of Alta California, with its capital in Los Ángeles, led by Álvaro Obregón, the republic of Baja California, the republic of Sonora, and the loose alliance of settlers, migrants and Indians called Gran Arizona (though many just referred to it as Apachería, in reference to its majority population). By 1901, the conflict between the warlord states intensified as a young José Doroteo Arango Arámbula, most commonly known as Pancho Villa, took control of the state of Sonora, pushed back on Apache raids and peacefully united with Baja California. The Sonoran troops pushed north towards the sparsely populated Alta California, whose meager garrison stood no chance against the more numerous and experienced militias, used to fighting off Indian raids and Imperial forces. As such, president Obregón requested for US help, offering the annexation of all of Alta California (adding it to the US state of California, centered around San Francisco) in exchange for repelling the bandit army. For that purpouse, the United States sent in two small army detachments towards California. 17.000 men marched in from American California, joining the beleaguered Californio forces, while another 10.000 marched from Texas through the so-called "Indian territory of Arizona", occupying the western half of Albuquerque without any resistance and expecting little to no resistance as they marched to occupy Maricopa, the largest city in the region.
They were wrong.
Led by an Apache medicine man named Jerome (Gerónimo in Spanish), Apache and Hopi forces ambushed and harassed the Americans all the way from Albuquerque to Maricopa. Years of experience raiding their neighbors, combined with knowledge of the rough, dry landscape and the refinement of Indigenous magicks ever since the Year of the Black Moon (with native clairvoyants being able to see American forces from miles away, shamans being able to lure detachments away from the main army and into traps with mirages, and the invocation of adverse weather against the invaders) made every step of the way to Maricopa hell for the Americans.
Their arrival in Maricopa wouldn't spell the end of their troubles however, as the city's locals, a combination of Hispanic settlers, American outlaws and native traders, put up stiff resistance to the American force while native guerrillas closed in from the rear. Thanks to the leadership of Joseph Wheeler, American forces were able to take Maricopa and avoid disaster, but that only meant they were now stuck inside Maricopa, besieged by a now much less loose alliance of settlers and Indians. The American invasion ended up forging an uneasy alliance between Sonora and Arizona, and Navajo raiders began moving into Alta California to assist the Sonoran forces.
With the war in California bogged down into a stalemate, Wheeler decided to risk a fighting retreat back to Texas, as help would not arrive from the west. The force was able to return, but it was hounded every step of the way by Arizonan forces, Wheeler himself being captured in an ambush, his scalp being displayed by Geronimo at the demoralized American forces as they crossed the Rio Grande.
With the Texan troops routed, the war was effectively over, the belligerants eventually signing the Treaty of Las Vegas, where the United States accepted the sovreignty of Sonora and Arizona in exchange for the concession of the ports of Los Angeles and San Diego from the Sonorans and three million dollars in compensation from past raids from the Arizonans.
One year after the signing of the treaty, the Mexican Civil War would be considered officially over, save for ocassional skirmishes between the rump Mexican Empire, the southern Democratic Federation of Mexico under one Emilio Zapata, and DFM-backed Cristero guerrillas, opposed to Emperor Oréile's Reasoncultist religion and his laicité policies.
North America in 1905
After the Mexican-American War, Mexico accepts the California Purchase, making the Rio Grande and the 37th parallel the official borders of Mexico and the United States. However, Mexico is still unable to properly secure its northern regions, leaving them with sparser settlement than its northern neighbor and largely neglected, areas like Arizona become largely lawless, with Hispanic settlers, Anglo-American immigrants and Indigenous tribes trading amongst eachother and living off of raids across the border into both the United States and other Mexican states. Despite the small economic respite given by the purchase, Mexico was still unable to pay off its debts to the French Empire (Napoleon won the Napoleonic Wars, then got shanked by the Reasoncultists, it's a long story) resulting in a French intervention and the formation of the Mexican Empire under Emperor Oréile Antoine I. Despite his best efforts, Oréile never gains much support for his rule other than from the urban elites in Mexico City, and tensions, small skirmishes and assassinations become a common ocurrence throught the 1860s, 70s and 80s. By 1889, emboldened by French defeats in Europe against the United Kingdom and the Prussian Worker's Republic, US-backed Mexican republicans in Ciudad Juárez under Venustiano Carranza rose up against the Imperial Government and quickly began taking control of several northeastern states. Almost like a house of cards, the Mexican state began collapsing, with local governors, warlords, bandidos, peasant movements and indigenous communities began rising up and taking land for themselves. In the Northwest of Mexico, four main warlord states established themselves in the largely neglected territory: The US-backed Republic of Alta California, with its capital in Los Ángeles, led by Álvaro Obregón, the republic of Baja California, the republic of Sonora, and the loose alliance of settlers, migrants and Indians called Gran Arizona (though many just referred to it as Apachería, in reference to its majority population). By 1901, the conflict between the warlord states intensified as a young José Doroteo Arango Arámbula, most commonly known as Pancho Villa, took control of the state of Sonora, pushed back on Apache raids and peacefully united with Baja California. The Sonoran troops pushed north towards the sparsely populated Alta California, whose meager garrison stood no chance against the more numerous and experienced militias, used to fighting off Indian raids and Imperial forces. As such, president Obregón requested for US help, offering the annexation of all of Alta California (adding it to the US state of California, centered around San Francisco) in exchange for repelling the bandit army. For that purpouse, the United States sent in two small army detachments towards California. 17.000 men marched in from American California, joining the beleaguered Californio forces, while another 10.000 marched from Texas through the so-called "Indian territory of Arizona", occupying the western half of Albuquerque without any resistance and expecting little to no resistance as they marched to occupy Maricopa, the largest city in the region.
They were wrong.
Led by an Apache medicine man named Jerome (Gerónimo in Spanish), Apache and Hopi forces ambushed and harassed the Americans all the way from Albuquerque to Maricopa. Years of experience raiding their neighbors, combined with knowledge of the rough, dry landscape and the refinement of Indigenous magicks ever since the Year of the Black Moon (with native clairvoyants being able to see American forces from miles away, shamans being able to lure detachments away from the main army and into traps with mirages, and the invocation of adverse weather against the invaders) made every step of the way to Maricopa hell for the Americans.
Their arrival in Maricopa wouldn't spell the end of their troubles however, as the city's locals, a combination of Hispanic settlers, American outlaws and native traders, put up stiff resistance to the American force while native guerrillas closed in from the rear. Thanks to the leadership of Joseph Wheeler, American forces were able to take Maricopa and avoid disaster, but that only meant they were now stuck inside Maricopa, besieged by a now much less loose alliance of settlers and Indians. The American invasion ended up forging an uneasy alliance between Sonora and Arizona, and Navajo raiders began moving into Alta California to assist the Sonoran forces.
With the war in California bogged down into a stalemate, Wheeler decided to risk a fighting retreat back to Texas, as help would not arrive from the west. The force was able to return, but it was hounded every step of the way by Arizonan forces, Wheeler himself being captured in an ambush, his scalp being displayed by Geronimo at the demoralized American forces as they crossed the Rio Grande.
With the Texan troops routed, the war was effectively over, the belligerants eventually signing the Treaty of Las Vegas, where the United States accepted the sovreignty of Sonora and Arizona in exchange for the concession of the ports of Los Angeles and San Diego from the Sonorans and three million dollars in compensation from past raids from the Arizonans.
One year after the signing of the treaty, the Mexican Civil War would be considered officially over, save for ocassional skirmishes between the rump Mexican Empire, the southern Democratic Federation of Mexico under one Emilio Zapata, and DFM-backed Cristero guerrillas, opposed to Emperor Oréile's Reasoncultist religion and his laicité policies.
North America in 1905
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My first wikibox for my first timeline, one that's been kicking around in my head so thought I'd make something out of it
The Assassination of Gerald Ford by the Cult Member Squeaky Fromme
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, member of the Manson Family, succeeds in her assassination attempt of Gerald Ford, remembering to chamber a bullet before firing.
Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in later that day, the third Vice President to do so in thirteen years and the second after an assassination.
America is shaken and uncertain, and no one wants a third turn over in as many years, leading to the re-election of Nelson Rockefeller.
In 1980, after President Rockefeller - like President Johnson before him - elects not to run for a second term, the election comes down to the Democrat Frank Church and Rockefeller's VP George H.W. Bush, with the Democrat Ticket winning in a close race.
The Assassination of Gerald Ford by the Cult Member Squeaky Fromme
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, member of the Manson Family, succeeds in her assassination attempt of Gerald Ford, remembering to chamber a bullet before firing.
Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in later that day, the third Vice President to do so in thirteen years and the second after an assassination.
America is shaken and uncertain, and no one wants a third turn over in as many years, leading to the re-election of Nelson Rockefeller.
In 1980, after President Rockefeller - like President Johnson before him - elects not to run for a second term, the election comes down to the Democrat Frank Church and Rockefeller's VP George H.W. Bush, with the Democrat Ticket winning in a close race.
A world where Serge Gainsbourg is the father-in-law of the French monarch is probably the most original idea I've seen on site. I can imagine the atmosphere during the family dinners, where Gainsbourg would be sitting next to the dowager queen....
considering his work was seen as scandalous by half of the French country, and presumably ittl, by (most of) the royal family too, yeah the atmosphere would be pretty tense.
On January 28th, 2001, the world’s first and only superhero saved the world, in what has become famously known as the North Platte Incident. He announced himself as the Paladin, and that he was here to keep humanity safe.
Seventy-two hours later, he disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again.
Theories abounded. He was kidnapped by the Soviets to help create the true New Man. He returned to his home planet. He was an actor, hired to cover up what really happened. He broke under the pressure, and decided he preferred a life of anonymity. He died saving the world again, in some incident kept hidden from us.
Or, someone or something had him killed.
In their explosive book, investigators Marcel Barnes, Benjamin Becker, and Brody Paxton, drawing on over a decade of research, interviews with witnesses and whistleblowers, and more, examine the facts and fictions surrounding the Paladin...and come to a shocking conclusion.
Seventy-two hours later, he disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again.
Theories abounded. He was kidnapped by the Soviets to help create the true New Man. He returned to his home planet. He was an actor, hired to cover up what really happened. He broke under the pressure, and decided he preferred a life of anonymity. He died saving the world again, in some incident kept hidden from us.
Or, someone or something had him killed.
In their explosive book, investigators Marcel Barnes, Benjamin Becker, and Brody Paxton, drawing on over a decade of research, interviews with witnesses and whistleblowers, and more, examine the facts and fictions surrounding the Paladin...and come to a shocking conclusion.
If the Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions...
Then the Road to Heaven is Paved with Crime and Sin
November 10, 1944: During an impromptu meeting in England, Generals Douglas MacArthur, George S. Patton, and Henry H. Arnold form "the Aldershot Group", a society of U.S. military officers opposed to communism. They specifically denounce Wallace due to his conciliatory rhetoric towards the Soviet Union.
November 15, 1944: Massachusetts financier and diplomat Joseph Kennedy joins the Aldershot Group and provide its members with powerful contacts, including FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
November 28, 1944: In a meeting arranged by Kennedy, the Aldershot Group and Director Hoover meet at the Justice Department building. Hoover reveals an extensive file on Wallace, including wiretaps and photographs, which reveal "an extensive and rigorously-documented" history of connections to the USSR. A notable link was Alder Hiss, a senior State Department officer and advisor to Wallace for international affairs who was revealed to be a Soviet spy by the FBI. Thoughts of a coup d'état are first discussed.
December 1, 1944: Dwight D. Eisenhower joins the Aldershot Group after a heated meeting with President-elect Wallace. Eisenhower suggested putting an end to peace overtures to the USSR, as they were bad for morale; Wallace took this personally and ejected Eisenhower from his office. The Aldershot Group's influence in the military grows.
December 4, 1944: Omar Bradley joins the Aldershot Group following the Battle of Dresden, and after a lengthy conversation with Eisenhower.
December 8, 1944: At a press conference in California, Wallace harshly criticized the lack of progress in the Japanese front, blaming the lack of success to a "disastrous" naval command. Chester W. Nimitz and other Navy officers join the Aldershot Group as a consequence.
December 9, 1944: At a speech to Navy cadets in San Diego, Wallace spoke extensively on the "promise of peace", arguing that a "cordial settlement with the Russians" was "in everyone's best interest", going so far as to call those supporting the war "fear-mongers and profiteers". The speech proves to be highly controversial.
December 11, 1944: The Aldershot Group and Hoover hold a grand meeting aboard the USS Yorktown off the coast of Nova Scotia, under British protection. Hoover pushes strongly in favor of "extraordinary measures", citing the extensive evidence of Wallace's communist ties compiled by the Bureau. The Aldershot Group acquiesces, and planning for the coup begins in earnest. MacArthur christens the endeavor "Operation Freedom Crusade". The date is set for a week after Wallace's inauguration.
January 20, 1945: Henry A. Wallace is inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States.
January 26, 1945: Start of Operation Freedom Crusade. In the early morning hours, U.S. Army troops seize control over Naval Support Facility Anacostia and the adjacent Bolling Field. Simultaneously, the U.S. Navy shells Washington National Airport on the opposite shore of the Potomac River. Units from the 29th Infantry Division stationed at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, move up the state and seize Rochambeau Bridge, headed directly for the National Mall. Upon hearing these news, President Wallace mobilized the District of Columbia National Guard, which faced the 29th on East Potomac Park. The DCNG faced extreme pressure from combat planes and U.S. Navy gunboats on the river. Despite these, the 29th was forced to retreat back into Arlington by noon. Meanwhile, U.S. Army reinforcements attacked northern D.C. from Silver Spring and Bethesda. The Maryland Army National Guard remained neutral as expected; however, several hundred soldiers broke ranks and joined President Marshall. These men formed the anti-coup vanguard throughout the 26th of January. The Army's progress was halted momentarily on Blagden Avenue and 16th Street for two hours before air attacks forced the Marylanders to disengage. They received reinforcements from the DCNG; near nightfall, they launched an ill-fated counterattack on enemy positions in Rock Creek Park, which ended at 10:30 PM with heavy casualties. Under the cover of nightfall, the 29th Infantry redeployed near Brookmont and pushed as far east as Glover Archbold Park.
January 27, 1945: President Wallace is evacuated from the White House and led through secret tunnels to the Treasury Building vault, which acted as an air-raid shelter, after Capitol Hill was targeted. Putschist forces launch a major offensive with the goal of connecting in Woodley Park. They manage to push back the pro-government forces through intense combat, and operational objectives are achieved by two o'clock. Gen. MacArthur orders Gen. Arnold to intensify the bombardment of government buildings, in order to pressure Wallace to surrender. The President responds with a brief radio address, rejecting any notion of giving up and calling for the country to resist the coup. Several thousands of civilians have since joined the fight against the putschists, with authorities issuing firearms liberally. Fighting bogs down on Calvert Street, forcing the attackers to deviate southwest. Government firepower based on Lanier Heights contributes to this tactical decision. Combat transferred to Foggy Bottom, leading to a two-day battle; Gen. George S. Patton assumes command of this front. Government artillery attacks put Bolling Field out of commission, although Washington National continues in operation. At six, Congress holds an extraordinary session beneath the Treasury Building, where a motion to hold the coup leaders liable for treason passes unanimously. House Speaker Sam Rayburn returns to the Capitol building, declaring that "a captain never abandons his sinking ship."
January 28, 1945: A governors' conference is held in Montgomery, Alabama, between the executives of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. They declare Wallace to be an "illegitimate president" and "a communist supporter". Throughout the day, Montana, California, South Dakota, Iowa, Arizona, Texas, Virginia, and Wyoming will follow their lead. Riots break out in Sacramento, California, as pro-coup military forces unseat the pro-Wallace state government. The Capitol Power Plant is destroyed, plunging the seat of government in darkness. By this point, great swathes of Washington, D.C. have been reduced into rubble. As the day progresses, the defenders of Foggy Bottom remain unyielding; however, their capacity to keep fighting is slowly deteriorating. By three o'clock, most of eastern D.C. is under occupation, although a thin line of pro-government forces running from Lincoln Park and Washington Union Station keeps them at bay. Intense combat takes place around the Supreme Court building, which has become heavily fortified. The U.S. Capitol Police has joined defense efforts, mostly in Foggy Bottom and along Massachusetts Avenue. That night, Patton issues directives for a colossal offensive to break the resistance in Foggy Bottom a few minutes before midnight, codenamed "Operation Parthia".
January 29, 1945: Operation Parthia is a success. By five o'clock in the morning, the battered and weakened defenders retreat and prepare for a final battle within the National Mall. At six, the White House suffers artillery damage before MacArthur orders his troops not to damage the property. The vanguard of his assault is the 29th Infantry, which sweeps any remaining resistance aside as it directs its full strength against the defenders holed up inside the Treasury Building. Unable to break through on the eastern flank of operations, MacArthur orders the Supreme Court building to be "razed to the ground". Aircraft, tanks, and artillery level the entire structure within two hours. Soon afterwards, Union Station falls and troops rush into the U.S. Capitol, where Capitol Police put up a spirited yet doomed defense. At one o'clock, with most of the legislative building a smoldering wreck, Speaker Rayburn emerges and asks for a ceasefire. Negotiations begin between he and Admiral Nimitz at the Library of Congress. At five o'clock, Rayburn issues an address assuming "executive command" of the U.S. government "as stipulated by the United States Constitution, in light of President Wallace's and Vice President Hull's current state of de facto incapacitation," and goes on to announce the surrender of the District of Columbia. Fighting officially ceases at 6:30 PM that same day. Access to the Treasury Building is relinquished. Soldiers from the 29th Infantry arrest President Henry A. Wallace, Vice President Cordell Hull, and most of his Cabinet. They are taken to NSF Anacostia, awaiting trial for alleged crimes of sedition, high treason, and collusion with a foreign power. Gen. MacArthur and the other members of the plot occupy a seriously damaged White House, and at eight they make a live radio broadcast announcing the establishment of a "Council of National Salvation" until new elections can be held. "The battle is over," MacArthur declared. "But the war for America is not yet won."
February 2, 1945: Following a secret session of the Council of National Salvation, it is announced that Douglas MacArthur has been selected as Chairman of said body. That same day, it is announced that Patton would be stepping down due to "ill health". He is never seen publicly again. His position on the CNS is awarded to Gen. Omar Bradley.
February 24, 1945: J. Edgar Hoover is found dead by park rangers in the middle of western Pennsylvania, hundreds of miles away from his last known location in Washington, D.C. Investigators ruled he travelled to this secluded part to commit suicide via cyanide ingestion. Deputy FBI Director Clyde Tolson strongly opposed the verdict; he was summarily arrested under suspicion of being a Soviet spy and was eventually sentenced to 35 years in prison. MacArthur himself assumes the role of FBI Director.
March 7, 1945: After a brief court-martial at NSF Anacostia, Henry A. Wallace and six other members of his government are found guilty of numerous counts of treason and collusion with the enemy. He is sentenced to death by firing squad. On MacArthur's instructions, the sentence is carried out that same day. The former president's body is cremated and his ashes are dumped into the Potomac River.
At the White House, he would have been moved there from his Washington residence when the news of the assassination got through, and been there when Ford was pronounced dead.
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