There were two major uprisings in the North American Colonies, both of which received considerable backing by the French. The first happened in 1776-80, in which a large number of colonial elites from the Thirteen Colonies rose up against taxation to pay off a war which largely benefited them by securing their borders which at times came close to severing English control of a large section of North America supplied and supported by the French. Never the less through the heroics of several figures (including the work of Colonial Ferguson with his revolutionary rifles and the slave uprising of Fred Miller who led over a thousand of his fellow ex-slaves against their traitorous masters) the treasonous rebels were eventually forced to route, either breaking up or forming a dozen small crude "Liberty Towns" deep inland which resisted British rule for a few decades before being reabsorbed. The defeat of the Americans during the revolution forced King Louis VXI to try out a few more strategies to make up lost funds, among which was commissioning Chugnot to set up a few steam powered textile works in and around Paris in 1785 after hearing reports of similar events happening in England. While that specific effort yielded fruit, it's success was too little too late from the perspective of the monarchy and did not save the King from the oncoming French Revolution. It did provide the French Revolutionary government and eventually Napoleonic with access to equipment and a skill base which was used to gradually improve French manufacturing of uniforms, kit, muskets, cannons, ships and eventually riverine steamboats. With these assets in place Napoleon was able to cease control of most of Europe and repulsed attempts by the British and the Russians to push him back. The First Napoleonic War ended with the Treaty of Copenhagen in 1817, which set the stage for a century of conflict between the Napoleonic and British Empires.
At the same time, Abolitionists in England were gaining traction and pushed for an end to the Slave Trade and the eventual abolition of slavery in 1833. In the southern colonies of British North America this led to open revolt. Flying a variant of the original traitor flag with nine stars, the colonials sought to create a republic ruled by planter elites. All the while armaments were shipped in from France including artillery, rockets, trapdoor Charville Muskets and five chambered caplock revolvers. Fortunately sympathies for the cause were minimal in the north and soon armies were raised and deployed. Notable among these was the 157th Fusiliers, a regiment of riflemen who's soldiers were primarily of African dissent who's fearlessness and valor at several battles against the traitors won them renown and fame, especially after the publication of the accounts of the 157th were published after the conclusion of this conflict. Ultimately, the Second Rebellion proved to be a measure which helped preserve British ties to the colonies as from then on the Red, White and Blue flag of the Rebels would be forever associated with slavery and bigotry of the foulest sort and helped galvanize the North American Colonies to the Integration Act of 1863, in which the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland would become the United Empire with the American colonies having direct representation in Parliament.
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