Okay, so here's the next update. This will be the "Republican Revolution," which will completely reorganize the Union of Nova Angalia in a harsh backlash to the theocratic government in Providence.
This is just a 5 year span, but theres a lot as this Revolution will, at least militarily, involve most of North America, and sets the timeline up, at least for this continent, for the direction of the next 70 plus years.
More to come soon. Would love some critiques and feedback. I've spent a decent amount of time on this timeline and the story and I'd like to be able to tweak it and make it as good as possible.
This is just a 5 year span, but theres a lot as this Revolution will, at least militarily, involve most of North America, and sets the timeline up, at least for this continent, for the direction of the next 70 plus years.
More to come soon. Would love some critiques and feedback. I've spent a decent amount of time on this timeline and the story and I'd like to be able to tweak it and make it as good as possible.
1860: On January 5th, General Prescott made an announcement to the soldiers and the general public in Maxwell’s Ferry: He was refusing the orders given by Chancellor Birch because he believed that Birch’s government was illigitimet, and that his soldiers would not leave Maxwell’s Ferry until new elections occurred. He also leaked what his orders from Birch were (moving his troops through Tejas to attack California), which makes the tension between Tejas and the UNA explode. The Tejan government demands that all Angalian troops be recalled from the country, and threatens to close the borders. There’s talk in Tejas’ capital that the country might ally with California. Leaders of the British Republic also cry foul when they learn of Birch’s orders, and call on all sides to agree to a cease fire and meet in London to reach a settlement. Secretly, Britain starts taking steps towards offering aid to California.
On February 1st, The Union Police is ordered to arrest Prescott on charges of treason, and orders are also given for new military officers to be put in charge of Prescott’s forces. When the UP officers arrive in Maxwell’s Ferry, troops loyal to Prescott open fire. At this point, Prescott call’s on soldiers in the army to mutiny against Birch and his government, and just under half of the Angalian Army will do so by the end of the year. By March, it begins to settle in to people’s mind that Civil War is breaking out in Angalia. Tejan forces begin to attempt to evict Angalian troops in late March. Some go peacefully, while other’s open fire. On April 3rd, Tejas declares war on Angalia. In late April, the State of Whittaker declares that it no longer recognizes the authority of the government in Providence, and until a new election is held, will ally itself with General Prescott and his forces in Mississippia.
In May, both Illinois and Louisiana declare for Prescott. Prescott convinces/coerces Mississippia to do the same at the end of the month. By the end of the summer, Cherokee, Huron, Florida, Marysland, and Nova Scotia have all declared for Prescott, and New England, King’s Island, Prince Matthew’s Island, West Acadia, West Virginia, and Choctaw have all issued declaration’s calling for new elections without taking the final step of refusing to recognize Birch’s government. The Army is split nearly 50/50, and the Navy mostly stays loyal to Birch. Revolts and skirmishes break out throughout the western territories as those loyal to the Unionists become cut off from the East coast. In October, delecates meet in Maxwell’s Ferry, most of whom are either hardcore Reformists or more left-leaning Regionalists, and they draft up a formal declaration making a formal break from Providence. This document, the Declaration of Liberty, is signed on October 27th, and on that day the Republic of Angalia is declared. Civil War is now official.
The California fronts are collapsing. In Oregonia, soldiers loyal to the UNA retreat into Angalian Oregonia and regroup, while those loyal to Prescott “surrender” to Californio soldiers with plans to be sent to the RA if at all possible. The troops sent to attack Zion City retreat back to the New Iberia territory to help support the pro-unionist government, although some 3,000 troops mutiny and march towards Zion City to regroup and possibly plan a counter attack on Unionist Forces. Tejan’s narrowly vote to not recognize the new Republic formally, but they do vote to continue the war on Angalia. The British Republic suspends all trade with table. France, eager to possibly regain territory lost earlier in the century, begins sending troops to Canada, and starts to put pressure on the Canadian parliament to get involved. At the end of the year, Birch orders the Navy recalled from California to help put down the rebellion at home.
1861: In February, Choctaw, West Virginia, and Ohio declare their loyalty to the new Republic, and Republican forces prepare for an invasion of New Devon and Michigan. Also that month, New Wales, Avalon, and West Acadia issue declarations calling for new elections. There is discussions going on in New England, Kings Island, and Prince Matthew’s Island about joining the Republic, but there is much fear that they would not be able to fight off the Unionists, being cut off from Prescott’s forces in the West.
In mid-March, Prescott’s government announces that they are claiming all of the western territories as part of the Republic, and that statehood will be immediately granted to West Illinois and Manasseh territories. Asher, New Iberia, and Napthtalia all declare loyalty to the Unionists, sparking skirmishes throughout the territories
In July, delegates from the Dominion of Canada arrive in Maxwell’s Ferry, and make an offer to Prescott: Agree to give up some lands in the Northwest, including part of the State of Michigan, and the Dominion and France would send aid to the new Republic. Prescott will accept the offer on August 1st. In mid August, the “Army of Zion”, augmented of Angalian expatriates and mutineers from the Angalian Army, launch an invasion into New Iberia in the name of California, hoping to retake Danielston.
New Devon, Avalon, western Eire and southern Michigan are under Republican control by October.
1862: New England, Prince Matthew’s Island, New Wales, and the Acadia’s all declare loyalty to the Republic in February. In March, the Californian Army marches into New Providence, and the Oregonia Free State falls apart. By May, Oregonia is fully under Californio rule, with about a third of the Angalian settlers fleeing back to a country in turmoil.
Britain, worried about French influence over the new Republic, officially recognizes Prescott’s Republican faction as the “legitimate Angalia” in June, and sends the British Navy to blockade Unionist ports. Several major battles are fought between the Angalian and British navies that summer, resulting in British domination of the Unionist coast. In September, Nova Albion, New Bristol, Kings Island, and Eire vote to join the Republic. Michigan is under Republican and French occupation, and Republican forces are pouring through Virginia. On September 21st, Danielston falls to the Army of Zion. On October 5th, Prescott issues surrender terms to the Unionists, which are rejected. Birch and the Archbishop and the other core Unionists vow to fight to the last man.
1863: In late February, the siege of Providence begins, with most of Virginia and Annesland now under Republican control. On March 15th, General Prescott marches into the now ruined city, and accepts the surrender of the Archbishop and other key Unionists. Birch died at his own hand the night before. That afternoon, in a speech on the steps of the damagaed capitol building, Prescott declares victory “for all Angalians,” and says that the period of civil war is now over. By the end of April, all Unionist forces have surrendered. A truce is negotiated quickly with California, saying that all lands held at that time by California could be held by California until a formal treaty could be hammered out to regnogtiate more permanent boundaries. As for Canada, the Dominion’s government promises to wait until after a new government for the new Republic can be formally established before promised territory in the Northwest is given over to the Dominion. On May 1st, Prescott and his senior staff and supporters, who’d all been leading the defacto government of the Republic, announced that Providence would no longer serve as the capital of Angalia, and that the capital would move to Maxwell’s Ferry, to be renames “New Rome.” (Themes from the Roman Republic had been growing in the imagination of the Republican leaders and this fasination would become evident in the language and names used after the end of the war. A constitutional convention was called by Prescott and his supporters, and this convention met in New Rome starting on September 1st. The convention goes on until early November, when the Constitution of the Republic of Angalia was approved on the 12th , and sent to the states for ratification. The document separated church and state, guaranteed full freedom of speech and religion, and separated the Executive and Legislative branches. The HoC/HoB were abolished, and replaced with the unicameral Senate which would consist of 20 Senators from each state. Separate from the legislature was the new office of President of the Republic, which would be popularly elected by the people. It was established that once a 2/3rd majority of the states (18) ratified the document it would become law. By the end of the year, core Reformist states had already ratified the constitution.
1864: With 18 of the original 27 states ratifying the constitution by of February 17th, elections were set for the new Senate and Presidency On June 1st. By the end of May, 25 of the original 27 states had ratified the new constitution and would be participating in the June election. New Sussex refused to ratify, in protest for the destruction of Providence, and Michigan also refused, siting the promise to Canada to give up some of Michigan to the dominion. In addition. The two western states of West Illinois and Manasseh also ratified the constitution and would participate in the election.
The Unionist Party had been disbanded in most states and would not gain any seats in the first Senate. Reformists gained control of the Senate, and to no-one’s surprise, General Prescott was elected in a landslide. Worrying to some, but ignored or supported by most, Prescott kept his position as a general in the army, being referred to as President-General.
In August, representatives from Angalia, California, Tejas, and the Dominion of Canada met in London at the invitation of the British Republic to hammer out the new post-war boundaries. Angalia, eager to put the conflicts of the recent past behind it, willingly gave away land to California and the Canadians, and agreed to turn over all border forts in Tejas to the locals. Oregonia was now fully handed over to the Californians. The Treaty of London was signed on September 22nd, finalizing the “new order” in North America.
Angalia until Birch and his government agree to a cease fire and to meet at the negotiating