Hmm....okay. So, at what point should I go back and rewrite? Is my alt-War of 1812 to out there?
It actually sounds like OTL's "Seven Years War" has become the "Seventy Years War".
Hmm....okay. So, at what point should I go back and rewrite? Is my alt-War of 1812 to out there?
It actually sounds like OTL's "Seven Years War" has become the "Seventy Years War".
One thinking to explain "faster" expansion into the west is the lack of OTL's Proclamation of 1763, when the British Government wouldn't allow their settlers to cross the Appalachian Mountains into the Ohio River Valley.
I was thinking that river trade along the Ohio and Mississippi would drive early settlement, at least to what i've posted so far. Maybe what I've got planned (but haven't posted yet) goes too far to fast in settling the west.
That would definitely lead to earlier expansion, but there're still limits on how many people are available or able to move into these new territories, combined with limits on how many Europeans will be able to move in before the local Native Americans start pushing back.
My hunch was based around the assumption that eventually the expansion would use up the people supply and slow back down to OTL levels. Plus, a less organized expansion would not as easily be able to keep pushing the Native Americans west, and the struggle to take those lands would be larger.
To be fair, that war is along the Mississippi River, Florida, and around the St. Lawrence River.Certainly, I could see the population focusing on the big river valleys, but your major war (in OTL Missouri) is taking place far from those areas.
To be fair, that war is along the Mississippi River, Florida, and around the St. Lawrence River.
I stand corrected in re-looking at the maps. My eyes keep on telling me it's a Mercator projection, but it isn't...and North America starts getting really difficult to read, since I'm expecting the curves to go different directions then they should.
So in that case, would you say the War of 1813 is plausible as I have it?
On review I do think that I need to rework how things work out later, in the 1830s onwards. Any ideas/suggestions?
Well, I feel a little better about it, but not great.
got any ideas?
I know it's not the input you're looking for, but, perhaps it is time to go back to the beginning and write a more detailed TL. You've got an outline for an interesting story here, now put some meat on it.
I know it's not the input you're looking for, but, perhaps it is time to go back to the beginning and write a more detailed TL. You've got an outline for an interesting story here, now put some meat on it.
Agreed Eckener I enjoy your TLs.![]()