So...the last book of the America series has been announced for March. For those who haven't read it, Mark Washington's Americaverse takes place in a TL where the failed American Revolt in the late 1770's suceeded, and all of the British North American colonies (including Canada, even) became an independent "United States of America" ruled by rebel leader George Washington (one of Mr. Washington's ancestors, incidentally). "America" went on to be a highly sucessful nation, industralizing rapidly, freeing its slaves in the 1830's with minimal bloodshed and taking the northern two-thirds of Mexico in a war with that country. In a war with a Spanish-Portuguese union, America takes the entire Spanish Caribbean and the Phillpines plus Spanish Gabon and the Portuguese North African colonies, and later buys the French, British, and Dutch Caribbean after those countries are bankrupted by a global war in the 1930's. All of these areas become "states" of the "United States", and the last book, The Great War for Civilization, will focus on the upcoming conflict between America, Leader of the Free World, and the totalitarian Chinese Empire.
So...what do you guys think of the Americaverse? And, since we haven't had a discussion on it in a while, could Washington's failed uprising have worked, and what might have happened if it had? Might British America have become independent earlier than OTL, as one unit, and under a Republican government?
Thoughts?
So...what do you guys think of the Americaverse? And, since we haven't had a discussion on it in a while, could Washington's failed uprising have worked, and what might have happened if it had? Might British America have become independent earlier than OTL, as one unit, and under a Republican government?
Thoughts?