Do not trust the locals of a dimension. Ever. Dimension 27 was the most extreme example, but even honest people don't necessarily have the correct information. Our own Timeline has numerous points of debate, less advanced societies records are far more questionable.
What was the exact POD that led to this world? Most French records were destroyed in their bloody revolution, and -proving the old saying wrong- the British were rather incomplete in the records of the wars they lost to France.
However we do know that just before our discovery of this Dimension the following things happened:
Late 17th to mid 18th century: Britain's luck ran low, the French managed to win the wars in India and North America.
Late 18th century: The French people grew angry as the Nobles overworked them, needing more money to maintain their new empire, keeping the Thirteen Colonies under control, and fighting in India to build their empire. In 1769 the British colonists began a revolt against the French taxation, the revolt was stopped, but seeing it's costs taxation was removed, and placed on the peasants of France. The peasants were more loyal, but the price of the empire was too much, so when the British, still vengeful of their lost wars against the French crown, heard of the unrest they promised to support the revolution.
In 1794 the bloody revolution began. Many noble however escaped the revolutionaries, with many thousands of common royalists, and fled to New France, which had remained loyal. Hundreds however were stopped by the royal navy of Britain, forced to return to France.
When we discovered this dimension the year was 1801, and a war ravaged Europe. Austrians, Prussians and Russians attacked the Franco-British alliance, hoping to Re-instate the Monarchy, many villages fell into revolt due to royalist who had not escaped, and Spain soon joined the fray.
What was the exact POD that led to this world? Most French records were destroyed in their bloody revolution, and -proving the old saying wrong- the British were rather incomplete in the records of the wars they lost to France.
However we do know that just before our discovery of this Dimension the following things happened:
Late 17th to mid 18th century: Britain's luck ran low, the French managed to win the wars in India and North America.
Late 18th century: The French people grew angry as the Nobles overworked them, needing more money to maintain their new empire, keeping the Thirteen Colonies under control, and fighting in India to build their empire. In 1769 the British colonists began a revolt against the French taxation, the revolt was stopped, but seeing it's costs taxation was removed, and placed on the peasants of France. The peasants were more loyal, but the price of the empire was too much, so when the British, still vengeful of their lost wars against the French crown, heard of the unrest they promised to support the revolution.
In 1794 the bloody revolution began. Many noble however escaped the revolutionaries, with many thousands of common royalists, and fled to New France, which had remained loyal. Hundreds however were stopped by the royal navy of Britain, forced to return to France.
When we discovered this dimension the year was 1801, and a war ravaged Europe. Austrians, Prussians and Russians attacked the Franco-British alliance, hoping to Re-instate the Monarchy, many villages fell into revolt due to royalist who had not escaped, and Spain soon joined the fray.