Okay so we all know that the American identity we all identify today was basically forged between King William's War and the War of 1812, with important milestones in between(for example War of Jenkins Ear-King George's War;in which Britons began referring to their American colonists as Americans).
So I'm thinking writing a timeline around an earlier development of an American conciousness. I believe I'll of starting out with a more successful New England Confederation and a more successful Bacon's rebellion in Virginia and Maryland.
So here's my rough timeline.
POD-1654 New England Confederation seizes New Netherland during the First Anglo-Dutch War(in OTL this was initially the plan but Massachusetts went off and seized Acadia instead).
1662 King Charles II joins the New Haven Colony with Connecticut as punishment for harboring regicide Judges from the English Civil War. New Netherland joins New England Confederation(renamed New World Confederation), effectively taking New Haven's place on the council.
POD-1676 Bacon's rebellion breaks out after the death of Nathaniel Bacon, John Washington becomes leader of the rebellion(in OTL he was appointed a Colonel in the Virginia militia and he quarreled with Gov. Berkley before the rebellion and was quite popular in Virginia, he died in 1677 at the age of 46). Washington pursues a policy of guerrillla warfare against the English regiments sent to put down the rebellion and within a year the English force is completely annihilated, mostly through disease(which happened in OTL but by then the rebellion had ended).
So I'm thinking writing a timeline around an earlier development of an American conciousness. I believe I'll of starting out with a more successful New England Confederation and a more successful Bacon's rebellion in Virginia and Maryland.
So here's my rough timeline.
POD-1654 New England Confederation seizes New Netherland during the First Anglo-Dutch War(in OTL this was initially the plan but Massachusetts went off and seized Acadia instead).
1662 King Charles II joins the New Haven Colony with Connecticut as punishment for harboring regicide Judges from the English Civil War. New Netherland joins New England Confederation(renamed New World Confederation), effectively taking New Haven's place on the council.
POD-1676 Bacon's rebellion breaks out after the death of Nathaniel Bacon, John Washington becomes leader of the rebellion(in OTL he was appointed a Colonel in the Virginia militia and he quarreled with Gov. Berkley before the rebellion and was quite popular in Virginia, he died in 1677 at the age of 46). Washington pursues a policy of guerrillla warfare against the English regiments sent to put down the rebellion and within a year the English force is completely annihilated, mostly through disease(which happened in OTL but by then the rebellion had ended).