Empire of Freedom: The History of the American Empire
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That's...utterly horrific. And evil. 😨
Please tell me the Commonwealth eventually gets annihilated in the end.
Please tell me the Commonwealth eventually gets annihilated in the end.
It would be more karmic if the Commonwealth is destroyed by this bioweapon accidentally escaping the lab.
I dread to think what things are happening in India ITTL. Or Indonesia. Or Malaysia.
This has been foreshadowed by Darwin, it will be under Charles Marx where the Commonwealth will head to this direction, The Great Racial War is supposed to be the final war of humankind for the British, an endgame where races will try to exterminate one another until the final master race triumphs. There will be no allies for Britain other than itself, and the enemies ? All of the world. That’s why the commonwealth under Marx and later his successor, shall bring their entire focus on Project Darwin, and even after this report, the Lord Protector will demand it to shorten the time of death from 13 to 7 weeks. Britain will evacuate its civilian population from all of its overseas territories and lock themselves from the world after stockpiling enough materials, and then the virus shall be spread on all continents, and within months, as governments collapse and hundreds of millions get infected, the British armed forces would sweep in by invading all continents using their colonies like South Africa, India, Newfoundland, and Australia. By the moment the project research is gone, Britain will be taken straight out of 1984, with its government and people already too lost for dissent or to turn back, the only thing the people care about is serving Holy Britannia and the Lord Protector, and any non-British is seen as little better than a wild animal who must be put down for sake of the Anglo-Saxon Master Race.
I told you all that Britain would be the villain of this story, and in order to not delay the climax any longer, I shall finish the Great American War and make a time jump for the XXth century, those more lighthearted can ignore the time jump and consider it the end of the Timeline, but those that want to see the darkest of timelines, be prepared.
I told you all that Britain would be the villain of this story, and in order to not delay the climax any longer, I shall finish the Great American War and make a time jump for the XXth century, those more lighthearted can ignore the time jump and consider it the end of the Timeline, but those that want to see the darkest of timelines, be prepared.
What's going on in India ITTL? How do the East India Company and Mughal Empire interact with Darwinist Britain?
Needless to say, this plan will not be surviving contact with the real world.
LIV: THE EMPIRE OF FREEDOM V
THE EMPIRE OF FREEDOM IV
After the Battle of Columbia, the Republican Army in Northern Virginia was in disarray, being pursued by Lincoln’s superior forces after a crushing defeat. Delay actions were held on the Potomac River by the rearguard, with the High ground in Mt. Vernon being held until the 3rd of September in attempts of delaying the furious attacks of the Imperial Army. Lee raced towards the south, in order to prepare defenses with his battered army against the onslaught of the Imperial forces, especially after the Emperor signed a decree the day after the battle, authorizing military commanders to “use all available means to restore order on the rebellious southern provinces. That essentially gave generals a blank cheque to commit atrocities over the UAR, as would be demonstrated when General William T. Sherman and the 8th Legion marched into Georgia.
The Republicans successfully executed several delaying actions against the Imperial forces in Northern Virginia, allowing Lee to reorganize his forces in the town of Taylorsville, where the Republicans made a stand, with a crucial delay due to a storm that prevented the Imperial troops from crossing the river in pursuit, giving Lee time to prepare. The Battle of Taylorsville, which happened between the 10th and 12th of September of 1852, resulted in a costly victory, while Lincoln failed to rout the Republicans, he managed to establish a bridgehead that the Republicans failed to dislodge, with Lee abandoning the city to fortify the high ground, while both sides suffered terrible losses. Lincoln refused to retreat like his predecessors, instead he would use his superior numbers to force Lee to move, as he knew that Richmond was his main priority. The newly promoted Brigadier General Ulysses Grant would be sent to Richmond down the Hannover railroad on the 26th, and Lee would be forced to answer.
While the Eastern campaign was turning, George Reed continued to dominate the western theater after devastating two Imperial legions and retake Mississippi. Yet, while he desired to march to New Orleans, President Bell would send him to the Appalachians to reinforce Forrest’s battered army in the Georgian front. General Sherman and his 8th Legion would March heading to Chattanooga, a crucial railway junction and the last part of Tennessee left unoccupied after the Fall of Nashville. The Siege of Chattanooga trapped the majority Army of Tennessee, and if the city fell, the road to Atlanta would be open, allowing Sherman to divide the UAR into two. Further reinforcements were given to Sherman, while George Reed would lead a force of 47,000 men that converged to the East in Chickamauga Creek, threatening you surround the 77,000 strong Imperial force. Instead Sherman would be bold, leaving only 20,000 men to defend against a sally out in Chattanooga, while leading the majority of the army into a bloody Battle in Chickamauga on the 3rd of November of 1852, which resulted into a bloody carnage. Meanwhile, Forrest would attempt a sally in the Battle of Missionary Ridge, where a big part of the Republican forces managed to slip away to the south, yet the casualties were heavy, and the troops were suffering from diseases and famine after weeks of siege. As a result, they were unable to reach Chickamauga fast enough and Reed was forced to retreat.
The railroads were the key of Atlanta, it was a hub that linked the west and the east of the UAR, and its strategic position was second to none. Yet, the Virginian campaign and the renewed Imperial offensives in Mississippi would tie down the hands of President Bell as he could not call up any more reinforcements. Instead he declared state of emergency, ordering the conscription of all available men between the ages of 17 and 50, a desperate act that showed how the fortunes of the Republic turned after the disaster at Columbia, all the lost men were irreplaceable veterans, and the new men were recruits who barely knew what a musket was. The lack of supplies due to the blockade were affecting the nation, and the weak industrialization due to the oligarchical control of cotton farmers would prove to be disastrous, with the increasingly reduced stockpiles of weapons and ammunition, with no longer any hope of breaking the blockade. At that point, the UAR was abandoned, the Commonwealth of Britannia would occupy Liberia, leaving its ally to their fate.
Inevitably, Atlanta would fall, after an all-out attack on the 2nd of December of 1852, and with that, the March to the Sea began. The Imperial army marched towards Savannah destroying everything in their path, burning Plantations, freeing slaves, recruiting many Freedonians who rose with John Brown and fought a guerrilla warfare in Georgia for over a year. Sherman would allow them their revenge, massacring plantation owners in mass lynchings and integrating more freed slaves into All-Black regiments, Sherman wasn’t exactly a Liberal, but he knew they were useful as a tool to humiliate the south and break their will to fight. “Scorched land” would be taken to it’s most literal sense, with food being stolen, the soil was salted, and entire towns were wiped from the maps. It is estimated that between 20-30% of the Georgian Population would die as result, with the Imperial troops finally taking Savannah on the 24th of December. With a Christmas gift being given to the Emperor, with the telegram sent to Columbia: Savannah had fallen, the UAR was split in two, and the Southerners were paying for their rebellion 40 years earlier.
Man, Bellegarde really did a number on this world's psyche, especially regarding about Sherman's campaign being more... successful?
May the traitorous Republicans be no more! Long live the Emperor!
Love this series. I wonder what's happening in Asia with all these wars happening.
Oh Nappy... what have you wrought upon this world...
On that note, I hope to see what's going on in Europe before we take the time jump
LV: THE EMPIRE OF FREEDOM VI
THE EMPIRE OF FREEDOM VI
The year of 1853 would finally end The Great American War. While the war in Europe would end with the Pact of Bordeaux, where the Bourbons and Braganza would sell their souls for their thrones and causing the rise of Charles Marx in Britannia, the war in America would end with the destruction of the United American Republics. By the new year, Lincoln’s Virginian campaign managed to outmaneuver Lee’s Grand Army of the Republic, and Lee would have to choose between saving Richmond or saving his army. Meanwhile, after the destruction of Georgia by General Sherman’s 8th Legion, George Reed has rallied the remnants of his forces of the Deep South, with General Curtis marching from the West and Sherman from the East, the last Republican offensive is launched in an effort to surround Sherman’s Force in the East and reconnect the two halves of the UAR.
The last months of the war in Virginia would be marked by the desperate defense of Richmond by Lee’s forces against the onslaught of the Imperial Army. Outnumbered, running out of supplies and reserves, the Republican Army could only count on the home advantage. By that point, only the insane talked about victory, but for President Bell, surrender was not an alternative, he claimed that the UAR would die on their feet and resist tyranny by all costs, but the UAR could not fight anymore. After the defeat in Columbia, and especially after the Fall of Atlanta, the southern morale collapsed, thousands of soldiers deserted, shrinking Lee’s army by a fourth of it’s size during the retreat from Columbia. In the plantations, slaves would wake up to discover the whole place was abandoned during night, a true exodus of plantation owners and members of the Republican upper class, many trying to slip into Imperial territory in Louisiana and traveling to Spanish Mexico, others sneaking through the blockade to the friendly Republic of Cuba, others released their slaves in an attempt to get mercy. After the fall of Savannah, local government officials in Mississippi, most of them being opposed to President Bell’s coup, would stage a coup against the State Government, declaring the “Provisional Government of Mississippi” and inviting Imperial troops under General Curtis to occupy the State. The UAR was falling apart in January, with widespread mutinies, riots and desertions.
Yet the army still lived, the Republican Army under Stonewall Jackson would fight the Battle of Hannover Station against Ulysses Grant’s Cohorts. Between the 26th and 28th of September, the Republicans would achieve a phyrric victory, losing almost as many men as the Imperials, but they couldn’t replenish their numbers. During October, Lincoln would fight a series of battles in Eastern Virginia, attempting to outflank Lee, in November it would culminate in the Battle of Petersburg, where Lee’s army dug out in heavily entrenched positions. Petersburg would be a foreshadowing of future wars, both sides using new technology like the feared Gatling Guns, Repeater rifles and Observation Balloons. The Imperial forces would be butchered in their attempt to assault the city on the 18th, and would settle down for a siege. Meanwhile, other Imperial forces in Virginia would capture the Republican fleet in Norfolk on the 30th. On the 26th of January, instead of attacking it again, Lincoln completely bypassed Lee’s army and headed west to strike Richmond from the Southwest. Lee would be forced to abandon Petersburg and in the Battle of Chesterfield Court House, Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia would be broken, now reduced to less than 40,000 men, compared to Lincoln’s 112,000 that continued getting more and more reinforcements. On the 27th of January, Lee would flee west, and Richmond fell, the Emperor ordered Lincoln to “Make Sherman look like a pacifist”. The city’s militia was overwhelmed, while its surrender was refused, being bombarded from all sides, the city was consumed in flames, and the desperate people would storm the Presidential House and murdered President Bell and his Family, who refused to abandon the city. Their heads were brought on pikes to Lincoln, who surprisingly mourned the death of Bell, he ordered the bombardment to cease after 3 days, no longer able to see the suffering being inflicted. The Emperor would come in on the 3rd of February when the flames died out, where his troops parades through a ruined city. There was still Lee’s army to deal with, and Lincoln went west in pursuit, fighting the last battle of the war in Madison Heights, the Battle of Lynchburg would happen on the 9th, and it barely lasted two hours before Lee called for a meeting with Lincoln, the surrender in Lynchburg is considered by many historians as the end of the war. But the fighting was not over.
George Reed, a diehard Republican and still the General of the Army of Tennessee, would still keep the fight going, leading a force of 37,000 men, he fled for South Carolina where he hoped to march north and reinforce Lee. On the 15th of January, with the news that Sherman’s 8th Legion was marching to Charlestown, Petersburg was under siege, and that Mississippi betrayed the Republic, George Reed would refuse to surrender. Instead, he conscripted men from the ages of 16 to 60, children as young as 13 and even women were allowed in the army, to form a last offensive to prevent Sherman from destroying the Carolinas. With his numbers increased to 60,000 (Although less than a third was made up of veterans), he attacked Sherman’s Force at Walterboro, the sudden and unexpected attack managed to beat back Sherman’s Force, with the Imperials not believing the Southerners could still put up a fight. On the 28th, with Curtis’ army marching from Alabama, Reed decided to make a last stand, harassing Sherman’s Force to pursue them back to Georgia. Until the 5th of March, the “Army” of George Reed would play a game of cat and mouse while the Republic collapsed, with the death of Bell and the surrender of Lee, the Republic would collapse leaderless, each governor for itself with many fleeing into exile to avoid the revenge of the Empire, the Native Tribes in Florida would renounce their loyalty to the Republican government and signed new agreements with the Empire, that decided to be merciful and leave them in their previous status quo. Yet George Reed would not stop the fight, he declared himself “Grand General of the Republic”, demanding the loyalty of the remaining State governments of Alabama, South and North Carolina. None of them would recognize his authority, instead the remnants of the Republican Congress would proclaim the demobilization of forces and the Speaker of the Congress, Jonathan Harlow, became Interimn President in the “Lynchburg Government” which would only exist for a day between the 9th and the 10th of February, only active to sign the Treaty of Lynchburg, reintegrating the UAR into the American Empire and revoking the Articles of Succession.
Reed’s Georgian campaign would reach its climax in the final battle of The Great American War: The Battle of Columbus, at the border between Georgia and Alabama. Both Curtis’ and Sherman’s Legions would converge from all sides, surrounding Reed's forces. The Republicans were starved, outnumbered 6-1, surrounded, and completely demoralized. On the 5th of March, the forces of Reed were surrounded in the city and attacked from all sides, Republicans surrendering en masse rather than fighting for a dead nation. Yet Reed would rally his veterans and the most fanatical of his troops to a last stand, surrounded from all sides, his troops ran out of ammunition by the midnight. General Sherman would ride out and demand their surrender, to which Reed replied “The South loses but does not surrender !” His men would fix bayonets and launch a last hopeless charge to their deaths, being gunned down by canister shots from artillery and Gatling guns, few men would reach the Imperial lines, and none of them survived, Reed himself dying while leading a cavalry charge in a attempt to kill General Sherman. And with the death of the “Grand General of the Republic” on the midnight of the 6th of March of 1853, the Great American War was over. The Empire of Freedom fought against the Republic of Slavery and won, with between 900,000 and 1 million deaths, a total war in North America that only ended with the complete annihilation of the UAR, be it on the 9th of February, when Lee surrendered to Lincoln, on the 10th when the Republican Congress signed the Treaty of Lynchburg, or the night of the 5th to the 6th of March when George Reed and his men died in a last charge, the UAR was no more, and now only one America was left standing: The American Empire.
Ending
Here it is, the Canon ending for this Timeline. It was quite a journey, and I wish I had finished it earlier, I’m sorry for taking so long between updates. But the story is not over, this is just the ending of the beginning. From a PTSD-induced dream, the American Empire went through many hardships, but at last it has triumphed and from the ashes of Columbia, a much stronger Union has emerged, one that shall not be broken again. Yet this is nothing compared to the great challenge across the ocean: A Nation that was devastated by its enemies, and now starts rising again led by probably one of the most insane and destructive ideologies of any alternate history of this site. The Commonwealth of Britannia will be reinvented by Charles Marx, who will lead a coup against the elderly Cochrane after the disaster in Iberia. D. Miguel and D. Carlos would make a deal with Napoleon II, who no longer saw any way to keep French rule in Iberia: They would receive back their thrones in return for breaking all diplomatic ties with Britannia and instead join the Continental System. Under normal circumstances they would never accept it, but after a string of victories of the French army that threatened to expel the Iberians again, they saw no other choice. Blamed by the failure in Iberia, Cochrane would be couped by the Veterans led by young General Charles Marx, who would bring in a whole new level of Totalitarianism to Britannia, something similar to INGSOC of 1984, with Eugenics becoming a State policy, the Lord Protector would start Project Darwin, the ultimate plan that could end up allowing Britannia to do what no other nation ever did in history: Complete control of the Planet.
But for now, let us smile for the Empire has triumphed, America would enter a golden age, while also marching to the west and becoming the dominant power of North America. And the world will continue as usual, while Britannia plotted it’s downfall.
Be safe everyone, goodbye.
But for now, let us smile for the Empire has triumphed, America would enter a golden age, while also marching to the west and becoming the dominant power of North America. And the world will continue as usual, while Britannia plotted it’s downfall.
Be safe everyone, goodbye.