For a few acres of snow.

And so the Isles get a Stuart King while George II remakes the BNA and overseas possessions into the Empire of Britannia!
 
Treaty of Paris - 1760

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King George III of Great Britain and North America in some of the clothes imported from Europe. George III personally disdained some clothing and was often seen by his citizens in a military uniform.


The Five Years War was over. In one swift, masterstroke, the Kingdom of France had invaded the British Isles and successfully taken London after a brief hour long battle with the Islands only land force. With French soldiers near Parliament building, the members of Parliament held a brief ten minute session before they sent a message to Charles de Rohan, Prince of Soubise, Marshal of France, the man who commanded the invasion force. Parliament surrendered.

King George II and the royal family had been evacuated further up north of the country, away from the French invasion force. With Parliament's surrender, Soubise demanded that George II sign the declaration of surrender as well. George II had broken the Covention of Klosterzeven after the Invasion of Hanover, therefore Soubise wanted to make sure Britain was out of the war for good. However, it was soon discovered that George II, fleeing the French invasion in England, Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland and the Irish Uprising had fled aboard a small fleet. In his stead, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, the younger son of George II was placed on the throne. The new King of Great Britain signed the agreement, much to the public's dismay.

When Prussia heard of Britain's surrender, Frederick II, King in Prussia immediately sued for peace before committing suicide in his bed [1]. For three days of mourning for the late King, Frederick II's nephew through his brother, Augustus William of Prussia, was placed on the throne as Frederick II did not have any children himself. Sixteen year-old Frederick William II was crowned King in Prussia on the 1st December but even though the boy was of an easy-going nature, he was quickly hardened against the world of international politics as he was mentored by Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick.

The Peace of Paris outlined the demands from the victors, France, Austria, Russia, Saxony and Sweden against the defeated Great Britain, Hanover and Prussia. As per their 1756 Treaty of Paris with Austria, France received the souther Netherlands, a territory that France had coveted for some time. The Duke of Parma would take the throne but the southern Netherlands would largely be under control of French ministers. From Britain, France demanded the return of their territories in North America to be reinstated, however, such difficulties would arise, which will be detailed later. France kept Minorca and Sumatra, while also took the Northern Circars in India [2].

In central Europe, Prussia was partitioned to the victors, like vultures tearing apart a dying beast. Sweden would take the entire of Pomerania, Russia officially took East Prussia and Austria would the entire of Silesia. Saxony, abandoned by the rest of the vultures, took small pieces of land along their border with Prussia. Prussia would see their defeat and the Peace of Paris as a symbol of British failure. The dignitaries of each country finally signed the treaty on 21st January 1760.


The King's Arrival in North America

On the 12th November, a small fleet of British ships sailed over the horizon and docked in Boston's harbour. The ships looked like they had been put through hell and back; many of the ships were a patchwork of older, painted timbers and newer, unpainted ones - the signs of repair on a battle-damaged warship. There were only twelve ships in total but at the head of the fleet was the 100-cannon HMS Royal George.

Such a fleet was a minor occurrence to the city and its harbour; they had been receiving military vessels for the last five years, another fleet from the British Isles was largely ignored by the Bostonians. However, the men who walked off the ship would change the face of British America forever. A soldier rushed off the ship as soon as a gangway had been laid and barked at the harbour master to show him to a doctor. Confused and frightened by the soldier, the man agreed and with a single shout back to the vessel out came a huge entourage of soldiers surrounding a man on a stretcher. These men, almost 100 odd, were soldiers wore the uniform of the Royal Horse Guards Blue and the Life Guards, units directly involved in protecting the King.

A young man kept up with the stretcher, holding the hand of the elderly man lying on it as the Bostonian showed them all to the nearest doctor.
The entourage of soldiers drew more attention from the locals than the fleet they had arrived upon and soon a city official was called for. The official was the pompous type, the same type who believed himself above these new soldiers who had come storming into his town, and demanded to know who the newcomer’s were. The guards outside paid no attention to the man, even as he spewed forth his rank and title and threatened the men with hanging [3]. The soldiers halted at a local doctor, a one Matthew Thornton [4] who had served in the Siege of Louisbourg, while the elderly man was quickly admitted, the majority of the soldiers stayed outside and blocked anyone from entering, especially the city official who had stayed with the soldiers, even though he had fallen silent.

The soldiers stood guard for almost ten minutes, the crowd growing larger and larger around the soldiers in their finely made uniforms and perfect muskets. The younger man exited, the same one who had held the elderly man's hand earlier, his face supposedly a picture of sorrow. He approached the city official and asked him quietly to show him to Boston's local council. The pompous arrogance returned as the official asked the younger man "who he thought he was?" The younger man quietly replied, "The King of Great Britain."

As word leaked out, the entire of Boston virtually shutdown. Rumours spread like wildfire across the city and soon a large crowd had gathered outside of the local council building, where supposedly the King of Great Britain was deep in conversation with the Boston council. Why was he in America? was the most common question on the lips of Bostonians. The young man was believed to have been conversing with the city's councilmen for almost three hours before he left, surrounded by his royal guard, and headed back to the fleet in harbour before it became dark. It took the supposed King of Great Britain longer to walk back to HMS Royal George than it did for word to leak out about the mysterious man.

The man, in finely made clothes in the latest fashion from Europe, was George III, King of Great Britain. The elderly man they had seen on the stretcher was the King's grandfather, the late George II. The elderly leader of the Kingdom of Great Britain had suffered a heart attack on the journey from England to America. Supposedly from the loss of the British Isles, the news of which greatly concerned the Bostonians almost as much as the death of the King. The French had invaded England and had taken London as the news went. The royal guards concerned for the King's health and wellbeing had whisked away the entire royal family to Edinburgh. However, on the way, they had received word of another Jacobite Rebellion, a 25,000 [5] strong force had taken Edinburgh and so the convoy was diverted to port. The details become confusing but it seems that the convoy actually passed the French invaders, seemingly talked (or fought) their way through to the HMS America. It is believed they made their way to Belfast in a small fleet but once seeing the city in flames (the Irish Uprising had set fire to Belfast) decided under the command of the late George II to sail to their colonies in North America.

News quickly followed through Dutch traders of New York of the Peace of Paris. George III, with the death of the his grandfather, protested King William IV's succession, however, the French King Louis XV supported the new British King and blocked any of George III's demands; it is believed by many that William IV was in the pocket of Louis XV, to the disgust of Parliament and George III. William IV believed that his father and nephew had abandoned Britain and its throne by fleeing to North America and declared that George III, who claimed the throne had usurped his rightful reign and control over the colonies. The situation between the nephew and uncle was tense, a situation which would remain that way until the War of the British Succession [6], as neither King could threaten the other with large enough military forces. When both Parliament's got involved, the situation became even worse. The Parliament in the British Isles, who believed that King William IV was the rightful monarch to the throne despite their resistance to their King's pro-French attitude
demanded of the Parliament-in-America relinquish their fraudulent powers and, like royal patriots of the British Crown, to hand over the renegade nephew of the true King. However, after a particularly stirring speech from George III on March 1st and an one hundred percent vote from Parliament-in-America, the North American Provinces rejected their Island cousins demands outright [7]. Yet despite this, both the Islands and the North American Provinces would continue to trade [8].

King George III knew that his grandfather could not run the British Isles without Parliament, he realised that he himself could not run the British North American colonies without any sort of support. So upon arriving in Boston, George III called for the leaders of the colonial governments and the military commanders from the colonial militia ad the British regulars who had just fought in the American theatre of the Five Years wars. Throughout the harsh winter, these men came together in an almost-season long meeting known as the Boston Congress [9]. Out of the many major decisions that were made there, the Boston Congress made one very important one; it formally established the Kingdom of Great Britain and North American Provinces with King George III at its head, supported by Parliament-in-America. Those colonies would officially become provinces of the new kingdom and the colonists would be considered citizens, Englishmen under law. Parliament-in-America would be resemble Parliament back on the British Isles, with the House of Lords formed from the military officers from the War in North America such as James Wolfe and Robert Monckton while the House of Commons was formed from the political elite of the ex-colonies [10].

Also established in the Boston Congress, and due to the large size of the new country and the inability of one central authority to maintain control [11], was for each Province to have its own council/congress/parliament made up of men from the provinces, many of these men also led the local town councils. However, in each of these
provincial governments there had to be a Crown official to mediate and represent the Crown's interests in the Province and its politics. So the provincial government would elected a member to represent them in Parliament-in-America and lead the province itself as General-Governor of said province while the position of Lieutenant Governor would be held by a Crown-appointed official [12]. In their first motion, the Parliament-in-America elected Jeffery Amherst as the first Prime Minister of the North American Provinces.

While the long standing priority of this new Parliament-in-America was to retake the British Isles, the members of the Commons believed if they did so, then their position as citizens and the ability to make their own decisions would disappear and they would revert to their previous colony status. To prevent this, they drew up the Constitution of the Fundamental Laws of England and North America [13] which outlined the absolute rights of every Englishman, albeit the rights were modified to fit the frontier life of the North American Provinces, such as the right to keep and bear arms [14]. In the Constitution, it also established that citizens living in North American Provinces would be referred to as British Americans [15].

Under the new Parliament-in-America many long standing laws made in England were changed or repealed, such as the Navigation Acts, which now allowed the British American merchants and traders to directly deal with other countries, most notably were the Dutch and German states while Sweden and Portugal were also favoured. This dropped the price of the expensive goods from Britain as they were forced to compete with cheaper goods from the other states and also caused minor deflation in the provinces, a welcome change for the citizens of the North American Provinces, who had saw inflation during the conflict. They also began taxation of the citizens, an unwelcome change for many, but in essence the taxes were incredibly light compared to those back in Britain. Many of these taxes were put to developing the industry in North American Provinces especially such as gunsmiths and arsenals to arm the new Kingdom's military as well developing the infrastructure of the North American Provinces.


With the creation of the new Kingdom demanded the creation of a military force able to protect it. Thus, similar to the Kingdom on the British Isles, the Parliament-in-America authorised the creation of the Royal North American Navy (RNAN) and the British American Army (BAA) to help defend the North American Provinces shores and frontier, respectively. The RNAN was formed around the small fleet that had brought King George III across the Atlantic Ocean, while veterans from the War in North America helped create a standing army of almost 10,000 men, trained in the American-style, similar to those of the Royal American Regiment. Many of these men would be deployed along the frontier of the Provinces [16], while a decent force was posted in Canada and Acadia, later to be Nova Scotia, to watch over the French habitants who still lived there [17].

However, this was mainly down on paper. It would take most of the year of 1760 to finally get these orders from paper to reality.

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[1] - Frederick the Great was already suicide-y in '59 so this isn't such a far stretch.
[2] - France takes a great number of territories from the British, which will lead to a greater French presence in India.
[3] - The idea to split the King's dominions was already proposed earlier on but it came to nothing.
[4] - Butterflies.
[5] - Exaggeration, of course.
[6] - Muahaa. I will reveal all later.
[7] - This will be the beginning of the tension between North America and the British Isles.
[8] - However, while the relationship is quite frosty, both need the trade.
[9] - Continental Congress but with a flair of royalty.
[10] - Sir George Washington, I may presume.
[11] - See earlier attempts with the Dominion of New England.
[12] - This is as far was republicanism goes in the Provinces, the role of Lieutenant-Governor will become an elected position but much, much later.
[13] - This is the TTL version of the US Constitution.
[14] - This will cause similar problems as OTL.
[15] - Random tidbit. Being an British American shows that the American colonists recognise they are still British but are physically and politically separate from their Island cousins.
[16] - The borders of the Provinces will be different than OTL, thanks to the input of King George III.
[17] - They won't be living there for much longer.

AN: This is hopefully the newer better version of my TL. I've deleted the offending articles on the Jacobite restoration. No more Catholic Restoration to the throne, however, the British dominions have been split into two seperate Kingdoms: the Kingdom of Great Britain and Hanover & the Kingdom of Great Britain and North American Provinces. Yes, there'll be some conflict between the two but not immediately. The earlier split between Britain and North America will have an effect on the British Isles colonial future. Anybody up for a War of the British Succession? :D

EDIT: I've slightly redone this post. Now the British Isles has the 'Butcher' Cumberland, William IV as King, while the North American Provinces has William's nephew, George III, as King. The two Kings both claim each others Kingdom which makes the tension without Jacobite Restoration. Hopefully, this is much better than what I had ever imagined and I hope you enjoy this too. Anyhow, if this is not too bad, the next update will be the situation in India.

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Yeah, that sounds really wonky... That completely goes against most standard succession procedure. Why would he split up the Kingdom? Is there a reason George II breaks with hundreds of years of succession law and without the consent of parliament, and assigns his grandson a separate kingdom in America; formed out of a bunch of colonies he paid no attention to his entire life?

I'm not trying to poo on your party; its just implausible. If you want a British Kingdom in North America; you could just go back further.

Frederick, the Prince of Wales; was almost banished to the American Colonies by George II in OTL. But this POD is kinda taken. Thande's TL Look to the West has him getting banished there in 1727 and eventually becoming Emperor of North America.

I really like the idea of a defeated Great Britain and Prussia in the Seven Years War. Please continue...
 
So what happened to the Jacobites? I was expecting they would at least get Ireland or Scotland.

No, despite the Jacobite Rebellion and Irish Uprising gaining some support, when the French leave, the rebellion breaks down due to bad co-ordination and the fact King William stamps down on them hard afterwards. The Scots are fine with it since many didn't support the rebellion but the Irish received real support from the Catholic majority and won't go so quietly.


Yeah, that sounds really wonky... That completely goes against most standard succession procedure. Why would he split up the Kingdom? Is there a reason George II breaks with hundreds of years of succession law and without the consent of parliament, and assigns his grandson a separate kingdom in America; formed out of a bunch of colonies he paid no attention to his entire life?

I'm not trying to poo on your party; its just implausible. If you want a British Kingdom in North America; you could just go back further.

Frederick, the Prince of Wales; was almost banished to the American Colonies by George II in OTL. But this POD is kinda taken. Thande's TL Look to the West has him getting banished there in 1727 and eventually becoming Emperor of North America.

I really like the idea of a defeated Great Britain and Prussia in the Seven Years War. Please continue...

I know Thande got that one covered and I know, in no way, can I best him on that one. But my entire idea behind the POD was to have a monarch in North America before the colonies revolted. Anyway, it's a quirk of history, how many times have you read something that was rejected in OTL but given enough push it could have happened?

I got into a stick of trouble when I proposed a Jacobite Restoration, so instead I have George II on his death bed spliting his Kingdom from his colonies, just in case the French try to do something. With the French knocking on London's door its not hard to imagine they might. From here on in London will never again have control over North America.
 
I got into a stick of trouble when I proposed a Jacobite Restoration, so instead I have George II on his death bed spliting his Kingdom from his colonies, just in case the French try to do something. With the French knocking on London's door its not hard to imagine they might. From here on in London will never again have control over North America.
How about the George II and III retreat to the /America/British Colonies, and the 'Butcher ' gets placed on the throne by the French in his absence, in-the-kings-name. Hence, we get the tension that exists between the two kings, with each one claiming one anothers realm.

Also, the Jacobites would have to return at some point, even if just for a few year they receive ireland or scotland. Preferably the former.
 
How about the George II and III retreat to the /America/British Colonies, and the 'Butcher ' gets placed on the throne by the French in his absence, in-the-kings-name. Hence, we get the tension that exists between the two kings, with each one claiming one anothers realm.

Also, the Jacobites would have to return at some point, even if just for a few year they receive ireland or scotland. Preferably the former.

Again, much better that what I planned. You know what, I'll edit it into my last update. :eek: Honestly, I had some idea on how this TL would play out but I hadn't a clue what would happen with the invasion. Like I said, I'll edit it in and post another update.
 
Nice, but I still think the French would try for Ireland as a Jacobite Kingdom. Aside from weakening Britain it goes with a religious angle. Also the King-in-London recognizing Irish independence would generate significant support for the King-in-America.

I am guessing Philadelphia is the Capital for the Court in Exile?
 
Nice, but I still think the French would try for Ireland as a Jacobite Kingdom. Aside from weakening Britain it goes with a religious angle. Also the King-in-London recognizing Irish independence would generate significant support for the King-in-America.

I am guessing Philadelphia is the Capital for the Court in Exile?

Ireland is, at this moment, a mess. British forces under William IV are trying to restore order but the Irish Uprising is getting more organised and political attention from France and the rest of Europe. However, France cannot be bothered to start a conflict with Britain as its needs to sorts its debts out (Not bigger than OTL but still pretty big). Besides after the invasion, France has kinda just dumped Charles like an annoying girlfriend and just doesn't want anything to do with the man.

William IV generally hates (or most dislike's) his nephew for taking his colonies. Parliament (in London) is not interested in starting a war with its ex-colonies over 'who's the monarch?' They haven't the money or public support to invade the North American Provinces; especially since nearly all British Americans see William IV as a sign of a demotion back to colony status or worse, while George III has given them near everything.

For the capital, its generally flexible. Mostly Boston, but its flucates betweens the provinces. George III will become quite wealthly despite his nickname as the 'Poor King' and own a fair bit of land but the building for Parliament-in-America will be constructed much later.

Also update to follow.
 
The New France Question

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Although France had won the Five Years War with the Invasion of England, British military policy during the conflict had strangled New France, France's main colony in North America, of key supplies and reinforcements. This had allowed the British, who could easily reinforce their own colonies, to completely dominate New France - starting with Acadia in 1755, the contested Ohio Valley in 1756, the Fortress of Louisbourg in 1758 and Montreal and Quebec in 1759. However, complication would arise during the Peace of Paris, that threaten to turn the entire region back into a war zone. In the Treaty of Paris of 1760, France demanded the return of New France, as well as the entire of Acadia (including the Nova Scotian peninsular), the Ohio Valley and territory around the Great Lakes. It also requested that the British limit their colonies growth so that the numerically inferior New France could try to catch up the North American Provinces' population of almost 1.5 million persons.

While the Treaty had been signed by the British King William IV, George III the grandson of the late King of the same name, believed that since he was the true successor to George II, the Treaty and any agreements made by his uncle were null and void in law. However, George III and his Kingdom still had almost 75,000 habitants still living on their conquered territory. Both the public and government had mixed views on what to do with the French Canadiens. Some wanted revenge for the invasion of the mother country and seeing how close these Frenchmen were compared to the idea of attack France herself, it was a perfect opportunity. Others wanted to kick the Canadiens off their land, take it for themselves and sell it for a profit. Few wanted to allow the French to remain there but many knew that under British law, the French will stifle and eventually revolt, something not need or wanted by Parliament-in-America. However, for the North American Provinces the situation would sort itself out.

Throughout the War in North America, the most numerous group that had participated on the French side was the colonial militia. The Canadien militia was considered a major asset to Montcalm and the other French officers and provided a flexible backbone for defence of the colony during peacetime. The war however caused a bigger problem that just conflict. During peacetime, the level of cultivation was satisfactory, however due to the small portion that had been cultivated properly, during wartime, the demand increased. The crop yield, which had been sufficient for the habitants, Troupes de la Marines and allied Indians, could not stretch to also cover the 6,000 regular soldier brought across at the beginning of the conflict. Although the plan was that the soldiers would be shipped over with their own provision and subsequently receive annual supply convoy to support the war effort, the British blockade had been so effective that the number of ships that would arrive dwindled each year. Despite the welcome presence of the resupply ships, the amount of grain and other foodstuff's was typically inadequate to help feed the colonists and the soldiers.

The situation had reached a crisis point in 1757, when all grain was centrally stored and made into bread by the colonial government of New France, the Sovereign Council. Daily allowances were allocated to all the people within the colony. It wasn't just war that forced the hand of the French Canadiens, nature also played a role in the colony's plight. The harvests for 1756 and 1757 were poor, followed by a unusually severe winter of 1757-58. The population was forced to consume the seed crop of the wheat the following year. France had not abandoned its colony and responded with three ships filled with seed.

The result of the harvest had an additional effect on the effect on the army: the composition of the colonial militia. The militia was drawn from all sectors of the French Canadien community, especially the farming class. If the threat to New France (the British) did not subside for a significant period of time and the men could not be released, the yield of the harvest might be adversely affected. Commonly, militiamen took matters into their own hands and returned to their farms without having been discharged by their commanders. With widespread desertion from their militia, the French leadership was put into a precarious position, however, the War in North America would strike at the heartlands of New France.

In the final year of New France, the French Canadiens made on final effort to defend their settled lands from the British. However, their effort was in vain as the British took both Quebec and Montreal within the year. Now the French Canadiens were not only feeding themselves and the surviving regular soldiers (who were soon deported back to France) but also the British soldiers now guarding the captured French towns and cities. This crippled the farmlands of New France as they were unable to provide grain, as demanded, for all in the province. Although Parliament-in-America would rectify the situation will foodstuff's from the southern Provinces (they had been barely touched by the War in North America), the majority of this would been received by the British soldiers not the starving French Canadiens.

However, it was not the extreme food shortage that would cause the Great French Migration. The simple fact of living under British rule frightened many of the French Canadiens, many of which had been under the influence of the Catholic priests who at first called them to defend their land but now spread lies and rumours that the North American Provinces was marshalling a force of over 100,000 men to march upon Canada and slaughter the righteous Catholics living there in revenge of the mother country invade England. Those British troops, who had been sent to safeguard the conquered French settlements, were labelled as an scouting force to advise the main force on the dangers and hazards ahead.

In the first of the spring of 1760, the French Canadiens rose up against the British garrisons. Known as the Canadien Uprising, the failed rebellion caused the death of over 500 habitants while the British suffered little more than 50 deaths. This caused even more tension and anxiety with the French Canadiens, who heard of the additional reinforcements heading to support the beleaguered garrison and believed they were the main force coming to slaughter them. The tension grew when British forces began raiding settlements and homes looking for firearms and some of the most incendiary of the Catholic priests, hoping to nip the bud of another rebellion. However, the crisis point was reached when a small group of Acadians arrived in Quebec, detailing how their village and farms had been burnt to the ground by the British. While the fact remains that under British occupation, Acadia was subject to deportation and a scorch-earth plan to prevent the Acadians from returning to their homes, the rumours and lies created by the remaining Catholic priests broke the French Canadien resolve and they fled.

It was commonly believed that French ships would arrive at the ports of what was New France, now the Province of Canada and transport the French Canadiens home or to another colony to start again, however, France believed by doing so it, acknowledged that their demands in the Treaty of Paris were worthless. Thus without support from the mother country, the citizens of New France looked inwards and to the south: Louisiana.

The entire population did not flee at once as believed by many of the British Americans but in large groups, fleeing French Canadiens moved south along the bank of the St Lawrence River gathering in numbers as they did until they reached the Great Lakes. They sailed along the shores of the Great Lakes on bateaux, many of them often stolen from abandoned French forts until they reached Lake Huron. The French Canadiens often crossed at Sault Sainte Marie, the crossroads of a 3,000-mile fur trade. Many Troupes de la Marines, often with but unreportedly coureur des bois, still served their country with pride and acted as guides for many of the fleeing French Canadiens, leading them to French outposts, especially in the Illinois Country. With the help of Marines, the French Canadiens would be led to the Mississippi River, an great river than carved its way down the centre of North America.

The French Canadiens would sail down the Mississippi River. Many would stop upon the route and settle along the Mississippi, forming a similar seigneural system like they had along the St Lawrence. The most famous settlement would become Sainte Louisiana (OTL our St Louis), after the land that had given them a new start, as Sainte Louisiana was situated where the Missouri River fed into the Mississippi. There with Sainte Louisiana as the epicentre, the French Canadien settled along the western side of the Mississippi, ever fearful of a British raid if they strayed onto the eastern bank. The fact a small tribe had attacked the refugees with a Brown Bess, the standard British musket at the time, did not help matters.

However, the French Canadiens did not move en masse or within a single year. The process of the migration of the French-speaking population from the British Province of Canada to the French Province of Louisiana took almost twenty years and almost a third of the French Canadiens died along the route either by disease, attack, accident or starvation. Food along the journey was apparently in abundance going by the reports of some of the refugees, however, it is noted their were cases of cannibalism among some of the travellers who ran out of food, got lost in the wilderness or didn't prepare for the journey properly. Many of the Indian tribes along the upper east bank of the Mississippi tell tales of the French Canadiens coming to their land and trading goods for some of their food. A great source of food often came from the herds of bison that roamed the interior. Coureur des bois and Marines often greeted later travellers with cooked bison meat, which soon became a delicacy amongst the French Canadiens.

The migration also affected the local tribes, many of them had previous contact with Europeans but only in small numbers and only those looking for news areas for the ever growing fur trade. The French Canadiens moved in such numbers that many of the local tribes contracted European diseases, which their bodies had no immunity against, even with limited contact. Diseases such as small pox killed entire villages and the population of the local tribes nosedived. Survivors of the diseases would often form small communities with the French Canadiens and their numbers would slowly grow, though many would intermarry with the sons and daughters of the Europeans creating a new class amongst Louisiana's hierarchy. Others, mainly angry males, would form war bands and raid the generally isolated villages and towns, killing, looting and raping the habitants there. However, the French Canadiens who settled along the Mississippi were a independent people, many of which had grew up in the forests of Canada and many knew how to hunt with locally-made muskets. Such muskets would be turned against the war bands and eventually the raids stop or became so few and far inbetween that they were considered more of a nuisance that a threat.

This migration was welcomed by both France and the North American Provinces. While France still demanded that the Canada be returned to its rightful owners, they quickly took advantage of the French Canadiens migration to help develop their Louisiana colony. The experienced farmers of New France plied their trade to the fertile land of the Mississippi and quickly turned the area from wilderness to wealth as food surplus fueled a massively expanding New Orleans, the hub and biggest port for the Louisiana territory. For the British Americans, every single Frenchman that left meant one less to guard and watch over and also one more space for a loyal, protestant British American. As the number of French Canadiens dropped, the number of British Americans increased, especially from New England. However, the greatest addition to the colony was the sudden influx of Scottish, Irish, English and German settlers from Europe to the region. The Scottish population was the most prevalent, who came from poor soil and wretched hovels back in Scotland to open land and large home in Canada.

The French Canadiens weren't the only to migrate. In a truce to end the conflict which continued in Acadia/Nova Scotia, George III and Parliament-in-America offered the Acadians a choice; swear an oath to the British Crown and become good citizens of the North American Provinces or leave Acadia entirely in peace to lands of their choosing. Only a fifth of the Acadians took the British offer and swore their allegiance to George III, the rest however, took the other option and left Acadia aboard British vessels and sailed to New Orleans. Under a flag of truce, the British docked and allowed the Acadians to depart before returning back to British ports. These Acadians would settle along similar lines to their French Canadien cousins along the Mississippi, however many settled in a region now called Acadiana, named after their original land.

Lower Louisiana became the most populated region of the province, with many of the French Canadians settling around and south of Sainte Louisiana as well as the settlements formed by the Acadians stretching from the south northwards along the Mississippi. The other two regions to appear were Upper Louisiana and the Missouri regions, the borders of which were founded in Sainte Louisiana (in Sainte Louisiana's city centre is a monument that shows the borders, as well as the city's Upper, Lower and Missouri districts). Both the Upper Louisiana and Missouri regions saw light settlement as Lower Louisiana took the spotlight for almost half a century, many of these settlements were founded by metis or half-European half-Native Indian persons. New Orleans obviously became the capital of New France and Louisiana and saw heavy European influence as Louis XV and his successor favoured the city while Sainte Louisiana and the fort nearby of the same name, took on its own local flavour.

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AN: Ah, I didn't think you guys would expect this (If you're still reading this still with all my friggin' changing of the script) and to be honest, I didn't expect myself to churn out such words. This is the survival of New France (for the time being). There is generally no timeline here e.g. specific date unless I describe so and this update occurs over a significant period of time.

Comments and scepticism are always welcome. Ta.

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