[From Timeline: "The Tiger's Leap"]: North America after the American Revolutionary Wars.

[Catherine the Average]

A look at North America in the aftermath of the Battle of Belle Isle (July 8th 1789) and the consequent Peace of Beausoleil (July 20th 1789).
It is the general historical consensus that the American Revolutionary Wars ended in July 1789, with two possible dates: some say the wars ended with the Battle of Belle Isle, which was part of the War in Canada (1774-1789) and took place on July 8th, resulting in an American defeat - the battle is significant primarily due to the heavy wounds reported by George Washington, who was soon to be the First President of the United States, due to the malfunction of an artillery peace (the time's sources point to a British sabotage, but the culprit was never found); others argue the American Revolutionary Wars officially ended only after the peace treaty of Beausoleil, between the United States, Acadia, France and the United Kingdom, which was signed on July 20th. The peace deal entailed the return of Québec, occupied by America and annexed by France, to the United Kingdom; in exchange, Great Britain would recognise the independence of America and Acadia, as well as return Haiti to France.
What followed the Revolutionary Wars was a time period known as the Long Peace, which lasted from 1789 to approximately the second half of the 19th century, during which America did not embark on any major internal or external conflicts.

 

[Catherine the Average]

Commander Guy Carleton, (1724 - 1808) 1st Baron Dorchester and governor of British Canada, was one of the two pre-eminent representatives presiding over the peace deal in Beausoleil, with the second man being Henry Knox - filling in for a wounded George Washington. Carleton had been the man responsible for the newborn United States's most devastating defeat to date, as the accident that almost killed Washington happened as he was entrenched in Fort St. Anthony during the Battle of Belle Isle, and he had been the one to pursue the American army past the Saint-Laurent river. In America, and especially Québec, Carleton was seen as a deplorable individual, a reputation from which stemmed the accusation of foul play during the battle; back home, however, Carleton was revered as a war hero, and the saviour of British colonialism. Do with that what you will.
Immediately after the war had ended, many uprisings in Carleton's jurisdiction toppled their local government, with especially gruesome episodes taking place in Québec city itself. These protests were an expression of previous malcontent in the province, as many saw the nonsense in only the Protestant British being allowed to vote, or hold positions of power, in a region primarily inhabited by Francophone Catholics. This unrest, only exacerbated by the possibility for independence, had only gotten worse iwth time, and had reached its breaking point. This Québecois revolt wasn't ended by Carleton's mild concessions, many of which were never implemented, but by the brutal repression operated by the victorious British army on the revolutionary elements, in what came to be known as l'Année du Chagrin ("the Year of Sorrow", 1790).
In the same year, in Paris, King Louis XVI's useless attempts in replenishing the state's coffers - barren even in spite of the war reparations which France had extorted from Britain after each proxy war in America - had failed, forcing his hand in the summoning of the General Estates, for the first time in almost two-hundred years.
The king's ministers seem hopeful that, together with the Estates, the King will find a sensible way out of the financial crisis; however, the people of France seem tired of waiting, and eager for action...

 

[Catherine the Average]

Due to the failure by the king and the Estates General to end the crisis, and despite all efforts from the Bengali ambassador, Asaf-ad-Daulah (prince of the House of Nishapur) to mediate between the opposing parties and limit the collateral damage of the disagreement between the aristocracy and the people, a group of intellectuals from the Third Estate convened to decide the fate of the monarchy and the country. On July 9th, 1789 - just one day after the British victory at Belle Isle - men like Jean Bailly, Maximilien de Robespierre and Asaf himself were present for the creation of the National Constituent Assembly. The French Revolution had officially begun.

The response to such a key ally of the United States and Acadia, as well as the national parent of many Canadiens in British territory, undergoing an uprising - potentially leading to the collapse of the monarchy and to the creation of a new republic, a sister to America's revolutionary governments - lead to an almost immediate response from Washington, who had been elected president in August, shortly before the news of the Revolution reached America. Letters from the United States presidency reached the Assembly, congratulating the Revolutionaries and calling for the extradition of King Louis and for France to adopt the American constitution, or one based off of it. The tentative response of President Chapelier, who was already overseeing the climactic transition from feudalism, was one Washington and his cabinet, at first, interpreted as not revolutionary enough, spreading murmurs in America that perhaps France's revolution would be far less obtrusive to the king's rule than America's had been.

However Louis XVI, informed by moles in the Assembly of the letter's contents, specifically the policy of reducing the role of the monarchy in legislature - 'to a point where the need of a king would be negligible for the republic' - had a rather different reaction; believing Chapelier and the republican government to have officially committed treason, the king ordered the president's secret arrest, for his machinations against the crown and as a warning to the rest of the assembly, but this led directly to what some historians call the crux of the Revolution, and the reason for its permanent success; at six in the morning, on September 14th, the soldiers tasked with arresting president Chapelier were coincidentally intercepted by a small revolutionary militia on patrol, the self-proclaimed 'Gardiens de la Forêt', who - disguised as poachers - fired upon the soldiers in what was popularised as the Battle of Meudon (from the locality where the assault took place).

The Gardiens took the letter to Paris and informed the people, along with the assembly, of the King's attempted arrest to the president and 'to the freedoms of all men in France': outraged by this treacherous act, the people of Paris took up arms and, by the evening, had marched up to Versailles and the king's palace, where on September 14th 1789, Louis XVI, caught while attempting to escape, was lynched by the mob.

 

[raharris1973]

Do you have access to, or a link to the Tiger's Leap TL?

It's not showing up in a title search in pre-1900. Is it in finished TLs? Another site entirely?

 

[Catherine the Average]

Do you have access to, or a link to the Tiger's Leap TL?

It's not showing up in a title search in pre-1900. Is it in finished TLs? Another site entirely?

you won't find the "Tiger's Leap" TL anywhere else on account of these being the first posts about it ever