Game: Explain wacky Victoria screenshots!

Either post a screenshot from one of the Victoria games and subsequent posters will attempt to explain how it would have happened in history. Please do not post screenshots until there has been at least three attempts at justifying a previous one. Mods are acceptable, though it's kinda pointless to justify those from very ahistorical timelines.

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Source: A very nice thread for getting screenshots.
 
The American Revolution occurs all across America however the British crush the 13 colonies but can't get Canada to return to the fold?
 

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During the war of 1812 the US is completely overrun, but Americans flee North to Canada and continue the resistance from there.

(ASB, I know, but it's awesome :D)
 
Its a hard one! At least hard to be different from the obvious answer which has already been posted, as has the second most immediate candidate :)

Do we have all of history to play with? I only wonder that because whilst the previous answers make sense they are PRE-1836 and I thought Vicky starts in 1836...

If we have a long period to play with, then maybe America is the name given to somewhere else - Acadia maybe? Thus, there is a split between Acadia=America's holdings in Canada, and Britain's...

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A much worse 19th Century for China . The Taiping Rebellion becomes the Taiping revolution. Subsequent Counter-revolutions a decade on lead to the British acquiring much of Guangzhou, while a Korea undergoing a successful Meiji siezes Manchuria and Inner Mongolia from a divided China. This China is the result of 15 years of Civil War , where the dominant faction in China is on the verge of re-incorporating Guangxi and Ningxia into China once again , from independent Warlords.
 

Sumeragi

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The Manchus never managed to breach the Wall, and then are conquered by the Koreans, who were on a militaristic mood after the ultimate victory in the Japanese invasions. The abundance of land and new ethnic groups reinforces idea of the "Little Middle Kingdom", which turns into an empire building program.
 
The French intervention in Mexico takes a wrong turn somewhere, and the Vatican buys large areas of California of apparently New Mexico from France? The US meanwhile took the opportunity to occupy Los Angeles in order to get access to a warm water Pacific port, as well take in possession all the former territorial claims of Texas?
 
To add to that the Pope gains that in exchange for letting go of Latium to the Kingdom of Italy.

Seems fair to me.

The hardest thing to explain is the Papal New Mexico, but I suppose that could be a single city and surrounding areas, and the Vicky map is just too imprecise to model that very well (like when you form the Manhattan commune, and you end up in charge of half of New York state as well as Long Island). A Catholic free haven in the desert, if you will. Possibly set up as a place for Catholic refugees from former Mexican settlements in the now American and French areas?
 
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