Right now, America's economy has been expanding the last few decades since the end of the war. And as for foreign intervention, America has no real allies across the sea. Texas and Mexico on the other hand....
Glory: an alternate War of 1812
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I'm so glad to see a native state in this TL, and I love that while this timeline has mellowed out the race relations in the U.S. the racial insensitivity inherent in giving a Latin name to a native state is realistic and a nice sign that while things are better, they are by no means sunshine and lollipops.
You are correct on that.
Also, technically, it's one of three native States, the others being Creek and the Cherokee States.
That's right, I'd forgotten. I really need a map, or a breakdown, of what the lay of the land is to visualize what North America looks like in this TL.
Anglo American War
The Anglo American War: 1857-1858
First Battle of Albion: March 10th, 1857
The opening battle of the Anti-American War took place in the March of 1857. Davis ordered the US army to invade Albion from Tennesee into Albion (Missouri). The Army of the Mississippi was lead by Lieutenant General Winfield Scott. Under him was Major George B. McClellan and Lieutenant Colonel Robert E Lee Of the 5th Cavalry, and Major General Zachary Taylor.
Opposing them were the British.
The Royal 1st Army of Albion was headed by Lieutenant General Sir W.J. Codringdon, commander of the 54th regiment, General Milday Fane, Lieutenant General James Brudenell: 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, 15th The King's Hussars, and the 11th Hussars.
The two forces met on the Albion side of the Great Mississippi River, near a town called Georgetown.
The Americans managed to catch the British by surprise, forcing them to quickly form ranks. The battle began at 9 o'clock . The lancers charged the Americans, only to be cut down by the Colt Repeater 1846. This marked the first use of repeating rifles in warfare in North America. The ferocity of the Yankees managed to force the British to retreat. Lee's cavalry gave pursuit until Scott called off the hunt.
New Brunswick Campaign: opening stages, March-April 1857
March 11th
Jefferson Davis, current president of the United States, sat in his too soft chair in the oval office. The warm Kentucky bourbon slid down his throat. In front of him was his cabinet. They were discussing who to place in command of the upcoming campaign in the canadas. Secretary of War Lewis Cass advocated Wade Hampton III. Secretary of State Stephen Douglas supported Meade for the roll. When it was time to decide, Davis voted for Meade, but placed Hampton as one of his subordinates, along with Thomas Jackson and William Sherman.
On March 15th, Meade's army departed by rail to the Maine Territory. Marching through the territory, they soon entered Canadian territory. Forty-two years ago, this was American, taken during the War of 1812. On March 29th, Canadian militia engaged the Americans just outside Fredericton. The Americans and Canadians lined up, throwing themselves at Each other. While the Colt Repeater rifles gave an edge, the regulars reinforced the militia a short time later. This forced the battle into a stalemate. The Americans were forced to retreat.
On April 3rd, 1857, the Yankees returned. Jackson's corps engaged the Royal Canadian Infantry. The skirmish gave him his nickname "Brick Wall" Jackson. While Jackson distracted the red coats, Hampton attacked their flank. This destroyed most of the army, forcing a retreat to St. John. The Americans captured Fredericton.
Canadians, Texans, and Kansans, oh my!: 1857
April 13th, 1857
Louis Galtier walked down the streets in Quebec City. Red clad Infantryman were positioned on street corners and at important buildings. It disgusted him. During the '37 revolution, Canadian rulers had deemed it a necessity to ban francophones from owning businesses in Lower Canada. When Parliament combined the the two into a singular province, the law stayed. Louis and his folk were forced to work as unskilled laborers on farms or in mines. It was a dreary life. It would be fifty, no, a hundred years until they got rights, Louis said to himself.
The disgruntled French Canadian shoved his hands in the pockets of his tattered coat and entered the local pub in the cheaper, French part of town. Even in the French Quarter, the bars were British, though owned by considerably more sympathetic Anglos.
Somewhere between three to five beers later, Louis Galtier began his rant against the Englishmen. Everyone at the pub heartedly agreed. Everyone was angry. One of the patrons had an idea. Meade's arrival in Canada was forcing the occupying army to leave the city. This, according to the drunk patron, left the city vulnerable.
On April 20th, William Sherman's corps was skirmishing around the edges of the city. This was when the disenfranchised French speakers seized their chance. The rebels overtook the armory and armed themselves, managing to hold parts of the city. The rebelling citizens gave the British army a difficult time, forcing a fight on both sides. When the other commanders Jackson and Hampton arrived with reinforcements, the rebels greeted them with open arms as the Americans entered the city. Of course, the British burned a good sized portion of the city as they retreated, beginning to adopt the scorched-earth policies that the Russians employed against Napoleon during his failed invasion.
May 17th, 1857
Since the March of 1856, Kansas and Hanover had engaged in a low burning Border conflict. Overtime, conflict began to boil into more serious transgressions. By the time Scott and his generals invaded Albion, the conflict had evolved into full-blown war. John Brown was appointed emergency Marshall of all the armies by the government. (granted at best it was a series of militias, but still a nice title)
Texas, populated with former Americans, was decidedly anti-British. Texas was suffering from repeated raids on its Merchant ships that traded with the Americans. The Texans, after months of British impressing sailors and raiding Texan ships, declared war on the United Kingdom. The United States reached out to Texas and formed an alliance against the European power. Texan General Albert Sidney Johnston lead an army into the colony of Hanover. American forces landed in Galveston and traveled through the republic to assist the Texans In the fight.
Battle of Valentine, Hanover: 1857
August 1st, 1857.
Somewhere in northern Hanover (somewhere in OTL Colorado), the Texas 3rd Regiment and the U.S. Cavalry had been advancing further into Hanover. The British Colony was faltering under constant attacks. Albion held firm in the east, but Hanover's lack of industry and population made things much more difficult.
Valentine was a railroad hub in the north. Three rails ran through it, allowing it's large cattle supply to be transported to other parts of the colony. It was a strategic target.
(Main Street of Valentine, Hanover)
Jeb Stuart, given a large amount of independence, led an attack on the town. His horsemen dismounted and positioned themselves on the hill outside of town.
Stuart sent an envoy to the town's army installation. He ordered the town to surrender and lay down their arms. They refused. He was sent back. At noon, the fighting started.
Rifles fired at any red coated soldier. The British first attempted to storm the hill, but the small numbers forced them to fall back after losses. They took refuge in the saloon, breaking out the glass. Stuart was forced to advance into the town itself. He and his men were forced to move from house to house. The saloon was accidentally set ablaze when an oil lamp was hit by a stray shot. The British were flushed out or burned in the building. The battle went on another hour before the majority of the English surrendered to the Americans. The rest fled into the wilderness, becoming effectively becoming bushwackers.
Skirmish in the Bahamas: September 4th 1857
Six armed steam powered frigates were anchored off the main island of the Bahamas. Plumes of smoke billowed in the wind. Row boats, each filled with twelve infantry men. The reached the shores under a hail of gunfire. The cannons bombarded Nassau.
At approximately 6:07 AM, twelve British frigates steamed into view. Union Jacks flapping in the wind, Royal guns blasted at the Americans. The U.S. Navy was forced to engage the enemy, leaving the soldiers on the beach vulnerable. They were slaughtered by the defenders. The navy lost four ships, and the survivors were badly damaged.
The surviving soldiers and sailors plucked from the waters were sent to a POW camp in Jamaica.
Prisoners of War: December 1st, 1857
Albert Brown was resting in his hammock. It was night time. The weather was bearable, down to the mid 70s. His fellow prisoners were resting as well.
"I'm telling ya, Albert. I want to go home and find me a girl."
"Ya huh." Albert placed an arm over his eyes.
"Like, one with some"- he mimed shaping a large breasted woman.
Albert sighed. "You know what I want?"
"Huh?"
"Some shut eye!"
Everyone in the hut turned and looked. People sighed and went back to whatever. After several months of internment, everyone was homesick. Port Royal was an Americans little patch of sucky, sweating Hell.
During the daylight hours, they were forced to mill about in the hot sun or ferocious wet rain. It was a saddening state. An outbreak of cholera had wiped out a third of the prisoners. Most assumed they would never see home again. Albert Brown went to sleep.
A Marching Song of Ice and Fire: Battle on the Bay, 1858
February 14th, 1858
General Sherman scratched at his messy red beard. With the coming of winter, Sherman had decided to grow a beard like his comrades Jackson and Hampton. Snow was drifting lazily about him. His division trudged through the cold white, the frozen product of the season up to their ankles. The 20th Maine was more used to weather like this, and pushed on.
Flapping with them was the U.S. Flag with 24 stars and 13 stripes. Wish I had some fire. He rubbed his gloved hands. The quicker he dealt with the Canadians, the quicker he could go back to warmer climate. Somewhere along the shore of the Hudson bay, Alexander Roberts Dunn sat with what was left of the 100th Royal Canadian Regiment and a host of militia men. Behind Sherman, the crew of artillery men tugged their mules. Sherman ordered camp to be made.
February 16th
Two more days of traversing the Great White North, Sherman found Dunn. Cannon were hastily set up and aimed. 100th Royal Canadian Regiment formed ranks and blasted away. The Yankees did the same. The two sides hammered away at each other, line after line going down. The weapons had changed, but the battles seemed to be using the same tactics as Napoleon. After months of scorched earth, the Americans had cornered the last major Canadian army.
Dunn used his lancers to flank Sherman's vulnerable left, inflicting heavy casualties. Sherman advanced none the less. The coast along the Bay had little foliage to protect Dunn. His men were reported to have fought like the devil.
Dunn attempted to send his men to retreat, but most refused, citing their will to stay with their commander through to the end.
The 20th Maine forced the 100th Royal Canadian to the shoreline at 8 o'clock pm. Dunn's troops continued to fight on. The battle ended at 1:05 AM on February 17th in the face of greater casualties. They had been pinned by the Yankees who had no intention of letting them flee again. Even if they could flee, the Canadians were in no shape to run from battle anyway. Dunn surrendered to Sherman. He and his men were marched back to New Brunswick, which by the time they returned was under American control. From there, they were sent to a POW camp in New York.
The Battle on the Bay would subsequently become a popular point of divergence in both Canadian and American alternate history novels. One famous example is 2002's Northern Warriors by Robert Conroy. Whether or not the battle could have prevented the outcome of the war is still debated by historians.
Bloody Erie: Irish Rebellion of 1858
January 29th, 1858
Captain Ulysses S Grant covertly supplies anti British Irish citizens with older single shot rifles, as well as two months supply of hardtack and salted pork.
February 14th
Dublin and Belfast erupt into rebellion, forcing the UK to divert troops to maintain order.
February 16th
Dublin is forcibly pacified. Belfast is bombarded by the royal navy.
February 17th
Sheamus O'Brien ducked into the rubble, looking the destroyed store. He pocketed a closed tin. He didn't know what was in it, but food was food. Other Irishmen did the same.
Most of the residents of Belfast, rebels or simple citizens, were doing the same. Cannons boomed and blasted a building into dust. The Royal Navy had turned most of the city against the United Kingdom. This was not their intent, of course. But there was no way that those sailors were going to drop off the ships to March into the city. That would likely earn them a lynching from the staunchest unionist in the town.
Men in threadbare frock coats patrolled the streets with their aging American rifles and their blunderbusses. Rain pitter pattered onto the city, doing little to put out the local fires. Citizens dashed back and forth with buckets of water.
Some of the band's outside the city had spread word that a company of regulars were marching up from Dublin.
Unconfirmed rumor was that Derry had fallen to the English.
"We'll let them come!", shouted a rebel leader on a stack of crates. "They want to put us in chains, we'll fight back! We aren't slaves, we're Irish!" The rebels of Belfast were prepared to die like martyrs, and most had no qualms with it.
"Protestant, Catholic, we are all Irish! We shall fight to the end! If the English want us dead, we shall not die in vain for their right to control us! We shall be martyrs of the revolution!"
Florida, Independence to the Anglo American War: 1835-1858
The Republic of Florida had a rocky start after its War of Independence. The first president, Antonio Torres (born 1794), was forced to deal with internal conflicts in 1836. A variety of political leaders had emerged from the Florida Liberation Army with differing agendas and beliefs. These beliefs ranged from seeking annexation into America to the expulsion of the Seminoles.
Torres was forced to fight these groups for the next three years, preparing to step down in 1839. The public, however, refused to let him do this. He was the only leader the people could rally behind, and so Torres was forced to remain in power for fear of destabilization by the infighting of the political parties.
Each time Torres tried to step down, he was forced back in by public demand. Antonio Torres was declared "The reluctant dictator" by the press.
Torres, a tolerant and benevolent Caudillo, allowed new immigration. These settlers, mainly from the United Kingdom and America, brought new business. They developed sugar plantations on the mainland. The natives were granted equal status with the settlers. Slavery was still allowed, seeing as it helped fuel the plantations. Black Seminoles were granted freedom, and some even owned plantations like the local whites.
In 1843, Torres found a new way to raise money for the republic; Torres leased certain ports to different nations to be used as naval bases and refueling stations in the Florida keys. The nation's that used the islands included America, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
By the time the Anglo American War began, the British and Americans had already leased bases. The two stayed out of Each others way while in a neutral port.
On the last day of 1857, an American ship and a British schooner engaged one another off the coast of Florida, but within territorial waters. Torres was in the capital city of St. Augustine when word came. He was both outraged and fearful. He sent diplomats to both nations and demanded compensation for the violation of his neutrality. The two powers gave them the ships (seeing as neither was sunk, but badly damaged) that violated his sovereignty. These were renamed Torres and La Victoria. Torres was applauded for preserving Florida's sovereignty by the people.
End of the War: 1858
March 5th, 1858. The city of Stockholm was busy with merchants and citizens, crowding the streets. In a tightly packed building, Secretary of State Stephen Douglas battled with his British counterpart for a compromise. America and Britain's rematch had come to a climax in the West and North, and England could do nothing to reverse it.
Prisoners were released and sent home, and all soldiers in the lost territories were to be granted amnesty to allow a end to the hostilities between the opposing armies.
Albion and Hanover were annexed to the United States, and Britain was to pay reparations to Texas for the seizing of merchant vessels. Lower New Brunswick (OTL Northern Maine) was annexed as well. The Americans also regained New Orleans from the British. Douglas also tried to engineer the creation of an independent French Canada, but to no avail.
French Canadians who fought alongside the Americans were allowed to immigrate to the United States. The Oregon territory was sold to the Americans for 7 million dollars. And so, the war came to an end on April 15th, 1858 with the Treaty of Stockholm.
First Battle of Albion: March 10th, 1857
The opening battle of the Anti-American War took place in the March of 1857. Davis ordered the US army to invade Albion from Tennesee into Albion (Missouri). The Army of the Mississippi was lead by Lieutenant General Winfield Scott. Under him was Major George B. McClellan and Lieutenant Colonel Robert E Lee Of the 5th Cavalry, and Major General Zachary Taylor.
Opposing them were the British.
The Royal 1st Army of Albion was headed by Lieutenant General Sir W.J. Codringdon, commander of the 54th regiment, General Milday Fane, Lieutenant General James Brudenell: 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, 15th The King's Hussars, and the 11th Hussars.
The two forces met on the Albion side of the Great Mississippi River, near a town called Georgetown.
The Americans managed to catch the British by surprise, forcing them to quickly form ranks. The battle began at 9 o'clock . The lancers charged the Americans, only to be cut down by the Colt Repeater 1846. This marked the first use of repeating rifles in warfare in North America. The ferocity of the Yankees managed to force the British to retreat. Lee's cavalry gave pursuit until Scott called off the hunt.
New Brunswick Campaign: opening stages, March-April 1857
March 11th
Jefferson Davis, current president of the United States, sat in his too soft chair in the oval office. The warm Kentucky bourbon slid down his throat. In front of him was his cabinet. They were discussing who to place in command of the upcoming campaign in the canadas. Secretary of War Lewis Cass advocated Wade Hampton III. Secretary of State Stephen Douglas supported Meade for the roll. When it was time to decide, Davis voted for Meade, but placed Hampton as one of his subordinates, along with Thomas Jackson and William Sherman.
On March 15th, Meade's army departed by rail to the Maine Territory. Marching through the territory, they soon entered Canadian territory. Forty-two years ago, this was American, taken during the War of 1812. On March 29th, Canadian militia engaged the Americans just outside Fredericton. The Americans and Canadians lined up, throwing themselves at Each other. While the Colt Repeater rifles gave an edge, the regulars reinforced the militia a short time later. This forced the battle into a stalemate. The Americans were forced to retreat.
On April 3rd, 1857, the Yankees returned. Jackson's corps engaged the Royal Canadian Infantry. The skirmish gave him his nickname "Brick Wall" Jackson. While Jackson distracted the red coats, Hampton attacked their flank. This destroyed most of the army, forcing a retreat to St. John. The Americans captured Fredericton.
Canadians, Texans, and Kansans, oh my!: 1857
April 13th, 1857
Louis Galtier walked down the streets in Quebec City. Red clad Infantryman were positioned on street corners and at important buildings. It disgusted him. During the '37 revolution, Canadian rulers had deemed it a necessity to ban francophones from owning businesses in Lower Canada. When Parliament combined the the two into a singular province, the law stayed. Louis and his folk were forced to work as unskilled laborers on farms or in mines. It was a dreary life. It would be fifty, no, a hundred years until they got rights, Louis said to himself.
The disgruntled French Canadian shoved his hands in the pockets of his tattered coat and entered the local pub in the cheaper, French part of town. Even in the French Quarter, the bars were British, though owned by considerably more sympathetic Anglos.
Somewhere between three to five beers later, Louis Galtier began his rant against the Englishmen. Everyone at the pub heartedly agreed. Everyone was angry. One of the patrons had an idea. Meade's arrival in Canada was forcing the occupying army to leave the city. This, according to the drunk patron, left the city vulnerable.
On April 20th, William Sherman's corps was skirmishing around the edges of the city. This was when the disenfranchised French speakers seized their chance. The rebels overtook the armory and armed themselves, managing to hold parts of the city. The rebelling citizens gave the British army a difficult time, forcing a fight on both sides. When the other commanders Jackson and Hampton arrived with reinforcements, the rebels greeted them with open arms as the Americans entered the city. Of course, the British burned a good sized portion of the city as they retreated, beginning to adopt the scorched-earth policies that the Russians employed against Napoleon during his failed invasion.
May 17th, 1857
Since the March of 1856, Kansas and Hanover had engaged in a low burning Border conflict. Overtime, conflict began to boil into more serious transgressions. By the time Scott and his generals invaded Albion, the conflict had evolved into full-blown war. John Brown was appointed emergency Marshall of all the armies by the government. (granted at best it was a series of militias, but still a nice title)
Texas, populated with former Americans, was decidedly anti-British. Texas was suffering from repeated raids on its Merchant ships that traded with the Americans. The Texans, after months of British impressing sailors and raiding Texan ships, declared war on the United Kingdom. The United States reached out to Texas and formed an alliance against the European power. Texan General Albert Sidney Johnston lead an army into the colony of Hanover. American forces landed in Galveston and traveled through the republic to assist the Texans In the fight.
Battle of Valentine, Hanover: 1857
August 1st, 1857.
Somewhere in northern Hanover (somewhere in OTL Colorado), the Texas 3rd Regiment and the U.S. Cavalry had been advancing further into Hanover. The British Colony was faltering under constant attacks. Albion held firm in the east, but Hanover's lack of industry and population made things much more difficult.
Valentine was a railroad hub in the north. Three rails ran through it, allowing it's large cattle supply to be transported to other parts of the colony. It was a strategic target.
(Main Street of Valentine, Hanover)
Jeb Stuart, given a large amount of independence, led an attack on the town. His horsemen dismounted and positioned themselves on the hill outside of town.
Stuart sent an envoy to the town's army installation. He ordered the town to surrender and lay down their arms. They refused. He was sent back. At noon, the fighting started.
Rifles fired at any red coated soldier. The British first attempted to storm the hill, but the small numbers forced them to fall back after losses. They took refuge in the saloon, breaking out the glass. Stuart was forced to advance into the town itself. He and his men were forced to move from house to house. The saloon was accidentally set ablaze when an oil lamp was hit by a stray shot. The British were flushed out or burned in the building. The battle went on another hour before the majority of the English surrendered to the Americans. The rest fled into the wilderness, becoming effectively becoming bushwackers.
Skirmish in the Bahamas: September 4th 1857
Six armed steam powered frigates were anchored off the main island of the Bahamas. Plumes of smoke billowed in the wind. Row boats, each filled with twelve infantry men. The reached the shores under a hail of gunfire. The cannons bombarded Nassau.
At approximately 6:07 AM, twelve British frigates steamed into view. Union Jacks flapping in the wind, Royal guns blasted at the Americans. The U.S. Navy was forced to engage the enemy, leaving the soldiers on the beach vulnerable. They were slaughtered by the defenders. The navy lost four ships, and the survivors were badly damaged.
The surviving soldiers and sailors plucked from the waters were sent to a POW camp in Jamaica.
Prisoners of War: December 1st, 1857
Albert Brown was resting in his hammock. It was night time. The weather was bearable, down to the mid 70s. His fellow prisoners were resting as well.
"I'm telling ya, Albert. I want to go home and find me a girl."
"Ya huh." Albert placed an arm over his eyes.
"Like, one with some"- he mimed shaping a large breasted woman.
Albert sighed. "You know what I want?"
"Huh?"
"Some shut eye!"
Everyone in the hut turned and looked. People sighed and went back to whatever. After several months of internment, everyone was homesick. Port Royal was an Americans little patch of sucky, sweating Hell.
During the daylight hours, they were forced to mill about in the hot sun or ferocious wet rain. It was a saddening state. An outbreak of cholera had wiped out a third of the prisoners. Most assumed they would never see home again. Albert Brown went to sleep.
A Marching Song of Ice and Fire: Battle on the Bay, 1858
February 14th, 1858
General Sherman scratched at his messy red beard. With the coming of winter, Sherman had decided to grow a beard like his comrades Jackson and Hampton. Snow was drifting lazily about him. His division trudged through the cold white, the frozen product of the season up to their ankles. The 20th Maine was more used to weather like this, and pushed on.
Flapping with them was the U.S. Flag with 24 stars and 13 stripes. Wish I had some fire. He rubbed his gloved hands. The quicker he dealt with the Canadians, the quicker he could go back to warmer climate. Somewhere along the shore of the Hudson bay, Alexander Roberts Dunn sat with what was left of the 100th Royal Canadian Regiment and a host of militia men. Behind Sherman, the crew of artillery men tugged their mules. Sherman ordered camp to be made.
February 16th
Two more days of traversing the Great White North, Sherman found Dunn. Cannon were hastily set up and aimed. 100th Royal Canadian Regiment formed ranks and blasted away. The Yankees did the same. The two sides hammered away at each other, line after line going down. The weapons had changed, but the battles seemed to be using the same tactics as Napoleon. After months of scorched earth, the Americans had cornered the last major Canadian army.
Dunn used his lancers to flank Sherman's vulnerable left, inflicting heavy casualties. Sherman advanced none the less. The coast along the Bay had little foliage to protect Dunn. His men were reported to have fought like the devil.
Dunn attempted to send his men to retreat, but most refused, citing their will to stay with their commander through to the end.
The 20th Maine forced the 100th Royal Canadian to the shoreline at 8 o'clock pm. Dunn's troops continued to fight on. The battle ended at 1:05 AM on February 17th in the face of greater casualties. They had been pinned by the Yankees who had no intention of letting them flee again. Even if they could flee, the Canadians were in no shape to run from battle anyway. Dunn surrendered to Sherman. He and his men were marched back to New Brunswick, which by the time they returned was under American control. From there, they were sent to a POW camp in New York.
The Battle on the Bay would subsequently become a popular point of divergence in both Canadian and American alternate history novels. One famous example is 2002's Northern Warriors by Robert Conroy. Whether or not the battle could have prevented the outcome of the war is still debated by historians.
Bloody Erie: Irish Rebellion of 1858
January 29th, 1858
Captain Ulysses S Grant covertly supplies anti British Irish citizens with older single shot rifles, as well as two months supply of hardtack and salted pork.
February 14th
Dublin and Belfast erupt into rebellion, forcing the UK to divert troops to maintain order.
February 16th
Dublin is forcibly pacified. Belfast is bombarded by the royal navy.
February 17th
Sheamus O'Brien ducked into the rubble, looking the destroyed store. He pocketed a closed tin. He didn't know what was in it, but food was food. Other Irishmen did the same.
Most of the residents of Belfast, rebels or simple citizens, were doing the same. Cannons boomed and blasted a building into dust. The Royal Navy had turned most of the city against the United Kingdom. This was not their intent, of course. But there was no way that those sailors were going to drop off the ships to March into the city. That would likely earn them a lynching from the staunchest unionist in the town.
Men in threadbare frock coats patrolled the streets with their aging American rifles and their blunderbusses. Rain pitter pattered onto the city, doing little to put out the local fires. Citizens dashed back and forth with buckets of water.
Some of the band's outside the city had spread word that a company of regulars were marching up from Dublin.
Unconfirmed rumor was that Derry had fallen to the English.
"We'll let them come!", shouted a rebel leader on a stack of crates. "They want to put us in chains, we'll fight back! We aren't slaves, we're Irish!" The rebels of Belfast were prepared to die like martyrs, and most had no qualms with it.
"Protestant, Catholic, we are all Irish! We shall fight to the end! If the English want us dead, we shall not die in vain for their right to control us! We shall be martyrs of the revolution!"
Florida, Independence to the Anglo American War: 1835-1858
The Republic of Florida had a rocky start after its War of Independence. The first president, Antonio Torres (born 1794), was forced to deal with internal conflicts in 1836. A variety of political leaders had emerged from the Florida Liberation Army with differing agendas and beliefs. These beliefs ranged from seeking annexation into America to the expulsion of the Seminoles.
Torres was forced to fight these groups for the next three years, preparing to step down in 1839. The public, however, refused to let him do this. He was the only leader the people could rally behind, and so Torres was forced to remain in power for fear of destabilization by the infighting of the political parties.
Each time Torres tried to step down, he was forced back in by public demand. Antonio Torres was declared "The reluctant dictator" by the press.
Torres, a tolerant and benevolent Caudillo, allowed new immigration. These settlers, mainly from the United Kingdom and America, brought new business. They developed sugar plantations on the mainland. The natives were granted equal status with the settlers. Slavery was still allowed, seeing as it helped fuel the plantations. Black Seminoles were granted freedom, and some even owned plantations like the local whites.
In 1843, Torres found a new way to raise money for the republic; Torres leased certain ports to different nations to be used as naval bases and refueling stations in the Florida keys. The nation's that used the islands included America, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
By the time the Anglo American War began, the British and Americans had already leased bases. The two stayed out of Each others way while in a neutral port.
On the last day of 1857, an American ship and a British schooner engaged one another off the coast of Florida, but within territorial waters. Torres was in the capital city of St. Augustine when word came. He was both outraged and fearful. He sent diplomats to both nations and demanded compensation for the violation of his neutrality. The two powers gave them the ships (seeing as neither was sunk, but badly damaged) that violated his sovereignty. These were renamed Torres and La Victoria. Torres was applauded for preserving Florida's sovereignty by the people.
End of the War: 1858
March 5th, 1858. The city of Stockholm was busy with merchants and citizens, crowding the streets. In a tightly packed building, Secretary of State Stephen Douglas battled with his British counterpart for a compromise. America and Britain's rematch had come to a climax in the West and North, and England could do nothing to reverse it.
Prisoners were released and sent home, and all soldiers in the lost territories were to be granted amnesty to allow a end to the hostilities between the opposing armies.
Albion and Hanover were annexed to the United States, and Britain was to pay reparations to Texas for the seizing of merchant vessels. Lower New Brunswick (OTL Northern Maine) was annexed as well. The Americans also regained New Orleans from the British. Douglas also tried to engineer the creation of an independent French Canada, but to no avail.
French Canadians who fought alongside the Americans were allowed to immigrate to the United States. The Oregon territory was sold to the Americans for 7 million dollars. And so, the war came to an end on April 15th, 1858 with the Treaty of Stockholm.
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Nations in North America:1857
Republic of Texas (Texas minus Rio Grande border, plus an expanded Panhandel)
British Colony of Albion (Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas)
Republic of Kansas (OTL Kansas)
Republic of Freedonia (OTL East River South Dakota)
British Colony of Hanover (Nebraska, a sliver of lower Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada)
The Canadas (OTL plus northern Maine and Michigan territory)
Tecumseh's Confederacy (upper Indiana, lower Michigan)
Mexico
The Republic of Florida
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USA
Native American States
Cherokee State (OTL northern Georgia)
Creek (OTL Eastern Alabama)
Rubrum (OTL Majority of Alabama)
Republic of Texas (Texas minus Rio Grande border, plus an expanded Panhandel)
British Colony of Albion (Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas)
Republic of Kansas (OTL Kansas)
Republic of Freedonia (OTL East River South Dakota)
British Colony of Hanover (Nebraska, a sliver of lower Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada)
The Canadas (OTL plus northern Maine and Michigan territory)
Tecumseh's Confederacy (upper Indiana, lower Michigan)
Mexico
The Republic of Florida
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USA
Native American States
Cherokee State (OTL northern Georgia)
Creek (OTL Eastern Alabama)
Rubrum (OTL Majority of Alabama)
I think Manifest Destiny wants the United States of America to annex those republics in a most brotherly and fraternal way.
Some will be willing, but one Republic in the future is going to be a flashpoint for conflict