A different idea, but suits the topic.
I once had an idea for TL in which the assassination attempt against Sigismund III in 1620 succeeds due to the perpetrator using guns instead of a pick, leading to death of both Sigismund and Vladislav (future IV). End result was an election of Gustavus Adolphus as a king; he did consider candidature historically in 1632. In 1620 he has better chances as its before the war with him and there wouldn't be many other candidates - with upcoming massive Ottoman invasion on PLC neither Habsburgs nor Russians would be willing to involve themselves too closely, while there aren't many strong domestic candidates and the best one - Jan Karol Chodkiewicz - is choleric, likely to ruin his chances, and kinda old. Sons of Sigismund are too young to be viable candidates.
In the end, one of questions of Gustavus rule would be how to deal with Zaporozhian Cossack issue. And sending some of them (most vocal ones) to America is an excellent solution which leaves everyone happy - they are moved out of Ottoman border, no longer cause troubles, they are mostly independent and answer only to King as they wished, they are by nature frontiersmen which means they are well suited to American colonization, there is a syncretic and inclusive tendency among them which would enable them to assimilate some other settlers. This solves the issue of manpower historical swedish colonies had, and some of the landless polish nobles of the Golota group could also be tempted to follow into cossack footsteps. Thus leading to "Swedish" colonies being largely Ukrainian-Polish-Lithuanian.
Actually i found the cossack influence on modern america to be a potentially fascinating question. Sadly, despite planning it out a bit, I do not have time to write the timeline down beyond the first chapter.
I once had an idea for TL in which the assassination attempt against Sigismund III in 1620 succeeds due to the perpetrator using guns instead of a pick, leading to death of both Sigismund and Vladislav (future IV). End result was an election of Gustavus Adolphus as a king; he did consider candidature historically in 1632. In 1620 he has better chances as its before the war with him and there wouldn't be many other candidates - with upcoming massive Ottoman invasion on PLC neither Habsburgs nor Russians would be willing to involve themselves too closely, while there aren't many strong domestic candidates and the best one - Jan Karol Chodkiewicz - is choleric, likely to ruin his chances, and kinda old. Sons of Sigismund are too young to be viable candidates.
In the end, one of questions of Gustavus rule would be how to deal with Zaporozhian Cossack issue. And sending some of them (most vocal ones) to America is an excellent solution which leaves everyone happy - they are moved out of Ottoman border, no longer cause troubles, they are mostly independent and answer only to King as they wished, they are by nature frontiersmen which means they are well suited to American colonization, there is a syncretic and inclusive tendency among them which would enable them to assimilate some other settlers. This solves the issue of manpower historical swedish colonies had, and some of the landless polish nobles of the Golota group could also be tempted to follow into cossack footsteps. Thus leading to "Swedish" colonies being largely Ukrainian-Polish-Lithuanian.
Actually i found the cossack influence on modern america to be a potentially fascinating question. Sadly, despite planning it out a bit, I do not have time to write the timeline down beyond the first chapter.
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