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And a repost of my earlier map.
Both awsome!
North America in 1847 during the American Rebellion
In 1833 British Parliament passed a bill finally abolishing the slave trade across it's empire. However, since the North American Act of Confederation 1776, the British legislation that combined its mainland english speaking colonies into one nation as the "Dominion of North America", all internal matters of the nation not pertaining to defence and trade/ taxes have been the sole juristiction of the Dominions Parliament in Philidelphia. As such the legislation passed has no standing in North America. However, at the same time a British backed bill introduced by the American Whig Party attempts to follow suit and abolish slavery in the Dominion. However, it is easily blocked by the American Tory Party who's more conservative ideals mean they are extremely strongly established in the South. Many in the south fear that the abolition of Slavery would wreck their economy as prices rise following the introdution of paid labour.
For 12 years the bill is continuously blocked and it sits on the back burner as an anoying thorn in the Dominions and Empires side. However, in 1844 a slave revolt occurs in Gainseville, Province of Georgia, possibly orchestrated by white Abolitionists. Many Slaves rise up in rebellion and slaughter or expell their Slave masters before breaking into a local armouries and attempting to fight their way north where Slavery has long since been abolished. However, they don't get very far and ar stopped by a combined force of Georgian and North Carolinian Militia near Washington (OTL Chattanooga) where they are slaughtered. No quarter is given. The event once again raises the issue of slavery to the top of the lists of priorities. Many now feel that Slavery is destabalising the nation and must be dealt with. However, the North Still lacks the voting power of the south.
In the same year, a number of delegates from the north go to London where they petition the British Parliament for help. Despite many wanting to help there is no real way for British Parliament to forcibly end Slavery. However, Whig MP John Williamson introduces the "Colonial Slave Tax Bill" which allows Britain to place taxes on the use of slaves within its Empire since Britain still retain control of taxes and trade. The bill passes in late 1845 and extortinate annual taxes are placed upon slave holders in the south. The taxes in effect make it far too unprofitable to even contemplate using slaves for manual labour as each indiviual slaves tax is some three and a half times the minimum wage for a free adult male.
Some slave owners do quickly give up and free their slaves but the majority do not. However, most in the south view it as a backahnded undermining of American Soverignty. When tax day comes around on April 1st 1846 most slave owners refuse to pay their slave tax. In some place riots break out and in Georgia, the Lieutenant Governer is attacked inside his own home by an angry mob. Tensions quickly build until Late June when the Tories hold a meeting in Richmond Virginia reguarding the Slave Tax and what should be done. Thousands of angry southerners, reguardless of whether the had held slaves or not gather outside the City Hall baying for retirbution. However, word quickly reaches Philidelphia (wrongly) that the meeting is in fact a rally for rebellion and that the weapons are being gathered in the city and the people gathered are in fact a rebel army in the making. Attempts to clarify by telegraph are fruitless. As a result, the Govoner General of North America, the increasingly senile British War hero and ex-PM Arthur Wellesley calls upon the local armed forces under Benjamine Jackson (second son of Napoleonic War Italian Campaign hero Andrew Jackson, Duke of New England) to head into Virginia and supress the so called "rebellion" and arrest its ringleaders, by force if necessary.
Four days later an army of 6000 men (mostly from American Regiments) arrive outside Richmond. Jackson and about 500 men enter the city to confront the Tory politicians and other leading figures. The troops are surrounded by thousands of angry protestors. When Jackson attempts to arrest the ringleaders a struggle ensues in which a shot (unkown from where) goes off. The mob attacks the troops and some 200 of them are beaten to death. Jackson escapes to his army. He decides that it would be better if he withrew to the safety of the North and come up with a new strategy. However, for the next 3 days as the troops flee they are continuously harrassed by and ever growing number of militia. By the dawn of the third day they outnumber Jackson 6 to 1. It is only the arrival of a releaf column armed with artillary that halts the persuing Southerners. Some 1000 government troops are killed.
A call to arms across the south is sent out as thousands rise up to defend the south. Twenty days after the "Richmond Affair" the tories, increasingly influenced by the secretive "Son of Liberty" who's origins are decades old announce their independance from the Dominion of North America and the British Empire. They ask for international recognition and aid.
In the Kingdom of France, a chance to get back at Britain and restore its position in the world that has long been waited for is seen. It is the first to recognise the Nation. Subsequently, its two American allies, Mexico and Gran Columbia also declare war, hoping to regain the territory lost in Anglo-Spanish American war.
As the North mobilises more troops to attempt to control the south so does Britain, but with France threatening to invade there is a lmit to the number of troops that it can send.
Then in the winter of 1846, French spies under Prince Albert (third son to the King) in the Colony of Canada, with the aid of the pro french aristocracy who had fled to Canada during the revolution launch their own rebellion and expel the few British forces in the region, proclaiming the "Kingdom of Canada," with Albert as the King.
The YEar is now 1847 and the Domion of North America and Britain are in a tight spot. The War is just getting started and no one knows which way it could go.
In 1833 British Parliament passed a bill finally abolishing the slave trade across it's empire. However, since the North American Act of Confederation 1776, the British legislation that combined its mainland english speaking colonies into one nation as the "Dominion of North America", all internal matters of the nation not pertaining to defence and trade/ taxes have been the sole juristiction of the Dominions Parliament in Philidelphia. As such the legislation passed has no standing in North America. However, at the same time a British backed bill introduced by the American Whig Party attempts to follow suit and abolish slavery in the Dominion. However, it is easily blocked by the American Tory Party who's more conservative ideals mean they are extremely strongly established in the South. Many in the south fear that the abolition of Slavery would wreck their economy as prices rise following the introdution of paid labour.
For 12 years the bill is continuously blocked and it sits on the back burner as an anoying thorn in the Dominions and Empires side. However, in 1844 a slave revolt occurs in Gainseville, Province of Georgia, possibly orchestrated by white Abolitionists. Many Slaves rise up in rebellion and slaughter or expell their Slave masters before breaking into a local armouries and attempting to fight their way north where Slavery has long since been abolished. However, they don't get very far and ar stopped by a combined force of Georgian and North Carolinian Militia near Washington (OTL Chattanooga) where they are slaughtered. No quarter is given. The event once again raises the issue of slavery to the top of the lists of priorities. Many now feel that Slavery is destabalising the nation and must be dealt with. However, the North Still lacks the voting power of the south.
In the same year, a number of delegates from the north go to London where they petition the British Parliament for help. Despite many wanting to help there is no real way for British Parliament to forcibly end Slavery. However, Whig MP John Williamson introduces the "Colonial Slave Tax Bill" which allows Britain to place taxes on the use of slaves within its Empire since Britain still retain control of taxes and trade. The bill passes in late 1845 and extortinate annual taxes are placed upon slave holders in the south. The taxes in effect make it far too unprofitable to even contemplate using slaves for manual labour as each indiviual slaves tax is some three and a half times the minimum wage for a free adult male.
Some slave owners do quickly give up and free their slaves but the majority do not. However, most in the south view it as a backahnded undermining of American Soverignty. When tax day comes around on April 1st 1846 most slave owners refuse to pay their slave tax. In some place riots break out and in Georgia, the Lieutenant Governer is attacked inside his own home by an angry mob. Tensions quickly build until Late June when the Tories hold a meeting in Richmond Virginia reguarding the Slave Tax and what should be done. Thousands of angry southerners, reguardless of whether the had held slaves or not gather outside the City Hall baying for retirbution. However, word quickly reaches Philidelphia (wrongly) that the meeting is in fact a rally for rebellion and that the weapons are being gathered in the city and the people gathered are in fact a rebel army in the making. Attempts to clarify by telegraph are fruitless. As a result, the Govoner General of North America, the increasingly senile British War hero and ex-PM Arthur Wellesley calls upon the local armed forces under Benjamine Jackson (second son of Napoleonic War Italian Campaign hero Andrew Jackson, Duke of New England) to head into Virginia and supress the so called "rebellion" and arrest its ringleaders, by force if necessary.
Four days later an army of 6000 men (mostly from American Regiments) arrive outside Richmond. Jackson and about 500 men enter the city to confront the Tory politicians and other leading figures. The troops are surrounded by thousands of angry protestors. When Jackson attempts to arrest the ringleaders a struggle ensues in which a shot (unkown from where) goes off. The mob attacks the troops and some 200 of them are beaten to death. Jackson escapes to his army. He decides that it would be better if he withrew to the safety of the North and come up with a new strategy. However, for the next 3 days as the troops flee they are continuously harrassed by and ever growing number of militia. By the dawn of the third day they outnumber Jackson 6 to 1. It is only the arrival of a releaf column armed with artillary that halts the persuing Southerners. Some 1000 government troops are killed.
A call to arms across the south is sent out as thousands rise up to defend the south. Twenty days after the "Richmond Affair" the tories, increasingly influenced by the secretive "Son of Liberty" who's origins are decades old announce their independance from the Dominion of North America and the British Empire. They ask for international recognition and aid.
In the Kingdom of France, a chance to get back at Britain and restore its position in the world that has long been waited for is seen. It is the first to recognise the Nation. Subsequently, its two American allies, Mexico and Gran Columbia also declare war, hoping to regain the territory lost in Anglo-Spanish American war.
As the North mobilises more troops to attempt to control the south so does Britain, but with France threatening to invade there is a lmit to the number of troops that it can send.
Then in the winter of 1846, French spies under Prince Albert (third son to the King) in the Colony of Canada, with the aid of the pro french aristocracy who had fled to Canada during the revolution launch their own rebellion and expel the few British forces in the region, proclaiming the "Kingdom of Canada," with Albert as the King.
The YEar is now 1847 and the Domion of North America and Britain are in a tight spot. The War is just getting started and no one knows which way it could go.
Greater Tuscan Republic, a surviving Khanate in Europe, alternate spelling and even Lechia!? Wow, great map, Imajin, well done!
Papal Stacy.
Haha.
Vatican City...y (or Holy Seey)
Democratic Republic of the Congoy
New Caladoniay
Tongay
Nagorno-Karabakhy (like it isn't hard enough to say anyway!)
Thande
Donor
Freud was right, I just misread the mountain in the top-right as "Mount Mega Giant Cock"...
I'm quite proud of this one. It's a divided Australia (although all countries pictured were part of the British Empire) from a world I've been making & remaking which will probably end up as less of a TL and more of an ASB parallel world like the Star Trek Mirror Universe, or Ill Bethisad, or that "A World Rewritten" thing in the ASB forum (the file name is because the main character in the story is called Dan). The national borders are mainly the borders of Australia's drainage basins, while the internal borders can be either drainage basin borders, rivers, or just lines across countryside. But my objective was to kill arbitrary line borders in Australia as much as I could.
I haven't decided on names for any of the countries (except for Western Australia and Tasmania, obviously). I've used the UCS colours for the UK, for Dominions, and for "no real government". The big green northern country is meant to still be a constitutional monarchy (like Australia in OTL), while the brown-tan southern country is a republic.
I haven't decided on names for any of the countries (except for Western Australia and Tasmania, obviously). I've used the UCS colours for the UK, for Dominions, and for "no real government". The big green northern country is meant to still be a constitutional monarchy (like Australia in OTL), while the brown-tan southern country is a republic.
Seldrin
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Firstly...You stole my bit!!
Secondly, very nice except for the lack of huge Queensland but I'll get over it and possibly try to convert some of that map into my TL when I get around to updating it.
Subconscious regional bias on my part, I guess. In the brown country (which is basically that world's equivalent of OTL's Australia), I have the equivalents of a shrunken New South Wales, a drastically shrunken Queensland, an extremely shrunken South Australia, and an uber-Victoria.
But I guess you could consider the green country a huge Queensland... a huge northern Queensland anyway. The idea is that the green country didn't form as a federation of states - it was a unitary nation that was divided into provinces.
I'd like to see an update of your TL, it's quite intriguing... but I can't really see how you'd incorporate any of my map into it, as your POD is after the straight-line borders were already established. (Oh, I guess if Victoria were to annex SA territory southeast of the Murray River you could use that border...)
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