Penny Flick, Penny Toss - Part 4 (alternate 19th century)
To recap, it is the beginning of the 1880s..... Recent world events centre on the Second War of the Americas in the mid 1870s. Over-ambitious Union leaders got the USA embroiled not only in fighting Britain and Spain in Cuba, but also in an attempt to reconquer the Confederacy which led to the direct intervention of France. The USA was forced to accept peace terms, though they gained more of Oregon and some of New Brunswick in the peace treaty.
Results of this war included a French presence in the Confederacy, and modernising forces gaining an upper hand as the Southern states realise the peril they would have been in on their own, with unreformed and divisive institutions.
Britain has financially over-stretched itself, and a combination of factors including the accession of a weak king lead to a collapse in British power. George VI (grand-daughter of Queen Charlotte I) is so fearful of popular pressure that he basically allows British politics to be dominated by the Radicals agenda. This results in revolutions in Ireland and India, and eventually in London a Tory counter-coup which is led successfully by the king's brother who becomes King William V. Regarding Ireland, the Tories have to accept Home Rule which has already been granted. With regard to India, the Duke of Cambridge makes the best of a dire situation - the East India Company is dissolved, and lands which have not been lost are taken under direct British administration. The rest is ruled by native princes, or even popular governments, and all is taken into a Commonwealth of India based on the German Confederation
The USA begins to focus on East Asia, establising relations with the Taiping successor states in China, and becoming dominant in Japan.
Russia has reached its tentacles into Mongolia and Tibet, as well as absorbing Kashgaria and the rest of Dzungaria. Russian influence is also increasingly strong in Afghanistan and Persia.
The marriage of King William V to the daughter of King Friedrich Wilhelm V of Prussia, Princess Charlotte, raises French fears that an Anglo-Prussian alliance is rising on its flanks. It also brings calls for France to focus on European matters more, and somewhat less on the Americas where French influence can be found from Brazil to the CSA. France does have a prominent position in Spanish affairs, the restored Juan III owing what stability he has to French aid.
Grey Wolf
To recap, it is the beginning of the 1880s..... Recent world events centre on the Second War of the Americas in the mid 1870s. Over-ambitious Union leaders got the USA embroiled not only in fighting Britain and Spain in Cuba, but also in an attempt to reconquer the Confederacy which led to the direct intervention of France. The USA was forced to accept peace terms, though they gained more of Oregon and some of New Brunswick in the peace treaty.
Results of this war included a French presence in the Confederacy, and modernising forces gaining an upper hand as the Southern states realise the peril they would have been in on their own, with unreformed and divisive institutions.
Britain has financially over-stretched itself, and a combination of factors including the accession of a weak king lead to a collapse in British power. George VI (grand-daughter of Queen Charlotte I) is so fearful of popular pressure that he basically allows British politics to be dominated by the Radicals agenda. This results in revolutions in Ireland and India, and eventually in London a Tory counter-coup which is led successfully by the king's brother who becomes King William V. Regarding Ireland, the Tories have to accept Home Rule which has already been granted. With regard to India, the Duke of Cambridge makes the best of a dire situation - the East India Company is dissolved, and lands which have not been lost are taken under direct British administration. The rest is ruled by native princes, or even popular governments, and all is taken into a Commonwealth of India based on the German Confederation
The USA begins to focus on East Asia, establising relations with the Taiping successor states in China, and becoming dominant in Japan.
Russia has reached its tentacles into Mongolia and Tibet, as well as absorbing Kashgaria and the rest of Dzungaria. Russian influence is also increasingly strong in Afghanistan and Persia.
The marriage of King William V to the daughter of King Friedrich Wilhelm V of Prussia, Princess Charlotte, raises French fears that an Anglo-Prussian alliance is rising on its flanks. It also brings calls for France to focus on European matters more, and somewhat less on the Americas where French influence can be found from Brazil to the CSA. France does have a prominent position in Spanish affairs, the restored Juan III owing what stability he has to French aid.
Grey Wolf
), this would have been likely, just as the south ironically enabled the USA to acquire 18 new and modern warships in the last years before the Civil War. However, had the USA possessed a larger standing army in 1861, say a mere 50,000 men, the CSA would have been in terrible danger barring immediate British/French involvment. A third of the officers may have gone south, but the enlisted men stayed north.