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All, I'm rebooting my previous TL related to an alternative Quasi-War (see link below):

https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=344281

As threads get longer, I think it gets hard for anyone to keep up so I'm seperating the two halves of the American War into two linked timelines.

I will try to keep this TL below 20 posts (I kind of dragged the last one on longer than intended).

Assuming some of you don't want to wade through the 140 posts on the previous thread, here are the POD's for my OTL:

North America:
1. Adams was reelected in 1800 on the back of an early growth of a moderate navy and their timely defeat over the Barbary pirates.

2. The US adapts an earlier amendment to link the President/Vice-President joint ticket.

3. Sensing an ally, Britain backs down on their early acts of impressment.

4. Irritated by America's refusal to pay back the remaining loans from the American Revolutionary War, the French wage the "Quasi-War" at sea by raiding American shipping.

5. In 1803, France launches a shock invasion of Quebec, reconquering the Lower Canada for the first time in 45 years.

6. The US, now allied with the British, spend the next two years conquering Florida and Louisiana.

7. France launches two punitive expeditions to "Slash and Burn" the American south. The first hits Georgia and South Carolina, the second hits Virginia (burning much of Washington) and North Carolina. Damage is heavy though the French are repelled.

8. In addition to destruction, the French encouraged a series of slave rebellions from Maryland to Georgia that caused a larger amount of damage. Nearly 1/4 of the nation's slaves (200,000) escape with the French, escape to the west, are shipped/sold to the West Indies or are killed outright. The Plantation system of the south is shattered, many great landowners ruined. Entire harvests are lost, harming the American economy.

9. Adams gets a 3rd term in 1804. He uses the confusion in the south to ban the expansion of slavery in the newly conquered territories. From 1804 to 1808 several states and territories ban slavery or set a timeline for its extinction (including Delaware, Kentucky, Tennesse, Ohio and what will be Indiana). He also bans the slave trade and agrees to join the British in "policing" the oceans to ban the global slave trade.

10. Several of the larger Indian nations agree to large "reservation" systems under Federal (not state) control with limited autonomy under American Constitutional auspices. This would serve as a template in the future.

11. Much of the European War goes according to OTL. Peace is made in 1808 with America largely on Post Bellum holdings. France keeps Lower Canada (Quebec to Montreal) but Britain keeps a large number of French, Danish, Dutch and Spanish territories conquered throughout the Caribbean, Africa and Asia. The Unites States gets title to East and West Florida and Lousiana. The American's also claim Tejas Territory based upon the French claim. Spain refuses to acknoledge this.

12. William Pitt dies, leaving Addington to make the peace. Addington's government falls in favor of Perceval in 1808. Perceval issues an "Order in Council" to resume impressment from American ships.

13. There was no Union of the United Kingdom and Ireland. This wasn't spelled out in my last Thread. Ireland remains a cypher to Britain's Parliament. Few moves to Catholic Emancipation have occured.

14. Emperor Napoleon makes no attempt to resume slavery in the West Indies. He leaves the local freed slave in charge under his nominal authority and encourages them to incite rebellion among the British dominated West Indies.

15. Aaron Burr, hero of the battle of Washington, is elected the 3rd President of the United States. The Transfer of power from Federalists to Democratic-Republicans is peaceful.

16. The south slowly recovers but the political situation is changed. No longer uniformly pro-slavery, there is a significant faction of lower class men who feel the landowners brought the bloody race war upon the nation. Harsh "Black Codes" banning even free blacks from residing in certain states, even those unaffected by the slave revolts and being "free" states and territories.


OK, I'll try to get my first chapter in today or tomorrow.
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