So I decided to create a thread for my timeline, Colonie Conservée. I'll mostly just be compiling maps here, and maybe other graphics. Guess we'll see lol. Anyways, without further ado, my map(and description) of north america.
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King Louis XIV had a dream, a dream of a prosperous french america. A dream of besting the British and becoming the primary colonial power in North America. In 1663 Louis XIV moved to increase the population of New France, starting with sending 1600 “King’s Daughter’s” to become the wives of French settlers. Not but two years had passed when he sent a total of 10000 French immigrants to the colony, an ambitious but successful maneuver which allowed the French to establish better control of the region. Further immigration continued, starting as a trickle and slowly transitioning into something much larger. Settlement of the colonies, while greatly increased, was difficult. The French were faced with almost incessant war during the colonial wars. While the French managed to hold on to much of New France, Acadia and Newfoundland would be lost in the aftermath of the War of the Spanish Succession. The British consolidated control over the newly gained territories, and attempted, but failed miserably to expel the Acadians not long before the Seven Years War as tensions increased.
The buildup of tension in Europe over Austrias attempt to recover Silesia from Prussia resulted in the brutal Seven Years War, which spilled into the colonies in the new world. At the start of the war New France had a population of 826 thousand settlers compared to Britians 2 million. And while the overall population enabled them to retain Louisiana after the war in the Treaty of Paris, they lost their canadian and carribean colonies to Britain and Spain.
Over the years following the war, Britain would attempt to consolidate it’s gains in canada while France would pump Louisiana with settlers. In the “Englishmen Decree” all Englishmen that had immigrated from the colonies into Louisiana were “encouraged” to move further west, into the region of Texas. Growing political differences in the thirteen colonies and a desire for independence in the francophone colonies culminated in the Revolutionary War. The 13 colonies formed a loose militia, and allied with the francophone colonies of Canada and Ontario to expel the British from their lands. After a brutal eight year war independence was secured, and the only continental territory still held by the British was northern Canada and the Ontario Colony. Certain privileges for Britain were given by Canada, allowing restricted movements through Canadian territory for a small fee. A series of minor wars and union referendums would follow, and the resulting nations were New England, Virginia, Carolina, Illinois, Atlantic Union, Canada, and the highly unstable Pennsylvania Union.
Britain expanded into western north america via the canadian passage secured after the Revolutionary War, often coming into conflict with the Spanish and Russians. They later would establish multiple small colonies, that being Oregon, the Plains Territory, and Albion. British Albion directly overlapped Spanish claims in the region, and would result in the Spanish-British wars, which resulted in a secure Albion territory and an independent Texas under British “guidance”. In early 1910 the British consolidated the west coast colonies and gave them dominion status under the name Oregon, while doing the same for Illinois and Ontario.
North American involvement in WW1 was relatively low, the local nations not involving themselves and only minor contribution by the British dominions.. The only real major political change was the cession of northern Canada to the Canadian Republic in the aftermath of WW1, and the declaration of independence by Ontario and Illinois and the union formed soon after between them and the various post-Pennsylvanian states.
On the other hand, north american involvement in WW2 was high, with Mexico joining the axis and invading Texas and Oregon. Carolina and New England sent troops and supplies to both the Mexican and European fronts, while Louisiana did it’s best to but ultimately didn’t succeed in staying out of it. Politics in North America post-war changed radically, with Louisiana opening up its borders to the world and various states being re-carved out of southern Mexico. WW2 was considered a “wake up call” by various nations, and both the NAL(North American League) and Francophone Community were founded shortly after to create better ties between member nations and mediate conflicts.
And after that long, barely coherent and badly put together write-up, here be the map for my timeline Colonie Conservée. (And the post on deviantart is here)
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King Louis XIV had a dream, a dream of a prosperous french america. A dream of besting the British and becoming the primary colonial power in North America. In 1663 Louis XIV moved to increase the population of New France, starting with sending 1600 “King’s Daughter’s” to become the wives of French settlers. Not but two years had passed when he sent a total of 10000 French immigrants to the colony, an ambitious but successful maneuver which allowed the French to establish better control of the region. Further immigration continued, starting as a trickle and slowly transitioning into something much larger. Settlement of the colonies, while greatly increased, was difficult. The French were faced with almost incessant war during the colonial wars. While the French managed to hold on to much of New France, Acadia and Newfoundland would be lost in the aftermath of the War of the Spanish Succession. The British consolidated control over the newly gained territories, and attempted, but failed miserably to expel the Acadians not long before the Seven Years War as tensions increased.
The buildup of tension in Europe over Austrias attempt to recover Silesia from Prussia resulted in the brutal Seven Years War, which spilled into the colonies in the new world. At the start of the war New France had a population of 826 thousand settlers compared to Britians 2 million. And while the overall population enabled them to retain Louisiana after the war in the Treaty of Paris, they lost their canadian and carribean colonies to Britain and Spain.
Over the years following the war, Britain would attempt to consolidate it’s gains in canada while France would pump Louisiana with settlers. In the “Englishmen Decree” all Englishmen that had immigrated from the colonies into Louisiana were “encouraged” to move further west, into the region of Texas. Growing political differences in the thirteen colonies and a desire for independence in the francophone colonies culminated in the Revolutionary War. The 13 colonies formed a loose militia, and allied with the francophone colonies of Canada and Ontario to expel the British from their lands. After a brutal eight year war independence was secured, and the only continental territory still held by the British was northern Canada and the Ontario Colony. Certain privileges for Britain were given by Canada, allowing restricted movements through Canadian territory for a small fee. A series of minor wars and union referendums would follow, and the resulting nations were New England, Virginia, Carolina, Illinois, Atlantic Union, Canada, and the highly unstable Pennsylvania Union.
Britain expanded into western north america via the canadian passage secured after the Revolutionary War, often coming into conflict with the Spanish and Russians. They later would establish multiple small colonies, that being Oregon, the Plains Territory, and Albion. British Albion directly overlapped Spanish claims in the region, and would result in the Spanish-British wars, which resulted in a secure Albion territory and an independent Texas under British “guidance”. In early 1910 the British consolidated the west coast colonies and gave them dominion status under the name Oregon, while doing the same for Illinois and Ontario.
North American involvement in WW1 was relatively low, the local nations not involving themselves and only minor contribution by the British dominions.. The only real major political change was the cession of northern Canada to the Canadian Republic in the aftermath of WW1, and the declaration of independence by Ontario and Illinois and the union formed soon after between them and the various post-Pennsylvanian states.
On the other hand, north american involvement in WW2 was high, with Mexico joining the axis and invading Texas and Oregon. Carolina and New England sent troops and supplies to both the Mexican and European fronts, while Louisiana did it’s best to but ultimately didn’t succeed in staying out of it. Politics in North America post-war changed radically, with Louisiana opening up its borders to the world and various states being re-carved out of southern Mexico. WW2 was considered a “wake up call” by various nations, and both the NAL(North American League) and Francophone Community were founded shortly after to create better ties between member nations and mediate conflicts.
And after that long, barely coherent and badly put together write-up, here be the map for my timeline Colonie Conservée. (And the post on deviantart is here)
