The State of Baja

[Archangel Michael]

1866
-The former Confederate states are rebuilt. Tennesse and Kentucky are split east/west, into the states of Franklin and Appalachia; Virginia is partitioned into two states, Virginia and Arlington; Texas is too partitioned into Texas and Houston; South Carlonia is renamed Victoria, basically as a 'compliment' to Britian taht they stayed out of the war; North Carolina is renamed Carolina; parts of Alabama, Mississippi, Goergia, and Florida are combined to form Pensacola. There is very little of a buttterfly effect after this.

1988
-December 10th: Cuba is ceeded to the United States as the state of Havana (east) and territory of Cuba (west). Cuba will become a state in 1906.
All Spanish oversees territories are also ceeded to the United States. Rio de Oro, Phillipines, and Puerto Rico all become territories.

1989
January 4th: Fuchow is bought from China, and Macoa from Portugal.

Feburary 26th: US Secretary of State John Milton Hay does not propes his 'Open Door Policy'. Tensions begin to grown in China between the competing powers.

March 9th: The United States's sphere of influence in China stretches from the port city Macoa (American), to Hangkow in the north, to Fuchow (American) to the east.

October 12th: The Boer War begins when the Orange Free State declares war on Britian. Natal and Cape Colony are invaded, and British forces at Natal, Ladysmith, and Mafeking are destroyed.

December 13th: Sir Redvers H. Buller reenforces soldiers at Colenso, Natal; the hills of Magersfontein on the Orange Free State and Cape Colony borders; and the mountain range of Stormberge in the Cape Colony.

December 20th: All these fresh soldiers are destroyed by Afrikaner forces.

1900
January 10th: General Frederick S. Roberts replaces Buller as commander-in-cheif in the war.

Feburary 4th: John D. P. French is sent to releive British forces at Kimberley, while Roberts begins a march from Cape Colony to the Orange Free State.

Feburary 8th: French arrives at Kimberley, and fights for two days to enter and capture the city.
Later that day, the Boxer Rebellion breaks out. It breaks out and ends as OTL, but with more American forces and less British present.

Feburary 15th: The Treaty of Bejing is signed. China is devided between the US, France, Britian, Germany, Russia, and Japan. A small independent country is allowed to exist, and is will have a coastline.

Feburary 27th: Roberts defeats Afrikaner general Piet Cronje. Roberts defeats Cronje, and his 4000 soldiers.

March 8th: Italian King Humpert I is assasinated.

March 17th: General Roberts enters the capital of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein.

May 17th: President McKinley signs the Gold Standard, and makes all American paper money backed by gold.
Mafeking, beseiged by Afrikaner forces, is releived.

May 31st: Johannesburg, capital of the South Afircan Union, is captured by General Roberts, and President Kruger flees to Europe.

August 29th: The Russia officaly annexes Manchuria, against all Japanesse threats. The United States establishes the territories Kwangtung, Kiangsi, Fukein, Chekiang, Hunan, Hupei, Kweichow, and Kwangsi.

October 3rd: Mexican/American relations are strained when El Paso is attacked by Mexican bandits.

December 31st: The Kwang-Chow stand-off begins after the US requests the France sells the city to the United States, but France refuses.

 

[David S Poepoe]

"1866 -The former Confederate states are rebuilt. Tennesse and Kentucky are split east/west, into the states of Franklin and Appalachia; Virginia is partitioned into two states, Virginia and Arlington; Texas is too partitioned into Texas and Houston; South Carlonia is renamed Victoria, basically as a 'compliment' to Britian taht they stayed out of the war; North Carolina is renamed Carolina; parts of Alabama, Mississippi, Goergia, and Florida are combined to form Pensacola. There is very little of a buttterfly effect after this."

Don't see a variety of these things ever happening - in fact, any of it happening. The renaming of the states wouldn't happen. Particularly renaming one after the Queen of England.

Can't particularly figure out why Cuba isn't simply admitted as one. I know your basing this ATL off the map posted on the other thread, but that doesn't make much sense.

I don't quite know why Spain is so nice to the United States, unless its being compensated.

Are you talking about Macau? The Portugese port?

"December 31st: The Kwang-Chow stand-off begins after the US requests the France sells the city to the United States, but France refuses."

By the same token someone could demand the US sells thems Honolulu or even Santiago, Territory of Cuba. The US would already know about what it can or can not do in China. It can't force the French to sell and would have known that before they bought the territory around it.

 

[Archangel Michael]

It's just a rough draft right now, better changes due to suggestions and comments will be made. Here's a map of China.

 

[Archangel Michael]

1901
January 3rd: General Roberts returns to Britian after a succesful Boer War.

January 5th: Oil is discovred in Texas. There is a lot more in Texas than OTL.

May 11th: The Commonwealth of Australia is formed, against much American protest. The Commonwealth includes all of Autralia, except for a northwestern part still held by the Netherlands.

July 23rd: Queen Victoria dies. King Edward VII succeds her as the Royal Soveriegn of the British Empire.

September 6th: President McKinley is shot. Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt takes over.

September 14th: The Republic of Liberia goes bankrupt. Voters agree to join the United States. Theodre Roosevelt accepts this, and Liberia becomes the Territory of Liberia.

November 4th: Roosevelt agrees to send supplies and weapons to Chinnese nationalist in other nation's parts of China, in exchange that the nationalists does not do operations in American territory. Also, the United States will fund the Afrikaners supplies, weapons, and money to fight against Great Britian.

1902
Feburary 6th: The Dominion of a United South Africa (DUSA) is formed. The Orange Free State officaly erupts into open rebellion the next day.

March 3rd: The United States invades Panama, and seizes it in a lightning fast operation, named Operation Hydra. The Territory of Panama is set up, and equipemnt for the Panama cannal construction begins to arrive.

May 4th: A strike of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) is adverted at last second negotiations.

July 16th: Columbia is forced to reconize the American territory of Panama on the threat of war. France and Britian go into an uproar over this, but don't do much else.

August 16th: The Kwang-Chow stand-off ends when the US agrees to lease Guntamino Bay to France for 99 years, inexchange for Kwang-Chow for 99 years. Feburary 16ht, 2001, the United States will lower her flag from Kwang-Chow, and return it ot France, and France will do the samething to Guntamino Bay.

September 30th-June 8th, 1903: The First American Baby Boom, as hospitals nation wide are meet with record number of babies each day.

November 29th: Theodore Roosevlet enters a bill into Congress to increase the army by 35% and the navy by 30%. Developement of 12"/14 gune begins. Officaly, it is a 12-inch gun, but it is really a 14" gun to go onto the battleship Michigan.

1903
January 6th: Josef Stalin begins a Russian Army Eastern Orthodox Chaplin, but is intereseted in politics. He begins writin his book, Hoyliness and the Orthodx Polotics, which'll become the basis for his Orthodox Uprsising in 1920.

Feburary 15th: The USS Michigan is laid down in Norfolk Naval Yards. Armed with 10 of the new 14-inch/01 gun in 5 double turrets, she has a top speed of 20 knots and thick armor. The Michigan will begin the Dreadnoght Race.

May 6th: Vladmir Lennin and his Bolshveiks agree to stay with the moderate Mensheviks.

June 5th: The American navy begins to convert of oil-firing boilers instead of coal. Venezulian Oil is discovered and both France, Britian, and the United States "fight" for theri rights to drill their.

Septembe 3rd: The First World Series of Baseball is held, when the Boston Red Soxes beat the Pittsburg Pirates.

October 21st: The American Populist Party re-merges with the Democratic party. Later, when TR forms the Progressive Party, the Populists will join the new party.

November 11th: Diging of the Panama Cannal begins. An anti-biotic against malaria is tested.

December 3rd: The Wright brothers fly teh first manned powered flight at Kitty Hawk. Teddy Roosevlet begins a fascination with the aeroplane when he sees one fly at the White House a year later.

 

[David S Poepoe]

Queen Victoria would be succeeded by her son Edward VII. If he took the name George he would be George V, not George VII.

 

[Archangel Michael]

Sorry, typo mistake.

 

[Archangel Michael]

1904
January 23rd: Russian intellegince uncovers the Japanese attack on Port Arthur before it happens, and it is is put onto full alert. The Russians have two more battleships there than OTL due to the tensions in China.

Feburary 8th: The Japanese luanch there attack on Port Arthur. The First Battle of Port Arhthur sees the loss of 1 Russian and 1 Japanese battleships, and a total of 7 smaller vessels.

Feburary 16th: In agreement with the United States, Russian naval forces from the Baltic will be refuled from Liberia, the Philipines, and finally Macoa, then attack Japan.

March 24th: Japanese First Army lands at Inchon. Teddy Rossevelt attempts to find a peace sollution, but neither side agrees.

May 1st: Battle of Yalu. Of an army of 40,000 soldiers, 15,000 are killed in this bloddy battle. Reports of American soldiers fighting are dennied by the US.

May 2nd: The Japanese 2nd Army lands and attempts to sever communications from Port Arthur to Manchuria, but fails.

May 11th: General Kuropatkin is ordered to hold Russian areas in China gainst Japanese agression.
A surprise attack from Vladavostok catches the Japanese off guard. 25,000 Russians land in Korea to surprise the Japanese.

June 14th: The Russians have severed the Japanese line at the 38th parallel. So far, the war has dragged into a bloody trench warfare. The United States begins shipping supplies to Russia to help against the Japanese.

July 9th: 180,000 Russian soldiers pour across the 38th Parallel on a new offensive into Korea.

August 5th: The Russian Baltic Fleet arrives at Macoa to face off agains the Japanese. The feeling of both the Russians and Japanese is whoever wins this upcoming battle will win the war.

August 12th: After waiting in harbor for a week and training with the Americans, the Russian fleet leaves Macoa to fight the Japanese.

August 21st: American-Mexican relations are strained as more attacks by Mexican bandits occur. Fianlly, Teddy Roosevelt releases the Mexico agreemtn that if the attacks do not stop by the end of the year, he will have no choice but th take action against the Mexicans.

August 27th-29th: The Battle of Tsushima. It is a draw as both sides lose half their warships. It is a tactical victory for the Russians who still retain more advanced ships and a startegic victory for the Japanese who forced the Russians to retreat.

September 4th: The Dover Peace Accors in Dover, Delaware begin. A 1 month truce is agreed apon, while both sides like their wounds.

October 4th-December 9th: Small sporadic fighting as the Dover Peace Accors are going on. Finally, on December 10th, the Second Battle of Port Arthur. The Russians loss all but three battleships, and surrender.

1905
January 6th: Last Russian offensive stalls. The Dover Peace Treaty is signed, and all pre-war boundries are restored.

 

[David S Poepoe]

'August 16th: The Kwang-Chow stand-off ends when the US agrees to lease Guntamino Bay to France for 99 years, inexchange for Kwang-Chow for 99 years. Feburary 16ht, 2001, the United States will lower her flag from Kwang-Chow, and return it ot France, and France will do the samething to Guntamino Bay.'

The US-French port swap doesn't make sense and the French are coming out of the short end of the stick. Kwang-Chow is a point of entry for French merchants to the Chinese market. What sort of trade can they expect at Guantanamo Bay?

'Feburary 16th: In agreement with the United States, Russian naval forces from the Baltic will be refuled from Liberia, the Philipines, and finally Macoa, then attack Japan.'

Very strange agreement for the US to have entered into. It actually enters into hostile-neutrality in regards to the Japanese. The US would most likely declare itself neutral. I think Britain would be also actively assisting its Japanese ally in return.

'November 4th: Roosevelt agrees to send supplies and weapons to Chinnese nationalist in other nation's parts of China, in exchange that the nationalists does not do operations in American territory. Also, the United States will fund the Afrikaners supplies, weapons, and money to fight against Great Britian.'

Actions like this aren't going to do the United States any good. I'm surprised that the French would have anything to do with the US for supporting the Chinese nationalists. Also the Boers are pretty hard to support particularly when the British control all avenues of trade with them. I suspect that one could expect Filipino nationalist to be supported by British arms and money in their fight against the Americans.

 

[Archangel Michael]

If you looked at my map above, China has been partitioned between Britian, France, US, Germany, Japan, and Russia. Shanghai will probally an open city, giving every nation an opening into the smaller Chinese market. About supplies and arms to the Chinese and Boer nationalists could enter Ruled Chin through mountains, transported by mules and such. The British will probally be supplying the Fillipino nationalist against the US.

 

[Archangel Michael]

1905
Feburary 5th: Through Sweedish Somliland (Italian Eritera OTL), the Sweedish King Oscar II forecefully annexes Abyssiania.

Febuarary 16th: Mexico agrees to atemtp to stop attacks on American cities and encampements on the border. In a week, this attacks are cut in half.

March 5th: The USS South Carolina-sister ship to the Michigan-is commisioned on the west coast of the United States. She, and 2 Michingan-style armored cruisers and 6 light cruisers head towards Maco to set up the new First Chinese Squadron in China.

March 12th: The British lay down the HMS Dreadnoght in an attempt to catch up to the Americans as fast they can.
Sweeden begins to enlarge her navy considerble by laying down 2 new dreadnoghts and 6 armormored cruisers.

March 19th: The Siam, who has been embroiled in a civil war, requests help not from Britian, but from Sweeden who has established a naval base off the coast of Siam.

March 21st: The first Sweedish soldier enters Siam. Britian asks if Siam needs any help, but they put down the request.

April 30th: The Siam Civil War ends in favor of the king.

May 1st: King Oscar orders his soldiers stage a coup against the king. It succeds, and the king is killed. Siam is officaly annexed by Sweeden as the Sweedish Indochina.

May 11th: Teedy Roosevelt declares that Sweeden 'had better stay out of North America', a reply to King Oscar's willingness to buy the Dutch Guinea from the Netherlands.

June 4th: Sweeden buys the Dutch Guenia from the Netherlands. Also, the Dutch East Indies are also bought.

June 11th: Roosevelt threatens to enact the Monroe Doctrine against Sweeden if they do not leave Dutch Guienea, and return it to its rightful owner, the Netherlands.

July 6th: The Michigan and a fleet of 2 pre-dreadnoghts, 6 armored cruisers, and 13 smaller vessels anchor off the Dutch Guiena coast and blockade it.

August 15th: The ISwMS King Gutavus II Adolphus, Sweeden's first dreadnoght, is laid down. It is armed with 12 13-inch guns in 6 double turretss.

August 21st: The ISwMS Torrenstein, a dreadnoght-style armored cruiser, is commisioned in Stockholm. It is immdediatlety sent to the Dutch Guinea to attempt to break its blockeade.

September 11th: The Torrenstein arrives 500 feet from the Michigan's bow. the two exchange some shots and move away.

October 9th: The American-Sweedish War breaks out when the Michgan fires on the Torrenstein, damaging. The French allow it to dock at her ports for repair. The First Chinese Squadron (that leaves 3 pre-dreadnoghts to defend China) sails to Sweedish Indochina to invade it with 15,000 soldiers.

October 21st: The South Carolonia shells Bangock, killing the Imperial Sweedish Indochina Govenor, Robert Jörgen. The First Chinese Squadron (1 dreadnoght and 2 pre-dreadnghts) shell Bongock Naval Base, destroying the pre-dreadnoght Oscar I.

November 11th: The Americans tighten their blockade on Dutch Guinea, and several times the repaired Torrenstein attempts to break through.

November 23rd: Bangock is occupied by American forces. The Americans now have complete naval authority after they destroyed the Oscar I.

December 16th: The American-Sweedish War enters into a 1 month undeclared truce. Britian, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan stay nuetral, while Russia allows American to use their ports and merchantmen to ship supplies to Bangcock.

 

[David S Poepoe]

Is there any particular reason that Sweden, and Swedish, are spelled with two ee's?

 

[Archangel Michael]

No reason.

 

[emperorharry86]

can we have a map?

 

[Archangel Michael]

I alread posted a map of China, so I assume you want a map of the world?

 

[Archangel Michael]

1906
January 3rd:The Torrenstein and 2 high-speed transports break through the American blockade of the Dutch Guinea. The transports land 5,000 soldier at Paramaribo Harbor. In response, the Americans begin to land soldiers Nieuw Nickerie.

January 5th: the United States lands her remaining 25,000 soldier that are offshore at Nieuw Nickerie. The railroad system begins to transport the soldiers towards Paramaribo. The Michigan begins to shell Paramaribo to lay the way for an assault of 1,500 soldiers.

January 16th: In Siam, the United States land another 5,000 soldiers to re-enforce the garrison already there. The Swedish naval base at Surat Thani is captured, along with the armored cruiser Olaf Skotkonung. The Olaf is pressed into US service and renamed the New Sweden.

January 24th: The Battle of Laem Chabang. The Swedish garrison there is able to hold-off the Americans for 4 days before finally capitulating.
The pre-dreadnought, the Carl XIV Johan, three armored cruisers, and 9 supporting ships set sail from the Swedish Samliland to Siam to bring back control of the seas to Sweden.

February 16th: The Battle of Nieuw Amsterdam as the Swedes are finally able to land the remaining 15,000 soldier to occupy the Dutch Guinea. They meet an army of 9,000 Americans and a three-day battle begins.

February 19th: General Marcus Reno (who survived to fight WW I in TTL) is able to retreat from Nieuw Amsterdam with only 1900 soldier reaming.

March 3rd: The Battle of Malacca. The Carl XIV Johan and two other pre-dreadnoughts engage an American force of the South Carolina and two pre-dreadnoughts. On the first day of fighting, the South Carolina is bale to damage the Carl XIV Gustav. The Swedes lose an armored cruiser, and the Americans lose two light cruisers and a destroyer.

March 4th: The last day of the Battle of Malacca. The remaining Swedish naval forces, except for the Carl XIV Johan, are sunk. Ironically, the ex-Olaf Skotkonung sinks a Swedish ship of the same class. The Carl XIV Johan is captured and pressed into service as the Emperor.

March 15th: The Torrenstein is sunk in a duel against the American battleship Illinois. The Torrenstein explodes after a 12-inch shell explodes here magazine and she goes down with all hands.

April 2nd: The Battle of the Gulf of Thailand. The reaming Swedish Eat Indies Fleet-comprising of one armored cruiser, 3 light cruisers, and 5 torpedo boats-attempts to make towards the Dutch East Indies. All but one light cruiser and 3 torpedo boats are sunk. King Oscar II’s approval ratings begin to plummet after the disastrous Battles of Malacca and Gulf of Thailand.

April 3rd: The Battle of Paranam, which south of Paramaribo. The city is shelled for 3 days, and over half of the Swedish garrison is killed. The Dutch garrison, which was suppose to go to Paramaribo a day ago, is also killed in the attack.

April 7th: The April Revolution in Sweden, supported by Lenin’s Bolsheviks. Oscar II is killed, and so is the rest of the royal family. The leader of the Swedish Workers Party, Valter Ingemar, declares the People’s Empire of Sweden.

April 10th: Valter sues for peace with the United States. Teddy Roosevelt agrees, and the Treaty of Copenhagen is signed a month later. The Swedes are allowed to keep Siam, except for Bangkok and a few surrounding areas. The Dutch Guinea will be under American administration until they feel it is time for independence. Abyssinia and Swedish Samliland will be partitioned between Sweden (east) and the United States (west)

May 16th: The King Gutavus II Adolphus construction speeds up. Two more warships, the Stockholm and Gustavus I Adolphus are laid down in other shipyards. The loss of 4 pre-dreadnoughts and a portion of their cruiser fleet see a rethinking of the Swedish Navy’s reason for existing an combat tactics.

May 21st: Sweden officially adopts jeune ecole with the laying down or four new, high-speed commerce raiders. Two new, fast semi-dreadnoughts are laid down also to make up for the loses in Siam. These new semi-dreadnoughts will be armed with 6 14-inch guns in two triple turrets, and he heavily armored, but faster than most battleships at the time.

July 6th: The territories of Guinea and Suriname are set up in the Dutch Guinea.

August 25th: Cuba is granted statehood in the United States. The area surrounding Bangkok and Bangkok herself becomes the territory of Siam within the United States.

September 1st: As thanks for their help in the Swedish-American War, the United States gives Russia the ability to use American docks in Hawaii, Macao, and Bangkok.

November 19th: The territory of American Samliland is established in Africa, and Teddy Roosevelt’s approval ratings sore after the end of the Swedish-American War. The Navy is celebrated as the real ‘victor in the war against Sweden’.

December 5th: The HMS Dreadnought is commisioned. She is just as she appears OTL, but with more armor.

1907
January 2s1t: Okalhoma becomes the 48th state in the Union, and New Zeland reaches Dominion status within the British Empire.

Febuarary 28th: Britian joins a defensive pact with France and Russia, and they invite the United States, which has become a world power in less than a year. The US declines, and decides to sit on the fence unless the United States of her territories are attacked.

March 4th: The panic of 1907 is averted when J.P. Morgan and a pool of investors shore up American financial institutions. Teddy Roosevelt forms the American Oversees Territorial Office (AOTO), and puts a slightley different William Jennings Brian in charge of it.

March 14th: The final numbers for the First American Baby Boom comes in. Nearly 47 (compare to 77 between January 1, 1946 to December 31, 1964 OTL) million babies have been born. No scientist are bel to deterimine why this has happened.

April 2nd: The US Navy orders 6 more dreadnaught battleships to be commisioned in less than 18 months, begging at the end of the year.

July 6th: An uprising in Niuew Amsterdam is put down by American soldiers wielding the new Sorenson auto-carbine. Despite begins called "auto", he had the firing mechanism of a Mauser C96 semi-automatic pistol. The design of the Sorenson is an enlarged C96, but with a longer barrel and larger ammunition.

August 1st: The King Gustavus I Adolphus is commisioned. It is based of the original design for it, but faster and a little less armored.

September 29th: Nicarugua is occupied by American soldiers after its president requests American help in the country's civil war. The United States annexed Nicarugua two months later.

October 5th: the Angol-American minority in Alaska takes control of the government. Alaska became indpendent after the Russo-Japanese War. Tsar Vladmir I was overthrown, and the Republic of Alaska declared.

 

[Archangel Michael]

1908
January 23rd: The Ford Model T begins production, priced at $850.

Febuarary 8th: The Federal Buereu of Investigation is formed. It is a more sccret police like orgainization.

Febuarary 15th: The Belgiun Parliment takes control of the Belgium Congo away from King Leopold II.
The Monarchist in Sweden rise up, and so do the workers, because they have been mistreated by the government.

March 2nd: King Gustav V of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden and King Gustav I of Siam.

March 21st: The United States wins rights to drill in Venezula for oil there. In Persia, the first major oil deposit is discovered. Britian gets the right to drill there.

May 8th: The Sorenson Rifle model 1908 enteres production. It has a a 20-round magazine and a firing rate of 90 rounds per minute.

June 30th: President Roosevelt visitis the Panama Cannal, being the first US president to travel abroad while in office.

July 9th: The US Army Air Service is formed around 3 Wright R-Flyers.

November 13th: President Roosevelt is re-elected President by 37 states, and his approval rating is the highest of any President.

November 20th: There is a few skirmishes against Mexican soldiers in the United States. This almost starts a war, but stops suddenly when Teedy Roosevelt is steps in.