The Third Pistol

6th largest economy and on par with the USA? I just don't think Tejas has the population, even if it has the resources at this time ofor that to be possible.
 
6th largest economy and on par with the USA? I just don't think Tejas has the population, even if it has the resources at this time ofor that to be possible.
By 1870? A Texas that stretches from the Gulf to the Pacific might be able to match the USA. Maybe it's a bit soon, but definitely by 1900.

Glad you're keeping this going Meepy. I haven't been able to keep up much but I've been popping in occasionally to see how this is going, and it's going great!
 
By 1870? A Texas that stretches from the Gulf to the Pacific might be able to match the USA. Maybe it's a bit soon, but definitely by 1900.

Glad you're keeping this going Meepy. I haven't been able to keep up much but I've been popping in occasionally to see how this is going, and it's going great!
Er...how? What's it's population? Not sure exactly, but it's very thinly spread. There is no possible way for it to be anywhere near the USA's or Mexicos, and is concentrated in two areas far far from each other. What fuels its economies anyways? Minerals still? There hasn't been enough time to populate the area enough to exploit its agricultural potential. So what then, industry? What does it have to produce that it can produce in large enough quantities to make up for having a huge and much more populated USA next door? Even by 1900 there's no way it could be on par. Maybe it could be a powerhouse, but consider the OTL population of those areas...even if immigration is beefed up, California only became a big player IRL after the 60's...
 
Tejas's population is way higher than the region's was in OTL. By 1870 it would be nearly 6 million. Basically we have a mass exodus from the South and (during the Civil War) the East. In this timeline Tejas is less a American colony and more a displaced, slightly less technologically backward Mexico. By the time that its economy matures it will essentially be a Mexican successor state.

Now to address the economy. One must remember that in the age of vast colonial empires being the Sixth strongest is no amazing feat. The top two alone (China and the British Empire) account for around %40 of the GWP in 1870. The USA is substantially weaker economically in this time line (thanks to large territorial loss and constant warfare) it's GDP lies below that of Great Britain, China, Russia, and France at ~70 Billion IND per year. Tejas's GDP is around 45 Billion IND per year, which is neck and neck with Prussia's.

Anyway I'll post the next update soon. Either tomorrow or today.
 
Like most young revolutionary states, young Quebec underwent a Crisis of Apathy through the first decade of its existence. Nation pride was definitely present in the early republic, it was just believed that full independence was unattainable in the long run for the small francophone country.
Soon, the nation's leadership had split itself into three camps: those proposing closer ties with the US or RoM, those suggesting falling into France's sphere of influence, and those who wished to use Quebec's current independence as a bargaining chip for better representation within the British Empire.
By early 1845, the former two of the three factions had grown to deeply dislike the Pro-British faction, who had developed a nasty habit of blocking any and every bill to come before parliament. Something, they thought, had to be done to cut all possible hope of British forgiveness.
And so, like the United States and Republic of Michigan before them, Quebec picked a fight with the home country. Unlike the Yankees and Michiganians, however, the Quebecois chose carefully. A cheap, quick, and victorious colonial war would do just fine.
So in the spring of 1845 the Pro-USA/France coalition pushed through the Labrador Declaration over Pro-British protests. The Labrador Declaration simply stated that any foreign occupation force in Labrador was illegal and subject to forcible expulsion. More importantly, the declaration would claim the whole of the St. Lawrence as Quebec's territorial waters. Needless to say, the British were not pleased.
In effect, this was a declaration of war. Not only did it vow to push the British out of Labrador – which they had been occupying since the close of the Canadian Revolutions just to spite the Quebecois – but it also promised to cut Britain's only connection to its colonies in Upper Canada.
To give their declaration teeth, the Quebecois next would sign the Coast Guard and Frontier Police Acts into law. For the following months Parliament poured the nation's treasury into the purchase and fitting out of old civilian craft. As the new Coast Guard began to take shape, so did the Frontier Police; a odd mix of fur-trappers and dragoons. By 1847 the new Coast Guard had 250 boats (few actually deserved the title “ship”) patrolling the St. Lawrence and 1,900 Frontier Police were headed up into Labrador.
The First Labrador War began, not with a bang, but with a whisper. As it turns out, Labrador is a rather large place. Certainly large enough to effectively hide 250 Englishmen from 2 regiments of Dragoons.
The war would continue for eighteen months before much of anything happened. When something finally did happen, it was far from the spectacular display of bravado that the Quebecois were hoping for – a lone British soldier was separated from his 30 man survey, and then bumped into two companies of Frontier Police, who were then lead to the surveyor's encampment, the survey crew then surrendered without much of a fight. Thus ended the “glorious” First Labrador War.
Although the conflict was little more than a joke, it did have the intended effect -thanks mostly to Quebec's excellent propaganda department. It seemed, at first, that Quebec would be spared the obligatory “War of 1812-esq” trial of national will. As it turns out, however, the First Labrador War was merely the first of several confrontations with Great Britain.
The Second Labrador War would come the following spring, when the Quebecois Coast guard seized a sizable shipment of British arms bound up the St. Lawrence for Upper Canada. The ill-fated British punitive naval expedition was soon dispatched to “leverage” the Quebecois into returning the arms. The flotilla was quickly met with heavy resistance in the form of the Quebecois Coast Guard.
The ensuing conflict was another drawn-out affair, albeit far more violent then the last. The Quebecois strategy involved little more than overrunning the British warships with their more numerous converted civilian craft. The British planned on running the gauntlet to Quebec city, where they would then land in Pointe-Lévy and begin bombardment of the city proper. Both plans would be put to the test at the battle of Île d'Orléans, where 18 British warships ran into eight dozen Quebecois coast guard vessels.
Although the British possessed better ships, better arms, and better sailors, they simply could not compete with the endless waves of smaller, more maneuverable Francophone vessels. One by one the mighty warships fell to spar torpedo or fire. By daybreak the wreckage of 68 vessels clogged the Saint Lawrence. Quebec had won its first confrontation with Britain, at the cost of some 1,900 sailors.
This costly victory, combined with a bloody defeat against the British in Labrador, brought both parties back to the negotiation table. After a series of informal letter the Quebecois were convinced that a return to the status quo would be beneficial for both parties.
The only major result of the Labrador Wars was the downfall of the British Faction in Quebec's government. The American Faction would face a similar fate with the outbreak of the Stater Civil War two years later. With all viable alternatives gone, the Quebecois would be forced to stand on their own.


----------- Translated from L'alcool, et l'insensé: Une histoire de la Révolution du Québec by André Gagnon



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Not so sure if that one measures up, but there it is.


I guess Michigan is next.
 
President Mason's second de-facto victory against the USA had propelled him to near-deity status within his home country and finally gave Michigan full legitimacy in the eyes of the world. Although Mason himself was popular, the Federalists as a party were quickly running out of popular support. Their fall from public grace was only hastened by Mason's increasingly radical and dictatorial policies during his last three years in office. Among these policies is the (at the time) infamous Mason Doctrine, issued during his 1851 Address to The Nation, that declared the Practice of Slavery anywhere in the World was an attack to freedom everywhere in the world. Shortly after the address Michigan threw its full diplomatic support behind the ASA. By 1852, a Michiganian expeditionary corps of 8,000 was holding down the “Swing States” of Illinois and Indiana, while a full volunteer Division fought in the Allied Army of the West. Michiganian forces would see action in many of the War's major battles, and sustain nearly 5,000 casualties (including 650 deaths) as a result.


This sudden swing in favor of Abolition frightened and angered the slaveholders in the states of Hopper and Houston, triggering Michigan's very own secession crises. The already weakened and overstretched Michiganian Army could barely spare a full regiment to quell the so-called “Third Texan Revolution”. Seeing their opening, the largely ex-British population of central Dakota also took up arms against the Michiganian Government. To top it all off, the Republic of Deseret was declared farther out west.


Sensing his nation was falling apart fast, Mason did the unexpected. He opened up diplomatic relations with both the Republic of Deseret and the rogue state of Dakota, effectively recognizing them as independent nations. A conference was held between Baden Powell (governor of Dakota), Brigham Young (President of Deseret), and Steven Mason in Juneau, Milwuakee in mid April 1852, just six months into the crises.


From the grueling two-week conference came the Act of Federation, Michigan's second constitution. The AoF gave both the Republic of Michigan, Republic of Deseret, and Republic of Canada their own legislators, Presidents, and -most importantly- sovereignty. Mason agreed to this on the condition that all Federal and International decisions will be under the Republic of Michigan's jurisdiction except in the event of a majority of other Republics agreeing to veto the Michiganian action. The new constitution was quickly rammed through Congress with little opposition.


Among the various conditions of the two new Republic's semi-independence were that they both assist in crushing the Texans and enforcing the Mason Doctrine. By the end of 1852 the Nauvoo and Dakotan Legions had largely surrounded the rebel capital of Hopperfield, which would surrender before the year's end.


Mason's masterful handling of the Texan Rebellion had permanently cemented the Mason Doctrine into the national psyche. Within weeks Mason had passed the Liberation and Relocation Acts through congress with no vetoes pressed. These Acts made the freeing of southern slaves a priority for all Michiganian military units, as well as establishing a safe haven for all freed slaves in the west. This safe haven would rather fittingly be named Free Territory. These acts were a resounding success, an estimated 650,000 Southern Slaves would be freed and sent northwest by Michiganian and Allied troops over the course of the Civil War. Nearly all would stay.


After this Mason seemed to lose interest in the War, turning over control over most decisions to his generals. He was beginning to weaken and had much he wished to see done before his health forced his retirement. First among those was the completion of a Large railroad system outside of the Lower Peninsula.


He began this project by turning over occupation duties to the Nauvoo and Dakotan Legions to free up money in the defense budget. This money was given to Peninsular Rail and Coach – a company owned by Mason's close colleague General Joseph Brown – as part of a commission for the Trans-Huron Railway that would connect Marquette to the new Capital of Moose Factory via Sault Ste. Marie. In addition to this he helped charter Orlando-Pacifica and Deseret Railways, who soon began surveying the lines of a future Transcontinental railroad. Capital began to be siphoned from the federal budget to fund the future project starting in January 1853.


Construction on the Trans-Huron line began in mid 1851 and wouldn't be completed for a little over four years. During that time PR&C began laying a second track from Marquette to Fort Powell, OPRW began the herculean task of crossing the Rockies, and DRW began laying track heading East towards Fort Powell from Nauvoo. The nation's first telegraph lines were laid down on Masons orders, connecting Ann Arbor with Detroit in 1852. Impressed with this technological wonder, Mason convinced Congress to charter the Federal Communications Agency, with a single veto pressed by Canada.


With his health failing and his term expiring, Mason spent the last year of his Presidency touring Europe with a group of elite technological, diplomatic, and military advisers. Although the party did succeed in normalizing relations with Britain and France, it did little to improve them. The party's real impact was in sowing the seeds of Michigan's future alliances with the powers of Eastern and Central Europe, primarily Russia.


By the time of Mason's return voyage in late 1854 his health had clearly deteriorated to critical levels. The one time boy governor finally succumbed to pneumonia after making port in Trois-Pistoles in hopes that bed rest would cure him. It did not.


News of the beloved President's death soon reached Michigan proper, were it sparked a period of deep national mourning. However despite this trauma, Michiganians once again cast their votes in early 1855. Although the people had a profound respect for Mason personally, the same could not be said for his party, which was seen as the primary cause of the nation's violent past as well as recent tax raises enacted to shore up budget deficits caused by Mason's huge civic projects.


By the time of the election the Liberal Republican candidate Lewis Cass had little trouble defeating Eastern Federalist Candidate Joseph Brown. The Masonic Age had ended, and the Gilded Age had begun.


----------- From The Boy King: A Story of Stevens T. Mason by S.K. Williams
 
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what an interesting way for Michigan to quell the rebellions, i'm looking forward to the future of this TL, and of Michigan under Lewis Cass
 
I think that the Michigan republic would not want a flag that in any way resembled that of the USA ... no stripes, no stars. But perhaps it would stick with red, white & blue from the heritage angle.

Blue is the dominant colour of the state flag in OTL, so I've made 2/3rds of the republic's blue. On the 1/3rd white is a red 'M', ostensibly for Michigan but I wouldn't put it past Mason to want the initial letter of his surname on the flag.

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What does the future hold for the Tigers in this ATL? Of course, there might not even be an American League and even if there were it seems unlikely that teams from Michigan would participate.

This is worrying my father, a staunch Tigers fan! :)
 
I think that the Michigan republic would not want a flag that in any way resembled that of the USA ... no stripes, no stars. But perhaps it would stick with red, white & blue from the heritage angle.

Blue is the dominant colour of the state flag in OTL, so I've made 2/3rds of the republic's blue. On the 1/3rd white is a red 'M', ostensibly for Michigan but I wouldn't put it past Mason to want the initial letter of his surname on the flag.


An obvious Non-Michigander! ;):D;) There is only one "M" flag, this one:

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As spring finally dawned on 1850, Democrats and Allies alike could tell that the American Continent was in for a major blood letting. Last fall had seen the declaration of the Allied States of America by the State governments of both New York and Pennsylvania, mass mutinies in the US Army and Navy, and all but one Democrat army effectively driven from the field. James K. Polk sat in Washington, hemmed in by 4 Allied armies on land, and an Allied blockade of the Chesapeake at sea.

Needless to say, the Democrats' situation on the ground was dire. Although the Democrats had officially called for an army of 45,000 to be recruited through the winter, less than 10,000 had managed to arrive in Washington by the start of campaign season (this, combined with Polk's refusal to send his Capital Army into the field in 1849, brought the total membership of the Washington garrison up to about 35,000 men). Of its original 60,000 soldiers, the Army of the Maumee now only possessed 4,500 malnourished veterans. This skeletal force was all that stood between the Allied Army of Ohio (nearly twice the size) and Columbus.

To make matters worse, the USN's failure to suppress mutiny in the Gulf of Mexico had left the bulk of the United States' regular army trapped overseas. To make matters even worse were the 45,000 men of the Allied Army of the South - lead by Zachary Taylor himself – who were then marching through Tejas, on their way to capture New Orleans. To stop them Polk had only the 5,000 men of the Army of Tejino Occupation.

Although things were indeed grim for the Democrats, the Allies had already missed their best window of opportunity. Most historians agree that if the Allies had managed to reach Washington in 1849, the entire Civil War might have been avoided. Also, as the campaigns of 1850 would show, the Allies possessed little competent leadership.

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ASA Supreme Commander George McClellan

The key to the Democrats' strategy would be convincing the British to intervene on their behalf, while the Allies would try to keep the British out of the war long enough to establish control over the mid-Atlantic/New England and then begin to exploit their large manpower reserves. The Democrats would pursue their objective by attempting to decisively defeat the Allied forces encircling Washington while taking care to avoid losing any key cities (Such as New Orleans or Columbus) in the mean time.

Both plans would be put into action on April 1st when Polk personally lead two divisions of the Capital Army out of Washington. Their destination was the Allied army of 4,000 camped outside of Havre de Grace, Maryland.

Despite Polk's best efforts, the Democrat attack was soon discovered by Allied pickets. After learning of this movement the Allied Northern Commander George McClellan did what he did best. He moved lots of soldiers. Fast.

The armies first made contact around 4 PM April 3rd, on the Southern bank of the Gunpowder River, about 15 miles outside of Baltimore. Thanks to the smaller force's mobile nature and Allied telegraph lines, by the time Polk arrived the four thousand Allied troops under the command had been digging in for a whole day already. The Allies had deployed in full along 500 yards of earthworks with the Gunpowder River at their backs.

Polk, ever the tactical pragmatist, assigned each of his regiments one hundred feet of trenchline to take, then ordered a charge all the way along the line. Despite the Allied force's fierce resistance, the Democrats had flooded the Allied earthworks before the defenders could let off their third volley.

While the Democrats prepared to charge, the Allied soldiers had been ordered to pack all their excess powder into empty liquor bottles. These impromptu hand grenades were use to great effect once the enemy had packed themselves into the trenches. Unfortunately, the grenades killed almost as many Allied soldiers as Democrats! Desperate to hold the line, the Allied commander is said to have intentionally stampeded the Allied Army's pack animals directly into the fray.

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An Artist's rendition of the Allied Stampede at 1st Gunpowder

After a brutal twenty minute brawl with the Democrats, the one hundred fifty Allied survivors had gathered and rallied around their artillery at the top of a modest slope that earlier had anchored their right flank. There they hastily dug in with the help of their now-unhorsed wagons and prepared for the Democrats to reorganize and attack.

As they prepared for their last stand, the Allies watched as rain began to fall upon themselves and the cauldron of shot and gore below. By six-o-clock the weather had deteriorated further, into a full-blown thunderstorm. Unable to reorganize his soldiers in the dark and rain, Polk instead ordered his 7,000-men reserve to surround and take the last Allied holdout.

Unfortunately for Polk, the storm had flooded the Gunpowder River to spill into both the Cauldron and the valley on the opposite side of the Allied hill. Thus, with only one side accessible to the Democrat reserves, the advance was made along a rather narrow front. Even for the tired Allied defenders, bloodying the assaulting forces was like shooting fish in a barrel.

The worse came when the Democrats began to near the Allied defenses. No longer caring for the survival of the army as a fighting force, the Allies set the last of their wagons ablaze and pushed them down the slope. When the attackers finally reached the wall, the Allies set that on fire too.

Victory seemed to be within Polk's grasp when suddenly the Allied Army of Eastern Pennsylvania (under the command of General George Meade) began to arrive on the field and deploy behind Polk's forces. Seeing this new development, Polk called off the assault and turned his full attention to reorganizing his forces still caught in the Cauldron.

By daybreak on the 4th, Meade's force of 19,000 had surrounded Polk's remaining 20,000 soldiers, who themselves had finally reorganized. The rain had continued through much of the night, but by dawn had finally broke.

With neither side seeing ant clear topographical, numerical, or otherwise tactical advantage, they both concluded that ending the battle quickly was in their best interest. Both saw their best bet was to control the road running straight through the field, and so ordered it captured. The two forces connected in the Cauldron, still muddy from last night's rain.


After an hour of pitched battle it became clear to Polk that Meade would not let him escape, and to Meade that Polk would not be driven into the Gunpowder River. Finally, Polk gave the order to retreat across the Gunpowder River. By noon on the 4th, the First Battle of the Gunpowder River had ended.


----------- From Blue and Buff: An Account of the Civil War by Ray B. Kennings

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Just finished pounding this one out now that I'm back from the 2010 National Scout Jamboree. Next update should within a week.

To answer ah-sue's question about the Tigers' fate in this timeline, I'd already chosen to have baseball remain the national passtime in the USA while Football (American) became dominant in Tejas. The national sport of Michigan will be Lacrosse, although Ice Hockey will be very popular as well.
 
Square Office ,Presidential Residence, Detroit
LOL:D:D

OTOH...
Oval Office, White House, Washington D.C.
I believe it was still called the Executive Mansion at the time. Am I mistaken? (BTW, the technically correct term is "Oval Room"...)
...and the Michiganians surrounded them on both sides.
Are you doing this deliberately? Because I've always heard them called Michiganders...
Not derail anything, but Harrisn wouldn't have been inaugurated in January of 1837. He would just be President Elect. At this time Inauguration Day was in March wasn't it?
Correct. Changed, sez WP, in 1933, with the 20h Amendment.
I didn't say it was going to work. :rolleyes:
Couldn't they call on help from Nor'westers? (I'm thinking the HBC boys would be Loyalist.) And if these rugged guys & their freight canoes can move Lady Simpson, & her piano, surely they can do this....
...Mason needed to maximize the amount of firepower he could get out of each soldier, he needed new technology and new tactics. To fulfill these needs, he established the Ypsilanti Military Institute in 1839. The think-tank was asked to develop a means of "Rapid Fire", and was given an experimental Company with which to conduct its research.
Actually, rapid fire wasn't needed at all. Adopting the equivalent of the OTL .58 Springfield M1861 would do it. Cavalry, & more importantly infantry, could only cross ground so fast; the rifle doubled the engagement range, & more than doubled the lethal range, effectively more than doubling the ROF. If you want to increase it again, make them breechloaders, like the Trapdoor Springfield. If you insist on higher ROF, manufacturing something like a brass receiver Spencer & ammo (which is the biggie, technologically) isn't out of reach, presuming RoM will build the arsenals to do it.
...This would all be done withing the relative safety of a pre-built Trench or fort.
This is way, way too tactically sophisticated for the period. Entrenchment wouldn't even occur to infantry commanders in ACW until 1863, after 2 years worth of slaughter from using Napoleonic columnar tactics against rifle-armed infantry. More to the point, given the likes of the Trapdoor Springfield, it's unnecessary: just fire prone. Doubly so with *Spencers (tho they'll rapidly reveal why militaries switched to bolt actions:p).
 
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Are you doing this deliberately? Because I've always heard them called Michiganders...

Yes I am. The term wasn't coined until 1848, when Abraham Lincoln used it as an insult aimed at Lewis Cass. Obviously it is butterflied away in TTL

Actually, rapid fire wasn't needed at all. Adopting the equivalent of the OTL .58 Springfield M1861 would do it. Cavalry, & more importantly infantry, could only cross ground so fast; the rifle doubled the engagement range, & more than doubled the lethal range, effectively more than doubling the ROF. If you want to increase it again, make them breechloaders, like the Trapdoor Springfield. If you insist on higher ROF, manufacturing something like a brass receiver Spencer & ammo (which is the biggie, technologically) isn't out of reach, presuming RoM will build the arsenals to do it.

This is way, way too tactically sophisticated for the period. Entrenchment wouldn't even occur to infantry commanders in ACW until 1863, after 2 years worth of slaughter from using Napoleonic columnar tactics against rifle-armed infantry. More to the point, given the likes of the Trapdoor Springfield, it's unnecessary: just fire prone. Doubly so with *Spencers (tho they'll rapidly reveal why militaries switched to bolt actions:p).

I considered doing something to this effect, but found that the thought of putting something between you and the bullets occurring to somebody a few decades early was a bit more believable than Michigan developing a full-fledged domestic arms industry over night. Military tactics, like all ideas, can be treated more fluidly than the development of a nations industry.

The Trench Corps solution only requires one man to think up one idea, while the more straightforward "make better weapons" solution requires action by nearly every man, woman, and child in Michigan.

The other stuff is completely legit. There were certain... substances involved in the first few updates worth of text. The research was a bit on the half-assed side and it shows. I've been thinking of rewriting for a while now.

Anyway I hope that clears up your questions and that it didn't come off too defensive. I appreciate any and all historical help and creative suggestions.
 
Yes I am. The term wasn't coined until 1848, when Abraham Lincoln used it as an insult aimed at Lewis Cass. Obviously it is butterflied away in TTL
I gathered, after I posted that.:eek: Thx for the date.
I considered doing something to this effect, but found that the thought of putting something between you and the bullets occurring to somebody a few decades early was a bit more believable than Michigan developing a full-fledged domestic arms industry over night. Military tactics, like all ideas, can be treated more fluidly than the development of a nations industry.

The Trench Corps solution only requires one man to think up one idea, while the more straightforward "make better weapons" solution requires action by nearly every man, woman, and child in Michigan.
I have to disagree on tactics. They're a product of experience. We take for granted cover & entrenchment are the correct responses, based on late ACW & WW1 experience. It took the entire command structure of both sides in ACW two full years to go from column to skirmish line & entrenchment. And these are professionals whose whole job involves not getting their men killed if they don't have to.

OTOH, you are correct, building an arms industry isn't an overnight business. On this one, I admit ignorance, but I do wonder if there weren't toolmakers & engineers (wagon makers, wheelwrights, bell makers, & stove makers come to mind; don't forget, we're talking about brass receivers with black powder paper case rounds, not brass carts, steel receivers, & cordite) capable of producing weapons in quantity. Not industrial quantities, comparable to ACW, but enough for immediate needs. Most people don't appreciate how much industry existed. In 1850, the area around Detroit was producing upwards of 75K wagons/year (over 250K, IIRC). That means a lot of tackle, hitches, iron for wheels (not extremely common, maybe), so forth. Add plows, untensils... Springfield couldn't keep up with needs for an army of over 200K, & thus had to turn to private industry; I don't expect RoM to field a force that size, so industrial-level production is moot IMO. Could RoM's industrial base produce around 20K *Trapdoors in 5yr? Easily IMO.

That said, I don't think it's a huge problem to believe it, since you've already put this in the category unlikely but not un-credible,;) so I won't bust you for it.:) I just wouldn't have done it, myself.:p

A related issue occurs to me. Manufacturing of things like umbrellas & the frames of those big-skirted dresses (very similar framing & process, BTW) can be applied to rifle making. It can also be (& OTL was) applied to bicycle, & later auto, manufacturing...
Anyway I hope that clears up your questions and that it didn't come off too defensive. I appreciate any and all historical help and creative suggestions.
Oh, not defensive at all. And I don't mean to nitpick. I wouldn't have gone past page 1 if I didn't find it really interesting, & I wouldn't bother to comment if I didn't think it was...fixable. (Tho I don't suggest a retcon at this late date,:eek: by any means.) And I'm happy to offer any & all aid I can.
 
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