Timeline 321

Timeline 321:
A world of unrealized potentials.
So this timeline started as a idle thought after I finished reading Der Kalter Kreig a year ago. I wanted to see a FIVE way cold war. At first it started as blatant wanking for my preferred countries but over the last year of pondering it slowly evolved into a legitimate timeline that actually evolved into something that explored ideologies, and economics that are normally untouched. The idea has been fixated in my mind and so I am finally putting the idea down on paper. I hope you enjoy a thought experiment that has occupied me for so long.
 
Timeline 321:
A World of realized potential
Date: 17/10/2057
Forward Brief for the timeline 321 review:
Lead Researchers: Dr. O’Hare, Dr. Beckmann, Dr. Vavilov, Dr. Yoritomo, and Dr. Santiago​
As with all trans-time travel reports I would like to first thank my lead researchers Dr. Beckmann of the University of Berlin, Dr. Vavilov of the University of Moscow, Dr. Yoritomo from the University of Taipei, and Dr. Santiage of the University of Madrid for all of their hard work as well as their associated universities in granting us funding, as well as my own university the University of Chicago. I also extend my thanks to the trade department of the American Unions, the military of the European Union, and the Apollo Corporation for funding and use of various samples.

The Timeline officially designated 321 as the third hundred and twenty first time line examined I believe, along with my colleges, should officially be the 9th timeline that we reach out too for the purpose of trade and technology transfer. Timeline of 321 is a perfect case study for sociology, economics, as well as divergent technologies. Though the TL is not one of the more blatantly favored divergences such as the Germans winning the World Wars, the Confederacy surviving, or a surviving Roman Empire in any form. This TL has a richness and strength only seen in timelines as the Malê Rising or A Look to the West. Hopefully my college’s reports as well as my own will show how the history, culture, politics, economics, and technology will improve our own understanding of the world.

As to be noted the particular compilation of this work shall be a compilation of both briefs from fellow researchers, as well as particular snips of books, letters, and other media from the TL. As with other timelines the butterfly effect is in full swing, This particular TL seems to have experienced fairly widespread effects after the PoD on the scale of the Choas verse as opposed to the self correcting and restraint that was seen in Timeline 191. Our methods of contact have followed standard safety protocols as established at the Summit of Istanbul and minutes of all actions shall be recorded at the end of all briefs……
 
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Head Researcher O’Hare, Lead on the F.A.S. regions
Topic: Estimated PoD
Subject: The Corruption of Lafayette
As with all trans-time travel we can only estimate what is the PoD. Even with diligent research and with all the records we can only estimate where are timelines diverged maybe a present made a bad trade who was punished who would have fathered the greatest man in history. Even if we possessed all of the knowledge possible of their world we don’t even have enough from ours to be sure.


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Joseph-Désiré Court, Consul Gilbert Lafayette (1796)
Despite the challenges though the divergences point within Timeline 321 is estimated to be what I call the corruption of Lafayette. In our timeline Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette was aide-de-campto General George Washington during the American Revolution. He never was granted his own division. However in TTL George Washington would grant him his own division, one that would be a disaster for the good Marquis and for the French revolution. George Washington would send this letter to the Marquis with his commission.
July 15th 1778
My dearest friend Gilbert du Motier,
Your service to my country and to liberty has been unrivaled. Your commitment means all the more as my country men have rebuked your work and skills because you are not an American born. You have faced slander, and been denied your due. However, today we are to correct this travesty, though it comes at the death a friend, the late Major General John Sullivan. You are here by officially commissioned to command of the Canadian department of the war. Take this letter to the Northern command and they will set up the command
I expect great things from you,
George Washington
Despite what would be seen as a boon for the now Major General, this would lead to Lafayette to see one of the most brutal massacres of the war known as the Cherry Valley massacre. This massacre was a mixed force of Loyalists, British soldiers, Seneca and Mohawks descended on Cherry Valley, whose defenders, despite warnings, were unprepared for the attack. During the raid, the Seneca in particular targeted non-combatants, and reports state that 30 such individuals were slain, in addition to a number of armed defenders. Many raiders would go on to start scalping in the mist of battle not even concerned for the battle around them according to one British Diaray.
The raiders were under the overall command of Walter Butler, who exercised little authority over the Indians on the expedition. Butler himself was not a cruel man however he was grossly incompetent. The Seneca were angered by accusations that they had committed atrocities at the Battle of Wyoming, and the colonists' recent destruction of their forward bases of operation at Unadilla, Onaquaga, and Tioga. Butler's authority with the Indians was undermined by his poor treatment of Joseph Brant, the leader of the Mohawks. Butler repeatedly maintained that he was powerless to restrain the Seneca against accusations that he permitted the atrocities to take place.
The potency of this event on Lafayette is prominent because he was personally reviewing colonial defense in the region. He had personally seen this as a failure, one that he would correct in the most brutal way possible. His journal would explain it as one of the most horrendous event of his life.

…The horrors of what can only be described as a massacre will be forever etched in his mind. I have always argued that all men are created equal, but to see this evil it makes me unsure if they end that way. I remember a brave man laying prone over her in his death. According to a few of the survivors he was a British loyalist who defended a colonial woman who was there only to make lunch. He saw one of the Mohawks try to strike and the man and jumped in the way and fought off the warrior for as long as he could. It does not seem like it was enough to save their lives. But the fact that despite his political allegiance he fought for his own countrymen and not for his masters is something worth considering. I will ponder this question after I answer the injustice of this day……

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A painting of the British Loyalist, know known as George Hammond, defending Marie Louise the wife of a colonial militia men
As the passage from his journal indicates this would be an important moment for his latter actions in the war as well as his personal interest in the pan-nationalism of the latter years. I would like to note that despite this section being known as the “corruption of Layfette”, that is not the PoD, it certainly is the first major departure, however the PoD was the Small Pox epidemic being strong within the colonial officers forcing congress to accept a foreign general amongst their officers, and that is still only after the lobbying by George Washington.
I thank the body for its time, until we resume next week to discuss the military campaign known as the March to Quebec, another important point of the revolution and the beginnings of the F.A.S.
 
I hope you enjoy. I'm still working on how I want to do the formatting as this is a my first time doing a TL so if you want the sizing changed or have any other critiques please go ahead.
 
I like it, but I do have one suggestion:

Do it in the format of Look to the West (from books, letters, etc.).

Good start, though.
 
Head Researcher O’Hare, Lead on the F.A.S. regions
Subject: The March on Quebec.
After the reading over the briefs I had assembled I decided that a new formatting system would be in order to ensure that the message to come across, and so I will now use excerpts from books on their periods while giving my commentary in the foot notes and at the beginning and end of every brief. This particular book is “Motier: Views from America of the French Tyrant” By Rodrigo Mendez. Rodrigo is an excellent scholar from Timeline 321’s university of Madrid whose primary area of study is the history of the French Revolution, however he stepped out of his standard scholarly study and examined the legendary Lafayette’s experiences in the American Revolution and how he is viewed by Americans as opposed to Europeans. The Author uses’ Lafayette for Gilbert du Motier, as opposed to Motier due to how the Americans viewed the man over the Europeans.


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“That Man has made a minor front into the sword that will slay us. I say stop that man at any costs or we will see ourselves defeated by a Frenchman. We must not let him march to Quebec”
-Sir Henry Clinton British commander and Chief in a letter to Guy Carleton


As a direct result of the Cherry Valley Massacre, Lafayette was ordered by General Washington to prevent further Indian raids in the region. What was originally a simply expedition would soon evolve into an excellent example of mobile warfare in the 18th century. The expedition began with 15 regiments and over 5,000 men after the snows had melted on April 15th [1].

The campaign was identified by Lafayette’s masterful use of misdirection, both native and British forces would be constantly in question of where the General was. However despite his Marshall practice the General with the constant reminder of the Cherry Valley Massacre would commit many atrocities against the Native forces. The Battle of Mohawk River Valley was so noted for its brutality even the contemporaries of the time would be appalled. During the Battle of Mohawk River Valley, General Lafayette would order a divisionary force to attack the village itself before pulling back. As his forces retreated Lafayette positioned his cannons in flanking positions along the route and as the Mohawk forces passed he ordered canister shots to be fired upon the Mohawks. After the defeat of the military forces, Lafayette would then order his men to kill all the survivors as well as march on the village itself. The Village was burned with woman and children still in their tents and ordered his men to shoot at anyone leaving the village not in uniform [2]. The Leader of the Mohawk People, Joseph Brant would be killed in the ensuring rout which would contribute to the desolation of their people. This scene would be repeated for other Iroquois nations with varying levels of success for the General.

The biggest success for the General however was the Battle of Fort Niagara. By September 1779 the General was able to capture the fort after bribing a former loyalist, with francs from Lafayette instead of Colonial dollars, to jam the gates and hammer nails in the cannons. The victory granted a freedom of movement in all of upper New York. More importantly however would be the supplies that was raided from the fort. While cannons were in limited supply food, and shot would greatly aid the General in keeping his men fed and earning the obedience of the local populace.

The general would camp in the fort during the winter and used the period to assert control over upper New York for colonial forces. Despite Brutality against the tribes such as the Mohawks, Lafayette would recruit Tuscarora and Oneida fighters and for fighting regiments. During his expedition he would be able to raise another 2000 troops. Lafayette held no illusions to the strengths of his native troops and used them for reconnaissance and terror tactics. This would however change. Whilst camping at For Niagara he would drill and train this native troops to be inexperienced, if competent fighters.

Despite his success the realities of the revolution would need to be considered. Even if he would continue to win the mobility war in the north if Boston or Philadelphia fell his efforts would have been for nothing. And so his decision would be to march into Canada towards Quebec to help draw off forces from the rest of the thirteen colonies. Ironically enough this would verdict a General that went by the name of Benedict Arnold. Benedict Arnold is a rather obscure man even in American History. For most of our understanding of the war he was a minor hero who had injured himself in the first failed invasion of Quebec and would be resigned to history for that. According to documents discovered 50 years ago he had been selling secrets to the British. His actual knowledge for things outside his command was generally bad and as such the British would often ignore his information. One such case was an attempt by the continental conference to pretend there was an invasion of Quebec through the St. Lawrence River, as such they told him of an invasion that was not happening [3]. Fate would however intervene in that Lafayette would decide to follow such a plan. The British would however believe this plan to be false and were unprepared for Lafayette’s excursion.

Starting in May of 1780 Lafayette would go on a campaign what was intended, not to hold but to inflict as much chaos as possible and confuse the British Generals. The General would capture the cities of York and Bytown [4] by the end of the summer and would the March north along the Lawrence River. In contrast to his behavior towards the enemy tribes he would act with a much softer hands toward the Loyalist and Quebec people. Despite many victories for Lafayette he would consider his greatest one the victory over Captain Butler. While the victory would really be a minor event in the scheme of the war for Lafayette it was the victory over a man who had committed great atrocities.

Lafayette would reach the City of Montreal. For the City it was the second time they would see Colonial forces under their roofs. In contrast however the City was happy to see the French General. Montreal had viewed the British with suspicion. Even with the Quebec acts granting those liberties the city itself had lost status under the management of the British having lost status as a full “city” to their new overlords. Lafayette would be colored by his experiences in Montreal and it was there he truly started to create an ideology based on pan-nationalism and not necessarily politics.

After spending the winter in Montreal Lafayette’s tedious hold on Canada would be challenged, not by petty raiders but by Governor of Quebec Guy Carleton [5]. Lafayette who while played a masterful game, had his forces reduced to around 3000 by the time of his March on Quebec, and while his forces were rested and trained from Montreal he was grossly outmanned and gunned by General Burgoyne’s 4,000 troops. Lafayette would make a daring march on Quebec City in the summer of 1781. Lafayette would benefit from Carleton’s general indecision and inexperience. The two men would meet at the spot of the last failed invasion of Canada at Trois-Rivières.

The Battle itself was a short affair. The colonial Crossing had been witnessed by a British scout who immediately reported to General Carlton. Notifying the HMS Winston he the marched on the column. The colonial forces were able to position themselves on top of a nearby hill and fire upon the advancing British troops. Despite the killing field, the British forces were able to close in and trade volleys with the Colonial forces until the Winston arrived to fire grape shot upon the Americans, Demoralized many forces fled into the swap. One group of cannoniers turned their cannons to the HMS Winston and after a few lucky shots near the bow actually sank the ship clogging on of the rivers divergences. With the fall of the HMS Winston Lafayette ordered a general retreat.

The Battle is a pyrrhic victory for British forces as colonial forces were able to use the terrain and their mobility to cause a black eye for the British. In all about 1,500 Colonials either were killed, captured, or deserted as a result of the battle and 2,000 British soldiers died. Lafayette would spend the rest of the war in Montreal consolidating his hold over the upper New York and Canada. While Carlton spent most of his time raiding the colonial forces.
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Mendez’s analysis of the American Revolutionary war is considered one of the most accurate depictions because of his general neutrality on the war itself. He himself does not harbor the bitterness that either the Americans or the British hold against each other. Lafayette would turn what was a minor front in our Revolutionary war to one of the most successful campaigns of the war. I have chosen a few selections from his diary to see how pan-nationalism is developed within the mind of Lafayette as well as his generally more ruthless ways that colored much of the latter French Revolution.
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The Diary of Lafayette
June 20th 1778
… The Mohawk people are no more. Are their Mohawk raiders still around? Yes. But their people and culture are lost. They shall never commit a tragedy like Cherry Valley again. I do not fear them being a problem in the future….

June 17 1779
… As I look over my experiences with the Americans, I was initial confused why the Loyalists would stand with the British and against liberty. During this campaign I realize this is not a war of politics, or administration, but a war of peoples. The Loyalists are themselves British and not Americans. It is not a case of who grants them liberty but a case of who brings them together with their own. The case of Liberty is one that we should fight for but for the Americans it is as much a liberty to be ruled only by their countrymen and not some foreigners.…..

September 3rd 1779
….. The native troops that had been requited by Tuscarora and Oneida are not only exceptionally skilled in their peoples craft but they have adopted many of the ways of the Americans. Several in fact have converted to the way of Christ in their tenure here, and promise to show their family and tribe the way as well. Some use English as well as any American, and others have been drilling so much they fight like an American and proclaim their faith in the American Cause. These tribesmen are becoming American. I myself have felt a kinship I did not expect for these men, I wonder if my own people could inspire others to be French? …

October 17th 1779
….My countrymen of Montreal, yes my country men, have been nothing but wonderful. The people of Quebec, from the farmers to the craftsmen, are countrymen. Are they French? No, by their own admission and my own, but I believe that we are the same. We are descended from the same history, speak the same language, and have the same values. We are brothers…..

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[1] One such regiment was the Pennsylvanian Dutch, actually German immigrants, which would serve with distinction under Lafayette.
[2] By the end of this day the Mohawk tribe would have less than 300 people still alive and would then go to join other tribes in the area such as the Tuscarora and Oneida, The Mohawk tribe would be considered extinct by 1810.
[3] This actually happened OTL
[4] Now Toronto and Ottawa
[5] Guy Carlton would resign in 1778 however in this TL he remained in Quebec after the small pox outbreak as there were not enough men familiar with the land.
 
Head Researcher O’Hare, Lead on the F.A.S. regions
Subject: The Peace of Paris
The American Revolutionary War would unfold much of the same as OTL with the minor exceptions being the Yorktown equivalent occurring in Williamsburg and such. Lord Cornwallis would show much more dignity in his surrender to General Washington by surrendering in person to him [1]. Preliminary peace articles were signed in November 1782 in Paris despite this officially the war would not end until October 1783 with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. The Peace of Paris would be fraught with diplomatic intrigue from all parties involved from the Americans to the Dutch. The Quebec Historian Stanislas Girard would begin his book “The Road to America: The Transition of Quebec National Identity” with a remarkably insightful examination of the Peace of Paris and the entire negotiation process.

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“Asking for the aide of merchants, slave traders, and the friends of the colonials to speak for us was a failure of our government. Because of them we have suffered a great humiliation with our so called peace with the Americans. This mistake must never be again repeated”
-King George III during a private conversation with his son.



The Peace of Paris would be the most important peace conference of the 18th century for the rest of the world, in Europe is was simply another place to reevaluate old feuds. It would see the creation of new states, and change the dynamic of the old ones. For Europe what was a transition of territory would be something that would change how the world operated. Americans would see that freedom from Europe was possible and Europeans would see their own failures and adjust for how the rest of the world reacted to them for the first time. It started the paths of Absolutism for some and Liberty for others.

News of General Cornwallis’ surrender at Williamsburg would reach Britain in November 1781 arriving just in time for the Parliamentary debates for military spending for the following year. The surrender changed what was a former policy of aggressive “offensive” war with long campaigns away from fortified centers to one of consolidation and “defensive” war till peace would come. At the beginning of that January it was learned the French had captured severally British islands in the West Indies. The Royal navy would dispatch a fleet to the islands in hope of reclaiming them.

The Home government would however be in Shambles. Parliament would was in shambles. In the following weeks Parliament voted for a guarantee of the “no offensive war” claim made in the fall on the grounds it would be futile and just weaken England in the face of her European Rivals. By March this position would be affirmed by the loss of three more West Indian Islands and the Mediterranean base on Minorca in February. Gibraltar itself had been threatened since the beginning of the American Alliance with France. The opposition in Parliament then began tabling motions alleging that Great Britain had no confidence in its government; the first of these was rejected by just 10 votes, another a week later by 9 votes. Hours before yet another such vote was due, on 20 March, the government leader, Lord North, persuaded the King to accept his resignation (this set a precedent that successful Parliamentary votes of "no confidence" would automatically force a Prime Minister to resign). The King's choice as replacement, Lord Shelburne (who, though an old friend of Benjamin Franklin, had initially stated in February that he "would never consent, under any possible given circumstances, to acknowledge the independency of America") refused the post, leading to the formation of a strange new government team, nominally led by Lord Rockingham, whom the King hated, with Shelburne and Charles James Fox, who hated each other, as Secretaries of State. [2]

Rockingham’s team would quickly realize that their priority was to get out of its four linked wars (against the US, France, Spain, and the United Provinces) and to ensure Britain got the best possible deal it needed to ensure each of these wars were negotiated independently. Henry Laurens, the American envoy to the Netherlands who had been captured on his way to Amsterdam, would begin the informal talks on the behalf of the Americans. Laurens would indicate that America could not make peace with the British unless France agreed to the settlement. This Notion would be affirmed by the other American envoy’s in the region, Benjamin Franklin in France, John Adams in the Netherlands, and John Jay in Spain. Unfortunately for the Americans, France could not agree to a peace unless the Spanish agreed as well. Spain’s non-negotiable was the reclamation of Gibraltar, which despite being under siege for the last three years had been largely unsuccessful. France and Spain made overtures that they would accept West Indian islands instead of Gibraltar, leading to a difficult position for the British government between unhindered trade in the Mediterranean or the vast profits of the West Indies.

Initially the British government decided to resist accepting American independence as a precondition for negotiation, as they were aware that the French government was nearly bankrupt, and there was hope that the British reinforcements in the West Indies would reverse the situation there. British negotiators would send Richard Oswald an old slave-trading partner of Henry Laurens as one of the negotiators for Brittan. . His first talks with Franklin led to a proposal that Britain should hand over Canada to the Americans. Lord Shelburne, without specifically referring to the terms of that proposal, attempted to keep the proposal secret from his colleges and others, replied with an offer to accept full American independence, but on the existing borders. However word of such an agreement got out. A war weary parliament disagreed with wholesale agreement but several members would make it known they would be willing for negotiation of Canada. I idea of American Independence would be largely accepted as an eventuality.

A second British envoy, Thomas Grenville, was now sent to begin talks with the French government, based on this proposal. He indicated that the French could help to secure American independence, their avowed reason for entering the war back in 1778, by offering to return the British possessions they had captured in the West Indies, but the French rejected this, and separated their own peace demands from America's. That did indeed violate the spirit of their alliance with America, and fundamentally affected the future of the negotiations. Another factor which gave added power to the Americans was the decision of the Dutch Republic to recognize John Adams as the ambassador of an independent country. This led swiftly to the offer of a much-needed loan from the Netherlands, following which Adams went to Paris to join the impending peace negotiations. The loans would be immensely important to neutralize the French from holding such debts over them to continue fighting.

The French too played their diplomatic cards with some skill. While preparing to aid the Spanish forces in a massive assault on the fortress at Gibraltar, they stalled for time by insisting on American independence as a precondition for negotiation. They also sent a secret envoy to speak directly with Rockingham [3] in England, for there were some matters on which they were seriously opposed to the Americans. The most notable of these was the rich Newfoundland fishery, one of the main factors which had drawn the French across the Atlantic over 250 years earlier, and which they had managed to retain as a concession when the British took Canada in 1763. As British colonists, the Americans had rights to fish in these waters, but as United States only conquered the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, so would have no legal right to fish there unless it could be written into the peace treaty. For Britain, the logical course would be to make France give its rights to the Americans. The Americans also wanted fishing rights in the Gulf of Mexico, to which again they had previously been entitled thanks to the British colonies in Florida (now partly controlled by Spain).

The French and Spanish negotiators were also concerned about the American insistence on the Mississippi River as a western border; the existing area of the thirteen States was already about as large as France and Spain combined, and the proposed border would double that. In particular Spain's territories in Louisiana (New France) (and the newly reconquered West Florida) would be severely threatened if the American trend of economic growth based on land-grabs continued. The situation of the actual current occupiers of this land, the American Indians, was noted, Despite Shelburne’s insistence that their resistance would ultimately be minimal Fox, Who opposed on spire, would convince Rockingham to think this was a larger barrier than it was. In their opposition to this expansion, ironically, the French and Spanish governments were effectively supporting the British on one of the points which had begun the move towards revolution in the 1760s—the use of military forces (paid for by taxes) to maintain a clear border between the colonies and the American Indian lands west of the Appalachians. Even more ironically, the American case was strengthened by the charters of the earliest colonies, which specified, in deliberate disregard of the claims of other nations that they could expand from the east coast of America to the west coast. More so John Adams would greatly aid the peace process by separating the issues of personal debts and war reparations.
The Siege of Gibraltar would experience its greatest failure in August when the French and Spanish’s assault on Gibraltar ended in disaster. Not only did the assailants fail in there assault they allowed runners into the fortress to resupply the fortress The French had done all they could to help the Spanish achieve their essential war aim, and began serious discussions on alternative exit strategies, urging Spain to offer Britain some really large concessions in return for Gibraltar. Nonetheless, the fortress remained under siege. Spain’s ultimate war goal seemed impossible at this moment and the French willingly entered peace negotiations.

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The Treaty would go on to be very similar to OTL with the strengthened position of the Americans As well as the weakened position from the Blunders committed by the British rule .like the OTL treaty would fail to account for the changing border of Florida which would establish the southern Border to Florida. The issue arose because the northern Border was not solidly met with the Spanish-British interpretations which would lead to issues during the Spanish Revolts 20 years later. I have decided to include the treaties’ key points for further examination as well as a map of the specified borders. I would like to note that the Peace of Paris’ effects would resonate with the British people and the King who both felt they had lost more than they deserved during the war. Parliament itself would be at odds for the rest of the war and the death of Prime Minister Rockingham [4] would result Lord Shelburne to rise to the position with a sense of bitterness toward Oswald, and his fellow Slavers.
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The American-British Treaty
1. Acknowledging the United States (viz. the Colonies) to be free, sovereign and independent states, and that the British Crown and all heirs and successors relinquish claims to the Government, property, and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof;
2. Establishing the boundaries between the United States and British North America with the western border being defined by the Mississippi River and the northern Border defined by The Hudson Bay Companies lands, Nova Scotia, and a new border of Quebec just north of Montreal
3. Granting fishing rights to United States fishermen in the Grand Banks, off the coast of Newfoundland and in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence;
4. Granting Fishing Rights of the British in the Saint Lawrence River as well as the Great Lakes.
5. Recognizing the lawful contracted debts to be paid to creditors on either side;
6. The Congress of the Confederation will "earnestly recommend" to state legislatures to recognize the rightful owners of all confiscated lands "provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties, which have been confiscated belonging to real British subjects Loyalists";
7. United States will prevent future confiscations of the property of Loyalists;
8. Prisoners of war on both sides are to be released and all property left by the British army in the United States unmolested (including slaves);
9. Great Britain and the United States were each to be given perpetual access to the Mississippi River;
10. Territories captured by Americans subsequent to treaty will be returned without compensation;
11. Ratification of the treaty was to occur within six months from the signing by the contracting parties.
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The British-French Treaty
1. Declaration of peace, and forgetfulness of past problems.
2. Confirmation of old treaties between the two nations.
3. Exchange of prisoners and hostages to take place within 6 weeks of ratification; also ships (naval and merchant) captured after hostilities at sea officially cease are to be returned
4. British crown to retain Newfoundland and adjacent islands, except Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
5. French crown surrenders fishing rights between Cape Bonavista and Cape St. John (on the east coast of Newfoundland); but instead keeps fishing rights between Cape St. John and Cape Ray (round the west coast of Newfoundland).
6. The French may still fish in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
7. In the West Indies, British crown surrenders Saint Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent, Montserrat, and Barbados [5].
8. French crown returns Grenada, Dominica, St. Christopher's (St. Kitts), and to Britain, subject to guarantees of the right of French settlers in any of those islands.
9. In Africa, British crown surrenders the Senegal River area to France, and returns to France the island of Gorée.
10. French crown guarantees to British crown possession of the Gambia River area and Fort James.
11. British shall have right to carry on the gum trade from the mouth of the River St. John to Portendic Bay, but may not establish permanent settlements there (boundaries of the various African possessions to be determined by commissioners to be chosen within 3 months of ratification).
12. British and French access to other parts of the African coast to continue as customary.
13. In India, British crown returns to France all settlements on the Orissa coast and in Bengal, as at the beginning of the war—with liberty for the French to make a ditch round Chandannagar and will as far as possible provide security for French trade in the area.
14. The British crown also delivers Pondicherry and Karikal to France, with additions to the former at Valanour and Bahour, and the latter absorbing the four Magans bordering on it.
15. Mahé and the factory at Surat also returned to French control, with security provisions as in Article 13.
16. Britain and France will cease to aid their respective Indian allies against each other within four months ceasefire orders having already been sent to British and French forces in India.
17. British crown abandons restrictions on French use of the port of Dunkirk in France.
18. The two crowns will make new commercial agreements by the end of 1786.
19. All territories conquered by either side since the war began, and not mentioned above, are to be returned to their pre-war owners.
20. The two nations should be able to enter into their respective possessions of St. Pierre & Miquelon, St. Lucia, Gorée, Grenada, the Grenadines, St. Vincent, Dominica, St. Christopher, Nevis & Montserrat, within three months of ratification of the treaty. For Indian towns etc., within 6 months.
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The Treaties with Spain and the Dutch would be almost exactly the same as their OTL counterpart with minor changes with the exception of British Loggers would not be allowed to navigate the Belize River.
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North America 1783

[1]In OTL he was so ashamed of the defeat he would send his colonial to surrender for him.
[2] This is all per OTL
[3] Rockingham would have died by this period OTL, and Lord Shelburne would take over his government causing Fox to resign.
[4] Rockingham would only be spared from death for a few months before he was stricken with fever and died in his home 3 weeks after the treaty was signed.
[5] The French would have to return many of the British West Indies as the British Retook many of the conquered Islands in OTL
[6] Ceasefire orders having already been sent to British and French forces in India.
 
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