====== What Madness Is This ? ====== A timeline chronicling a very different history of what would in [[alternate history:OTL]] be known [[USA|as the United States]], with many divergences throughout the late 18th and early 19th century and beyond. Ultimately, it tells the story of a balkanized North America and focuses on how alien (yet oddly familiar) the setting and its politics and society would be to us... Created by [[offtopic:Napoleon53]], this timeline can be found [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=260683|here]]. ---- ==== Chapters ==== **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/attachments/193403/|Title Card]]**, courtesy of [[offtopic:Zoidberg12]] **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6885023|Chapter 1: "John Adams' Fateful Presidency Changes History Forever"]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6885329|Chapter 2: "The First Term of the Adams Presidency & The Franco-American War"]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6900264|Chapter 3: "Kill the Bugger !"]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6907941|Chapter 4: "Hang Hamilton !"]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6908077|Chapter 5: "We the People, of the Great Republican Union..."]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7055385|Interlude: Summary of first five chapters, plus some minor additions]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7059810|Chapter 6: "1803-1815"]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7193867|Chapter 7: "America Divided" (plus a slight revision of Chapter 6)]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7198458|Chapter 8: "King of All He Surveys"]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7203024|Chapter 9: "Territorial Exchange and the Canadian Plot"]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7203635|Chapter 10: "The War of 1812 Begins"]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7243439|Chapter 11: "War of 1812 - The Caribbean Theatre"]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7347002|Chapter 12: "War of 1812 - The Canadian Theatre"]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7484281|Chapter 13: "Pax Napoleonica"]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7501524|Chapter 14: "The World Congress of Vienna, Part I"]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7504790|Chapter 15: "The World Congress of Vienna, Part II and Conclusion"]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7508385|Chapter 16: "Remember the Madison !"]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7510217|Chapter 17: "Viva la México !"]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7520784|Chapter 18: "The World Congress of Berlin - Prelude"]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7598320|Chapter 19: "The World Congress of Berlin"]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7625324|Chapter 20: "The World Congress of Berlin - Conclusion & The Green Mountain War"]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7645097|Chapter 21: "Death of An Era & The Coronation of Napoleon"]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7649011|Chapter 22: "Succession Crisis in Austria"]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7751315|Chapter 23: "The Gilded Age Dawns"]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7754122|Chapter 24: Onward Christian Solder; The Biography of Goerge Armstrong Custer; Part One]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7766479|Chapter 25: The Life of Reverend Aaron Burr II; The Founder of American Fundamentalism]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7827698|Chapter 26: The Company Men]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7832217|Chapter 27: The 1838 World Congress: Tragedy in Paris and The World Congress of Paris: Aftermath]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7835887|Chapter 28: The Balkan Wars]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7836337|Chapter 29: The Birth of the Prussian Empire and The Bonapartes and Hapsburgs regroup]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7844051|Chapter 30: The First Louisiana Rebellion]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7997636|Chapter 31: The Race for Africa: Part One (1840-1865)]]** A guest chapter on TTL's Scrambel for Africa analog written by **[[http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/offtopic/zoidberg12|Zoidberg12]]**. **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7868412|Chapter 32: Onward Christian Solder; The Biography of George Armstrong Custer; Part Two and Russia's Mad Prince]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7870374|Chapter 33: 1878: Pope Sixtus VI]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7871075|Chapter 34: Zenith of the Gilded Age]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7879451|Chapter 35: The Southron Nations]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7883300|Chapter 36: The March on Philadelphia]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8083474|Chapter 37: The Race for Africa: Part Two (1865-1890)]]** A guest chapter on TTL's Scrambel for Africa analog written by **[[http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/offtopic/zoidberg12|Zoidberg12]]**. **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7885011|Chapter 38: A New Generation of Bonapartes]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7890270|Chapter 39: England and Russia]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7890551|Chapter 40: March 5, 1890...]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7894011|Chapter 41: The Mexican-American War]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7918757|Chapter 42: The Panama Canal and The R.U. Invasion of Hawaii and the Pacification of the Pacific]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7923106|Chapter 43: Birth of a Monster]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7924416|Chapter 44: Breaking News: May 9, 1900...]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7928277|Chapter 45: The Louisiana Purchase]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7965716|Chapter 46: The Custer Youth Brigade and Child Soldiers in the Korean Conflict]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7975499|Chapter 47: The Missionary War: 1903-1905]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8249588|Chapter 48: The Race for Africa: Part Three (1890-1920) ]]** A guest chapter on TTL's Scramble for Africa analog written by **[[http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/offtopic/zoidberg12|Zoidberg12]]**. **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-7980408|Chapter 49: Autocarriages, The Roaring 'Teens and Europe: Part One]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8010509|Chapter 50: Aviation and Europe: To 1930!; Part One]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8025674|Chapter 51: Europe: To 1930!; Part Two]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8066014|Chapter 52: The Second Mexican-American War and the Annexation of Texas, 1909-1912]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8067539|Chapter 53: The Brave New World: Part One]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8080722|Chapter 54: The Brave New World: Part Two]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8085058|Chapter 55: The World Sport]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8088588|Chapter 56: Black Christmas: 1925; The Death of George A. Custer]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8139313|Chapter 57: The Iron Steele]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8124378|Chapter 58: The Union Government: 1930]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8140138|Chapter 59: Winston the Bear: The Rise of the English Custer]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8185201|Chapter 60: The Early Years of the Oswald Brothers; 1917-1941]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8186311|Chapter 61: The Reservation War and the Birth of California]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8208199|Chapter 62: The Cold War Begins]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8212174|Chapter 63: The Golden Age of Entertainment: Part One]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8215710|Chapter 64: The Golden Age of Entertainment: Part Two]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8222953|Chapter 65: The Golden Age of Entertainment: Part Three]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8226119|Chapter 66: The Great Purge of 1954]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8226905|Chapter 67: Prepare for War]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8240034|Chapter 68: Manning the Guns]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8240242|Chapter 69: “And so it is war!”]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8258123|Chapter 70: Europe at War]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8262128|Chapter 71: Bloodbath on the Columbian front]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8265572|Chapter 72: The Great Wartime Awakening]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8268709|Chapter 73: The Spirit of ‘56: The Welsh Revolution]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8308636|Chapter 74: The Southron Home Front]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8309031|Chapter 75: High Treason]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8372104|Chapter 76: Fall of the Ottoman Empire]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8480772|Chapter 77: The Middle East: Part 1]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8485612|Chapter 78: Italian Side of the War: Part 1]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8521576|Chapter 79: Rise of the Russian Bear]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8528490|Chapter 80: The Camps]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8530306|Chapter 81: The Middle East: Part 2]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8530626|Chapter 82: South American Turmoil And The Rise Of The Syndicate]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8531091|Chapter 83: Apocalypse]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8535661|Chapter 84: Praise The Lord And Pass The Radiation]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8539771|Chapter 85: Cold Steele]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8545762|Chapter 86: There Will Be Blood]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8552341|Chapter 87: Bloodbath In Europe]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8565445|Chapter 88: Adolf’s Inglorious Bastards]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8565897|Chapter 89: America Ascendant]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8585793|Chapter 90: “An American Humanity”]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8586543|Chapter 91: Italian Side of the War: Part 2]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8590481|Chapter 92: Marching Through Georgia]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8590481|Chapter 93: Italian Side of the War: Part 3]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8593977|Chapter 94: “A Cure For The Betters Of Society”]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8594594|Chapter 95: A Mad Afternoon with Bill Graham]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8620234|Chapter 96: The Italian Side To The War: Epilogue]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8650331|Chapter 97: The Sardinian Accords: Part 1]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8653593|Chapter 98: The Sardinian Accords: Part 2]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8654236|Chapter 99: The Sardinian Accords: Part 3]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8654448|Chapter 100: The Times They Are A-Changing - Dawn of the American post-war world of tomorrow]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8696869|Chapter 101: The Berlin Affair]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8697154|Chapter 102: The Patriotic-Comrade Act]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8714739|Chapter 103: M.A.D.ness]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8714846|Chapter 104: The American Mission In Great Britain: Part 1]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8723570|Chapter 105: The American Mission In Great Britain: Part 2]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8725721|Chapter 106: The Spice Warof 1964]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8728642|Chapter 107: Conquest of Turkey]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8732849|Chapter 108: American Tamerlane]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8812584|Chapter 109: “Pittsburg, Thanks be to God and President! We have touched down! Halleluja!” - America in Space]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8823636|Chapter 110: The Crash of ‘71]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8824617|Chapter 111: Oil, Revolt, and Treason]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8824904|Chapter 112: The Beginning Of The American Civil War]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8833010|Chapter 113: Collapse]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8855033|Chapter 114: “Save Your Columbian Money, Boys...”]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8857119|Chapter 115: The Californian War of Independence And The Death Of The American Empire]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8865081|Chapter 116: Downfall: 1974]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8877633|Chapter 117: Downfall: 1975]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8885249|Chapter 118: European Affairs]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8915310|Chapter 119: The Asian and Chinese Wars]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8923157|Chapter 120: 200 Years of Horror - The Bicentennial of the Failed Experiment]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8980748|Chapter 121: The Birth of the Confederacy]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8981728|Chapter 122: The Reverend Returns]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-8984788|Chapter 123: The Seventh Day Of The Seventh Month of the Seventh Year]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-9050722|Chapter 124: Caesarina The Terrible ]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-9108806|Chapter 125: War, It's just a shot away: 1996]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-9115844|Chapter 126: The New Centry: The Eve of Destruction]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-9117609|Chapter 127: Zero Hour]]** **//The Madness Continues - An Alternative Ending//** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-9119642|Chapter 128: Crackdown]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-9136972|Chapter 129: Pacification of the Caribbean]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-9155303|Chapter 130: The Australian Revolution]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-9165480|Chapter 131: The Day The Empire Died]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-9390000|Chapter 132: All Hail]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-9390870|Chapter 133: Dear Diary - An excerpt of Private Dicky Reynolds's journal]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-9399611|Chapter 134: Global Police]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-9841919|Chapter 135: The Secret Civil War - America Under Orra]]** ---- ==== TL-related media and trivia ==== **[[Maps (What Madness Is This ?)|Maps]]** **[[Nations (What Madness Is This ?)|Nations]]** **[[Dramatis Personae (What Madness Is This ?)|Dramatis Personae]]** **[[Glossary (What Madness Is This ?)|Glossary]]** **[[Propaganda (What Madness Is This ?)|Propaganda]]** **[[Info-boxes (What Madness Is This ?)|Info-boxes]]** ---- ==== Navigation ==== **[[early modern|Early Modern Timelines]]** **[[timelines:timelines_and_scenarios|Alternate History Timelines and Scenarios Main Directory]]**