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| The Empire was wracked hard by the Popular Wars - Frederick II having escaped to the ENA to get away from Joshua Churchill, he deigned to the 'Proclamation of Independence' in February 1828 in order to get American help to get rid of Blandford, which declared America no longer under British suzerainty and officialized all American institutions save the monarchy as completely separate from their British equivalents. Lord President Benjamin Harrison VII's death soon after allowed his rival Andrew Eveleigh to come to power, who then kept to the pledge of safety for British forces defecting to America and nothing else. In revenge, Frederick began to maneuver abolitionist forces in Virginia into power. 1829 was a decisive year - Frederick induced Virginia into becoming the first confederation to elect its Governor by popular vote in February, with the winning candidate a Whig named William Henry a secret abolitionist. As Britain's suffering continued under 'Bloody Blandford', Eveleigh annexed British Antipodea, the Falkland Islands, the Hudson Bay's Territory and the British West Indies to the Empire and attached the last to Carolina to increase slaver territory, as well as the start of the Superior War of 1829-1833 - the Susan-Mary colony revolting and joining the Thirteen Fires Confederacy that Dashwood's band had escaped to and all the land above Lake Superior's northern shore (including the city of Susan-Mary/Sault Ste. Marie) proclaimed the Superior Republic. A call for more troops to occupy the annexations and assist the primarily New Yorker-New England force fight the Superians results in a tax on slaveholders in Virginia, who complain despite being able to easily field the funds. This in turn ticks off Clement Clay's 'Footnote of History' speech of January 1831 that kicks off a narrowly-passed Manumission Act in that confederation and causes the Virginia Crisis to erupt in February. Eveleigh's fanatical views on slavery and rage over the Act's passing actually pushed many Virginians to the anti-slavery camp, but pro-slavery mobs force the House of Burgesses and Imperial Parliament to retreat to Delaware while Maryland declares itself independent of Virginia. In spring, order is quickly restored: an Imperial force of Pennsylvanians occupied Maryland in May, while in August Governor Henry raised troops from western Virginia (primarily Vandalians) to restore the House of Burgesses. Adding to the chaos, September saw a band of black outlaws led by Caesar Bell attack Virginian slaveholders. Come 1832, Eveleigh, crazed by the unpopularity and defeat of the pro-slavery Virginians and Marylanders the previous year, urged Williamsburg and Richmond-shires to join Carolina but instead offended even more Virginians into defecting from pro-slaver views and instigated his removal from the Lord Presidency via the Continental Parliament's first 'death-vote'. Things then began to look up: in March the Superior Republic was destroyed at Fort Kaminiquistia and Susan-Mary absorbed back into the Empire as Dashwood surrendered himself in return for mercy for his retreating forces, and the combined Loyalist Virginian-Pennsylvanian force restored Frederick II to Fredericksburg in June. The Crisis was proclaimed over in October as many freed blacks were deported to Freedonia and a large number of diehard Virginian slavers migrated to Carolina. Dashwood was executed in February 1833, and Eveleigh committed suicide the following month as a Radical government took power. | The Empire was wracked hard by the Popular Wars - Frederick II having escaped to the ENA to get away from Joshua Churchill, he deigned to the 'Proclamation of Independence' in February 1828 in order to get American help to get rid of Blandford, which declared America no longer under British suzerainty and officialized all American institutions save the monarchy as completely separate from their British equivalents. Lord President Benjamin Harrison VII's death soon after allowed his rival Andrew Eveleigh to come to power, who then kept to the pledge of safety for British forces defecting to America and nothing else. In revenge, Frederick began to maneuver abolitionist forces in Virginia into power. 1829 was a decisive year - Frederick induced Virginia into becoming the first confederation to elect its Governor by popular vote in February, with the winning candidate a Whig named William Henry a secret abolitionist. As Britain's suffering continued under 'Bloody Blandford', Eveleigh annexed British Antipodea, the Falkland Islands, the Hudson Bay's Territory and the British West Indies to the Empire and attached the last to Carolina to increase slaver territory, as well as the start of the Superior War of 1829-1833 - the Susan-Mary colony revolting and joining the Thirteen Fires Confederacy that Dashwood's band had escaped to and all the land above Lake Superior's northern shore (including the city of Susan-Mary/Sault Ste. Marie) proclaimed the Superior Republic. A call for more troops to occupy the annexations and assist the primarily New Yorker-New England force fight the Superians results in a tax on slaveholders in Virginia, who complain despite being able to easily field the funds. This in turn ticks off Clement Clay's 'Footnote of History' speech of January 1831 that kicks off a narrowly-passed Manumission Act in that confederation and causes the Virginia Crisis to erupt in February. Eveleigh's fanatical views on slavery and rage over the Act's passing actually pushed many Virginians to the anti-slavery camp, but pro-slavery mobs force the House of Burgesses and Imperial Parliament to retreat to Delaware while Maryland declares itself independent of Virginia. In spring, order is quickly restored: an Imperial force of Pennsylvanians occupied Maryland in May, while in August Governor Henry raised troops from western Virginia (primarily Vandalians) to restore the House of Burgesses. Adding to the chaos, September saw a band of black outlaws led by Caesar Bell attack Virginian slaveholders. Come 1832, Eveleigh, crazed by the unpopularity and defeat of the pro-slavery Virginians and Marylanders the previous year, urged Williamsburg and Richmond-shires to join Carolina but instead offended even more Virginians into defecting from pro-slaver views and instigated his removal from the Lord Presidency via the Continental Parliament's first 'death-vote'. Things then began to look up: in March the Superior Republic was destroyed at Fort Kaminiquistia and Susan-Mary absorbed back into the Empire as Dashwood surrendered himself in return for mercy for his retreating forces, and the combined Loyalist Virginian-Pennsylvanian force restored Frederick II to Fredericksburg in June. The Crisis was proclaimed over in October as many freed blacks were deported to Freedonia and a large number of diehard Virginian slavers migrated to Carolina. Dashwood was executed in February 1833, and Eveleigh committed suicide the following month as a Radical government took power. |
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| America would begin serious soul-searching when a debate over updating its national banner - the 'Flag War', over whether the Union Jack canton ought be removed and replaced with something else - led to more serious discussions over the peopling of its western lands and better representation for them, even to the possibility of Drakesland being admitted as a confederation or western provinces around the Great Lakes, Great Plains, and Appalachian Mountains grouping together as future subdivisions. The Parliamentary Reapportionment Act of February 1836 took steps to universal suffrage as it added to and shuffled the total amount of MCPs around, but a serious snag comes over Carolina - which instituted universal //white// suffrage but felt increasingly isolated and unique ever since fellow southern confederation Virginia passed manumission. Two important immigrants come to the country at this time: the Prussian King Frederick Henry Owens-Allen would move to the country, travel the west, and eventually win election as Governor, while Mo Quedling was elected as a Pittsylvanian MCP and spoke passionately on pacifism and condemned those who do not agree with him. Frederick II returns in 1847 and polarizes the Empire with talk of a new Constitutional Convention like that recently held in the reformed Kingdom of the Britons. | America would begin serious soul-searching when a debate over updating its national banner - the 'Flag War', over whether the Union Jack canton ought be removed and replaced with something else - led to more serious discussions over the peopling of its western lands and better representation for them, even to the possibility of Drakesland being admitted as a confederation or western provinces around the Great Lakes, Great Plains, and Appalachian Mountains grouping together as future subdivisions. The Parliamentary Reapportionment Act of February 1836 took steps to universal suffrage as it added to and shuffled the total amount of MCPs around, but a serious snag comes over Carolina - which instituted universal //white// suffrage but felt increasingly isolated and unique ever since fellow southern confederation Virginia passed manumission. Two important immigrants came to the country at this time: the Prussian King Frederick Henry Owens-Allen would move to the country, travel the west, and eventually win election as Governor, while Mo Quedling was elected as a Pittsylvanian MCP and spoke passionately on pacifism and condemned those who did not agree with him. Frederick II returns in 1847 and polarizes the Empire with talk of a new Constitutional Convention like that recently held in the reformed Kingdom of the Britons. |
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| Unfortunately, in June 1848, the Great American War began. The issue of slavery had become paramount in internal issues and Carolina declared secession on June 25th, 1848 when it becomes apparent the rest of America could force abolitionism by weight of sheer popular vote at the proposed Convention. Worse yet, troops moving to occupy Carolina are hampered by Governor Owens-Allen's declaration of Virginian neutrality on July 16th in order to protect locals from invasions like that of the Virginia Crisis, forcing them to move by sea or specialized routes. Despite this, things seem to go well at first from then to August 1849. Franklin province and those immediately to its west settled by people from the Appalachians are apathetic to the confederal leaders in Charleston and cleave immediately to the Empire, and Charleston is captured. Unfortunately, an American warship attacking a Carolinian mission to Buenos Aires damages the city and leads to a declaration of war by Meridia, and the American First Siege of Ultima in Georgia of March-May 1850 is broken. General Jones, main commander, is killed at the Battle of Cravenville in September, but his army secures the Carolinas proper as Admiral Warner takes eastern Cuba and Hispaniola. Things gradually come undone the rest of the year: a conscription act in the fall leads to revolts and Meridian forces secure Jamaica and West Cuba for Carolina, as well as a combined Meridian-Carolinian force pushing Jones's army northward and liberating the Carolinas. Virginia finally joins the full war effort as this 'Northern March' by February 1851 sees the Jones army pressed to the its border: the governors' election sees Henry returned to power and Owens-Allen fleeing south with his German bodyguard to help Carolina. The Meridians stall at Virginia and the Carolinians are crushed recklessly trying to assault Fredericksburg in July, and American forces push back. They recapture North Carolina, half of South Carolina, and northernmost Georgia by November 1852 and besieged Ultima a second time but cut back the next month (the "Black Christmas"), causing a peace government to be elected in the Imperial election of January 1853. Next month sees a ceasefire and the end to the Carolinian War of Independence: a plebiscite held in July has North Carolina westward as well as the occupied half of South Carolina, the northernmost slices of Georgia and the Cherokee lands, and East Cuba, Hispaniola, Leeward Islands, and Windward Islands stay American while the remains of South Carolina, Georgia, the Cherokee Empire, the Floridas, and West Cuba and Jamaica unite as the Kingdom of Carolina. Meanwhile the 'Manhattan Massacre' that damaged the armorclad //Lord Hamilton// and New York City by Howden nationalists in June 1852 saw the Howden Confederacy annexed to New York and the majority of its population expelled to the Red River Valley to make room for New Yorker colonists, and Imperial troops intervening in the Californian and Louisianan Wars for Independence take New Mexico from New Spain and northwestern Louisiana from France, thus ironically giving the ENA new territory equivalent in size to lost Carolina. | Unfortunately, in June 1848, the Great American War began. The issue of slavery had become paramount in internal issues and Carolina declared secession on June 25th, 1848 when it becomes apparent the rest of America could force abolitionism by weight of sheer popular vote at the proposed Convention. Worse yet, troops moving to occupy Carolina are hampered by Governor Owens-Allen's declaration of Virginian neutrality on July 16th in order to protect locals from invasions like that of the Virginia Crisis, forcing them to move by sea or specialized routes. Despite this, things seem to go well at first from then to August 1849. Franklin province and those immediately to its west settled by people from the Appalachians are apathetic to the confederal leaders in Charleston and cleave immediately to the Empire, Charleston is captured as American forces under General Trevor Jones secure the Carolinas and then push south into Georgia, and Admiral James Warner takes eastern Cuba and Hispaniola. Unfortunately, an American warship attacking a Carolinian mission to Buenos Aires in June 1849 damages the city and leads to a declaration of war by Meridia, and the American First Siege of Ultima in Georgia of March-May 1850 is broken. Things gradually come undone the rest of 1850: a conscription act in the fall leads to revolts, Meridian forces secure Jamaica and West Cuba for Carolina and the Falkland and South Georgia Islands for themselves, and a combined Meridian-Carolinian force pushes Jones's army northward and liberates the Carolinas. Virginia finally joins the full war effort as this 'Northern March' by February 1851 sees the Jones army pressed to its border: the governors' election sees Henry returned to power and Owens-Allen fleeing south with his German bodyguard to help Carolina. The Meridians stall at Virginia and the Carolinians are crushed recklessly trying to assault Fredericksburg in July, and American forces push back. They recapture North Carolina, half of South Carolina, and northernmost Georgia by November 1852 and besiege Ultima a second time but retreat the next month (the 'Black Christmas'), causing a peace government to be elected in the Imperial election of January 1853. Next month sees a ceasefire and the end to the Carolinian War of Independence: a plebiscite held in July has North Carolina westward as well as the occupied half of South Carolina, the northernmost slices of Georgia and the Cherokee lands, and East Cuba, Hispaniola, Leeward Islands, and Windward Islands stay American while the remains of South Carolina, Georgia, the Cherokee Empire, the Floridas, and West Cuba and Jamaica unite as the Kingdom of Carolina. Meanwhile the 'Manhattan Massacre' that damaged the armorclad //Lord Hamilton// and New York City by Howden nationalists in June 1852 saw the Howden Confederacy annexed to New York and the majority of its population expelled to the Red River Valley to make room for New Yorker colonists, and Imperial troops intervening in the Californian and Louisianan Wars of Independence take New Mexico from New Spain and northwestern Louisiana from France, thus ironically giving the ENA new territory equivalent in size to lost Carolina. |
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| A National Coma and sense of malaise would be in effect from 1853-1857 as the ENA tried to pretend it was business as usual, but the Newton Uprising of 1856 would see the occupied Georgian and South Carolinian land lost to Carolina, albeit attempts to incur rebellion in eastern Virginia and North Carolina were far more lukewarm due to a now-mainstream lack of reliance on plantation economics and hatred of Carolinians proper. With the vast majority of people of Carolinian descent and pro-slavery views gone, the ENA finally held a Constitutional Convention in 1857 and reformed itself: the new Confederations of Drakesland (the Pacific Northwest), Michigan (the western Great Lakes), Ohio (Ohio River Valley and southern Appalachians), and Westernesse (Ozarks and southern Great Plains), and Cyngia (western Antipodea) were created, many new provinces created within them to properly represent their burgeoning growth, and the reduced eastern confederations had new subdivisions drawn up to ease existing overpopulated shires. Slavery was completely abolished and universal suffrage instigated in its stead and a new canton replaced the Union Jack in the flag with nine stars to represent the nine confederations, the 'Starry George'. The Empire held Worldfest 1862 to proclaim to the world its renewed self of hope and opportunity for all men and attract immigration to its western lands, and was considered a smashing success. | A National Coma and sense of malaise would be in effect from 1853-1857 as the ENA tried to pretend it was business as usual, but the Newton Uprising of 1856 would see the occupied Georgian and South Carolinian land lost to Carolina, albeit attempts to incur rebellion in eastern Virginia and North Carolina were far more lukewarm due to a now-mainstream lack of reliance on plantation economics and hatred of Carolinians proper. With the vast majority of people of Carolinian descent and pro-slavery views gone, the ENA finally held a Constitutional Convention in 1857 and reformed itself: the new Confederations of Drakesland (the Pacific Northwest), Michigan (the western Great Lakes), Ohio (Ohio River Valley and southern Appalachians), and Westernesse (Ozarks and southern Great Plains), and Cyngia (western Antipodea) were created, many new provinces created within them to properly represent their burgeoning growth, and the reduced eastern confederations had new subdivisions drawn up to ease existing overpopulated shires. Slavery was completely abolished and universal suffrage instigated in its stead and a new canton replaced the Union Jack in the flag with nine stars to represent the nine confederations, the 'Starry George'. The Empire held Worldfest 1862 to proclaim to the planet its renewed self of hope and opportunity for all men and attract immigration to its western lands, and was considered a smashing success. |
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| Some of the major past issues that affected the Empire had been declaring the realm off-limits to convict settlers in 1789, how strong the Imperial (central) government should be compared to Confederal (local) government (from 1803 with Carolina's annexation of Hispaniola to 1857 with the successful Supremacist call for a Constitutional Convention), land annexations (both to the Empire in general and dividing that land between the confederations), the Proclamation of Independence from the mother country in 1828, and eliminating slavery in Virginia, begetting the Virginia Crisis. The Empire also had a first in independently negotiating with the Viceroyalty of New Spain over the Noochaland Crisis, in which the mother country of neither took a hand in. In turn, Carolina negotiated to settle a border dispute with the Grand Duchy of Louisiana, causing some to argue it overstepped its constitutional bounds. There also was heavy dispute over the increasingly disgruntled western provinces wanting better representation and slavery in Carolina during the Watchful Peace and Democratic Experiment, but the Great American War would see Carolina split off and a new Constitutional Convention in 1857 create new confederations and inaugurate universal suffrage. | Some of the major past issues that affected the Empire had been declaring the realm off-limits to convict settlers in 1789, how strong the Imperial (central) government should be compared to Confederal (local) government (from 1803 with Carolina's annexation of Hispaniola to 1857 with the successful Supremacist call for a Constitutional Convention), land annexations (both to the Empire in general and dividing that land between the confederations), the Proclamation of Independence from the mother country in 1828, and eliminating slavery in Virginia, begetting the Virginia Crisis. The Empire also had a first in independently negotiating with the Viceroyalty of New Spain over the Noochaland Crisis, in which the mother country of neither took a hand in. In turn, Carolina negotiated to settle a border dispute with the Grand Duchy of Louisiana, causing some to argue it overstepped its constitutional bounds. There also was heavy dispute over the increasingly disgruntled western provinces wanting better representation and slavery in Carolina during the Watchful Peace and Democratic Experiment, but the Great American War would see Carolina split off and a new Constitutional Convention in 1857 create new confederations and inaugurate universal suffrage. |
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| The various Native American realms also maintain relations with the ENA and through them, Britain. The most powerful in this regard are the Cherokee Empire (which has absorbed the Creek and Chickasaw and made the Floridian Seminoles an intergral, if physically cut-off, part of their nation), and the Howden (Iroquois) Confederacy, which has successfully settled the northern part of the OTL Ontario Peninsula and middle Michigan as well as the traditional western New Yorker homeland. The OTL Ohio Confederacy, Lenni Lenape, Wyandot (Hurons), Creek, and Chickasaw tribes have all been defeated between the 1760s to 1790s by the Empire in conjunction with the Howden and Cherokee and their lands divided between all three nations. Peace reigned between the ENA, Howden, and Cherokees until the Manhattan Massacre of 1853, after which the Howden Confederacy's lands were absorbed into New York as the provinces of Huron, Chersonesus, and Ontario and the Cherokee Empire joined the Kingdom of Carolina. Afterwards, a massive exodus of Howdens along with many of the remaining Native American tribes within the Empire's westernmost provinces and newly-formed federal territories moved north to the massive 'Indian Confederation' centered around the Red River Valley, where with the remains of the Thirteen Fires Confederacy and exiled whites (themselves a mixture of exiled Englishmen and local French-Canadians) of the Susan-Mary penal colony have begun to coalesce into a second iteration of the 'Superior Republic'. | The various Native American realms also maintain relations with the ENA and through them, Britain. The most powerful in this regard are the Cherokee Empire (which has absorbed the Creek and Chickasaw and made the Floridian Seminoles an intergral, if physically cut-off, part of their nation), and the Howden (Iroquois) Confederacy, which has successfully settled the northern part of the OTL Ontario Peninsula and middle Michigan as well as the traditional western New Yorker homeland. The OTL Ohio Confederacy, Lenni Lenape, Wyandot (Hurons), Creek, and Chickasaw tribes have all been defeated between the 1760s to 1790s by the Empire in conjunction with the Howden and Cherokee and their lands divided between all three nations. Peace reigned between the ENA, Howden, and Cherokees until the Manhattan Massacre of 1852, after which the Howden Confederacy's lands were absorbed into New York as the provinces of Huron, Chersonesus, and Ontario and the Cherokee Empire joined the Kingdom of Carolina. Afterwards, a massive exodus of Howdens along with many of the remaining Native American tribes within the Empire's westernmost provinces and newly-formed imperial territories moved north to the massive 'Indian Confederation' centered around the Red River Valley, where with the remains of the Thirteen Fires Confederacy and exiled whites (themselves a mixture of exiled Englishmen and local French-Canadians) of the Susan-Mary penal colony have begun to coalesce into a second iteration of the 'Superior Republic'. |
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| Due to the Westminster System being applied to the geographically vast land of North America, the nation has become synonymous with coalition-building, with multiple parties common in its political system and large tent parties tending to break up. | Due to the Westminster System being applied to the geographically vast land of North America, the nation has become synonymous with coalition-building, with multiple parties common in its political system and large tent parties tending to break up. |
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| | From the 1860s onwards (though the term is often mistakenly used for earlier Lords President), the residence of the (Lord) President is 14 Culpeper Road in Fredericksburg. |
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| 1800-1807: **Henry I** (also Henry IX of Great Britain, etc) | 1800-1807: **Henry I** (also Henry IX of Great Britain, etc) |
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| 1807-: **Frederick II** (also Frederick II of Great Britain, etc) | 1807-1875: **Frederick II** (also Frederick II of Great Britain, etc) |
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| | 1875-1886: **Henry II** (also Henry X of Great Britain, etc) |
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| | 1886-????: **George II** (also George IV of Great Britain, etc) |
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| 1851-1853: John Vanburen (Liberal, leading Supremacist-Liberal "War Coalition") (3rd term) | 1851-1853: John Vanburen (Liberal, leading Supremacist-Liberal "War Coalition") (3rd term) |
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| 1853-????: Francis Bassett (Patriot, leading Patriot-Independents "Peace Coalition" or "Anti-Reform Coalition") | 1853-1857: Francis Bassett (Patriot, leading Patriot-Independents "Peace Coalition" or "Anti-Reform Coalition") |
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| | 1857-1862: Lewis Studebaker (Supremacist minority 1857-8, Supremacist-Liberal National Government 1858-62) |
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| | 1862-1867: Thomas Whipple (Liberal minority) |
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| | 1867-1872: Joseph Fletcher (Supremacist) |
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| | 1872-1875: Albert Braithwaite† (Liberal) |
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| | 1875-1885: Michael Chamberlain (Liberal) |
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| | 1885-1887: Henry Foxbury (Supremacist) |
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| | 1887-1892: Dennis Cooper (Liberal) |
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| | 1892-????: Stuart Jamison (Supremacist) |
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