0# INTRODUCTION

A poem by the eminent (in OTL) Konstantin Simonov followed by a glimpse into the ATL following its Third World War

1# A Letter Never Sent

Details of the situation in North America prior to the POD, which is the failure of a letter detailing the actions of the Sons of Liberty being delivered to Benjamin Franklin in London.

2# The Quiet Avoidance of the American Revolution

Thanks to a series of blunders and closer cooperation between Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of Massachusetts, and Benjamin Franklin in London, the Boston Tea Party proves to be a failure, while a new small colony is born in Watuaga…

3# Blind Economics

A tiny entry detailing the establishments of new Crown custom courts in the 13 Colonies and the creation of the post 'Inspector General of His Majesty's North American Colonies'

4# The Great and Little Gunpowder Plots

Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys make merry hell in upcountry New York, while Samuel Adams succumbs to hubris and armed standoffs occur between the colonies over useless tracts of land…

5# The Colonial Bill of Rights

Cohesive, quasi-federal Royal government is adopted inside the Colonies, with Edmund Burke becoming the first Governor-General. The University of Columbia, part of Cambridge University, is founded.

6# The Closest They Ever Came

Riots break out across America against the local Colonial assemblies, propped up by London. A march on Philadelphia is stopped by the great oratory of George Washington. At a Colonial Conference in London all outstanding disputes are however resolved; the colonies now look to their own system of governments (led by James Madison concerning Virginia) and start to form into Confederations or Unions. Carolina, New England and Virginia are the main blocs.

7# The French Divergence

A history of (most of it anyway) Louis XVI's reign, and his reforms of the Judicial system of France, which, together with less debt, averts the French Revolution of 1789.

8# The Second Great War for Empire

A diplomatic incident (which happens in OTL) between Britain and Russia spirals into war. Before long the whole Continent is dragged in; British troops under the Duke of York fail to win in Estonia against the genius General Suvorov.

9# First Blood

The Russians invade (a far stronger thanks to British help) Poland; the French start to bundle in once the Prussians (on the British side, given the British style of making others fight their continental fights for them) threaten Vienna. The Austrians fail to make any headway against the British supported Turks.

10# Annus Horribilis

Spain enters the war on the side of France, Russia and Austria (the Coalition); the Swedes (simply continuing their war with Russia) are driven out of Finland; the Turks are massacred by the Russians at Khotyn; the British Army under Abercrombie and Moore invade the Caribbean with success; the Dutch enter on the Allied side; the Russians win a Pyrrhic victory at the Siege of Brest, massacring the Polish Army under Poniatowski.

11# Surprises and Conquest

The Turks make peace with the Russians; the Polish strike back (at Austria) by taking Galicia; the British take Louisiana; the British almost lose it all in Haiti, with Abercrombie killed and Moore taking up the command; the Royal Navy wins off Toulon.

12# See The Winds Change

Britain takes Cuba; the French Navy is annihilated off Martinique in an attempt to stop the British advances in the New World; the Balearics are retaken by Spain, Gibraltar is sieged by the Coalition; the stupidity of Bavaria leads to its absorption by Austria; the French take Antwerp (with a little help from a Corsican Corporal); the Polish halt the Russian advance; the German war degenerates into a slogging match between Prussia, Britain, Austria and France.

13# Victory In The Wrong Place, Defeat In the Right

Moore invades and takes Venezuela; the Spanish Army is largely defeated in northern South America; the Llanero's make their horrible appearance; Mexico is invaded; the Swedes are driven out of Finland……again…..; the Dutch Republic falls to the French; Bavaria falls to the Austrians; Nelson wins off Marseilles.

14# 1798

Britain seizes Panama; most of Mexico now under British control; the Russians are catastrophically defeated by the Polish Army at the Plains of Jagelonis; Prussia is close to collapse; General Napoleon Bonaparte invades Ireland, with the United Irishmen rising up to support him. Ireland is no longer British. The Polish after their victory invade Austria.

15# Veritable Massacres

Spain fails in her attempt to secure back the Americas and falls to revolution; Viscount Bearsden (Moore) and Bonaparte clash in Ireland after he is recalled; the Polish intervene more and more in Germany against the French (under the genius Lazare Hoche)and Gibraltar falls to Spain.

16# Revolution and Plans

Benedict Arnold (British General) takes Ecuador and Peru for Britain. Romana, the revolutionary leader, begins his transformation of Spain. Ireland falls back to British control.The Poles win more and more in Hungary against the Austrians.

17# Endgame

A huge British army under Bearsden invades the Continent, outsmarting and overcoming the awaiting French but getting bogged down by the Duc d'Ajaccio (Bonaparte). Hoche is overcome by the Allies in Germany finally. Austria loses catastrophically at Budapest against the Poles.

18# The Ruining of Europe

The Treaty of Geneva is accorded; Prussia is the main loser despite being a victor, and the seeds of her destruction are planted here. Britain gains the Americas, Russia retreats from Europe, the Turks get nothing, the Austrians Bavaria, the French have to pay reparations, the Dutch Republic is reborn and gains the Austrian Netherlands and Poland regains most of her partitioned land. Prussia gains minimal land for her horrible losses.

19# Some Filler

A profile of Lord North, First Lord of the Treasury

20# The Counter-Revolution

Ferdinand VII moves against the revolution that put him in his place in a bid for absolute rule. His reign lasts a dozen years before he is driven out, while in Barcelona a soldier by the name of San Martin takes down the tenets of a horrible ideology.

21# Reform of the British Army

Details on the modernisation of the British Army during and after the Second Great War

22# Stupid Intervention

France invades Spain in support of Ferdinand VII in order to crush the revolution…with mixed results.

23# The Giant of France

A profile of France's greatest King, Louis XVII

24# Sassamon

The French Army, led by the best men the mother country can produce, make little headway against the Republic of Spain

25# Last Gasp

After a last attempt at toppling the revolution, Louis XVII orders a general withdrawal of French troops from Spain…leaving in the power vacuum the guile of Jose de San Martin and his 'Classicism'

26# 'Can Thou Question Your Lord?'

San Martin builds ruthlessly on his powerbase in Spain to become undisputed Dictator there, and then launches an invasion of France.

27# O True Venice

A description of the rise of Venice….again….at the expense of the Ottoman Empire and the adoption of tenets of Classicism.

27# Pitt the Reformer

A profile of William Pitt, Earl of Hayes and British Prime Minister

28# The Cambridge English Dictionary

A glimpse of things to come.

29# Mary III

A profile of Mary III, Queen of England

30# Hamlet Inspires

The rise of Denmark in India, at the expense of the British

31# Just for Fun

A glimpse at the audacity of the French in the ATL future

32# Manacles

ATL book review

33# The Road to War

A description of the internal goings on of British America, as the Confederations slowly blunder into war with each other…

34# The Troubles

A history of the 'Troubles', where thanks to incompetent administration and mistakes made by the British overlords, New Granada rebels and declares itself an independent republic. Bolivar leads the resistance, Wellington crushes it. Birth of the much vaunted 'Protectorate' system.

35# A Bit of Earl Grey

Profile of Earl Grey, Prime Minister and successor to Pitt

36# The Titan Falls

A profile of the political life of the Duke of Bearsden, the successor to Grey and his fall.

37# The Peace of Tacitus

The Spanish invade France with ruthless efficiency and create a veritable desert on the border for all the destruction employed. They move on Bayonne and Perpignan.

38# The Immolation of Perpignan

Great detail on the destruction and Battle of Perpignan, instigating the first phase of the 'Spanish Revolutionary War'

39# The Blood Flows In The L'Adour

The Battle of Bayonne and the beginning of stalemate in the war.

40# Hamlet On The Run

The Danes hold onto the skin of their teeth in their battle with the Kingdom of Mysore

41# Red Dawn

The rise of the Classicist movement in the Palatinate, led by the inspiring psychopath Peter Cornelius

42# Prussia, Look To Your Fate

Prussia, weakened fatally by the Second Great War, is defeated heavily by the newly invigorated Palatinate hypnotised by Classicism.

43# The Rape of Lisbon

The story of Portugal's tragedy, allying with France against the Spanish classicist menace only to be crushed….utterly…and leaving Brazil without a mother country…

44# The Venetian and the Turk

More on the intense rivalry between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire….which is growing stronger with each year…

45# Look to the East

Russia, defeated in the Second Great War, reacts by turning to the east for sustenance. Central Asia is the victim, conquered by the emigre French Marshall Hoche. And Anarchism has its violent birth there.

46# The Pompejan Masterpiece

A history of the Dutch Civil War after the SGW

47# March Of The Red Army

The Classicist Palatinate forcefully unifies Germany by guile, by horrible violence and at the expense of Prussia. Berlin burns.

48# The Jasinski Plan

A history of Poland after the Second Great War; her rise back to Great Power status and a strong, traditional force making its entry onto the political stage.

49# The Wars of Revolution

Both France and Spain fully mobilise in what becomes known as the 'Spanish Revolutionary War'.

50# Carcassone

The Spanish win a slight victory over the French and rebuild their formerly great navy

51# World in Fire

A television documentary and the documentation of the rise of Bues.

52# Papier 493a

French Intelligence divulge their records on the war.

53# Canard

The French Army under General Bues make a daring raid into Galicia and pillage Santiago de Compostela.

54# Papier 493b

French Intelligence divulge more maneuvres, assassinations etc

55# Sharpe in Corsica

The birth of the Commando, the Spanish invasion of Corsica and the rise of Torrijos…

56# Three Way War

Jerome Buonoparte breaks away from the legacy of his brother and fights for Corsican independence, against France and Spain. The Spanish also take Sicily.

57# Under the Skull

The Classicists in Naples attempt to raise revolution against the Bourbon monarchy there, and fail….just.

58# British Recruitment Poster

A foretaste of the burning of Westminster in 1849.

59# The Day of Three Kings

Naples falls to Classicism and internal strife…

60# The Lament of the Revolution

The song of the French Revolution.

61# Sedition

The French Revolution begins as a rivalry between Louis XVII and Hoche.

62# Revolutionary Fun

The flag of the French Republic

63# Muse

The French Revolution begins- Hoche meets a grisly end and the mob get angry.

64# Third Great War fun

The Carolinian Flag

65# Korean Fun

The Imperial Korean Flag

66# When the wind blows

Third World War forebodings

67# The Imolation of the Hatos

Tsar Bomba

68# Dansk Indien

The subjugation of Mysore by the Royal Danish Army.

69# Where does the Pope live?

Spain takes its chance with France defeated to invade Italy, and subjugates Genoa, Piedmont and the Papal States. In a deal with Austria Tuscany is now connected with the Austrian heartlands but the newly elected Pope, Gregory XVI, is martyred.

70# Byron lamenting

The flag of the new Roman Republic

71# The Road to War

A history of the British political machinations from the death of the Duke of Bearsden to the inception of the Palmerston ministry.

72# Bismarck and Richard

A preview of the life of Edward Bismarck.

73# Mitchel

A preview of the trouble in Ireland.

74# The Return of the King

The life of Charles Edward Stuart, illegitimate grandson of the Young Pretender.

75# Keep Calm and Carry On!

A poster from the Third World War.

76# The Charge of Rosemary Lane

A painting of part of the famed Battle of Flimwell.

77# The Tragedy of Greece

A history of the Greek Revolutionary War, with Lord Byron as King George I of Greece and the crushing of the Greek rebellion by the vengeful Turks, all the stronger for it.

78# The Cambridge English Dictionary

A list of terms that will prove useful later on in the timeline.

79# A Man for all Seasons

The crushing of the French Revolution (narrowly) and the rise of Marshall Bues on the French political scene.

80# Horrible Ideology

Eugenics in the ATL and the birth of brain surgery at a horrific cost to human life.

81# The Ipanema Government

How Brazil turned into the United States of Brazil, and one of the most powerful states on the planet.

82# The Flower of Liberty

The early life of Edward Bismarck.

83# But can you put a gun on it?!

A history of the Royal Military Institute and the early invention of the car.

84# Norsefire

How Norway turned Classicist…

85# Switcheroo

Hanover turning Dutch.

86# The Tripartite War.

Russia invades Persia on a flimsy pretext, but a misreading of a map results in war with the strengthened Ottoman Empire; Omar Pasha inflicts a series of humiliating defeats in the Caucuses…

87# The British Socialist Party

Leftism in the ATL

89# On the rise…

Brazil is embroiled in war with the Spanish Republic and ends up with Paraguay and swathes of Alto Peru. Military reform makes the Brazilian Army a force to be reckoned with.

90# A Short Extract

Photos from the Third Great War

91# The Paradox of Ireland

A combination of Potato Blight, extremism and betrayal prompts British rule in Ireland to collapse in 1848. Charles Edward Stuart, leading the charge, turns his back on the country that adopted him and adopts a new nation- within months he is crowned King of Ireland. The Third Great War has begun.

92# Wake Up

The Classicist nations plot their final ploy to gain Europe, under the noses of the other powers. Britain under Palmerston finally allies fully with France- the Classicist nations co-ordinate their plans and, with Ireland falling and the UK distracted, make their move on France, Poland and Austria.

93# We'll All Go Down Together my Brother

The rise of Lincoln and Davis…in the wrong Confederations.

94# The First Waves

The Third Great War sets off- the London Stock Market collapses, the UCGR starts to overwhelm France, Holland is actually overwhelmed and Poland loses Saxony.

95# Wolves vs Wales

Austria desperately holds off the Red horde, while Carolina destroys the Royal Navy and advances inexorably north, smashing Virginia. The Battle of Charlottestown, between the British and Carolinian Armies, proves a strategic defeat- Carolina now threatens New England.

96# August Flames

Austria is forced out of Italy by a young Garibaldi- while the British Expeditionary Force under the young, up and coming Edward Lyons, holds the German advance in the north of France. Meanwhile, HMS Nemesis is dispatched on her maiden voyage…

97# Resistance is Futile

The Hatos Front are amicably previewed.

98# Villeparisis

In a series of battles, Marshall Bues is killed, but the Red advance toward Paris is repulsed.

99# A Melting Iron Crown

Austria is finally crushed in the autumn, while a Carolinian attempt upon New York City is repulsed.

100# Inexorable Paths

HMS Nemesis escapes her pursuers, only to be detained by the Turks, the Reds are driven toward the Aisne, while a Cobard war starts in the south of New Granada…

101# Operation Swan

In a surprise twist, in keeping with the Mannerheim Doctrine, after months of secret preparation, the UCGR, Spain and her allies overwhelm the Royal Navy and land in Kent and Cornwall. The West Country is overwhelmed and Queen Mary III is raped and murdered at Brighton, as is her successor Elizabeth II. Suddenly, a 7 year old half French boy is King, John II, while the British Army gathers in Sussex to repulse the invaders…

102# The Panic

The British, under the Marquis of Wellington, are defeated at Westbury, while Edward Lyons gathers enough men for a fight in Sussex…

103# British Intelligence Files 101

MI6 in 1930 panic over strange aerial photographs of Hatos aircraft.

104# Flimwell

In a battle that embodies the spirit of a nation, Lyons utterly scatters the Germans at the Battle of Flimwell.

105# The Triumph of the Devils

Although never losing a battle, Edward Lyons and the ragtag British Army are driven further and further back by multiple Classicist landings across Britain. As the Royal Navy is slowly ground down, the British Army makes its final stand on the heights overlooking Liverpool…

106# On Our Way!

The coward, greedy Lord President Velasco of the USB dies, with the Prime Minister Arturo Soares and the growing belligerent party inside Brazil locking horns. Brazil is led, inexorably, into the Third Great War, with great ambitions and a lot of luck…

107# A Traitorous Flag

The Flag of the 'English Classicist Republic'

108# The Ottoman Question

The Ottoman Empire, battlehardened after the Tripartite War with Russia and Persia, enters the war on the Allies side with a genocidal bang, directed against one of its oldest enemies…

109# An Echo of Fortune

Lyons, kidnapped by loyal officers to join the Royal flight to New England, fights against the Carolinian enemy, while a certain fort is sieged in Texas by the slavers…

110# Occupation

Stories of how the valiant live under the heels of bullies, from the brave 'Remechido' to the heroic John Marshall…

111# The Odd Couple

How Napoleon Charles Bonaparte, by gambling thousands of lives and his own tactical prowess, attained the control of the French Army and started its domination of northern Italy.

112# The Turning of the Tide

Brazil and Britain cooperate in crushing the Carolinian military on land and at sea, with a certain betrayal ending the membership of New Granada in the Confederation…

113# The Harrowing

Why the occupation of Britain is remembered.

114# The Emerald Army

With the Stuarts back in Britain, a confrontation between the Germans and the Irish is inevitable…

115# Helios 5

The ATL Moon Landings…or crashes…

116# The Revolution Betrayed

Socialist and Communist dock workers begin to dismantle the 'revolution' in Spain- civil war beckons once again…

117# The Barbados Incident

An armed confrontation between the Royal Navy and the Federal Navy of Brazil sours relations between the two powers, all arranged by a certain Mr Lincoln…

118# To be Continued…