Timeline-191
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[edit] The War of Secession
- series: How Few Remain
- 1862: Special Order-191 is recovered by a Confederate soldier; in our history the Union capture of that order enabled the Army of the Potomac to turn back the Army of Northern Virginia's invasion of the north in the Battle of Antietam. The Army of the Potomac is later crushed at the Battle of Camp Hill enabling the Confederacy to capture Philadelphia and to win diplomatic recognition from France and Great Britain. The United States are forced to grant the Confederacy independence.
[edit] The Uneasy Peace
- series: How Few Remain
- 1863: Canada is created.
- 1864: Abraham Lincoln (then Republican) is beaten at the presidential election by Horatio Seymour (Democrat).
- 1870s: Cuba is bought by the Confederate States.
- 1871: Germany unified into a single sovereign state (As in OTL).
- 1877: Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat) becomes President of the U.S.A.
- 1880: James Longstreet (Whig) becomes President of the the C.S.A.
- 1881: James G. Blaine (Republican) becomes President of the U.S.A. Known for his hardline anti-Confederacy policies.
[edit] The Second Mexican War
- series: How Few Remain
- 1881 : The C.S.A. purchases Sonora and Chihuahua from the Mexican Empire for $3,000,000. The U.S. uses the purchase as a pretext for declaring war upon the Confederacy.
- 1882: James Longstreet enters the C.S.A into an alliance with Britain and France. This results in a victory for the Confederacy once more; however, Northern Maine is lost to Canada. The only major victory for the U.S in the war was in Montana, where forces under Theodore Roosevelt and George Armstrong Custer were able to repel the British invaders. The U.S. also starts an alliance with the German Empire. On the Confederate side the phasing out of slavery starts, although heavy segregation is kept. The day of the Armistice (April 22) becomes Remembrance Day in the U.S.A. It is treated a somber commemoration holiday.
In the aftermath of the war, Republican party splits, with Socialist Party forming under leadership of former President Abraham Lincoln. Democrats become permanent majority party. Confederacy keeps their new Mexican states and plans to build railway from Texas - Gulf of California (Pacific).
[edit] Before the Great War
- series: none
- 1882: Former President Abraham Lincoln splits Republican Party, forming a new Socialist Party. CSA builds railway connecting Texas with port city of Guaymas, Sonora.
- 1894: The C.S.A attempts to build a canal crossing through Central America, but this plan is shelved after the U.S.A threatens war.
- 1901(?): Hispano-Japanese War. Japan wins, and as a result hold Chosen and Formosa (Korea and Taiwan in OTL) Guam and the Philippines.
- 1903: Russia joins the Britain/France/Confederacey alliance.
- 1909: Woodrow Wilson elected president of the Confederacy.
- 1912: Theodore Roosevelt elected president of the U.S.A.
The Confederacy aligns with Britain/France/Russia in the Quadruple Entente. By necessity, the USA allies with Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy. US Military reorganized along German lines.
[edit] The Great War
- series: The Great War
1914
- June 28: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Pro-Serbian terrorists hit Franz Ferdinand's car with a bomb (in OTL the bombers fail, and the Archduke is instead shot by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the same cell).
- Late July: Mobilization of the U.S.A. and Germany.
- August: The Austro-Hungarian Empire accuses Serbia of backing the assassination; this leads to war between the two. The Alliance system means that Russia, France and Britain side with Serbia and Germany with Austro-Hungary. The United States declare war on the Confederate States and Canada, and launch an invasion of both countries; in the instance of the C.S.A., Kentucky and western Virginia are attacked. The Confederates launch a counter-invasion through Maryland and Pennsylvania, and succeed in occupying Washington D.C. In the Pacific Ocean, the U.S.A. captures the Sandwich Islands from Britain.
As presaged by the attempted invasion of Kentucky by the USA in 1882, trench warfare soon develops on most fronts in North America. The series concentrates on the deadlock on the Maryland/Pennsylvania border, the Kentucky front, the Roanoke Valley front, and skirmishes in Sequoyah (OTL Oklahoma).
1915
- Winter: The armies on the North American continent are slowed down by the cold. In both Europe and North America Christmas truces bring the fighting to a tantalizingly temporary halt.
- Early part of the year: Utah attempts to secede from the U.S.A. in rebellion. US Army troops are sent to quash the rebellion.
- Autumn: Red Rebellion of the black population of the Confederacy. Communist rebellions pop up throughout the South, particularly in areas with a high black population.
The war remains stalemated, with American forces unable to break through to Guaymas, Nashville, Washington D.C., Winnipeg, Montreal, Quebec City. Use of poison gas merely causes increased misery for the infantrymen.
1916
Stalemate remained the rule on all fronts. Even a new USA invention, the barrel (OTL Tank), did not live up to expectations due to poor tactical deployment. The only progress took place in the West, where the Mormons were crushed and US forces made progress in Texas and Sequoya. The Confederacy is forced to divert military resources to take on the Red forces rampaging throughout many parts of the South.
1917
Thanks to a rare flash of insight by aging General George Custer, the US Army finally learns to deploy barrels en-masse. US forces under Custer finally smash through Confederate lines in Tennessee, seizing Nashville. In Canada, Winnipeg and Quebec City fall, and a puppet Quebec government declares independence from Canada. Soon the Confederacy's ally, France, is forced to capitulate to the Germans (in OTL, American soldiers reinforce the French by this time). Using Custer's barrel tactics, a breakthrough is achieved in Maryland, and Washington retaken by US forces. Despite a last-minute use of Negro soldiers by the CSA, the war is lost by late 1917.
The Confederates fared quite poorly in the aftermath of the Great War. Areas north of the Rappahannock River in Virginia were added to West Virginia, Kentucky re-joined the Union, Sequoya was seized, and portions of West Texas (called the State of Houston) left Texas and also joined the Union.
[edit] Interwar Period
- series: American Empire
Just as in our own time-line, the initial euphoria after the Great War soon collapses into a Great Depression. Among the former members of the defeated Quadruple Entente, the Confederacy and Great Britain develop nascent Fascist movements. In the Confederacy, Jake Featherstone's Freedom Party exploits racial animosity and the memory of the Red Negro uprisings of 1915-16. The Confederacy begins to rearm.
[edit] Second Great War
- series: Settling Accounts
[edit] Postwar Period
| The Southern Victory series | |||
| How Few Remain | Second Mexican War period | ||
| The Great War | American Front | Walk in Hell | Breakthroughs | Great War period | |
| American Empire | Blood and Iron | The Center Cannot Hold | The Victorious Opposition | Inter-War period | |
| Settling Accounts | Return Engagement | Drive to the East | The Grapple | In at the Death | Second Great War period | |
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