United States of America (Dutch Superpower)

The United States, Tribes and Associated Peoples of North America is a confederation of French or English dominated provinces (States), provinces controlled by Native Americans (Tribes) and Provinces controlled by races not native to the continental US who aren’t Anglo-Saxon or French (Associated Peoples). It is one of the world’s largest countries and had prior to the Anglo-Dutch civil war had an almost unrivaled domination of the Americas. Since its defeat in the cvil war and the humiliating occupation that followed America has remerged as a Regional power, once again backing the Anglo-Dutch in their operations in the Middle East and Central Asia and campaigning to re-gain its position in the UN Security Council.

Foundation
The First Origins of an independent North American states originated in the late 18th century when American nobles and philosophers met clastinely in Philadelphia in the court of the Anglo-Dutch Governor’s. There they plotted and organized the American government to hamper the actions that the Anglo-Dutch government in Amsterdam wanted to be carried out. Because of the long distances and the time it took for orders and messages to travel from the UK to America the American Governor effectively ruled most of North America without interference from the government in Amsterdam.

However, the continued wars between the Anglo-Dutch and the Indian States in the Sub-Continent were a constant drain on Amsterdam’s coffers and in the late 1700’s the government in amsterdam order there Philadelphian counterparts to raise Taxes in order to pay for the Anglo-Dutch Army’s wars. The dissent that had been fermenting in the city exploded at this, the Anglo-Dutch Militia found itself hard pressed to contain the riots but the death of the King and King William VI’s plans to ingrate America into the Union put and end to an Independent American State originating from the Anglo-Dutch colonies.

The French Colony of Louisiana though was still a hotbed for political dissent, unlike Amsterdam Paris had not intervened in the running of its American colonies and Louisiana had become a hotbed of dissent against the government in Paris with high profile republicans fleeing there in order to plot agains the French government. Frustrated with the continual failure of radicals in France itself to overthrow the monarchy the exiles in Louisiana began to plan the creation of the most radical government that the world had ever seen. Radicals met with representatives from the US’s Indian Nations and presented them with elaborate gifts and praise, promising them the wealth of the colonials and there fearsome technology in exchange for collaborating with the radicals.

When the revolution broke out in Mainland france, the government in Louisiana sided with the french monarchy and the radicals saw this as there chance to overthrow French rule and establish Louisiana as an Independent North American state. With assistance from the few outright republicans who had not accepted King William VI’s treaty of Union the local militia overthrew the French Colonial administration. The Anglo-Dutch then stepped in when the radicals made moves to ally themselves with the French Republic in Europe, mobilizing the Union Army in North America and stationing it along the border with Louisiana as well as replacing the leading French Radical Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau with the Native American Chief Nescambious who was more amiable to co-operation with the Anglo-Dutch and a well regarded member of French Colonial society.

Napoleonic Wars
The newly independent United States instantly became the largest nation in North America, albeit one of the most sparsely populated. For the most part it was controlled by Native American tribes with the exception of a few costal cities and towns dominated by the French and mixed race individuals. The Anglo-Dutch, while initially hostile to the Idea of an independent nation in North America embraced the newly independent country and backed it with significant military force as a prevention in case the French government decided to retake what had been theirs. In exchange for the huge backing afforded to them by the Anglo-Dutch the Americans made an empty declaration of war against the French Republic which had become increasingly successful in Europe.

This would prove to be a costly error, After Napoleon had driven the coalition forces in Europe back to the homelands and the Anglo-Dutch out of the Netherlands he decided to embark on the most dangerous naval expedition ever yet undertaken. Nearly two hundred thousand French Soldiers in a huge naval fleet were taken by transport from France to North America with Napoleon hoping that control of all of North America would force his last remaining enemies in the Union to agree to a permentant peace treaty.

In 1813 after a protracted three month siege Napoleon seized New Orleans and most of the east coast of North America. The Anglo-Dutch army was still mobilizing in New England and the French continued there relentless advance into the American Heartland. Under the command of General Author St Clair the Continental Army carried out almost continuous strikes against the French in order to buy the anglo-dutch the time they needed to mobilize. Once they had done so and the French army had been reduced by disease and attrition St Clair struck comprehensively defeating Napoleon and driving the French out of North America once and for all, forever securing the existence of an Independent North American state.

Westward Expansion
The United States had won in the Napoleonic wars but it had done so without the help of almost two-thirds of its population. The distance between New-Orleans and the furthest outpost of French rule on America’s west coast was colossal and messages could take months or even years to reach far flung outposts. The most famous example of this came at the end of the Napoleonic Wars when an Indian Army almost two hundred thousand strong arrived just as the French had been comprehensively defeated by St Clair in 1814. While the native Army did help with the final mopping up of the French St Clair famously lost his temper yelling at the Chief in command of the army that had he and his men walked just a little faster several thousand American lives could have been saved.

The problem was that the movement of men from east to west and vice versa depended entirely on the usage of rivers and trails that were badly mapped, if mapped at all that often presented large navigational issues for the men and women that traveled along them. Although the Jesuits had attempted to put together maps of the region during their missionary work they were barely accurate at best and at worst hardly resembled the region at all.

It was clear to the Government in New Orleans that a clear unified map of North America had to be produced if the United States could ever be governed effectively. After the Napoleonic wars had ended the government dispatched three expeditions to travel from east to west making maps of the continent as they went and establishing expeditionary posts and roads along the way to finally allow the easy transportation of goods from the west to east coast. The thirty year expedition produced the most detailed maps of the continent to date and established the foundations of the modern American transport system. When the last soldiers and Cartographers reached the Pacific and dug the final of section of road that covered the entire continental US they were also marking out the path of the last great trans-continental railways.

The development of railways was what turned the East-West expedition from a mapping expedition into the single largest movement of people in American history as hundreds of thousands of native americans, free blacks and frenchmen followed the railways west and established towns and villages across America as they sought to find a new life. This expansion westward soon brought the United States into the territory claimed by the Mexican Empire and the Mexicans were less than happy with the Idea of the American’s taking land that they considered to be theirs.

Consolidation
In 1845 the American and Anglo-Dutch governments signed the American-Anglo-Dutch Alliance, promising that either country would support the other if another country (Mexico or Russia) attempted to expand there territory. The Americans were the first to exercise there rights under the treaty when the Mexican Empire, fed up with the almost complete American domination of the western half of the continent launched a devastating assault on undefended American settlers.

The Mexicans had counted on being able to deliver the government in new orleans a comprehensive mexican victory before they could respond. Unfortunately as soon as they had gotten wind of the mexican attack the American army had rushed troops from California and the mid-west along railways to the southern front. This delayed the Mexicans enough to allow the rest of the American (and Anglo-Dutch) army to mobilize and to carry the fight into mexico. Instead of having the complete victory they dreamed the Mexicans instead found themselves in a war with the Americans and the Anglo-Dutch. Mexico was outnumbered and outgunned but the Empire continued to fight on until 1847 when Anglo-Dutch and American troops captured Mexico city and forced the Mexican government to sign a peace treaty.

The second time that the treaty was enforced in the 1800’s was substantially more controversial. In 1859 the American government, under pressure from the global community and the Anglo-Dutch agreed to outlaw slaves within its territory and ordered there emancipation. This angered several plantation owners in the eastern states who marshaled there forces and declared indepence from the government in New Orleans. This turned out to be an unmitigated disaster for the slave owners. With the assistance of the Anglo-Dutch the American army mobilized and crushed the dissidents within six months, consolidating the Alliance and confirming the US and the Union as North America’s two controlling powers.

The World War’s
The alliance between the united states and the union would go on to form the bedrock of the Imperial Alliance, An agreement between six nations that each agreed to defend each other in the event of aggression from another power. Signed in 1900 the Imperial Alliance all but guaranteed the USA would be tied with the other five powers in any wars that they might be involved in.

In 1904 the Russian and Japanese Empires went to war and after an accident involving Russian Ships firing on a british fishing fleet the Union invoked the clauses of the Imperial Alliance dragging Europe and the world into the largest global conflict it had so far seen. The US however was interested in only one of its opponents. Mexico had emerged from a long civil war and now for the first time had the resources and numbers to deal with the United States.

The American’s mobilized quickly and met the Mexican army several miles north of Mexico city which was where the frontline would remain for the best part of a year as both sides exhausted thousands of lives trying to break through the others lines. The key moment came when the American army under the command of Brigadier-General Pershing launched an all out artillery assault and infantry/cavalry charge that broke the Mexican lines and allowed Pershing’s forces to take Mexico city and force Mexico to ceed to all land north of the 30th parallel to America. The US remained out of the rest of the war with its involvement limited to the Atlantic fleet which for the most part acted as a subordinate to the British Home Fleet.

In the post-war period America escaped much of the financial disaster that engulfed the world as it became increasingly isolationist under a series of Nativist presidents who cut out America’s trade with foreign powers outside the Imperial alliance and severely limiting its engagement with even the anglo-dutch union.

When WWII broke out the United States initially refused to honor its alliance with the Anglo-Dutch but this angered even the Isolationist President Taft who despite members of his party voting against the war authorized the deployment of American troops and brought America into the war on the side of the Union. For four years America’s involvement was limited to the use of ships and planes seconded to the authority of the Union Navy and Air Force but in 1936 together with the Union the Americans put together a force to cross the bearing straits and invade Russia.