19th Century (Louisiana Revolution)

Europe
France kickstarted the 19th century when Napoleon and his generals defeated the second coalition in the War of the Second Coalition and emerged victorious in the French Revolutionary Wars. French scientist Alessandro Volta also created the first battery in 1800, bringing more prestige to Republican France. The prosperity France appeared to be experiencing fostered the animosity and rivalry between Britain and France, which would culminate in 1806 with the onset of the European War, engulfing Europe in armed conflict for another 11 years.

In 1801, the British instituted a massive blockade of France and nations aligned with it in central Europe, creating friction between the British and their continental neighbors, while also uniting with Ireland and forming the United Kingdom in the same year. The British, unbeknownst to them at the time, were on the road to digging themselves into a hole that would prove impossible to dig out of until decades later with their overconfident foreign stances against France. Frace, on the other hand, was making strategically genius moves, forming alliances with Louisiana, growing their naval fleet to rival that of the British, soliciting Spain to contribute to their naval power, and defeating coalitions in the European War and forcing them into an economic union with the Republic. However, in 1804, Napoleon seized absolute power in France, becoming emperor and transforming the nation into an imperial war machine capable of taking on the entirety of rightist Europe.

Up until 1805, France experienced great economic prosperity, while the rest of its sphere of influence was generally subjugated to them economically, so essentially France made economic slaves out of other nations. Napoleon's appointment to the emperor position caused political division in the empire, but this was nothing of concern to Napoleon, who had a firm grip on power. Following France's political transformation, they were ready to give their full effort to the War of the Third Coalition, which tipped the scale tremendously against the coalition. By late 1805, Napoleon's men were on the battlefield in central Europe dealing death blows to entire nations. Upon the third coalition's defeat, the age old Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist and was replaced with the Confederation of the Rhine. Then, in 1808, the European War officially went into full swing when France invaded and defeated Britain and the coalition.

North America
North American affairs were only moderately more peaceful than European affairs. Louisiana, for example, spent a year or two fighting the native Haitians on France's behalf, a battle which they lost, as they did not have the naval capacity to fight a war off of the continent. At the same time President Thomas Jefferson of the United States is forced to oversee a war between the United States and British Canada. The British-American War, as this came to be called, provided the French the opportunity they needed to invade Britain and left America with both a distaste for anti-Federalists, as Jefferson was blamed for the war that the Federalist Congress started, and a large amount of new land. In a landslide, Rufus King defeated incumbent Thomas Jefferson in 1808 and introduced widespread all-encompassing reforms that shifted the balance of power toward the federal government rather than the states to the dismay of the anti-Federalists.

Meanwhile in Louisiana, Marquis III took power and began quickly eroding civil rights, causin gunrest and riots for the first few years of his rule, all violently put down. Later, in 1806, he ordered the invasion of New Spain after border disputes. Two years late, in 1808, more than half of New Spain was annexed into Louisiana and Marquis III enacted laws forcing the expulsion of the New Spanish from newly Louisianan land.