Hégémonie Occidentale

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Introduction

This Timeline explores the fate of the world, which over the course of the 19th century was irreversibly altered by a single act of bravery by a rising star of the Royal Navy, then youngster Captain Horatio Nelson, observing the eternal arch-enemies, the British Empire and the United States respectively, being embroiled in a series of gruelsome conflicts [ American Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Anglo-American War of 1842 ] over their territorial disputes, in their seemingly perpetual rivalry, unable to recognize that they had been paving the way for German ascendancy over the entire globe.

An Entirely Different World

This TL is mostly focused on the changes that transpired during the 19th and 20th century such as a complete rearrangement of the balance of power in Europe in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War and will explore the possibility of the rise of the CSA across the sea at the same era during the American Civil War by allied (Anglo-French) intervention on the side of the CSA after an ATL victory in an earlier Battle of Gettysburg. As a prelude to the American Civil War we shall explore the 1842 conflict between the British Empire and the US over disputed territories such as Maine, Northeastern Minnesota, Red River Concession and Oregon Territory after some incidents and a complete breakdown of talks between the two rival powers after failure to settle the issue at the Webster–Ashburton Treaty negotiations. This marked the fate of the United States on the longterm. Sum up TBA.

Point of Divergence

The Vermont Republic, pressured by the a long-running dispute with the states of New York and New Hampshire, becames a British Dominion after a successfull conclusion to the Vermont Negotiations in the late 18th century, emboldened by a British naval victory in the Battle of the Capes, after an accidental intervention by a capable youngster, regarded as a rising star inside the Admiralty, Captain Horatio Nelson's intervention lead to a British victory in the naval engagement, enabling the Royal Navy to successfully come to the relief of the British forces in Virginia and evacuate them to Canada, preventing their surrender in the Siege of Yorktown, during the latter stage of the American Revolutionary War. A series of gruelsome conflicts [ American Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Anglo-American War of 1842 ] between the British Empire and the United States over disputed territories marked the 19th century. This prolonged hostility between these two respective rivals lead to the British intervention to the abolitionist secessionist Free States of America's side, having previously agitated the US and promoted the division around the issue of slavery, in their bid to weaken their archrival. The Austrian Chancellor Klemens von Metternich is assassinated during the German revolution, forcing Emperor Ferdinand's hand to rely for support and legitimacy on the Frankfurt Parliament to keep his grip onto power, giving up to the demands of the Nationalist Liberal revolutionaries, precipitating a complete reversal of the Prussian's foreign policy, forcing them to throw their weight behind the Greater German solution, to exploit the collapse of the Austrian Empire, leading to an early German Unification, with unwelcome ramifications. The Russian Empire thrown its weight behind the Pan-Slavic Congress in response and refused to support the Austrian Empire to suppress the Hungarian Revolution, going as far as to recognize and assist Lajos Kossuth's government, resulting in Hungarian Independence from the Austrian Empire, the rest of the Empire either collapsed into several independent nations, such as the Russian aligned Kingdom of Croatia and the Banat-Siebenbürgen Republic, a puppet state of the German Empire, while the Russian Empire outright annexing the regions of Galicia-Lodomeria, Northern Slovakia, Bukovina, Teschen. The United Mexican States takes advantage of the preoccupiation of the United States, invading Texas, but gets repulsed thanks to US military support for Texas. This leads to a British-Mexican alliance and future cooperation against the US, with the British Empire guaranteeing the United Mexican States. The Republic of Texas gets annexed by the US but the United Mexican States manage to maintain their sovereignty over the Alta California and Nuevo México and Southwestern Texas. Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern accepted the Spanish Crown offered by the new Spanish government after the Glorious Revolution in 1868, ascenting to the Spanish throne and stabilizing his unstable nation/reign with the assistance of his German relatives. The newly emerged Kingdom of Italy was emboldened by this fact, leading to a formal alliance in the Franco-Prussian War that altered the balance of power forever in the aftermath. The Native American Party [Know Nothing] won the 1856 US Presidential election, with Millard Fillmore serving a second term as POTUS, greatly owning their victory to Anti-British sentiment as a result of the disastrous Anglo-American War of 1842 for the US. The South was alienated immensely by his moderate abolitionist and religious divisive rhetoric, to which the predominantly agrarian South and especially the Deep South was largely apathetic, as the catholics were practically non-existant there, as opposed to Protestant British, which were seen as the enemy, the attacks against the catholics were seen as largely unnecessary, if not outright helpful to the rival, as the South was largely sympathetic to the cause of Irish independence for pragmatic reasons [to weaken the British ], essentially viewing his entire rhetoric as largely contradictory. Simultaneously the most radical abolitionists were also alienated by his rhetoric, coalescing around the Radical Republicans, viewing President Millard Fillmore's abolitionism as too watered-down and ineffective, while also being largely apathetic if not outright hostile to his Anti-Catholic rhetoric. With the Democratic Party's respective Northern and Southern wings remaining united in their will to unseat and/or impeach Know Nothing President Millard Fillmore from office The American Civil War, leading to an unexpected United Democratic Party victory in the 1860 US Presidential election, with Stephen A. Douglas becoming the 16th POTUS, largely due to the divided abolitionist vote into the Native American and the Republican parties respectively, as well as the depopulated North from the devastating Anglo-American War of 1842. The eventual Democratic party's split between its respective Northern and Southern wings, nonetheless the ever-lurking danger of the newly established rising coalition of the Native American and Republican parties respectively, persuaded the recently divorced wings of the Democratic Party of the necessity of combining the anti-Lincoln-Know Nothing vote into fusion tickets in the states of New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois, reluctantly cooperating to prevent the rise of abolitionism to power.

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