That's cool! I'm flatered that you're doing it! I have no problem with you or anyone else writing an ATL of my ATL. My reply was to Magnificates comments on my Puritan World, and not meant to be any criticism of this version of it...
'Berwick' - Puritan World B
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That's cool! I'm flatered that you're doing it! I have no problem with you or anyone else writing an ATL of my ATL. My reply was to Magnificates comments on my Puritan World, and not meant to be any criticism of this version of it...
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I like the idea of the Dutch Carolinas/Georgia created with New Gelderland. As allies of the Spanish (well, for now at least), its not merely a border state to defend from the Floridan Spanish. It could do quite well. And, it introduces a Dutch Puritan influence into the Americas.
The War of Holy Liberation is going to come up pretty quick (a little later due to a short relaxed phase with the Four Year's War). The Dutch are still in a position to help the New Commonwealth shake the French and British (probably even more so, making it an easier war). However, the Puritans will be confronted with a formal treaty to acknowledge the sovereignty of New Gelderland. So the place might develop quite a bit by the time the Puritans get around to a war with the Dutch.
I could even see New Gelderland buying Florida from Spain (or seizing it, its equally possible). Should be interesting.
The War of Holy Liberation is going to come up pretty quick (a little later due to a short relaxed phase with the Four Year's War). The Dutch are still in a position to help the New Commonwealth shake the French and British (probably even more so, making it an easier war). However, the Puritans will be confronted with a formal treaty to acknowledge the sovereignty of New Gelderland. So the place might develop quite a bit by the time the Puritans get around to a war with the Dutch.
I could even see New Gelderland buying Florida from Spain (or seizing it, its equally possible). Should be interesting.
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1678 – 1687
King Louis XIV of France begins a higher degree of militarization so as to be prepared next time against the Dutch.
1685
A large fleet of mostly Spanish privateers raid Jamestown, landing there and looting the capital of Virginia in a very successful act of piracy. They ransack the capital, burn down a couple of the houses, steal loot, and then leave three days later. They are unopposed by Dutch ships patrolling the coast of New Gelderland. News of this leads to slightly colder relationships between the British, their American colonists, and the Spanish and Dutch.
1686
Russia joins the Holy Alliance.
Jamestown is abandoned due to its wreckage; the capital of Virginia is permanently relocated further north to a more open, less mosquito-infested area. The new city is planned out, and to be called Charlesburg, after King Charles II of Britain. [In OTL, Jamestown was abandoned after a bad fire in 1698 for a new capital named Williamsburg.]
Seventy Protestant soldiers ambush King Charles II and his brother James, Duke of York, on their way back to London after leaving to watch horse races. The royal guard is killed and the king and his successor are slain quietly. The assassination is a great shock to the country. In the wake of the assassinations, two claimants for the throne come to the forefront.
The first, 37-year old James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, the illegitimate son of Charles II is very experienced in the military, heading some of the brightest victories in the last thirty years. He is also Protestant, making him the champion of the persecuted who have remained in Britain.
The second is 26-year old Charles, son of James II, who is distinctly Roman Catholic, and a little less experienced. Though Catholics dominate much of the structure of the government, they must gather around a much less prestigious character.
This division between the two apparent heirs leads to a severe schism. When Charles is crowned Charles III, King of England, Protestant nobles begin an insurrection clamoring for the Duke of Monmouth. Archibald Campbell, Earl of Argyll, begins a campaign in Scotland against the King. Cheshire and East Anglia began preaching for the Duke of Monmouth as well. The Fifth Civil War had begun.
1686 to 1687
Hungary is liberated from the Turks.
1687 – The Twelve Years’ War
The British Protestant cause garners assistance from the Dutch Republic. The sons of the English expatriate wave that took place immediately after the fall of the Commonwealth have aged into strong men with a distinct Anglo-Dutch culture. It is largely because of them that the Dutch Republic heads an initiative to fight for the Duke of Monmouth.
Because of the Dutch intervention, the French formally join with the Carolites (in favor of King Charles III). This pits them against their enemy, the Dutch Republic. The Netherlands quickly creates an alliance with a few notable states of the Holy Roman Empire, Brandenburg-Prussia, Sweden, Portugal and Spain.
[The Parthenon in Athens is never destroyed by an explosion of gunpowder stored inside, during the War of the Holy League.]
1688
The war is going well for the French, who have built up a large and formidable army. They are deterred somewhat by the still militant Dutch, but nevertheless, they have taken much of the Spanish Netherlands and continue unabatedly. With many draws and indecisive battles with the Dutch, the French proceeds to smash through disputed lands in the Holy Roman Empire, smashing states that haven’t even declared war, beginning a rampage known as the Rampage of the Palatinate. They attempt to move their armies along the Rhineland into the much less defended eastern border of the Netherlands. In doing so they lose many men, but Louis XIV urges them forward, the defeats of the past few decades hot in their souls and minds.
James Scott is formally crowned the King of Scotland.
France obtains naval power enough to support Carolite Ireland with weapons and supplies. It becomes a major front in the Fifth Civil War.
The Holy Roman Empire joins in the war against France.
1689
James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, though there are locales of support, wishes to return and help the fight against France, seeing as the civil war in England as futile. He gathers his troops and makes a clean get-away to the Dutch Republic. King Charles III of England and his ‘Carolites’ begin cleaning up the country, and resistance falls away without their leader. Largely wishing to repair the nation instead of engage it into further warfare, and trying to fix the lasting financial problem, Charles III goes relatively easy on his Protestant subjects, and announces the neutrality of Britain in the War against France. Sporadic warfare continues against the Scots.
Tsar Peter (now aged 17) and his supporters force the Regent Sophia to resign and enter a convent. Co-Tsars Peter and Ivan then amicably share the Russian throne.
1690 – The War of Holy Liberation
The British colonies in the New World rally around the open propaganda of Richard Cromwell, who declares that the colonies will not continue to live under a Catholic monarchy any longer, that a new Puritan system should be created in its stead. The American colonies rise up to throw off the British yoke.
The New Commonwealth of the Americas (quickly shortened to the New Commonwealth, or just the Commonwealth) is announced with its capital in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. The War of Holy Liberation had begun!
The British and French response to the action is minimal. Some supplies flow in to arm the French colonists as well as Catholic loyalists (especially in Virginia). However, the Dutch assail shipping to the point that the American Revolution becomes largely a land war.
1691
In the Twelve Years’ War, Dutch and Swedish navies experience a slow resurgence in dominating the seas.
Puritan revolutionaries of the New Commonwealth, having eliminated much of the opposition in New England, begin an invasion of Maryland and Virginia, a similarly populated area that is still very loyal to the British crown. In the meantime, troops move north into Canada, and west into French Louisiana. French supply lines to the north are much more secure, without New Gelderland so close, and it is from Canada and the Mississippi that the French are arming colonists and Indian tribes to fight the Puritans.
1692
The Dutch begin supplying the revolutionaries against the English and French, largely to keep their own colonies safe from the Puritan cause. The population of Kuypersten and New Gelderland assembles an army to enlarge their western territory, especially to take the colony of New Orleans that controls the Mississippi River.
An earthquake destroys the city of Port Royal in Jamaica. Among other things this puts an end to its use a pirate base. [Jamaica was British in the real world; here it is claimed by the Spanish, but in name only.]
The Pope condemns the New Commonwealth for the first time. It is by no means the last time he does this.
The first official newspaper of the New Commonwealth, the Boston Herald, begins publication in Boston. This remains the main official organ of the New Commonwealth.
[Events happening rather differently here compared to those in the real world, there are no Salem witch trials.]
1693
In the New World, Puritan militia and soldiers have largely crushed open armed resistance in Maryland and Virginia, and remaining Catholic or royalist soldiers move farther inland or southward to recoup, waging guerilla warfare. The Governor of Kuypersten opens the borders to refugees, and the Catholic guerillas largely assist an exodus into the colony.
Gold is discovered in the Minas Geraes region of Brazil.
Entrepreneurs in the New Commonwealth set up the Bank of New England to help with the financing of the War of Holy Liberation.
1695
Peter I of Russia organizes a campaign to take Azov, his attempts returning wonderful success due to his military genius. [In OTL, he failed and later crushed Azov in 1696, here, he succeeds earlier.]
Comet Jacob makes a bright appearance that lasts for several weeks.
1696 - 1697
The Great Plague of London begins in May with an outbreak of the Black Death in the city. Seventy percent of Londoners leave the city, but nevertheless there are as many as one hundred thousand deaths by the time deaths slow to a halt in December the next year. [The death count is a little higher, as the plague lasts longer, due to the lack of a Great Fire to clean out the rats.]
1696
King Charles II of Spain dies, in his will dictating the passing of all that he owns to Philippe of Anjou, grandson of King Louis XIV. The French begin putting together plans to combine the Spanish and French empires, while the event spurs renewed energy in the Twelve Years’ War, to take away France’s great new realm.
Tsar Ivan V of Russia, who is an invalid, dies. His co-Tsar Peter I (now aged 24) begins to rule alone.
The armies of the New Commonwealth begin a much more wide scale invasion of French Louisiana. The Dutch aim to beat the British Puritans to take New Orleans, and increase their efforts.
King Louis XIV of France begins a higher degree of militarization so as to be prepared next time against the Dutch.
1685
A large fleet of mostly Spanish privateers raid Jamestown, landing there and looting the capital of Virginia in a very successful act of piracy. They ransack the capital, burn down a couple of the houses, steal loot, and then leave three days later. They are unopposed by Dutch ships patrolling the coast of New Gelderland. News of this leads to slightly colder relationships between the British, their American colonists, and the Spanish and Dutch.
1686
Russia joins the Holy Alliance.
Jamestown is abandoned due to its wreckage; the capital of Virginia is permanently relocated further north to a more open, less mosquito-infested area. The new city is planned out, and to be called Charlesburg, after King Charles II of Britain. [In OTL, Jamestown was abandoned after a bad fire in 1698 for a new capital named Williamsburg.]
Seventy Protestant soldiers ambush King Charles II and his brother James, Duke of York, on their way back to London after leaving to watch horse races. The royal guard is killed and the king and his successor are slain quietly. The assassination is a great shock to the country. In the wake of the assassinations, two claimants for the throne come to the forefront.
The first, 37-year old James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, the illegitimate son of Charles II is very experienced in the military, heading some of the brightest victories in the last thirty years. He is also Protestant, making him the champion of the persecuted who have remained in Britain.
The second is 26-year old Charles, son of James II, who is distinctly Roman Catholic, and a little less experienced. Though Catholics dominate much of the structure of the government, they must gather around a much less prestigious character.
This division between the two apparent heirs leads to a severe schism. When Charles is crowned Charles III, King of England, Protestant nobles begin an insurrection clamoring for the Duke of Monmouth. Archibald Campbell, Earl of Argyll, begins a campaign in Scotland against the King. Cheshire and East Anglia began preaching for the Duke of Monmouth as well. The Fifth Civil War had begun.
1686 to 1687
Hungary is liberated from the Turks.
1687 – The Twelve Years’ War
The British Protestant cause garners assistance from the Dutch Republic. The sons of the English expatriate wave that took place immediately after the fall of the Commonwealth have aged into strong men with a distinct Anglo-Dutch culture. It is largely because of them that the Dutch Republic heads an initiative to fight for the Duke of Monmouth.
Because of the Dutch intervention, the French formally join with the Carolites (in favor of King Charles III). This pits them against their enemy, the Dutch Republic. The Netherlands quickly creates an alliance with a few notable states of the Holy Roman Empire, Brandenburg-Prussia, Sweden, Portugal and Spain.
[The Parthenon in Athens is never destroyed by an explosion of gunpowder stored inside, during the War of the Holy League.]
1688
The war is going well for the French, who have built up a large and formidable army. They are deterred somewhat by the still militant Dutch, but nevertheless, they have taken much of the Spanish Netherlands and continue unabatedly. With many draws and indecisive battles with the Dutch, the French proceeds to smash through disputed lands in the Holy Roman Empire, smashing states that haven’t even declared war, beginning a rampage known as the Rampage of the Palatinate. They attempt to move their armies along the Rhineland into the much less defended eastern border of the Netherlands. In doing so they lose many men, but Louis XIV urges them forward, the defeats of the past few decades hot in their souls and minds.
James Scott is formally crowned the King of Scotland.
France obtains naval power enough to support Carolite Ireland with weapons and supplies. It becomes a major front in the Fifth Civil War.
The Holy Roman Empire joins in the war against France.
1689
James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, though there are locales of support, wishes to return and help the fight against France, seeing as the civil war in England as futile. He gathers his troops and makes a clean get-away to the Dutch Republic. King Charles III of England and his ‘Carolites’ begin cleaning up the country, and resistance falls away without their leader. Largely wishing to repair the nation instead of engage it into further warfare, and trying to fix the lasting financial problem, Charles III goes relatively easy on his Protestant subjects, and announces the neutrality of Britain in the War against France. Sporadic warfare continues against the Scots.
Tsar Peter (now aged 17) and his supporters force the Regent Sophia to resign and enter a convent. Co-Tsars Peter and Ivan then amicably share the Russian throne.
1690 – The War of Holy Liberation
The British colonies in the New World rally around the open propaganda of Richard Cromwell, who declares that the colonies will not continue to live under a Catholic monarchy any longer, that a new Puritan system should be created in its stead. The American colonies rise up to throw off the British yoke.
The New Commonwealth of the Americas (quickly shortened to the New Commonwealth, or just the Commonwealth) is announced with its capital in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. The War of Holy Liberation had begun!
The British and French response to the action is minimal. Some supplies flow in to arm the French colonists as well as Catholic loyalists (especially in Virginia). However, the Dutch assail shipping to the point that the American Revolution becomes largely a land war.
1691
In the Twelve Years’ War, Dutch and Swedish navies experience a slow resurgence in dominating the seas.
Puritan revolutionaries of the New Commonwealth, having eliminated much of the opposition in New England, begin an invasion of Maryland and Virginia, a similarly populated area that is still very loyal to the British crown. In the meantime, troops move north into Canada, and west into French Louisiana. French supply lines to the north are much more secure, without New Gelderland so close, and it is from Canada and the Mississippi that the French are arming colonists and Indian tribes to fight the Puritans.
1692
The Dutch begin supplying the revolutionaries against the English and French, largely to keep their own colonies safe from the Puritan cause. The population of Kuypersten and New Gelderland assembles an army to enlarge their western territory, especially to take the colony of New Orleans that controls the Mississippi River.
An earthquake destroys the city of Port Royal in Jamaica. Among other things this puts an end to its use a pirate base. [Jamaica was British in the real world; here it is claimed by the Spanish, but in name only.]
The Pope condemns the New Commonwealth for the first time. It is by no means the last time he does this.
The first official newspaper of the New Commonwealth, the Boston Herald, begins publication in Boston. This remains the main official organ of the New Commonwealth.
[Events happening rather differently here compared to those in the real world, there are no Salem witch trials.]
1693
In the New World, Puritan militia and soldiers have largely crushed open armed resistance in Maryland and Virginia, and remaining Catholic or royalist soldiers move farther inland or southward to recoup, waging guerilla warfare. The Governor of Kuypersten opens the borders to refugees, and the Catholic guerillas largely assist an exodus into the colony.
Gold is discovered in the Minas Geraes region of Brazil.
Entrepreneurs in the New Commonwealth set up the Bank of New England to help with the financing of the War of Holy Liberation.
1695
Peter I of Russia organizes a campaign to take Azov, his attempts returning wonderful success due to his military genius. [In OTL, he failed and later crushed Azov in 1696, here, he succeeds earlier.]
Comet Jacob makes a bright appearance that lasts for several weeks.
1696 - 1697
The Great Plague of London begins in May with an outbreak of the Black Death in the city. Seventy percent of Londoners leave the city, but nevertheless there are as many as one hundred thousand deaths by the time deaths slow to a halt in December the next year. [The death count is a little higher, as the plague lasts longer, due to the lack of a Great Fire to clean out the rats.]
1696
King Charles II of Spain dies, in his will dictating the passing of all that he owns to Philippe of Anjou, grandson of King Louis XIV. The French begin putting together plans to combine the Spanish and French empires, while the event spurs renewed energy in the Twelve Years’ War, to take away France’s great new realm.
Tsar Ivan V of Russia, who is an invalid, dies. His co-Tsar Peter I (now aged 24) begins to rule alone.
The armies of the New Commonwealth begin a much more wide scale invasion of French Louisiana. The Dutch aim to beat the British Puritans to take New Orleans, and increase their efforts.
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Well, let me think.
New Gelderland, Dutch America, and Its Potential as of 1696
The Dutch Empire has made amazing strides since its colonial possessions were metaphorically raped by Cromwell, and its navy slashed and burned. Their newfound militaristic tradition has given their navy an edge that, when rebuilt, swiftly dominated the high seas. As a result of the Four Years' War, the Dutch were compensated by the English takeover of their colonies when New Gelderland was created, centered around the small but booming port colony of Kuypersten (Cooperstowne).
However, the colonial habit of the Dutch to ignore colonization and focus on simply mercantilistic goals (sometimes very aggressively) has had its effect on the new wide swathe of American territory that in OTL would have become the Carolinas. Colonization, while much, much higher in proportion to other Dutch colonies, remains at a standstill. The Netherlands are not swarmed with people, and it practices a high degree of religious freedom, making departures to live in New Gelderland an unfashionable practice.
Instead, New Gelderland profits from populations in the North. Those who desire religious freedom from the harsh, Puritan confederation to the north, such as Catholics, Jews, and sometimes just those who don't agree with certain fanatic aspects of the Puritan religions, settle New Gelderland like the Dutch cannot.
As of 1696, perhaps a fourth or even a fifth of the population of New Gelderland are Dutch. Black slaves consist of roughly a half, with refugees from the North making up a little less than a third of the population of New Gelderland. This does not include Native Americans. Nevertheless, it is a cohesive society, with laws of free religion its most admirable trait, although rules of slavery are harsh and overbearing. Free blacks are treated very poorly, and this demographic would much rather venture into the backwoods of the north than move into the colony.
It should be expected that New Gelderland will function much like Rhode Island, on a much larger scale, for the future New Commonwealth. However, it is also one that is aggressive for new holdings, and one that builds itself ontop of a slaveocracy.
--- BTW, note: I just got an awesome map done for 1700, but I need to write the rest of the timeline up to that point first to show it. There's actually a lot of important events to happen in the next four years.
New Gelderland, Dutch America, and Its Potential as of 1696
The Dutch Empire has made amazing strides since its colonial possessions were metaphorically raped by Cromwell, and its navy slashed and burned. Their newfound militaristic tradition has given their navy an edge that, when rebuilt, swiftly dominated the high seas. As a result of the Four Years' War, the Dutch were compensated by the English takeover of their colonies when New Gelderland was created, centered around the small but booming port colony of Kuypersten (Cooperstowne).
However, the colonial habit of the Dutch to ignore colonization and focus on simply mercantilistic goals (sometimes very aggressively) has had its effect on the new wide swathe of American territory that in OTL would have become the Carolinas. Colonization, while much, much higher in proportion to other Dutch colonies, remains at a standstill. The Netherlands are not swarmed with people, and it practices a high degree of religious freedom, making departures to live in New Gelderland an unfashionable practice.
Instead, New Gelderland profits from populations in the North. Those who desire religious freedom from the harsh, Puritan confederation to the north, such as Catholics, Jews, and sometimes just those who don't agree with certain fanatic aspects of the Puritan religions, settle New Gelderland like the Dutch cannot.
As of 1696, perhaps a fourth or even a fifth of the population of New Gelderland are Dutch. Black slaves consist of roughly a half, with refugees from the North making up a little less than a third of the population of New Gelderland. This does not include Native Americans. Nevertheless, it is a cohesive society, with laws of free religion its most admirable trait, although rules of slavery are harsh and overbearing. Free blacks are treated very poorly, and this demographic would much rather venture into the backwoods of the north than move into the colony.
It should be expected that New Gelderland will function much like Rhode Island, on a much larger scale, for the future New Commonwealth. However, it is also one that is aggressive for new holdings, and one that builds itself ontop of a slaveocracy.
--- BTW, note: I just got an awesome map done for 1700, but I need to write the rest of the timeline up to that point first to show it. There's actually a lot of important events to happen in the next four years.
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Well, its more like South Carolina and Georgia. Kuypersten is almost exactly where Charleston is on the map. The Dutch annexed coastline 100 miles north and south of the port, and then all the way west to the Mississippi. It includes the OTL US states of South Carolina, a strip of North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. You'll see the map...
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1697 - 1698
The Great Plague of Paris began as a knock-on effect from the outbreak in London, picking up in August and staying until the following October. The French evacuate their city as well, a little more slowly, and as such lose eighty thousand lives to the Black Death.
1697
New Orleans is annexed by the Dutch, along with a good amount of territory upriver.
The New Commonwealth lays claim to the rest of French Louisiana, all the way to the Spanish border. Most foreign armies have been removed from the rampage of the American Puritans, and all that remains is fighting against local resistance. Richard Cromwell declares himself Lord Protector of the New Commonwealth, causing much celebration, and calls for the liberation of the entire continent of North America for the cause of the Lord.
Renewed attention is forced upon the French Empire with their inheritance of the entire Spanish Empire under the Bourbon king the Duc d’Anjou. The Archduke Charles VI of Austria and the Holy Roman Empire is also a claimant for the Spanish Empire, and it was widely expected that the royal court of Spain would rule him as the successor.
King Louis XIV is nervous. The war against the Netherlands and their alliance was slipping to their enemy’s favor, with the loss of the Duke of Luxembourg, their extravagant war hero, who had died in his sleep… and with the loss of much of the French navy. And they had already lost most of their possessions in North America. If the Austrians attacked France, Louis XIV could lose everything.
Thus, the Treaty of the Spanish Partition is made and signed with the Archduke Charles VI. Philippe d’Anjou is put upon the throne of Spain. The French were able to make a very good deal. The Austrians had problems of their own in their war against the Ottoman Empire, and had really only desired Spanish Italy. The Italian possessions, including Sicily and Sardinia are ceded to the Austrian Empire. Milan is ceded to Savoy.
With more than enough territory to now digest, and a plague decimating Paris, King Louis XIV begins to look for a way out of the Twelve Years’ War.
Jesuit missionaries found a mission at Loreto, the first of twenty-three in Baja California.
A Spanish campaign against Tayassal, the capital of the Peten Itza Maya, the last independent Central American state, is completed.
The Manchu Empire conquers western Mongolia.
King Charles XII of Sweden is crowned at the age of 16.
1698
New Gelderland sends forces to take East Florida, under Spanish rule; however they see it as French territory, with news from Europe.
The Treaty of London is negotiated to end the Twelve Years’ War. No one side claims victory due to its statutes, but the victory is largely for France. On top of their new Spanish territories through King Philippe VI, they also take back West Flanders from the Dutch, along with a few border strips from the Spanish Netherlands, along with Alsace, Lorraine, a number of states in-between the two from the Holy Roman Empire, as well as part of western Savoy (part of a separate treaty so that Savoy could annex Milan).
However, the allies enjoy one great victory is in America. The French King is forced to give independence to this ‘New Commonwealth of the Americas’, lest the Puritan revolutionaries and their Dutch conspirators try and take New Spain, Cuba, or Haiti. The Dutch, meanwhile, gained control over New Orleans and a decent amount of territory around it, in addition to Newfoundland and Saint-Pierre.
In an effort to westernize his people, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards.
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As the New Commonwealth grows, the Native Americans who live within it are pressured to convert to Puritanism and integrate with Commonwealth society. Many do not, and there is continuing strife between them and the New Commonwealth. Large numbers of Native Americans begin to move west, out of the Commonwealth. This often leads to conflict with other tribes into whose land they are moving.
Catholic British who have migrated to the New World also find themselves either forced to convert, or driven far west. The more popular action, however, is to take to New Gelderland in the south, which holds a large amount of land from the Mississippi to Kuypersten, all promoting free religion. Instead of moving to the malarial swamps on the east coast, however, a notable destination is New Orleans and the banks of the Mississippi, abandoned by the French.
What become known as the Indian Wars, of the New Commonwealth versus the various tribes of Native Americans who resist them, continue for decades. In many cases the Indians are assisted by the French and Spanish against the New Commonwealth.
As the New Commonwealth grows, Lord Protector Richard Cromwell divides it into a number of Major-Generalships, with new ones being added as required. The first of these are the Major-Generalships of Boston, Massachusetts and New England.
Much work is put into re-dividing and reorganizing Maryland and Virginia, putting good Puritans into places of power, while the plantations of still-loyalist and Catholic individuals are taken by the government.
1698 – 1700
Tsar Peter I of Russia travels to western Europe, where he stays at the courts of many of the powerful leaders of the time. He studies shipbuilding in Amsterdam [in the real world he also studies at Deptford, in England, but events here make that impractical], working as a labourer in the yards of the Dutch East India Company. Using what he has learned in his travels he begins to reform and modernize many aspects of Russian life.
King Louis XIV and King Philippe XI begin to crack down on resistance to Bourbon rule in Spain. Colonies are not too disturbed about the transition of power, however, glad with any Catholic on the throne.
1699
The Peace of Karlowitz ends the war with the Turks, making Austria a major power in the region. Venice receives the Morea region.
The Prussian East Indies Company is founded. German explorers and merchants begin founding trading posts and colonies around the world. Many of these are absorbed into the Prussian East India Company.
British expatriate Thomas Savery, now living in the Netherlands, having studied the work of Denis Papin, patents a steam-driven suction water pump. This finds wide application in the low-lying Netherlands, as does one of his earlier inventions, an arrangement of paddlewheels driven by a capstan for propelling vessels in calm weather. [In the real world Savery remained an Englishman.]
1700
A massive earthquake occurs in British Columbia.
During the early eighteenth century the Dutch and the French explore the new lands of Terra Australis [Australia].
[Without being provoked by the King of Denmark (because Denmark is and has been Sweden for the last half century, the initial Northern Wars between the Empire of Sweden and Russia do not begin. However, due to Sweden’s greater power after a half-century of profitable pursuits in Denmark, tensions are much higher.]
The Great Plague of Paris began as a knock-on effect from the outbreak in London, picking up in August and staying until the following October. The French evacuate their city as well, a little more slowly, and as such lose eighty thousand lives to the Black Death.
1697
New Orleans is annexed by the Dutch, along with a good amount of territory upriver.
The New Commonwealth lays claim to the rest of French Louisiana, all the way to the Spanish border. Most foreign armies have been removed from the rampage of the American Puritans, and all that remains is fighting against local resistance. Richard Cromwell declares himself Lord Protector of the New Commonwealth, causing much celebration, and calls for the liberation of the entire continent of North America for the cause of the Lord.
Renewed attention is forced upon the French Empire with their inheritance of the entire Spanish Empire under the Bourbon king the Duc d’Anjou. The Archduke Charles VI of Austria and the Holy Roman Empire is also a claimant for the Spanish Empire, and it was widely expected that the royal court of Spain would rule him as the successor.
King Louis XIV is nervous. The war against the Netherlands and their alliance was slipping to their enemy’s favor, with the loss of the Duke of Luxembourg, their extravagant war hero, who had died in his sleep… and with the loss of much of the French navy. And they had already lost most of their possessions in North America. If the Austrians attacked France, Louis XIV could lose everything.
Thus, the Treaty of the Spanish Partition is made and signed with the Archduke Charles VI. Philippe d’Anjou is put upon the throne of Spain. The French were able to make a very good deal. The Austrians had problems of their own in their war against the Ottoman Empire, and had really only desired Spanish Italy. The Italian possessions, including Sicily and Sardinia are ceded to the Austrian Empire. Milan is ceded to Savoy.
With more than enough territory to now digest, and a plague decimating Paris, King Louis XIV begins to look for a way out of the Twelve Years’ War.
Jesuit missionaries found a mission at Loreto, the first of twenty-three in Baja California.
A Spanish campaign against Tayassal, the capital of the Peten Itza Maya, the last independent Central American state, is completed.
The Manchu Empire conquers western Mongolia.
King Charles XII of Sweden is crowned at the age of 16.
1698
New Gelderland sends forces to take East Florida, under Spanish rule; however they see it as French territory, with news from Europe.
The Treaty of London is negotiated to end the Twelve Years’ War. No one side claims victory due to its statutes, but the victory is largely for France. On top of their new Spanish territories through King Philippe VI, they also take back West Flanders from the Dutch, along with a few border strips from the Spanish Netherlands, along with Alsace, Lorraine, a number of states in-between the two from the Holy Roman Empire, as well as part of western Savoy (part of a separate treaty so that Savoy could annex Milan).
However, the allies enjoy one great victory is in America. The French King is forced to give independence to this ‘New Commonwealth of the Americas’, lest the Puritan revolutionaries and their Dutch conspirators try and take New Spain, Cuba, or Haiti. The Dutch, meanwhile, gained control over New Orleans and a decent amount of territory around it, in addition to Newfoundland and Saint-Pierre.
In an effort to westernize his people, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards.
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As the New Commonwealth grows, the Native Americans who live within it are pressured to convert to Puritanism and integrate with Commonwealth society. Many do not, and there is continuing strife between them and the New Commonwealth. Large numbers of Native Americans begin to move west, out of the Commonwealth. This often leads to conflict with other tribes into whose land they are moving.
Catholic British who have migrated to the New World also find themselves either forced to convert, or driven far west. The more popular action, however, is to take to New Gelderland in the south, which holds a large amount of land from the Mississippi to Kuypersten, all promoting free religion. Instead of moving to the malarial swamps on the east coast, however, a notable destination is New Orleans and the banks of the Mississippi, abandoned by the French.
What become known as the Indian Wars, of the New Commonwealth versus the various tribes of Native Americans who resist them, continue for decades. In many cases the Indians are assisted by the French and Spanish against the New Commonwealth.
As the New Commonwealth grows, Lord Protector Richard Cromwell divides it into a number of Major-Generalships, with new ones being added as required. The first of these are the Major-Generalships of Boston, Massachusetts and New England.
Much work is put into re-dividing and reorganizing Maryland and Virginia, putting good Puritans into places of power, while the plantations of still-loyalist and Catholic individuals are taken by the government.
1698 – 1700
Tsar Peter I of Russia travels to western Europe, where he stays at the courts of many of the powerful leaders of the time. He studies shipbuilding in Amsterdam [in the real world he also studies at Deptford, in England, but events here make that impractical], working as a labourer in the yards of the Dutch East India Company. Using what he has learned in his travels he begins to reform and modernize many aspects of Russian life.
King Louis XIV and King Philippe XI begin to crack down on resistance to Bourbon rule in Spain. Colonies are not too disturbed about the transition of power, however, glad with any Catholic on the throne.
1699
The Peace of Karlowitz ends the war with the Turks, making Austria a major power in the region. Venice receives the Morea region.
The Prussian East Indies Company is founded. German explorers and merchants begin founding trading posts and colonies around the world. Many of these are absorbed into the Prussian East India Company.
British expatriate Thomas Savery, now living in the Netherlands, having studied the work of Denis Papin, patents a steam-driven suction water pump. This finds wide application in the low-lying Netherlands, as does one of his earlier inventions, an arrangement of paddlewheels driven by a capstan for propelling vessels in calm weather. [In the real world Savery remained an Englishman.]
1700
A massive earthquake occurs in British Columbia.
During the early eighteenth century the Dutch and the French explore the new lands of Terra Australis [Australia].
[Without being provoked by the King of Denmark (because Denmark is and has been Sweden for the last half century, the initial Northern Wars between the Empire of Sweden and Russia do not begin. However, due to Sweden’s greater power after a half-century of profitable pursuits in Denmark, tensions are much higher.]
Darkest
Banned
Blast, forum ate a reply... *sigh*
Anyway, some things from Puritan World I am keeping. I have dropped my religious devotion to the butterfly effect as of late. I think that Thomas Savery would still create his water pump and gain recognition for his paddlewheel boat in the Netherlands. But similiarities between PW and Berwick are going to swiftly disappear, and already, there are radical differences between the two timelines.
The Netherlands is much larger, more militant, has New Gelderland and other new territories, a pure Republic, no Orangist power, no William III, ect. ect.
Sweden is a powerful empire, much more wealthy due to the acquisition of Denmark, is building a navy that is gaining international prestige, and is allied somewhat to the Netherlands.
France is much larger, even if devestated by the Twelve Years' War, but lucked out and grabbed the entire Spanish Empire for itself, much more Catholic, much more mean. Its also lost its New World possessions.
Austria has southern Italy, Sicily, and Sardinia.
England is trashed by Five Civil Wars, the recent of which, while the Catholics still prevailed, proved that Protestants still had power. I envision it as much more torn-down than in PW.
The New Commonwealth is different. New Gelderland provides an awesome outlet for those discontent with its society, allowing different government development. It has taken French territory, while it is blocked from the south by the Dutch. Its much larger than in PW, leading to a whole different development.
Anyway, some things from Puritan World I am keeping. I have dropped my religious devotion to the butterfly effect as of late. I think that Thomas Savery would still create his water pump and gain recognition for his paddlewheel boat in the Netherlands. But similiarities between PW and Berwick are going to swiftly disappear, and already, there are radical differences between the two timelines.
The Netherlands is much larger, more militant, has New Gelderland and other new territories, a pure Republic, no Orangist power, no William III, ect. ect.
Sweden is a powerful empire, much more wealthy due to the acquisition of Denmark, is building a navy that is gaining international prestige, and is allied somewhat to the Netherlands.
France is much larger, even if devestated by the Twelve Years' War, but lucked out and grabbed the entire Spanish Empire for itself, much more Catholic, much more mean. Its also lost its New World possessions.
Austria has southern Italy, Sicily, and Sardinia.
England is trashed by Five Civil Wars, the recent of which, while the Catholics still prevailed, proved that Protestants still had power. I envision it as much more torn-down than in PW.
The New Commonwealth is different. New Gelderland provides an awesome outlet for those discontent with its society, allowing different government development. It has taken French territory, while it is blocked from the south by the Dutch. Its much larger than in PW, leading to a whole different development.
Thande
Donor
One thing I would like to see, which was missing in Puritan World unless I missed something, is to have Britain still end up with SOME colonies, even if it's pushed into the second rank of colonial powers by this situation. Something like the Netherlands or Belgium OTL at least. It seemed implausible to me that even a basket case French puppet like TTL's Britain would not colonise at all.
Darkest
Banned
Oh, I love this timeline, and its link is in my signature, so you know I am working on it. However, I just finished up sixty years on Berwick, and now I'm trying to complete at least thirty or forty years on my other timeline Sidney. It keeps me fresh to hop back and forth from different timelines.
Thank you, though, for enjoying Berwick! Once I reach the year 2009 on all of my timelines, I'm plotting an interdimensional war between the three of them. Its going to be part of my new story.
Thank you, though, for enjoying Berwick! Once I reach the year 2009 on all of my timelines, I'm plotting an interdimensional war between the three of them. Its going to be part of my new story.
BUMP!
Berwick's last installment was written a year ago. Any chances of resuming work on this timeline, Darkest?
Berwick's last installment was written a year ago. Any chances of resuming work on this timeline, Darkest?