Post by lordroel on Apr 10, 2018 17:42:50 GMT
] No hurry with the story. Make sure you do it when you have the time and also that your happy with it. Much better a story that takes some time and its a very good one than where the author is hurrying to get things completed. Sounds like Washington will have a lot on his hands but I suspect the slave revolt will take priority. As a slave owner and southern himself that will seem like the largest threat since the norther revolt seems to be in decline and the Indians have had their power greatly reduced by the defeat of Pontiac's revolt and the killing of many during the rebellion. If he's successful in putting down the assorted regional threats while the 'government' continues to struggle to basically function then a dictator/monarch is going to look more attractive to a lot of Americans, even if Washington refuses the post himself. This could prompt someone making a successful bid during a later crisis.
Of course he's got to win those battles 1st. There's no longer French aid in terms of [most especially] gold but also guns and other resources so with a weak and divided government getting the funds to pay for an army could be difficult. You might even see the semi-aristocratic nature of parts of the south being increased further with some local plantation owners/wealthy merchants organising their own local militias to defend against or crush slave uprisings which might further undermine a democratic/republican identity in the new state.
“There’s something that’s gone wrong.”
—John Sevier
The territory of North Carolina west of the Appalachian Mountains were poorly maintained by the North Carolinian government. Central authority was poorly ran, and settlers had a poor protection from native Americans. As such, the settlers had established an interim government, the State of Franklin. In 1786, the government and population of Franklin rejected an offer by North Carolina to rejoin the state. By 1787 troops from North Carolina were sent to Franklin under the command of Evan Shelby in order to both restore North Carolina’s governance over the area, and to defend the settlers against Cherokee raids on settlers.
Shelby’s troops never pacified Franklin. In early April, Shelby was recalled to help prevent the South Carolinian slave revolt from spreading into North Carolina. For the state of Franklin this was a blessing. Without the troops, the North Carolinian government was unable to restore their control over Franklin and the separatist government continued functioning. Shelby’s withdrawal proved to be a blessing for the Franklinite government in one other way. A number of militias were drawn from the region, along with Shelby’s troops. This allowed the Governor of Franklin, John Sevier, to seize the assets of the North Carolinian counties which had been de facto defunct following establishment of Franklin. On June 2nd, 1787, Sevier led a small militia of two hundred to Jonesborough, the capital of the North Carolinian government of the region, and without a fight the North Carolinian government surrendered to Sevier.
While Sevier managed to secure Franklin, a new crisis began to brew in the Northwest. News of the Regulator crisis had reached the government of Great Britain by December 23rd. In response, the British government authorized British officials in Canada to supply rebellions in the United States of America, with 25,000 pounds being set aside to supply rebellious natives in the American Northwest. The news of this authorization would reach British Canada on March 3rd, 1787, with the natives in the Northwest not receiving word until April 15th.
Before the news had reached the Native tribes however, the tribes had taken matters into their own hands. Having formed a large confederation of tribes in 1785, the natives in the Northwest declared all lands North and West of the Ohio river as their territory. As news of the American’s weakness began to trickle west, the tribes began to take more direct action. On March 12th, 1787, Fort Harmar was attacked by a band of five hundred native tribesmen. This attack would serve as the beginning of the Great Indian War.
Over the next four weeks, until news of the British aid reached the natives, the war consisted primarily of native raids on American forts and supply trains to the forts. When news of the British plan to aid the tribes, the war expanded dramatically. Native attacks began to occur against American settlements south of the Ohio river. While local militias were able to fend off the majority of the attacks, the Virginian government was unable to provide sufficient supplies to the settlers in the west, due to the increasing crackdown against the spread of the slave rebellion. In a foreshadowing of events to come, on May 22nd, one hundred militiamen and the entire population of Maysville, roughly one hundred civilians, were killed during a native raid across the Ohio river.
The British aid to the natives did not just serve to disrupt the Americans. The British wanted a buffer state between their westward expansion, and American expansion. As such, Jonathan Vallwick was sent as an envoy to the native confederation, along with two hundred British soldiers. Departing from Fort Detroit on the 23rd of April, Vallwick had four goals:
Establish British relations with the native confederacy
Support the confederacy against American retaliation.
Push the natives to abandon their native governments, and adopt European style governments.
Have the natives accept British protection.
Nice update Schnozzberry.
