Post by caters on Jun 9, 2018 0:25:10 GMT
In this alternate timeline, it starts with Napoleon not even trying to conquer the British Isles so the Battle of Trafalgar doesn't happen. French history goes on as it did before but the UK does not get involved. This still means that Napoleon cannot get to the New World with just himself and his army because of the Royal Navy. The only other big military power at the time was Russia. Napoleon goes by himself to Moscow to talk with Alexander I of Russia. France and Russia sign an agreement that 100,000 Russian troops from the Russian army will protect Napoleon and the French army by making it look to the Royal Navy that all that is on the boats are Russians.
This succeeds and the French army allies with the South. The British in Canada severely hurt the North. The North isn't annexed to Canada, just severely hurt to the point that they can't expand westward. After 5 years of war, the South secedes from the USA and becomes part of the French Empire and even speaks French instead of English. But the French monarchy does not last for long, just 3 generations before another war.
Southerners expand westward to what is Mexican territory. Texas secedes from Mexico just like it did in our timeline. There is no way this wouldn't happen. This attracts more Southerners to Texas. Northerners stay neutral on the whole thing because they are focusing on getting that critical mass to expand westward. A large Texan military forms over a period of 10 years and then Mexico and Texas are at war with each other. What was the Mexican-American war in our timeline is the Mexican-Texan war in this alternate timeline. Texas wins the war and declares a peace treaty that allows them to take Mexicans as slaves. Texas also does not allow African slavery and prevents slavemasters from getting slave escapees from the South if they are in Texas. So there is both an economic and population boom and the most common marriage is American-African. A minority of Northerners moved to Texas after its war with Mexico. So there are now 2 official languages, English and French. Slavemasters try to force Mexican slaves to speak English or French and while they do speak English or French in public, they only speak Spanish with their family.