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Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 1-8-1861
Event Description: The Trent Affair happens on cue but the whole thing i nastier and 3 britons are killed
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 11-15-1861
Event Description: Britain sends an envoy to the US demanding an apology, compensation, Wilkes to be handed over to face the British justice system. To convince the US to accept this Britain sends over an army of 36,000 men and the RN's 2 ironclads HMS Warrior and Black Prince as well as ordering the RN to seize US shipping. Ironically this convinces the US to rebute the british demands
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 11-16-1861
Event Description: Napoleon III declares that if Britain finds itself at war with the US the US will have to fight France as well. Britain agrees to support the French claims in Mexico
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 11-20-1861
Event Description: The US moves 10,000 troops to the canadian border to keep an eye on British activities whilst the CSA takes advantage of the diplomatic row between Britain and the US and launches a new offensive aimed at capturing New York
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 12-8-1861
Event Description: The US intercepts a message from France to Britain asking that, if war does come and Britain wins, what the spoils will be for the victors. The US severs diplomatic relations with France on the same day
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 12-24-1861
Event Description: With relations between Britain and the US deteriorating rapidly, Lincon orders Grant to come up with a stategy for conquering Canada. Just in case.
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 1-13-1862
Event Description: The British send an extra 45,000 troops to Canada. The USA rather has it's hands tied to send more troops to their border with Canada but they do Demand a stop to the British seizures of US shipping
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 1-30-1862
Event Description: With the the original demands of the British still not have been met, the British sissue an ultimatum. If the US does not comply with every British demand by the next 2 weeks then a state of War will exist between the British Empire and the USA
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 2-13-1862
Event Description: With the US still not having agreed to the US' demands. Britain declares war on the USA.
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 2-15-1862
Event Description: France, honouring the pledge with Britain it made, declares war on the USA and recognises the CSA on the same day.
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 2-16-1862
Event Description: A US army invades Canada across the Niagara pennisular. The invasion force is harried by Canadian militia and ends after the inconclusive battle of Welland. The US and the British suffer the same amount of casualties but the US withdraws its force.
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 2-20-1862
Event Description: the first French troops arrive on CSA soil.
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 2-21-1862
Event Description: Great Britain announces that the entire US coast is now under blockade.
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 3-1-1862
Event Description: The US invades Canada again. This time across Lake Champlain
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 3-14-1862
Event Description: The US invasion force is halted 9 miles outside Montreal. On its retreat back to the US it takes heavy losses due to Canadian snipers. Britain launches an attack on US soil. Winning the naval battle of lake Champlain, but losing the land battle
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 3-21-1862
Event Description: HMS black Prince sinks the USS Monitor. The Black Prince rode over the top of the Monitor and pushed it under the water. The monitor sinks with all hands
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 4-9-1862
Event Description: A Franco-CS assult on Washington DC is repelled by the US
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 4-12-1862
Event Description: The French and CS attack Washington again. The US troops are defeated in a battle some 6 miles from the city but are able to withdraw before they are completly decimated. The french and CSA surround the city and lay seige to it, bottling up president Lincoln.
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 4-28-1862
Event Description: The British capture Fort Erie and Buffalo. New Brunswick militia decide to invade Maine.
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 5-15-1862
Event Description: At the battle of St Pierre Et Miquelon, a squadron of US ships manage to destroy a squadron of French Ships.
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 6-10-1862
Event Description: A US attempt to smash the French force beseiging Washington DC ends in a complete disaster for the US, with nearly 10,000 losses for the US compaired to 5000 CS/French
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 7-16-1862
Event Description: A US fleet sets sail for Jamaca with the intention of capturing the island
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 7-19-1862
Event Description: At the Battle of Jamaca the US navy is completly defeated by a British fleet. This defeat effectivly ends the US navy and in London it is hailed as the second Trafalgar
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 9-8-1862
Event Description: US forces attack The French and CSA troops outside Washington DC. The battle ends in a phyrical victory for the USA. Lincon calls for an ''entire mobalisation of the USA''
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 9-11-1862
Event Description: The Maine militia manage to defeat the New Brunswick Militia at the battle of Augusta
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 11-20-1862
Event Description: With Winter now on them the USA abandons plans to conquer Canada temparily, deciding to focus its energies on France and the CSA.
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 12-25-1862
Event Description: both sides agree to a ''Xmas Truce''
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 2-13-1863
Event Description: The USA launches and offensive into the CSA with the intention of capturing Richmond, on the same day the USN wins a desisive victory over the RN on Lake Ontario
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 2-14-1863
Event Description: A squad of US marines burn Toronto. They lack the numbers to hold it however and are forced to sortie
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 4-10-1863
Event Description: The battle of Ashland between the CSA and the USA ends in US victory. The CS troops do manage to skillfully retreat
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 4-17-1863
Event Description: Britain launches a campaign at home aimed at getting more men to join the army and to get people to do all they can to join the war effort. ''You're Queen and country need you'' say the posters.
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 4-19-1863
Event Description: US troops capture Richmond
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 5-25-1863
Event Description: The US manages to capture Fredricton in New Brunswick
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 5-30-1863
Event Description: desperate for some good news the RN burn seattle, however they manges to kill a wealthy Russian citizen in the process, Russia is outraged and demands a British apology
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 6-1-1863
Event Description: In Britain the opposition demands an end to the war. They point out that the USA and Britain are trade parrners and expandin the conflict by Fighting Russia is not in the crowns best interests.
Timeline Number: 3452
Event Date: 8-15-1863
Event Description: A peace is declared and there are several treaties that are signed. All in Boston. The USA agrees to recognise the independence of the CSA but it can only encompass the states that seceded. By 1/1/1890 all slaves are to be emancipated in the CSA. Blacks are to be entitled to the smae rights as white men. The USA apologises to Britain for the Trent affair and the 2 sides agree to not do anything like that again. France gets rights in Mexico and Russia gets an apology from Britain
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