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Presenting a work in progress: The Dominion of Virginia, approximately 250 Years Due East. Next I‘ll want to come up with another twenty original flags. This is likely still years in the making. If, in the meantime, someone were to run off with my work, as an anarcho-materialist I would have no call to sue anyone for “copyright infringement.” However, if you do take my work and make big bucks with it and decline to cut me in, then I reserve the right to call you a discourteous jerk to your face, as well as to inform the world of your fraud.

Since I am both cybernetically and socially inept, I often make mistakes of protocol. If you suspect this of me then I solicit your correction. I am always grateful for correction as it helps me to become more correct. I have no interest whatsoever, however, in scolding, nagging, or harassment.

The premise: after General Arnold’s “crisis of faith” (about which he never spoke, nor about the mysterious disappearance of Monsieur Andre) and his reassignment to the Southern Front to replace General Greene, he and Morgan neatly dispatched Tarleton in January of 1781 and hounded Cornwallis all the way through South Carolina and Georgia, inflicting such punishing losses to British forces that Whigs in Parliament finally gained the upper hand and sued for peace by spring, acceding to nearly all the Americans’ demands save for actual separation from the crown. Seizing the opportunity to save both blood and fortune, the negotiating team of Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson signed the Treaty of Paris, recognizing the autonomy of the united States of New England, Virginia, and Carolina within the British Commonwealth of Nations on April 19, 1781, just six days after Jefferson’s 38th birthday. The Continental Congress would go on to ratify the Treaty, and dissolve itself, on July 4, 1781

Jefferson would go on to collaborate with James Madison and Richard Henry Lee to write a Constitution for the Dominion of Virginia. George Washington, Virginia’s favorite son and hero of the revolution would go on to be appointed Governor General of the Colony of Virginia (1782 -- 1797) and elected President of the Dominion (1789 -- 1797). Pro forma, the Crown would thereafter appoint each elected president Governor General. Successive Presidents/Governors General would be Thomas Jefferson (1797 -- 1809) and James Madison (1809 -- 1817).

At the end of the war, Virginia was in a position, both militarily and monetarily, to tell Connecticut and Massachusetts to take respective hikes. Of course, with such scrupulous ethicists as Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Lee at the helm, there would very likely be cash settlements. Within New England, though, Pennsylvania and New York were unable to defend their alleged western reserves, and eventually Massachusetts begat Franklin and Connecticut begat Wyoming. As in Canada vs the States in OTL, in my “Virginny Surreal” ATL indigenous peoples fared rather better under the Great Chieftain from Across the Big Water than under the Great White Father in Washington.

Along with copies of the Declaration of Independence, statues of Benedict Arnold would grace the Dominion Capitols of Virginia, New England, and Carolina. Of course, Arnold would share space in Richmond with George Washington, in Philadelphia with Alexander Hamilton and Ben Franklin, and in Charleston with Francis Marion.

“Ward Republics” of the Dominion that are less obvious on this unfinished version: Kanawha (E of Kentucky), Roanoke (S of Alexandria), Chesapeake (E of Roanoke), Illinois (N of Polypotamia), Metropotamia (N of Saratoga and Washington), Michigan (S of Lk Mich), Jefferson (N of Mich and Metpo), Madison (W of Lk Mich), Macinac (S of Lk Superior), and Leesylvania (W of Madison & Macinac).

And if you’re looking for more fun in the form of sensitive goofball deadly serious commentary in a snappy snarky does-this-jerk-really-think-he’s-funny sort of way, then check out: TheGreighArea.com

Description
Presenting a work in progress: The Dominion of Virginia, approximately 250 Years Due East. Next I‘ll want to come up with another twenty original flags. This is likely still years in the making. If, in the meantime, someone were to run off with my work, as an anarcho-materialist I would have no call to sue anyone for “copyright infringement.” However, if you do take my work and make big bucks with it and decline to cut me in, then I reserve the right to call you a discourteous jerk to your face, as well as to inform the world of your fraud.

Since I am both cybernetically and socially inept, I often make mistakes of protocol. If you suspect this of me then I solicit your correction. I am always grateful for correction as it helps me to become more correct. I have no interest whatsoever, however, in scolding, nagging, or harassment.

The premise: after General Arnold’s “crisis of faith” (about which he never spoke, nor about the mysterious disappearance of Monsieur Andre) and his reassignment to the Southern Front to replace General Greene, he and Morgan neatly dispatched Tarleton in January of 1781 and hounded Cornwallis all the way through South Carolina and Georgia, inflicting such punishing losses to British forces that Whigs in Parliament finally gained the upper hand and sued for peace by spring, acceding to nearly all the Americans’ demands save for actual separation from the crown. Seizing the opportunity to save both blood and fortune, the negotiating team of Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson signed the Treaty of Paris, recognizing the autonomy of the united States of New England, Virginia, and Carolina within the British Commonwealth of Nations on April 19, 1781, just six days after Jefferson’s 38th birthday. The Continental Congress would go on to ratify the Treaty, and dissolve itself, on July 4, 1781

Jefferson would go on to collaborate with James Madison and Richard Henry Lee to write a Constitution for the Dominion of Virginia. George Washington, Virginia’s favorite son and hero of the revolution would go on to be appointed Governor General of the Colony of Virginia (1782 -- 1797) and elected President of the Dominion (1789 -- 1797). Pro forma, the Crown would thereafter appoint each elected president Governor General. Successive Presidents/Governors General would be Thomas Jefferson (1797 -- 1809) and James Madison (1809 -- 1817).

At the end of the war, Virginia was in a position, both militarily and monetarily, to tell Connecticut and Massachusetts to take respective hikes. Of course, with such scrupulous ethicists as Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Lee at the helm, there would very likely be cash settlements. Within New England, though, Pennsylvania and New York were unable to defend their alleged western reserves, and eventually Massachusetts begat Franklin and Connecticut begat Wyoming. As in Canada vs the States in OTL, in my “Virginny Surreal” ATL indigenous peoples fared rather better under the Great Chieftain from Across the Big Water than under the Great White Father in Washington.

Along with copies of the Declaration of Independence, statues of Benedict Arnold would grace the Dominion Capitols of Virginia, New England, and Carolina. Of course, Arnold would share space in Richmond with George Washington, in Philadelphia with Alexander Hamilton and Ben Franklin, and in Charleston with Francis Marion.

“Ward Republics” of the Dominion that are less obvious on this unfinished version: Kanawha (E of Kentucky), Roanoke (S of Alexandria), Chesapeake (E of Roanoke), Illinois (N of Polypotamia), Metropotamia (N of Saratoga and Washington), Michigan (S of Lk Mich), Jefferson (N of Mich and Metpo), Madison (W of Lk Mich), Macinac (S of Lk Superior), and Leesylvania (W of Madison & Macinac).

And if you’re looking for more fun in the form of sensitive goofball deadly serious commentary in a snappy snarky does-this-jerk-really-think-he’s-funny sort of way, then check out: TheGreighArea.com