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The sequel to my previous map , showing the situation a century later. Again, the map is by me and the idea and description is by TheLev .

The Ambassador bowed and left. This was perhaps the most curious encounter in His Majesty's life: having a man, a rebel, and, as he reluctantly conceded, a patriot hold himself with composure before him, and convince him in what he was sure was was an earnest appeal to his good nature and good old sense of humour. The sovereign of the most powerful nation in the world could not help but appreciate a humility which was expected, but often forced, by those before him. The rebel colonies had been divided and fought over at great cost to the Crown yet - difficult as it may have been to concede - future relations between the two nations could not not merely be restricted to war. It had felt as if the Virginians and New Englanders were in an iron vice, yet they had refused to yield to British pressure.

A hundred years on, the Virginia-centred United States had expanded beyond well beyond the old vice. While New England had seceded and prospered alongside Britain, Virginia had harnessed the power of the Ohio in an unstoppable manner. Jackson's four presidencies had made sure of that, even if the southern royalists had not been fully suppressed. Prospecting, agriculture, settlement, industry, and now railroads, had bound the Southern Confederation together, and the Slavers' Revolt now seemed a like distant memory, while Britain and the United States both sought to reach the Pacific coast first with their competing transcontinental railroads.

The Revolution had been a pivotal moment in British history: great reforms had seen the emancipation of Catholics, the establishment of Prince Edward's line as the Monarch's presence across the Atlantic, Parliament taking control of legislative policy and the official creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and North America. The Empire too had gone from strength to strength, expanding in India, the South Pacific and soon Africa, and British interests were extended worldwide.

Yet the United States was catching up, all the more so for being positively disposed towards their old revolutionary opponents, while a militaristic Germany seemed unstoppable in Europe. Britain's empire, so long a source of strength and prestige, was now beginning to creak at the seams, overextended, lightly manned and, most of all, distant - and no-one was more aware of this than the North Americans. Would the United Kingdom and the United States thrive or even survive the next hundred years against their opponents? And what about the new forces of Liberalism and Socialism which threatened to upturn the whole social order?

Description
The sequel to my previous map , showing the situation a century later. Again, the map is by me and the idea and description is by TheLev .

The Ambassador bowed and left. This was perhaps the most curious encounter in His Majesty's life: having a man, a rebel, and, as he reluctantly conceded, a patriot hold himself with composure before him, and convince him in what he was sure was was an earnest appeal to his good nature and good old sense of humour. The sovereign of the most powerful nation in the world could not help but appreciate a humility which was expected, but often forced, by those before him. The rebel colonies had been divided and fought over at great cost to the Crown yet - difficult as it may have been to concede - future relations between the two nations could not not merely be restricted to war. It had felt as if the Virginians and New Englanders were in an iron vice, yet they had refused to yield to British pressure.

A hundred years on, the Virginia-centred United States had expanded beyond well beyond the old vice. While New England had seceded and prospered alongside Britain, Virginia had harnessed the power of the Ohio in an unstoppable manner. Jackson's four presidencies had made sure of that, even if the southern royalists had not been fully suppressed. Prospecting, agriculture, settlement, industry, and now railroads, had bound the Southern Confederation together, and the Slavers' Revolt now seemed a like distant memory, while Britain and the United States both sought to reach the Pacific coast first with their competing transcontinental railroads.

The Revolution had been a pivotal moment in British history: great reforms had seen the emancipation of Catholics, the establishment of Prince Edward's line as the Monarch's presence across the Atlantic, Parliament taking control of legislative policy and the official creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and North America. The Empire too had gone from strength to strength, expanding in India, the South Pacific and soon Africa, and British interests were extended worldwide.

Yet the United States was catching up, all the more so for being positively disposed towards their old revolutionary opponents, while a militaristic Germany seemed unstoppable in Europe. Britain's empire, so long a source of strength and prestige, was now beginning to creak at the seams, overextended, lightly manned and, most of all, distant - and no-one was more aware of this than the North Americans. Would the United Kingdom and the United States thrive or even survive the next hundred years against their opponents? And what about the new forces of Liberalism and Socialism which threatened to upturn the whole social order?