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ATL – 1882

The Atlantic War was heating up. Britain and Canada formed one side while France and the United States formed the other. As a sideshow to the current battle, Spain went to war with the Confederacy alongside the Mexican Empire. This, however, brought Austria and France into the war against the CSA. The USA, meanwhile, was eager to jump its southern neighbor and bring it back under its control, but the land campaign in Canada was keeping it busy. The British Empire was not able to field as many men as the United States, but they had technology on their side, including powerful railway artillery. Despite this, they were unable to prevent the Yankee seizure of key territory. With French assistance, Quebec was shorn from the rest of Canada and propped up as its own country. This put the remainder of Canada in serious jeopardy.

Down south, the Confederates were making great gains against Mexico and her Spanish ally. Cuba had been taken by amphibious assault, and the British West Indies provided naval support that kept Spain from retaking it. On land, Sonora, Chihuahua and Coahuila had fallen and the CS Army marched further southward. French naval assaults on ports such as Norfolk and Charleston kept the Confederates from receiving too much material help from Britain.

Meanwhile, in the American West, the Tsar launched a (rather stupid) attack from Alaska into the Northwest, while Confederate propaganda and some oppressive laws caused the Mormons to revolt and declare their proposed state of Deseret to be its own country. The USA, unable to fight on three fronts at the same time, was forced to temporarily ignore these new threats to deal with the one it judged to be more serious. Canada, even with Quebec torn off, was still a formidable threat, especially with the British armies still using it as a base of operations. And plus the Russians were botching their invasion, while the Mormons had next to no military capacity (though they were changing that).

Mexico, somewhat anxious to reclaim some territory, took California behind the shields of Deseret and the new Russian colony they were setting up, outraging the USA but not really doing much else. The US drive through the Canadian heartland ended up smashing into Ottawa, and the victorious US carved off most of western Canada as well and declared that the free state of Manitoba. Manitoba then seized Montana territory from the Russians.

The now-called American War resulted in the formation of the Republic of Deseret, Republic of Quebec, and the Federation of Manitoba. It also resulted in Confederate acquisition of important islands in the Gulf of Mexico (not least of which being Cuba) and of most of the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua. The Dominion of Canada was reduced to a fraction of its former size, now mostly being restricted to Ontario. The Russians kept their territory and named the new colony Pacifica.