MotF 48: Blink and You'll Miss It

A map showing the brief Franconian Insurrection, in a particularly confused and war-torn early 19th Century in Germany. This same region had recently suffered the Wurttemburg Wars, as well as several other conflicts. The Franconian Insurrection lasted slightly more than a year, from the declaration of the Republic of Franconia in June 1823 until the Surrender of Wurzburg in July 1824. It is most significant for its role in starting the War of the Red Main, which exhausted the regional powers and finally ended the Times of War in 1831.

"In September 1653, after the dissolution of the rump parliament by the Tyrant, Oliver Cromwell, Colonel Edward Saxby stood up in defiance of the warted tyrant, claiming that Cromwell was a "Despot of higher alarum than any king or Emperor." and announced in the face of his enemies, that if Cromwell did not recall parliament, he would create one himself.

Anti-Cromwellites from all over Britain flocked to Saxby's call, and, on the 19th september 1653, he was cheered to the soap box once again... Using his voice like a rapier, Saxby and his associates Richard Overton and John Wildman incensed the crowd to so great an extent that the militia were called in...

...The horses of the militia were torn down or bolted as the vast crowd moved, unified under Saxby... to defend their right to speak... Saxby called for silence after the militia had surrendered, and so sent their Captain, Henry Tilly, to Cromwell with a sore arse and fears of an uprising.

But the crowd did not disperse to spread their words to the other parts of the country, choosing to stay and fight with their elected leader, Colonel Saxby, and so the barricades arose."

Saxby, Harold Forbes, Galleria, 1987.

"*1 The first assault by the Militia came from the east, towards the center of the city, and fell over the barricades around noon, the footmen clambering up the broken furniture, splintering wood and bleeding on mirrors. Nick Goade fell as the first of many revolutionaries that day. I watched as the bullet ripped his throat and the wardrobe cracked as he fell on it.

*2 At one, a second assault rose along the banks of the River and broke upon the western bank Barricade, where the Whippet family held their bakery... the infantry fell into close formation, and what muskets we had where pured out on them there, in the tight formations where John Wildman lost his life... The militia withdrew soon after three

*3 The third assault came opposite, and near simutaneous to the second, where the cavalry charged the low wall, taking on lead and iron as the defenders died horrifically, losing the wall twice that hour, but taking it back again till, at four the horsemen retired, ragged and limping, the people unbroken.

*4 The fourth assault flared after several hours of fighting , at about four, when the regiments finally arrived, shaking the streeets wih their boots, and their banners unfurled, led by men on smart horses, who knew none of their Men... Saxby was invalided at five, cut down by gunshots. The infantry broke the line at a quarter past, but Overton stemmed the tide.

*5 The final assault fell at six, long after the withdrawal of government troops, breaking through the barricade behind west church... many men forced their way through houses... shouting "Cromwell is here! Cromwell is here!" Overton died, surrounded by government troops, at half past six, as his barricade, a wooden island in a sea of bodies, was over-run.

*6 Saxby and his friend John Lilliburne held out with the last revolutionaries at Smithfield, Lilliburne being killed at Seven by a bullet through his neck, and soon after, Saxby, bleeding and blinded by powder, led a surrender party... Saxby was beheaded on the 21st of September, after a mocking trial... during which the injured Henry Tilly remarked that this was "the finest hour of the National Grand and Unified Republic of Smithfeild and Charter House!", to which Saxby replied that Tilly shoud Go and Die"

History of the Republic of Smithfield, notes from the journal of Jonathan Dermot.

"A map purportedly having belonged to Lisieux in the dying days of the Republic. If it were to be proven to have been his it would be an important clue as to his fate as the map was discovered in Boston. Still, the owner has yet to agree to having it chemically tested, though hand writing analysis backs up the claim.

The PoD is that the attack by the Jordanian airforce on the Syrian army is less sucessful, only able to stall the advance of the army rather than force it out the country. Iraq, however, decides to put her troops behind the King to avoid Jordan becoming a Syrian puppet under the PLO. At the same time, more Soviet funding begins heading for the PLO via Syria.

Israel now decides to look for someone willing to institute their 'Jordan is Palestine' policy, which saught to remove the need for an independent West Bank by creating an alternate Palestinian homeland in Jordan. They find a partner willing to negotiate in the DFLP (Who OTL did and still do favour a 2 state solution and negotiation), and manage to get them to agree to accepting Israel's plans in return for being recognised as guardian of Palestinian rights within the West Bank, the West Bank being allowed to send representatives to the new parliament, and being granted the custodianship of the Islamic Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem (Hussein was offered the Islamic, Armenian and Christian Quarters at one point OTL). China decides to exploit this new Marxist-Lenninist party and so sends a small amount of aid as well as treating the DFLP preferrentially to the PLO in discourse.

Meanwhile the non-Palestinian population of Jordan now rise up in revolution, aiming to topple both the King who they feel has ignored them in favour of integrating the Palestinian people, and the Palestinians who they view as interlopers into their land. Saudi Arabia, worried about the prospect of a Syrian puppet but not too keen on the Hashemites either, supports this group, and the US decides that they prefer a Republican movement to replace the 'useless' King than either of the two Communist Palestinian groups.

Hussein himself has some backing from Pakistan, and retains to loyalty of the Circassians and most of the Bedouin who fear that they will be sidelined by either state. The net result is that he remains in de facto control of most of the deserts of the country, and the horsemen of the army prove adept at cutting off isolated pockets of resistance. Of course, there is cross-border conflict between Bedouin groups as the war is used as an excuse to reopen old feuds. Most notable of these are the attempts to surround and capture the Saudi cities of Al-Quwayyat and Al-Isawaiyah.

Pretty much everything's in the map. What else do you want me to say?
Extract from The History of all Nations, published 1972:

From An Introductory History of North America, vol. 2: The Atlantic Wars

Following the American Revolution, the former colonies of the Atlantic seaboard formed a loose coalition known as the United States of America under the Articles of Confederation. This served to protect the fledgling nations from falling back into the clutches of Britain, but the Continental Congress was unable to permanently resolve a number of internal disputes to the satisfaction of all involved...

New England was the first to withdraw from the United States, in 1807. Others gradually followed suit, and while the Continental Congress continued to meet even up until the 1830's, by that point it was only a ghost of its former self. Relations between the formerly united states remained mostly cordial, however, up until the New Jersey Partitions...

Historians generally refer to the Vermont War and the Chesapeake War as the First and Second Atlantic War, respectively, even though they had no participants in common--the Vermont War saw New York and New England face off over the long-simmering claims to the eponymous Vermont region, while the Chesapeake War between Pennsylvania and Virginia began with a dispute over navigational rights on the Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay. It would not be until the Third Atlantic War that all four powers would become involved, as the defeated parties in the First and Second Atlantic Wars banded together to press their irredentist claims...

This map shows the Mid-Atlantic region between the Treaty of Providence which ended the Chesapeake war in 1882 and the beginning of the Third Atlantic War in 1887. Note the existence of the Free City of Baltimore, a peculiar construct of the Providence conference; Virginia was unwilling to cede the important port city entirely, so it was made independent. This independence was somewhat nominal, as Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor was leased to the Pennsylvanian Navy on an indefinite basis...

Bangladesh and Chayabona

In the 1830s, Muslims living in modern-day Meghalaya get tired of the Garo tribe picking on them, and they decide to put up a stand. Bengali Muslims help them, but it soon gets out of hand, with animists and Hindus in Bengal and the regions surrounding it getting massacred.

The massacres let the Muslim population rise in those areas. In 1947, Pakistan gets a larger area of land in Bengal, all the way up to Nepal, causing Northeast India to become an exclave.

In 1971, both East Pakistan and Northeast India decide that Pakistan and India not taking too much care of them, respectively. They both declare independence, and Pakistan immediately rushes to support Northeast India with their independence movement while annexing East Pakistan again. India quickly does the same, and that starts the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 a bit early.

This map shows East Pakistan, which decides to use the name Bangladesh, meaning home of the Bengalis, and Northeast India, which decides to use the name Chayabona, meaning six sisters, referencing to the six sister states in the region, when they declare independence in 1971.

The POD is in the first world war. Germany still lost, but it's borders after the war were a bit different from OTL, and Austria was also included in Germany. The peace treaty, which was not as harsh as OTL, still made many people unhappy and many people were very poor.
In 1924 the people revolted, and a socialist/communist federal state was established. The states of Germany were reshaped, but retained their rights. The FGSR was not a real republic, but also not a real dictatorship. It was just a federal republic in which only socialist and communist governments were allowed. Many right-wing parties weren't happy with this.
Therefore it didn't last long, since in 1926 it fell by a coup, which was made by a man called Adolf Hitler...

"The Yuan Dynasty's occupation of Naho was brutal. The governate faced many a revolt that had to be put down violently, and in 1311, the Chinese decided to abandon the islands, but not without razing them first. Notably, the modern city of Kyiar survived and became capital of the Great Alkatte."-Victor Deyerno, A History of Ancient Naho

"Russian Czar Peter the Great realized that the islands of Naho would make an ideal base for Pacific trade, and, in 1704, took the city of Kyiar and renamed it Alexeigrad after his son. This would turn out to be suprisingly profitable, and, in 1718, Peter signed a treaty that granted Russia the island of Formosa."-Peter Conrad, Russian Expansion in the Far East

The collapse of the Western portions of the Russian empire, including Siberia, led young Tsarevich Alexei to take the throne of Russia in Alexeigrad in 1895. His new empire, based in Naho and controlling Formosa and Goyero as well, proceeded to retake parts of Russian Manchuria. By 1906, the Tsardom of the Far East had been established by the Treaty of Moscow. However, it would not last long.-Vasili Anchin, A History of Asia

In 1917, the Tsar died without issue, and the Duma declared a democratic republic. Needless to say, this did not survive but for four years, when the Far Eastern Counter Revolution, in favor of Vasily Romanov, Tsar of Finland. This succeeded, and the United Tsardom of Finland and the Far East was created, usually known as the Third Russian Empire.-Vasili Anchin, A History of Asia

This is a map of the Republic of the Far East in 1920, after the Second Reorganization happened when the Duma passed the Writ of Province, which divided the Republic into three types of Provinces: Fully-Voting provinces, with 10 seats on the Duma, Privileged Provinces, with six seats, and Dependencies, with one seat. Note the New Nahon Script used in the making of the map, which meant that few within Nahon, and none without, could understand what the provinces were called. Notably, no word for thought, or dissension, were within New Nahon.-Victor Deyerno The Republic of the Far East: A History

I figure I'll enter this round, this is of course from the same TL as the two CS Basemaps I've recently posted is from.

Relevenat info is of course in the map itself, so I don't need to say anything else.

Second Republic of Texas

Basically, a few days before the end of the American Civil War, Texas doesn't accept the close surrender of the South. So Texas enters into a revolt.
The rebellion will last seven months, after that the USA annex Texas.