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#81
May 25th, 2007, 09:35 PM
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Drumroll please.
Thank you. I've decided to continue work on one of my two main timelines. Historia Mundi, or Blessed Are the Bold. So, just post your sentiments, ideas, suggestions, whatever, in whichever timeline you want continued first. 
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#82
July 15th, 2007, 08:58 PM
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Upon being sworn in as President, David Crockett proceeded to push through Congress an alliance with the Confederated Mexican States, the Treaty of Jacksonville (the new territorial capital of Florida). Under the terms of their alliance, the United States would receive all territory north of the Gila and Rio Grande Rivers, aside from Texas and California, already independent. The Mexican Confederation, meanwhile, would receive massive aid from the United States. Weapons, supplies, ships, horses, even food would be given to the new allies.
It would be late summer before Crockett could get Congress to agree to send a small expeditionary force to Mexico, and this only after Centralist forces began seizing American ships going to the Confederates. After this, Bustamante issued a declaration of war with the United States, freeing Crockett to mobilize even more troops. Still, direct American involvement was minimal. US troops moved to occupy the territories assigned to them by the Treaty of Jacksonville, and fought local bandits more than Centralist forces. By the end of 1841, the eastern coast of Mexico was firmly in the hands of rebel and American forces. U.S. soldiers and marines were by and large tasked with securing vital ports and their environs. U.S. forces also moved to reinforce the young Republic of California and the Rio Grande. Meanwhile, the Yucatan, liberated by Confederate forces, voted to go its own way, establishing the independent Republic of Yucatan, though allied to the Confederates and Americans. 1842 saw even further successes for the allied forces. All of northern Mexico would be under their control by late June, and the battlefields were not far from Mexico city come September. It was late in that month that a coup would be launched from within the ranks of the Centralists. Bustamante would be overthrown and killed in the coup, lead by Miguel Barragan. Barragan quickly sued for peace with the allied forces, and eventually surrendered on behalf of the Centralist government. The Mexican Civil War ended on October 3rd, 1842, after 7 years of brutal fighting. As the Confederated Mexican States began to consolidate the new government, many loose ends were tied up. New Mexico, Baja California, and the southern half of Alta California (all that which was not part of the Republic of California) were officially ceded to the United States of America, following an additional $5 million compensation. There was some tension as the Confederation of the Rio Grande was beset by constant debate. The more heavily hispanic regions wanted to rejoin the new Mexican government, while more Anglicized regions in the north wanted to either remain independent or join the United States. Eventually, the two sides were so entrenched in their positions that the decision was made to dissolve the confederation. The Rio Grande was eventually settled as the new border, and Coahuila and Tamaulipas joined the Mexican Confederation. Meanwhile, Texas formed the Republic of Texas, while applying to be annexed to the United States. Texas would be granted statehood in 1845.
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#83
July 16th, 2007, 05:09 PM
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Minor retcon, Texas is admitted in 1846, not 45.
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