Napoleonrules
Banned
1818/1819
NY, MA, CT, and PA meet in Springfield, MA to discuss western territories and other matters. NY reciprocates with CT and PA regarding western claims. MA delegates propose that they want a free hand in NH, as this would help open up a valve for their over population to stay in MA and encourage further settling of their Maine counties. PA agrees but CT and NY are wary and end discussions on the matter. The Northwest Territory not claimed by NY or PA has mostly been settled so far by French from Canada and New Englanders (or New Englanders that had first settled in Upstate NY); with the discovery of lead deposits there has been increasing immigrants from Europe. A joint commission of NY and MA delegates are sent to Green Bay to establish law and order under a joint sovereignty program; on paper NY, MA, CT, and PA will all share custody, revenue, and expenses, but in practice only NY and MA ends up responsible for defense, buying land from Natives, making treaties, and establishing government structures.
To get finances under control VA sells the Louisiana Territory between the 36 degree 30 minute latitude south to the 35th degree latitude to North Carolina (with no western delineation specified). VA cedes to SC their claim south of what they sold to NC in return for free movement guarantees on the Mississippi and a promise that Jackson and a significantly sized arm from SC come to support VA's war against PA.
Thanks to negotiations started by NC ambassador to SC- Isaac Shelby- NC and SC agree on treaty in which NC will not support the Creek in return for SC's guarantee of free movement on the Mississippi and Tennessee rivers between the two nations.
Clark exchanges prisoners and frees Winfield Scott, headquarters are set up in the newly established town of Calhoun (named in honor of new SC President John C. Calhoun to whom VA is trying to butter up in order to get more troops). Calhoun is situated on the Sangamon River, a tributary of the Illinois, and northwest of Effingham and Fort Harrison. Clark begins construction of a military road from the abandoned Fort Madison near the confluence of the Iowa and Mississippi rivers southeast to Peoria where it crosses with the road from Fort Dearborn to St Louis, then continues to Springfield and turns east to Lenape. He has a military road from St Louis to Lenape begun as well, and improvements made to the each end of the road from Evansville to Fort Dearborn which passes through Lenape. His hopes are to have multiple routes for supplies, Native troops, and retreat routes available for a convergence on Lenape, from where his plan is to march east rapidly taking Springfield, Columbus, and on to Pittsburgh and hope to threaten the PA capital at Johnstown.
Jackson is upset about being sent to VA as he wishes to crush the Seminoles in Florida and take the entire Florida colony from Spain. He travels with a sizeable SC army through the Cumberland Gap, and with NC permission, through NC to set up his headquarters at Winchester, VA; near the MD border. He lets word leak that his plan is to cross into MD and follow old Braddock's Road to Pittsburgh. In reality he hopes to capture Gettysburg along the Philadelphia to Pittsburgh road cutting off the two main cities of PA, then York, Lancaster, and Reading thereby isolating Philadelphia and causing the elites to sue for peace. He is unaware of Clark's plan for rapid movement to Pittsburgh once the western roads are built.
CT accedes to Hull's recommendations and all current and future CT settlers of the Western Reserve are guaranteed no loss of rights or citizenship, the Western Reserve is given representation in the legislature, and immigrants to the Western Reserve are required the same immigration process as in CT proper. The CT constitution is amended to reflect that Western Reserve is part of CT.
The Panic of 1819 hits the Eastern Seaboard as agricultural output has increased in Europe following the peace and stability since the Napoleonic Wars ended, Europe no longer needs the wheat and corn of the Americas as much and prices drop, currencies in the nations from SC to New Hampshire have been hit hard. NH has defaulted again. MA uses NH's economic woes as a pretext for invasion. VT declares war on MA. NY issues a formal protest but nothing more. MA is NH's second largest creditor, Britain being the largest. Britain sends word to MA that they will lend their tacit approval in return for guarantee of payment of all NH debts.
NY, MA, CT, and PA meet in Springfield, MA to discuss western territories and other matters. NY reciprocates with CT and PA regarding western claims. MA delegates propose that they want a free hand in NH, as this would help open up a valve for their over population to stay in MA and encourage further settling of their Maine counties. PA agrees but CT and NY are wary and end discussions on the matter. The Northwest Territory not claimed by NY or PA has mostly been settled so far by French from Canada and New Englanders (or New Englanders that had first settled in Upstate NY); with the discovery of lead deposits there has been increasing immigrants from Europe. A joint commission of NY and MA delegates are sent to Green Bay to establish law and order under a joint sovereignty program; on paper NY, MA, CT, and PA will all share custody, revenue, and expenses, but in practice only NY and MA ends up responsible for defense, buying land from Natives, making treaties, and establishing government structures.
To get finances under control VA sells the Louisiana Territory between the 36 degree 30 minute latitude south to the 35th degree latitude to North Carolina (with no western delineation specified). VA cedes to SC their claim south of what they sold to NC in return for free movement guarantees on the Mississippi and a promise that Jackson and a significantly sized arm from SC come to support VA's war against PA.
Thanks to negotiations started by NC ambassador to SC- Isaac Shelby- NC and SC agree on treaty in which NC will not support the Creek in return for SC's guarantee of free movement on the Mississippi and Tennessee rivers between the two nations.
Clark exchanges prisoners and frees Winfield Scott, headquarters are set up in the newly established town of Calhoun (named in honor of new SC President John C. Calhoun to whom VA is trying to butter up in order to get more troops). Calhoun is situated on the Sangamon River, a tributary of the Illinois, and northwest of Effingham and Fort Harrison. Clark begins construction of a military road from the abandoned Fort Madison near the confluence of the Iowa and Mississippi rivers southeast to Peoria where it crosses with the road from Fort Dearborn to St Louis, then continues to Springfield and turns east to Lenape. He has a military road from St Louis to Lenape begun as well, and improvements made to the each end of the road from Evansville to Fort Dearborn which passes through Lenape. His hopes are to have multiple routes for supplies, Native troops, and retreat routes available for a convergence on Lenape, from where his plan is to march east rapidly taking Springfield, Columbus, and on to Pittsburgh and hope to threaten the PA capital at Johnstown.
Jackson is upset about being sent to VA as he wishes to crush the Seminoles in Florida and take the entire Florida colony from Spain. He travels with a sizeable SC army through the Cumberland Gap, and with NC permission, through NC to set up his headquarters at Winchester, VA; near the MD border. He lets word leak that his plan is to cross into MD and follow old Braddock's Road to Pittsburgh. In reality he hopes to capture Gettysburg along the Philadelphia to Pittsburgh road cutting off the two main cities of PA, then York, Lancaster, and Reading thereby isolating Philadelphia and causing the elites to sue for peace. He is unaware of Clark's plan for rapid movement to Pittsburgh once the western roads are built.
CT accedes to Hull's recommendations and all current and future CT settlers of the Western Reserve are guaranteed no loss of rights or citizenship, the Western Reserve is given representation in the legislature, and immigrants to the Western Reserve are required the same immigration process as in CT proper. The CT constitution is amended to reflect that Western Reserve is part of CT.
The Panic of 1819 hits the Eastern Seaboard as agricultural output has increased in Europe following the peace and stability since the Napoleonic Wars ended, Europe no longer needs the wheat and corn of the Americas as much and prices drop, currencies in the nations from SC to New Hampshire have been hit hard. NH has defaulted again. MA uses NH's economic woes as a pretext for invasion. VT declares war on MA. NY issues a formal protest but nothing more. MA is NH's second largest creditor, Britain being the largest. Britain sends word to MA that they will lend their tacit approval in return for guarantee of payment of all NH debts.