
The War That Took Canada
The invasion worked because the roads were ready. A serious alternate history of the War of 1812 built from roads, magazines, oath rooms, occupation orders, and the Treaty of Portsmouth.
Serious alternate history listed here for AdamVahn.com readers, with the main series site at AtlasOfEmpire.com.

The invasion worked because the roads were ready. A serious alternate history of the War of 1812 built from roads, magazines, oath rooms, occupation orders, and the Treaty of Portsmouth.

Fifty years of obedience. None of it belonging. The conquered provinces have been renamed, taxed, schooled, and improved. Then the southern states secede, and a northern silence becomes an opening.

Rebellion does not feed itself. Help arrives by sea under neutral papers: guns listed as coastal relief, advisers traveling as merchants, convoys hidden in gray weather.

A country was declared before it existed. Now someone has to sign for it. Winter, 1863. The northern rising has recognition and ruin. The peace is made deliberately less handsome so no child will be taught gratitude before truth.
The reckoning turns west. The concluding Proofs of Empire volume turns the settlement west, toward Red River, the Pacific question, and the clauses that decide what the restored nation becomes.