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But don't forget that the British settles for Alaska in exchange for Sevastopol, and with the help of their Indian and Malay troops, mounted a successful invasion of the western seaboard, taking Washington and Oregon in a matter of weeks, and linking up with their CSA allies who attacked from Texas to take California.
Over the next 18 months, the British and the CSA drove the US forces back to the Rockies.
The British Atlantic fleet, with the French in support, took the eastern seaboard as far as Boston by attacking on land down from Ontario, and at sea from over the horizon, using their new Dreadnought class battleships.
The French were paid off with the Alsace.
Austria-Hungary felt threatened by this, and the newly united Prussian Socialist Republic (under it's President for life Karl Marx), took the opportunity to attack Vienna, supported by Bolshevik insurgents from western Russia (itself in the grips of a decade long civil war).
Once the dust had settled, the US had no access to the Pacific, the CSA formed a trading union with the Kingdom of Mexico under Maximilian Bonaparte VIII, and France and Britain were able to come to the aid of their Triple Alliance ally Russia to crush the revolt in the west.
During the 20th Century, Imperial Japan using technology obtained from French and British scientists, took over Manchuria, and British India expanded northward into Afghan territory, starting the Fifth Afghan war, which saw the large scale use of defoliants and poison gasses to quell the natives.
By the start of the 21st Century, the world was divided up into the major power blocks of the Triple Alliance (covering most of Western Europe, almost all of Asia, Australia and NZ and Africa, and North America), faced off against the Japanese (who held half the pacific, Hawaii, much of China, Mongolia, and the Philippines).
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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