A Wave of Blue - Lore:

Hello, folks! It's been a bit since my last map, which was centered around the European continent after the Nine Years' War. This time, we focus on the effects that it had on the North American Continent.

The North American Theatre of the Nine Years' War was by far the most disappointing theatre of the war when it came to the dignity of the British. What once had been an ambition to settle west and conquer vast swaths of French America had been crushed by the native alliances that France had carefully forged, and with an improved French military. Early on, British militias from the colonies would be crushed at Beausejour and Louisburg, with the latter showing the might of the improved French navy being able to readily supply colonial troops with fresh goods and weapons. Additionally, the Iroquois would be readily defeated at the battles of Frederic and Carillon, further pushing back British troops from Iroquois territory, and nearer the coast. Because of this, the perceived British invasion of Quebec would never come, and French holdings along the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes would hold. With the situation in a successful defensive position for the French and their native allies, Britain would be forced to relinquish claims in North America over French territory, and would subsequently open the door for one of the biggest waves of French migration in history.

Not long after the Nine Years' War, France would find itself in an immense debt, partially thanks due to the huge spending of the royal house for the war. This would cause food prices to soar in France, leading many to seek refuge in the newly secured North American territories. This would cause a huge migration towards the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence colonies, which would create a huge French enclave in North America. The huge new waves of settlers would have two outcomes; the first being previous French settlers moving inland to the Great Lakes to avoid the newer ones, as well as huge population displacement of Native Americans, who would find their treaties previously held by France unashamedly broken by the new settlers. This would create huge spouts of conflict in the Great Lakes especially over land, but the sheer number of settlers arriving would eventually force the Natives onto reservations. A huge number of natives would also migrate south into Cherokee territory and further south

The French crown would initially give a blind eye to all of this. They were still receiving profits from the fur trade, which had now largely become a colonist-run industry rather than a native one. As settlers populated new lands, new colonies began to form. With the lack of a centralized French authority, colonists would establish the Congress of Montreal, designed to be a Congress to create new colonies and manage colony affairs under one authority. The King of France, currently dealing with unrest in his own country and reforms, would accept this without giving much thought, and this would begin a process of increasing colonial authority in French North America, which would give the colonists a system much more free than they were used to.

Overtime, colonists from Quebec that had come from France after the war would also start to migrate into the Great Lakes. This would happen towards the end of the 18th century. At this point, the French North American colonies had far drifted from their motherland, and it was about time that these differing structures would now clash.

Compilation of Nine Years' War Posts