''We'll Meet Again'', written by 037771, is a long running alternate timeline residing on Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom, also home to ''Literature/DecadesOfDarkness''.
The idea came from the sheer amount of timelines on the website in question that have America stay in the British Empire and everything is thus rosy. Here it isn't. It's horrific.

The timeline is written as a series of extracts from historical books, internet news pages, photos, and quotes. It begins with [[PointOfDivergence Governor Hutchinson of Massachusetts sending a letter to Benjamin Franklin...only the letter gets lost in the post]], with Franklin unable to alert the Sons of Liberty to the dangers of possible British reprisals. Franklin is, by not sending the letter's contents back to the Sons, still accepted by London high society and, in a series of riots, double-crossing, scares, and oneupmanship, America is kept British...just. There, the timeline diverges visibly within a few years of the POD, and enormously by the turn of the 18th century. The story started with its POD in 1770 and has progressed to (at the latest, given chapters are thematic) 1865. Sadly, the author stopped writing the story, making this a DeadFic. The whole thing could be read [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/newtest/threads/well-meet-again.101469/ here]] but the link no longer works.

Not to be confused with the stock phrase WeWillMeetAgain.

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!!This work contains the following tropes:
%%* AffablyEvil - Valerian Joseph.
* AllGermansAreNazis - The Germans end up embracing [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Classicism]].
%%* AlternateHistory
* AMillionIsAStatistic - The death tolls of the Great Wars, the World Wars, and the three dozen Genocides that the timeline contains justify this.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName - Classicism starts out as an ideology that idolizes UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic, but quickly evolves into a totalitarian, militaristic system.
%%* AnyoneCanDie
%%* BadassArmy - First the British, then the Germans and Russians.
%%* BalkanizeMe
%%* BlackAndGreyMorality
* BloodKnight - Louis Lazare Hoche, Wu Fumei.
* BolivianArmyEnding - [[spoiler: How the Decemberists choose to go.]]
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys - Averted: the French in this timeline fight and fight hard for as long as possible, against often ridiculous odds.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder - General Zhang against the Qing Dynasty; Valerian Joseph to Montgomery Blair; Bismarck to anyone in his way.
* ColonelBadass - 'Commando' Tranchant.
%%* CrapsackWorld
* CurbStompBattle - The Ottoman visit to Venice.
* CynicalMentor - [[UsefulNotes/LordCastlereagh Lord Londonderry (a.k.a Castlereagh)]] to Edward Bismarck.
* DeadlyGas - Chemical warfare is invented shockingly early in this timeline.
* DeathIsDramatic - [[spoiler: Mary III is captured by Classicists, stripped by the commanding officer, raped while others laugh and then bayoneted in the neck.]]
* DeusExNukina - Clearly, as judged from the previews of future events in the timeline, this option is used rather regularly.
* DisproportionateRetribution - The Classicist habit of executing anyone who is remotely Royal in conquered lands.
* DividedStatesOfAmerica - This is how Britain solves her little American set of problems early on in the timeline.
* DrowningMySorrows - 'Cheongju', or Korean rice-wine. Sold by the tonne in Japan and Hokkaido, effectively transforming [[DespairEventHorizon vast swathes of an already shell-shocked population]] into alcoholics.
* EtTuBrute - Subverted: Erhard, when being approached by a similar amount of knife-wielding senators, remarks that the main conspirator could hardly be a Brutus because he never really liked him...
* EverybodysDeadDave - [[spoiler: This is how the faux-Stuart restorationist attempts in Britain end up.]]
* EvilChancellor - Bismarck and Bonaparte.
* FinalSpeech - Creator/LordByron leading the Greek Rebel Army at Thermopylae.
* ForWantOfANail - The whole timeline is practically an argument for the importance of an efficient postal service.
* FullCircleRevolution - Spain from King Ferdinand to Jose de San Martin, combined neatly with a ReignOfTerror.
* GovernmentInExile - After being overthrown in Spain, the Spanish monarchy relocates to the Philippines.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade / HistoricalVillainUpgrade - Different people have different destinies, as a principle of good Alternate History. Noted example is Jose de San Martin; Liberator in our timeline, horrific monster in the Alternate timeline, although far, far more powerful.
%%* HobbesWasRight
* HopelessWar - [[WarIsHell The Buto]] [[WasItReallyWorthIt War]]
* InMediasRes - The story starts with a look back from a contemporary historian at all the carnage contrasted with all technological progress that has occurred since the beginning of the 19th Century.
* IstanbulNotConstantinople / CallARabbitASmeerp - Guerilla's are 'Cobards', tanks are 'Cars', British troops are, in South America, 'Lobsters'. Oh and the 'United British Empire' is just all territories in North America that owe crown allegiance.
* KillItWithFire - Common Classicist tactic when facing urban resistance.
* LaResistance - The 'Cobards', Cowards in Spanish, and the 'Marauders', their English (and only called Marauders in England) equivalents.
* LastStand - Not just one, but a whole dynasty influencing the course of British history. A mixed lot, from [[JerkAss anti-semitic]] [[NobleDemon Edward Spencer-Churchill]], to the defiant, prescient Winston S. Churchill. Better yet, the last one [[spoiler: has a politically more important brother]].
* UsefulNotes/ManifestDestiny - The Russians exhibit this with their move toward Slavophilia after being driven from Europe.
* MegaCorp - The Hudson Bay Company, the Honorable East India Company, the Royal Philippines Company...
* MexicoCalledTheyWantTexasBack - Mexico, as part of the rebellious Carolinian Confederation, is set to gain a lot when the Confederation invades the loyal Texas, setting thousands of men against a few at the Alamo [[spoiler:and losing]]
* MyCountryRightOrWrong - Tomas Zumalacarregui for Spain, [[spoiler:until he finally realises the leadership of his nation is corrupt and incompetent, and surrenders to the French, who install him as a puppet in balkanized Spain.]]
* NietzscheWannabe - Orest Kiprensky, a.k.a Ogonyov.
* NobleDemon - [[DefectorFromDecadence Edward]] [[RefugeInAudacity Spencer]][[YoureNotMyFather -Churchill]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity - King Cheoljong through and through. Uses the tactic to ascend to the Korean throne, then murder his rivals and try and make his nation great once more.
* OfficerAndAGentleman - Edward Lyons, to the point that he has to be [[TheMenFirst dragged away]] from a battle everyone knows he'll lose...
%%* OmnicidalManiac - Ogonyov.
* OneNationUnderCopyright - India under the [[MegaCorp HEIC]]
* OrphanedSeries - The TL has not been updated since September 2010, and judging by the comment [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=4981949&postcount=169 here]], it's highly unlikely that any further work will be done on it.
* ThePlan- Ranjit Singh and the whole Great Indian Insurrection.
%%* PsychopathicManchild - [[spoiler:Richard Gardner.]]
* PunchClockVillain - Some of the troops the Brazilians deploy in the Third Great War, and afterwards in Angola. Set down in societies that downright encourage violence and oppression, these men rape and massacre their way through native villages, and yet back home would be considered entirely reasonable men.
* ReassignedToAntarctica - Edward Spencer-Churchill to Venezuela. One of the [[ReassignmentBackfire better punishments for him...]]
* RightfulKingReturns - Boy King John II returning to London from Boston.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething - Louis XVII by far, Alexanders I and II of Russia, Georges III and IV of Great Britain, UsefulNotes/FerdinandVII of Spain.
* SceneryGorn - Perpignan after the Classicists pillage it.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere - Garibaldi when he realises all is lost, and Lazare Hoche when he realises he cant fight to lose in the first place and fights in Russia instead.
* SociopathicHero - King Louis XVII of France. Will do anything for his country, including [[WarriorPrince leading men personally on the front lines]], taking huge risks, shooting people who dissent and massacring enemy prisoners.
* SoundtrackDissonance - Think about it. Listen to Music/VeraLynn's song, and you'll have the tone of the timeline. That is, if you think that the song isn't about hope at all, but loss.
* StraightGay - Peter Cornelius.
* StuffBlowingUp - Key London landmarks being blown apart to slow the Classicist invasion down.
* TheChessmaster - Jose de San Martin, Louis XVII, Edward Bismarck...
* TheEmpire - Too many to count.
* TheFederation - UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire.
* TheGoodKingdom - France [[spoiler:on the surface.]]
* TheNapoleon - Napoleon Charles Bonaparte, genius general and eventual Chief Minister of France, [[IAmXSonOfY son]] of the one we're familiar with, who also makes some big appearances in the timeline. If you find this confusing, you're not the only one.
* TheTokyoFireball - London. Repeatedly.
* TrappedInContainment - [[spoiler: Japan after the Buto War.]]
* VestigialEmpire - Subverted by Royal Spain. After losing everything except the Phillipines, it seems to become an influential power in East- and Southeast Asia and colonizing West Australia.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity - Napoleon Charles Bonaparte when he smashes the German Classicists repeatedly and takes Italy for the Kingdom of France [[spoiler: and is still permitted to massacre whole minorities within the conquered territories.]]
* WatchingTroyBurn - This is how Edward, formerly Otto, Bismarck ends up in the UK. Given the increased amount of general violence and social upheaval in contrast with OTL, sort of a mainstay ITTL.
* WeHaveReserves - The Russians and the Chinese [[spoiler: who constantly make war upon each other on this premise...hilarity ensues.]]
* WideEyedIdealist - The Prime Minister the Duke of Bearsden, whenever he thinks about the abolition of slavery. Subverted with almost everyone else in the timeline.
* YouShallNotPass - [[spoiler:Lord Byron fighting to the end, as King, at Thermopylae]]
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters - French peace activists to Louis XVII. Subverted with German Classicist guerilla fighters everything - no-one likes them, not even their command.
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