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* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Renauld Daniau and the French Revolution.
** The [[spoiler: Southern Rebellion]]

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* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Renauld Daniau ActionGirl: The boss-ass bitch herself, Lady Louisa "Ironborn" Stirling, a 30 year old schoolteacher turned soldier.
* AlternateTechline: Alluded to in the original TL
and by the French Revolution.
** The [[spoiler: Southern Rebellion]]
OP that many of the technological innovations of the original TL will still occur.
* BlackBossLady: President Kingsley of Rhodesia.



* MightyWhitey: This timeline has been accused of following this trope; particularly with [[spoiler: James Madison becoming the First President of Republican China]], and the establishment [[spoiler: of a British state in South Africa governed primarily by whites.]]
* TheSavageSouth: Racist, pro-slavery organizations crop up that would make even the most die-hard KKK member blush.

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* MightyWhitey: This timeline has been accused of following this trope; particularly with [[spoiler: James Madison becoming the First President of Republican China]], and the establishment [[spoiler: of a British state in South Africa governed primarily by whites.]]
* TheSavageSouth:
DeepSouth: Racist, pro-slavery organizations crop up in Columbia that would make even the most die-hard KKK member blush.blush.
* DividedStatesOfAmerica: George Washington is a bloody [[spoiler:Loyalist]] and the Rebellion was [[spoiler:Motivated to retain racism and slavery]], so in 1836, there are two British dominions, Columbia and Vesperia.



* IronicName: ''Rhodesia'', a liberal racially sensitive and democratic regime; compared to history's Rhodesia, which was a controversial racist state that was dismantled because of a race war between Africans and Whites.



* AlternateTechline: Alluded to in the original TL and by the OP that many of the technological innovations of the original TL will still occur.
* DividedStatesOfAmerica: George Washington is a bloody [[spoiler:Loyalist]] and the Rebellion was [[spoiler:Motivated to retain racism and slavery]], so in 1836, there are two British dominions, Columbia and Vesperia.

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* AlternateTechline: Alluded to in MightyWhitey: This timeline has been accused of following this trope; particularly with [[spoiler: James Madison becoming the original TL and by the OP that many First President of the technological innovations of the original TL will still occur.
* DividedStatesOfAmerica: George Washington is a bloody [[spoiler:Loyalist]]
Republican China]], and the Rebellion was [[spoiler:Motivated to retain racism and slavery]], so in 1836, there are two establishment [[spoiler: of a British dominions, Columbia and Vesperia.state in South Africa governed primarily by whites.]]



* TheFundamentalist: the Christian Republic of Ardalmi'ad.
* BlackBossLady: President Kingsley of Rhodesia.
* IronicName: ''Rhodesia'', a liberal racially sensitive and democratic regime; compared to history's Rhodesia, which was a controversial racist state that was dismantled because of a race war between Africans and Whites.



* ActionGirl: The boss-ass bitch herself, Lady Louisa "Ironborn" Stirling, a 30 year old schoolteacher turned soldier.

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* ActionGirl: TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Renauld Daniau and the French Revolution.
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The boss-ass bitch herself, Lady Louisa "Ironborn" Stirling, a 30 year old schoolteacher turned soldier.[[spoiler: Southern Rebellion]]
* TheFundamentalist: The Christian Republic of Ardalmi'ad.
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* Ireland is spared the crapsack 19th and 20th centuries because Britain decides to not make them join the new Union of Crowns; and prefers to keep them and arms length.



* TheFundamentalist: the Christian Republic of Ardalmi'ad.

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* TheFundamentalist: the Christian Republic of Ardalmi'ad.Ardalmi'ad.
* BlackBossLady: President Kingsley of Rhodesia.
* IronicName: ''Rhodesia'', a liberal racially sensitive and democratic regime; compared to history's Rhodesia, which was a controversial racist state that was dismantled because of a race war between Africans and Whites.
* TheAntiChrist: President Wilmer might as well be this guy.
* ActionGirl: The boss-ass bitch herself, Lady Louisa "Ironborn" Stirling, a 30 year old schoolteacher turned soldier.
* WeakButSkilled: The Rhodesian Army compared to the Georgians at the start of the Patriotic War.
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* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: You see this often, just with different names!

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* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: You see this often, just with different names!names!
* TheFundamentalist: the Christian Republic of Ardalmi'ad.
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* TheKlan: ''The Golden Cross Society.''

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* TheKlan: ''The Golden Cross Society.''Society'', [[spoiler: but worse.]]
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* Oireland: Spared the crapsack 19th and 20th centuries because Britain decides to not make them join the new Union of Crowns; and prefers to keep them and arms length.

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* Oireland: Spared Ireland is spared the crapsack 19th and 20th centuries because Britain decides to not make them join the new Union of Crowns; and prefers to keep them and arms length.

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* Oireland: Spared the 19th and 20th centuries because Britain decides to not make them join the new Union of Crowns.

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* Oireland: Spared the crapsack 19th and 20th centuries because Britain decides to not make them join the new Union of Crowns.Crowns; and prefers to keep them and arms length.



** [[spoiler:Thomas-Alexandre Dumas]]

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** [[spoiler:Thomas-Alexandre Dumas]]Dumas]]
** [[spoiler: A certain mustachioed Austrian...]]
* TheKlan: ''The Golden Cross Society.''
* AlternateTechline: Alluded to in the original TL and by the OP that many of the technological innovations of the original TL will still occur.
* DividedStatesOfAmerica: George Washington is a bloody [[spoiler:Loyalist]] and the Rebellion was [[spoiler:Motivated to retain racism and slavery]], so in 1836, there are two British dominions, Columbia and Vesperia.
* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: You see this often, just with different names!
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* DuelToTheDeath: [[spoiler:'''Zebulon Pike''' and '''Shaka Zulu''']] got into one of these during the Zulu War.

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* DuelToTheDeath: [[spoiler:'''Zebulon Pike''' and '''Shaka Zulu''']] got into one of these during the Zulu War.War.
* MightyWhitey: This timeline has been accused of following this trope; particularly with [[spoiler: James Madison becoming the First President of Republican China]], and the establishment [[spoiler: of a British state in South Africa governed primarily by whites.]]
* Oireland: Spared the 19th and 20th centuries because Britain decides to not make them join the new Union of Crowns.
* TheSavageSouth: Racist, pro-slavery organizations crop up that would make even the most die-hard KKK member blush.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Jefferson Davis is a virulent anti-racist who admires Andrew Jackson.
** [[spoiler:John C. Calhoun]] is one of [[spoiler:Andrew Jackson]]'s closest allies, and takes up the mantle of his political movement when [[spoiler:Jackson is assassinated by agents of the Golden Cross Society right before the first Columbian election]].
** Zebulon Pike [[spoiler:rams a sword through Shaka Zulu.]]
** [[spoiler:Thomas-Alexandre Dumas]]
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[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=358262 The Shield of Liberty]] is an alternate history work published by Sakura_F on [[http://alternatehistory.com alternatehistory.com]], and is a reboot of the timeline "The Land of Freedom". The premise has to do with a developing superpower on the African continent, under the British Empire's influence.

*TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Renauld Daniau and the French Revolution.
** The [[spoiler: Southern Rebellion]]

*DavidVersusGoliath: '''The Commonwealth of Georgia''' vs. the '''British East India Company'''
*DuelToTheDeath: [[spoiler:'''Zebulon Pike''' and '''Shaka Zulu''']] got into one of these during the Zulu War.

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