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Message: <blockquote data-quote="adwyn" data-source="post: 4041585" data-attributes="member: 14083">For my time line I had Sherman falling ill during the march on Atlanta. Longstreet is shifted  west the way he was at Chickamauga the year before and captures much of Sherman's army which is paralyzed by disease. Chattanooga is then lost just before the 1864 election. Lincoln in turn loses the election to McClellan and a truce is signed in 1865. As a result Maximilian retains his French backed throne in Mexico, albeit precariously. The American west becomes a more dangerous place as England and France along with the new CSA try to pry territory away from the US.The Franco-Prussian war is still devastating to France, but when Napoleon III is captured and the new French republic proclaimed events in Arizona territory are unstable and England needs Maximilian on the Mexican throne. The British use some devious methods to make Napoleon's son Prince Eugene the new emperor, Napoleon IV. He in turn marries Queen Victoria's daughter Beatrice. Prussia is bought off with the Yucatan and southern Mexico, whetting their naive appetite for colonization. This episode, the second major deviation from history allowed me to introduce some regular British spies who while active are not always adversarial to the PCs.</blockquote>