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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/36190
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I plan to write an alternate history story that eventually leads to Texas taking up most of the area that otherwise would have been the USA. It starts with the European side of things, in particular the French and the Russians.

I have thought through what I want to happen in my alternate timeline but because I have only heard of alternate history through the videos on Alternate History Hub including his collaboration with EmperorTigerstar on if the South had won the Civil War, I don't know how to write a good alternate history book. This collaboration assumes Texan history stays the same when they ask "What if the South had won the Civil War?". Obviously in my timeline, it doesn't and that would drastically change the outcome of the Civil War.

I have written science fiction before but never alternate history, though I have thought about it lots of times. So would I do something like this:

> **March 20 1811**
> 
> Napoleon went to Russia alone. It took a long time to get there.
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> **April 18 1811**
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> Napoleon said "Tsar Alexander I, I want to get to North America but I can't go alone because of the Royal Navy. Now I know you don't have a big navy and never have but could you send about 100,000 troops to France? That should be enough for the British to only see Russians because my army and I will be in the center and sending way fewer troops than 100,000"

and continue the story like that or what because I have never written alternate history before.

Original score: 5