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Trail of Glory
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An Alternate History by Eric Flint, the Trail of Glory novel series covers a United States that diverges from its original history at the start of the War of 1812, covering an area from the Canadian border in the north, New Orleans in the south, where the war's final battle was fought in 1815, and in the sequel from the US east coast to west of the Mississippi River.After Baen Books picked up the series contract from Del Rey, two more books were planned for the series, (the tentative title for the third novel in the series is 1826: Oklahoma Burning, as per a comment by Flint on the Baen's Bar forum), but nothing of the story was written before the death of Eric Flint in 2022, making it unlikely the series will ever be finished.The two published novels: The Rivers of War (paperback title: 1812: The Rivers of War) 1824: The Arkansas War | |
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Up Through the Ranks | |
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Up Through the Ranks: Sergeant Patrick Driscoll had served more than a decade in Napoleon's army when he enlisted in the US army and participated in the War of 1812. When he lost his left arm in the battle at the Chippewa, Winfield Scott promoted him to first lieutenant. He ended up as a founder of the Arkansas Chiefdom and the general of its army, but never lost the way of thinking like a sergeant. | |
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Asskicking Leads to Leadership | |
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Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Plenty, but just call it the Arkansas Chiefdom. | |
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Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand | |
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Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand: Generals Ross and Pakenham spontaneously decide to do this during a debate with an unreasonable admiral to make him compromise to minimize the risk to their soldiers. | |
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Absurdly Ineffective Barricade | |
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Absurdly Ineffective Barricade: Briefly comes into existence when overzealous soldiers rip down the doors of one of the main entrances to the Capitol to block the other main entrance. After chewing them out for this act of idiocy, Driscol makes them block the entrance they just rendered defenseless - by pushing two huge statues into the doorway. | |
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Home by Christmas | |
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Home by Christmas: President Clay decides that he needs a short victorious war against Arkansas in order to prop up his support after gaining the presidency through deal-making in the House despite 5/6ths of the country voting against him. Practically every senior officer with an understanding of the defenses Arkansas has comes to the conclusion that while victory is possible, 'short' is out of the question. | |
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Scary Black Man | |
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Scary Black Man: Many in the U.S., primarily slaveholders and would-be slaveholders, regard the Arkansas Army as this and/or wish to convince everyone else of it. When angered, General Ball pulls it off magnificently in his own right. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Henry Clay is disgusted when his staff's only reaction to the murder of Maria Hester Monroe Houston is to be glad it won't hurt them politically. He also takes a Sudden Principled Stand when politicians from Georgia ask him to pardon her killer. | |
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Hangover Sensitivity | |
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Hangover Sensitivity: Oh, yes, with an alcoholic as the main protagonist. | |
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Face Death with Dignity | |
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Face Death with Dignity: A French commander of some of Crittenden's mercenaries reflects that Driscoll is a good commander, then draws his sword and marches towards the lien of riflemen, knowing they'll kill him but choosing to imagine it as an honorable death by firing squad. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Enforced in that "The Arkansas War" wasn't planned to be the second book. That was "The Trail of Glory", which would cover the alternate Cherokee migration, the riots in New Orleans that are alluded to in "The Arkansas War", and how many of black freedmen ended up moving to Arkansas. It was nixed by the publisher. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: The first battle of Arkansas Post, in 1824. 1200 trained and drilled soldiers against 1200 undisciplined freebooters. | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him: Pakenham is a prominent character in the second half of the first book, with his surviving where he historically didn't being a notable point. Then early in the next book it's offhandedly mentioned that he died off-screen between books in battle against Napoleon. | |
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Worthy Opponent | |
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Worthy Opponent: In the first book, General Robert Ross. In the second, General William Henry Harrison (to a certain extent) and Colonel Zachary Taylor who is actually more of a Friendly Enemy. | |
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Drowning My Sorrows | |
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Drowning My Sorrows: Sam Houston, a year to the day after the murder of Maria Hester. | |
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Boom Town | |
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Boom Town: New Antrim. - in keeping with the old Alternate History tradition of making alternate versions of Little Rock, Arkansas into actually important towns | |
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Puppet King | |
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Puppet King: President Clay ends up as one. He lost the popular and electoral votes by a substantial amount, and only gained the presidency through his skill at deal-making in the house. This left him trapped by the deals he made to get into the White House (primarily with the pro-slavery and anti-Arkansas Deep South), such as a war which, even if he doesn't necessarily object to it, is irrelevant to the agenda he wanted to advance as President. Jackson openly states that Clay's choosing a platform in order to get elected rather than getting elected in order to advance his chosen platform was a mistake. | |
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Insult to Rocks | |
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Insult to Rocks: In Chapter 28 of 1824: The Arkansas War, Andrew Jackson publicly denounces the deal-making that put Henry Clay into office as President after getting only about 1/6th of the popular vote, and initially lambastes John Calhoun as Judas. Later, Jackson corrects himself, saying that the comparison was an insult to Judas. | |
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Noble Bigot | |
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Noble Bigot: Andrew Jackson is portrayed as this. He is highly bigoted, even by the standards of the time, and does not hesitate to call friendly Cherokees "savages", ask how Houston can be so sure that his coloured teamsters won't steal his gear, and sum up state militias as drunken and cowardly to a man (though not exactly wrong with that last one). However, he hesitates to shoot Red Eagle (a rebel Cherokee responsible for a major massacre) because he surrendered voluntarily, promotes a coloured sergeant to commissioned rank, against regulations, and threatens to kill a man who protests against arming free coloured men, but who won't join the militia himself. Essentially, the Andrew Jackson in the book is bigoted against groups but is capable of respecting an individual who is especially heroic and or a fierce fighter. While he is a bigot, he hates fools and cowards even more. | |
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For Want of a Nail | |
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For Want Of A Nail: Ensign Sam Houston's not being hit by an arrow between the goalposts at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend as he was OTL is the point of departure for the series, caused by Houston's foot slipping when scaling a barricade. | |
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Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility | |
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Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility: The series tends towards a strong "hard" Alternate History, though some question the probability of the events as depicted in the novels and would argue the series fudges things a touch towards the "soft" side. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: A part of the reason Eric Flint choose Sam Houston as the protagonist was that he wanted to show a realistic high-functioning alcoholic. This also qualifies as Write What You Know: Flint has commented on the Baen forum, while discussing this aspect of Houston's character, that he himself has struggled with alcoholism. | |
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Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough | |
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Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough: Captain Houston and Lieutenant (formerly Sergeant) Driscol take up these roles during the defense of Washington. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: What happened to the Filibusters after the First Battle of Arkansas Post, and the state militias at the second one, was neither pretty nor undeserved, even after they were sold out as The Quislings. | |
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Cavalry Officer | |
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Cavalry Officer: Averted. The United States at the time had no cavalry regiments. | |
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Wild Card | |
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Wild Card: Thompson and Powers in the second book join Crittenden's forces to take slaves, sell out information about Clay to save their lives after being captured and then proceed to pursue the murderer of Dolly Houston for the bounty. | |
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Never My Fault | |
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Never My Fault: Harrison reflects in the second book that he'll have one of his aides executed for deserted (the young man is shellshocked and huddling down) and feels that's just another thing to blame on Clay and Calhoun. And while the conflict as a whole is indeed their fault (and Harrison does own up to his tactical mistakes), Harrison's choice to have the aide executed is his own decision, and it feels like something he's just trying to duck responsibility for. | |
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Inter-Service Rivalry | |
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Inter-Service Rivalry: The British Army and Naval personall (the later of whom are portrayed more negatively) really don't get along in the first book. | |
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Authority in Name Only | |
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Authority in Name Only: Simmons in the first book is a war department employee whose actually been recently fired but sticks around and holds some authority over the soldiers, largely because he served them alcohol and they therefore feel cordial to the man. | |
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Cool Uncle | |
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Cool Uncle: Although The Generic Guy, Jim in the second book seems like a decent guy and enlisted in the army with his nephew. | |
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Crippling Castration | |
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Crippling Castration: Henry Crowell is mentioned as having been castrated by a lynch mob in New Orleans between books. Unlike most examples, a great deal is made of how lucky Crowell was to actually survive, and it is mentioned that castration is pretty much always fatal. | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: All over the place. Slavery and attitude towards race is front and center. Then add in the views on women, individual lives, religion… | |
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Moral Myopia | |
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Moral Myopia: The attitude towards blacks, "mixed-bloods", and about slavery in the early United Stated is exposed at any turn. | |
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And Then What? | |
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And Then What?: Could General Andrew Jackson destroy the Chiefdom of Arkansas? Sure! Can he do so without, in his own words, gutting and skinning his own Republicnote The war is so unpopular in the Free States that some of them are openly recruiting regiments to fight for Arkansas, so in order to raise enough troops to defeat Arkansas, he'd need to raise more troops to declare martial law in the North to suppress anti-war riots, and enact policies he personally ran for Senate to oppose in order to get the money to pay for all those troops.? Erm. Does he think slavery in the U. S. remain a concern in the long term with Arkansas sitting on the border? Nope. | |
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Off the Record | |
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Off the Record: William Cullen Bryant has a beautiful conversation to this effect with Henry Shreve. Paraphrased: | |
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Officer and a Gentleman | |
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Officer and a Gentleman: General Ross, being an actual Anglo-Irish nobleman, has this in spades, especially in contrast to the rather rough-and-tumble former NCOs that make up the bulk of Arkansan officers. He eventually gets asked to start up an officers' academy to remedy the deficit. Sheffield Parker gets in on the game too, being an admirer of General Ross and understanding the difference between doing things and doing things with style. | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
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An Arm and a Leg: In The Rivers of War, Sergeant Driscol has a lower arm mangled by a British volley at the Battle of Chippawa, during the War of 1812. The later amputation of the limb and recovery period is what puts him in a position to help in the defense of Washington, DC along with Sam Houston, changing the course of history. | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
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Refuge in Audacity: How William Weatherford/Red Eagle gets into Jackson's tent. | |
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The Chessmaster | |
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The Chessmaster: Henry Clay in 1824. Silently backing a freebooter expedition. If it succeeds, get credit for it. If it is crushed, then use it as a rallying cry for war and a bid for the presidency. However he seems kind of lost when he finally wins the Presidency | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Tiana Rogers plays this straight, with a side order of The Chief's Daughter. | |
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Field Promotion | |
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Field Promotion: In modern/NATO terms, Sam Houston went from O-1 to O-6 in a matter of months. Meanwhile Driscoll bounced from senior NCO to Major (O-4) in the same timeframe. Truth in Television, as the handling of promotions in armies of the period was somewhat more loose than in later decades. | |
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Contrived Coincidence: The carter Driscoll pays to get him to Washington just happens to be a former employee of a local weapons foundry, and as such can get the capital's defenders into the foundry to get the ammunition they need to stand off the siege of the capital building. | |
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Monumental Damage | |
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Monumental Damage: In The Rivers of War, Washington is sacked by the British, as in the original War of 1812, but a hastily rallied group of defenders manage to defend the Capitol. Almost every other public building save the Patent Office (Which was also left alone in real life), however, gets put to the torch. | |
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Sudden Principled Stand | |
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Sudden Principled Stand: What the black Chiefdom of Arkansas is to the United States. At the end of The Arkansas War, Andrew Jackson has joined forces with John Quincy Adams and other moderates and liberals to form a new Democratic-Republican Party to wrest control of Congress from Henry Clay's supporters in the upcoming Midterm elections and go for the White House in the 1828 election, one of whose chief planks is gradual emancipation (And the notion that a free black is a full US Citizen with all the same rights as a white man). This sets up a showdown with the Deep South, and its ideological leader John Calhoun, in future books, though it's strongly implied that the Upper South - especially Kentucky and Tennessee, which are Jackson country - will side with the new party. | |
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Washington D.C. Invasion | |
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Washington D.C. Invasion: As in the Real Life War of 1812, the British forces in The Rivers of War attack Washington, DC in a punitive raid. However, unlike in the original war Sam Houston helps rally the troops to defend the Capitol Building, effectively turning the British attack from a major propaganda victory to petty arson when they settle for torching other buildings, after being bloodied badly and driven away in their attempt to assault the Capitol Building. | |
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