




as OTL New York State seems a bit egregious to me--but I respect that it is not easy to draw up fresh maps and we get the general drift; my presumption is that as the story of French holdings in the New World evolves, we'll eventually have someone draw up a contemporary map based on the true facts on the ground. Certainly New York state OTL is shaped to a great degree by objective geographic considerations, the Mohawk Valley route (as I believe the appropriate Interstate highway is labeled OTL) is dictated by a river valley, the shores of the lake it leads to and the westward extension also exist in the geography. I do question though why the French bother to replicate their OTL venture up the St Lawrence River when they already have control of another route to the same goal. OTL of course the Great Lakes were first quot;discoveredquot; as far as Europe was concerned by the latter route, and it was only some time later than it was learned that they could be reached from Manhattan instead via the Hudson. Also there is some overland portage involved in either route but the St Lawrence route has a lot less of it, making up for being more roundabout to Europe and passing through somewhat more challenging lands in terms of winter navigation--still, New York state of OTL is not a lot less difficult in winter than lower Canada! I believe the Hudson valley and branching out along the southern lake shores would be more rewarding agriculturally in the long run, but it would take centuries for even a vigorous colonization movement to fill up either, and until it becomes a matter of having taken up all the choice land and forcing new clearances on the more marginal land, either one is equally wide open (and, given possible Native resistance, equally difficult--indeed the more marginal situation of the northern route might mean fewer Native opponents and thus favor the St Lawrence for that reason as well as easier portage). Thus, New Angoulême, not New France, is the big anomaly here. With foresight of either heavy settlement or a vision of converting and Europeanizing the Native peoples of the Hudson valley and beyond as loyal Christian and Europeanized subjects, seizing control of Manhattan and the mouth of that river generally is a clever move--but it requires a working knowledge of the general geography of the OTL upper Atlantic states and eastern Canada to plot it that way; given the poor state of knowledge of North American geography in the early 16th century the French (assuming they manage to hold on to these lands for a long time) got lottery lucky stumbling on two of three of the best routes to the Great Lakes country--the third being of course up the Mississippi and claiming by the way all that broad and in the southern reaches semitropical land as well; it is no accident the French developed the strongest claim to that country OTL having gradually expanded into the Great Lakes region from the northeast, up the St Lawrence. Fourth and fifth routes, via the Ohio country, also exist from the Atlantic coast via the Chesapeake, going up the Potomac to Shenandoah and thence northwest through Appalachian passes, and more directly west to the Cumberland Gap and thence into Kentucky and Ohio that way, but as beelines to the Great Lakes these are inferior. Did I overlook some great expedition bolder and sooner than anything OTL from the Atlantic coast that found the Great Lakes earlier, forcing earlier more systematic exploration and evaluation of alternate routes to there than OTL? Сегодняшний Донбасс— это земля, родившая и воспитавшая молодогвардейцев. И теперь уже это родство требует от ныне ... Биометрические данные, искусственный интеллект и военная доктрина Запада
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