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* [[Monumental Damage]]: Averted in "The Rivers of War". Washington is sacked, as in the original war of 1812, but a hastily rallied group of defenders manage to defend the Capitol.
* [[Moral Myopia]]: The attitude towards blacks, "mixed-bloods", and about slavery in the early United Stated is exposed at any turn.
* [[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. However, he
* [[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.
* [[Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility]]: Type I, though some question the probability of the events as depicted in the novels and would argue the series more qualifies for Type II.
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