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'We'll Meet Again', written by 037771, is a long running alternate timeline residing on [[
The idea came from the sheer amount of timelines on the website in question that have America stay in the British Empire and everything is thus rosy. Here it isn't. It's horrific.
The timeline is written as a series of extracts from historical books, internet news pages, photos and quotes. It begins with [[For Want of a Nail|Governor Hutchinson of Massachusetts sending a letter to Benjamin Franklin...only the letter gets lost in the post]], with Franklin unable to alert the Sons of Liberty to the dangers of possible British reprisals. Franklin is, by not sending the letters contents back to the Sons, still accepted by London high society and, in a series of riots, double-crossing, scares and oneupmanship, America is kept British...just. In this the timeline diverges visibly within a few years of the POD, and enormously by the turn of the 18th century. The timeline started with its POD in 1770, and has now progressed to (at the latest, given chapters are thematic) 1865. The whole thing can be read [https://web.archive.org/web/20150616125052/http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=101469 here]
Not to be confused with the stock phrase [[We Will Meet Again]].
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* [[Affably Evil]] - Valerian Joseph.
* [[All Germans Are Nazis]] - Averted. They're [[Dirty Communists|Classicists]] instead.
* [[Alternate History]]
* [[A Million Is a Statistic]] - The death tolls of the Great Wars, the World Wars, and the three dozen Genocides that the timeline contains justify this.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]
* [[Badass Army]] - First the British, then the Germans and Russians.
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* [[For Want of a Nail]] - The whole timeline is practically an argument for the importance of an efficient postal service.
* [[Full-Circle Revolution]] - Spain from King Ferdinand to Jose de San Martin, combined neatly with a [[Reign of Terror]].
* [[Heroic Sociopath]] - King Louis XVII of France. Will do anything for his country, including [[Warrior Prince|leading men personally on the front lines]], taking huge risks, shooting people who dissent and massacring enemy prisoners.
* [[Hobbes Was Right]]
* [[Hopeless War]] - [[War Is Hell|The Buto]] [[Was It Really Worth It?|War]]
* [[Inferred Holocaust]] - Heavily inferred, particularly with the introduction of 'Lingualism', {{spoiler|i.e. 'heavily' discriminating against people who speak a different language...}}
* [[In Medias Res]] - The story starts with a look back from a contemporary historian at all the carnage contrasted with all technological progress that has occurred since the beginning of the 19th Century.
* [[Istanbul (Not Constantinople)]] / [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp]] - Guerilla's are 'Cobards', tanks are 'Cars', British troops are, in South America, 'Lobsters'. Oh and the 'United British Empire' is just all territories in North America that owe crown allegiance.
* [[Kill It with Fire]] - Common Classicist tactic when facing urban resistance.
* [[La Résistance]] - The 'Cobards', Cowards in Spanish, and the 'Marauders', their English (and only called Marauder's in England) equivalents.
* [[Manifest Destiny]] - The Russians exhibit this with their move toward Slavophilia after being driven from Europe.
* [[Mega Corp]] - The Hudson Bay Company, the Honorable East India Company, the Royal Philippines Company...
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* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] - King Cheoljong through and through. Uses the tactic to ascend to the Korean throne, then murder his rivals and try and make his nation great once more.
* [[Officer and a Gentleman]] - Edward Lyons, to the point that he has to be [[The Men First|dragged away]] from a battle everyone knows he'll lose...
* [[Old Shame]] - [https://web.archive.org/web/20160224204540/http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=4981949&postcount=169 To 037771].
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]] - Ogonyov.
* [[One Nation Under Copyright]] - India under the [[Mega Corp|HEIC]]
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* [[Psychopathic Manchild]] - {{spoiler|Richard Gardner.}}
* [[Punch Clock Villain]] - Some of the troops the Brazilians deploy in the Third Great War, and afterwards in Angola. Set down in societies that downright encourage violence and oppression, these men rape and massacre their way through native villages, and yet back home would be considered entirely reasonable men.
* [[Queen
* [[Reassigned to Antarctica]] - Edward Spencer-Churchill to Venezuela. One of the [[Reassignment Backfire|better punishments for him...]]
* [[Rightful King Returns]] - Boy King John II returning to London from Boston.
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* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]] - Garibaldi when he realises all is lost, and Lazare Hoche when he realises he cant fight to lose in the first place and fights in Russia instead.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]] - Think about it. Listen to Vera Lynn's song, and you'll have the tone of the timeline. That is, if you think that the song isn't about hope at all, but loss.
* [[
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]] - Key London landmarks being blown apart to slow the Classicist invasion down.
* [[The Chessmaster]] - Jose de San Martin, Louis XVII, Edward Bismarck...
* [[The Eternal Churchill]] - Not just one, but a whole dynasty influencing the course of British history. A mixed lot, from [[Jerkass|anti-semitic]] [[Noble Demon|Edward Spencer-Churchill]], to the defiant, prescient Winston S. Churchill. Better yet, the last one {{spoiler|has a politically more important brother}}.
* [[The Empire]] - Too many to count.
* [[The Federation]] - [[The British Empire]].
* [[The Kingdom]] - France {{spoiler|on the surface.}}
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