What if North America today was divided up the way the original colonial powers had settled it. With the English all along the Atlantic coast. The French down the middle along the Mississippi watershed. The Spanish in the west all along the Pacific. Canada and Mexico to the north and south. This is an Alternate History of how it happened.in Five Parts.
Jason Wolfe investigates what happened during the Gold Rush, Mexican Independence, the Alamo, Custer's Last Stand, the Civil War, the Underground Railroad, and more. Moments in history where the outcome is not what you thought.
After a pardon from the King keeps Anne Boleyn's head firmly on her shoulders, she is exiled to the country to live no longer as Queen of England, but as the significantly less powerful, less influential and less wealthy Marquess of Pembroke.
As court life continues on without her, king Henry VIII moves on to his third, fourth, fifth and sixth wives, and Anne Boleyn deals with the effects of her almost-execution that left her suffering from trauma and turned the lives of her sister, daughter, and all those near her upside down. Determined to get Elizabeth to the throne, she hatches a plan that involves poison, intrigue and the killing of a king. She no longer has anything of value left to lose.
(Title comes from a quote by Elizabeth I herself: "I may not be a lion, but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart”)