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Alternative History, Fiction
The Timeline for Restive Souls
The alternative history behind Restive Souls (subject to change)
This is the timeline for the Restive Souls series. It is a work in progress and is subject to change as the novel and/or series develops. Let’s see if you history buffs can notice when the changes begin!
Book One of the trilogy is centered around John Honeyman and the Battle of Trenton, the Battle for Charleston (Charlestown in the novel), and the Savannah Wars of the 1820s.
April 19, 1775
British defeated at Concord.
March 1776
American rebels besiege Boston, forcing the British to withdraw.
June 28, 1776
British take Charlestown in the Battle of Fort Sullivan.
August 1776
British take New York.
December 14, 1776
Hessians arrive at Trenton.
December 18, 1776
Carl von Donop, Johann Rahl’s Hessian commander, arrives in Trenton with reinforcements.
December 21, 1776
Betsy Ross flees Mount Holly, NJ to Philadelphia after Guillaume Diderot warns her of a fictional impending Indian raid on the area. Ross sends word to von Donop that they should rendezvous there instead of their original plan to meet in Mount Holly, but von Donop sends a letter by messenger back to her saying he is too occupied to go to Philadelphia.
December 24, 1776
John Honeyman reports falsely to George Washington that the plan to use Betsy Ross to keep von Donop occupied in Mount Holly, New Jersey, and keep Trenton Hessian defenses weak has succeeded.
December 26, 1776
Hessian and British troops rout Washington as he tries to cross the Delaware “as if they anticipated our every move”, Washington writes from Paris a few years later.
