THEORETICAL TIMELINE
With the death of the last Spanish king war looms over his succession and Spain and its allies take on France. Casca enlists in the British army and becomes a grenadier. Victories under the Duke of Marlborough follow at Blenheim (1704), Ramilles (1706), Oudenaarde (1708) and Malplaquet (1709). When the war ends Casca returns with the army and is billeted in London until he kills three grenadiers in a brawl (probably over a woman).
CASCA THE PIRATE
To avoid arrest Casca sails for the Caribbean and is hired by a rich plantation owner to find his niece and rescue her from a pirate's clutches. He sails with Blackbeard but is arrested and marooned. Escaping along with Anglo-Spanish fugitives they reach his quarry and rescue the girl, only for Casca to be betrayed by the man who hired him. Casca kills him and decides to stay in Jamaica for a while.
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Eventually Casca leaves Jamaica and sets foot in North America. The lure of a free life in the untamed wilds is too much and he travels west with fur trappers. However they are attacked by Cherokee and all are killed, except for Casca who recovers much to the Indians' surprise. They think him to be a powerful magical being and take him to their village. He lives amongst them for some years, taking the chief's daughter for a wife, until a power struggle ensues, the British backing the rival to Casca's friend. On top of the struggle comes a smallpox epidemic, amongst those dying is Casca's squaw. Seeing this the surviving Cherokee decide Casca's magic has gone and he is cast out.
Staggering into a British settlement he is mistaken for a survivor of an attack which he is happy to go along with. He shacks up with a wealthy recently widowed woman who tells him of the death of her husband at the hands of a French officer. She pays Casca to find him and kill him. He goes to Europe to find a new war brewing between Britain, Prussia and their allies and the French. The French officer he is after has been sent to Germany to fight, so Casca joins the Prussian army to find him. The Prussians win at both Krefeld (1758) and Minden (1759). In the aftermath Casca pursues his quarry and tracks him down, only to find he has been deceived by the woman; the Frenchman was her lover and once she had her ex-husband's money she ended the affaire. Casca returns to the Americas and tells the woman the Frenchman died in battle.
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Casca buys some land and settles on it but the growing tension between the settlers and the British government explodes into rebellion. Casca sides with the rebels and joins the fledgling American army at Lexington (1775). He organises the Minutemen in his district and soon attains a Colonelcy. Eventually at Yorktown (1781) Casca is one of the victorious soldiers that see the surrender of the British forces and, in effect, the end of the war.
