The war against Hathor stripped several of the regiments and divisions that the British used to conquer worlds under the control of the Goa'uld or the native people so Imperial Stargate Command shifted back towards exploring and securing technology for the British. The worlds that the British explored proved to be of very little use to them with most being feudal worlds focused around the Stargate but there were a few worlds that were useful to them that were found in this time. Most notable was the world of Brunel the second world that the British had found that had reached a technological level similar to the Industrial Revolution on earth. While the first industrially developed world that the allies discovered was the homeworld of the Dawi Brunel was a world that had broken free of the Goa'uld and advanced technologically. The planet of Brunel was at the technological level of earth in 1865 and was currently involved in a brutal war between the two major powers. The British and allies choose to back the smaller nation for two main reasons. One the Stargate was in said nations territory. The other reason was that the nation was on the verge of defeat and the British could put them in their debt for when the war was over.

-Extract from Christopher Bowes's book The Bloody Wolves of the Stars: A history of Imperial Stargate Command

The Battle of New Orleans was the second bloodiest conflict of the Mexican invasion of the United States with only the Second Fall of Mexico City having higher casualties. The Mexican forces that attacked the city had marched over one-thousand kilometres from the Mexican border they had ravaged the land stealing food, weapons, and water from the local communities. Despite all of this by the time that they reached New Orleans over two thousand men had died of starvation or dehydration. Alongside the joint British and American raids against the Mexican forces which had killed over three thousand men. By the time the Mexican forces reached New Orleans itself Hathor had ordered them to take the city no matter what and the thousands of corpses that they had left along their way was no reason to stop.

The first assault against the New Orleans defensive positions was a meatgrinder as the Americans, and British unleashed their wrath onto the charging Mexican forces. The plasma and bullets raked through the men, but Hathor had dispatched over a hundred-thousand men to attack the city led by a thousand of her proto-Jaffa. The proto-Jaffa managed to break through into the city beyond the initial defensive lines and the urban warfare that defined the Battle of New Orleans began. Every room was a battlefield and it was quite common for the last defender to destroy the building that they were fighting in. The Imperial Navy and United States Navy acted as mobile artillery against the Mexican advance which would draw some criticism from the refuges that had fled New Orleans and the New England States. Despite the criticism the British and Americans continued the bombardment of the parts of the city that had fallen to the Mexicans. All the while to the north east at Baton Rouge and south west and Jamaica the allies gathered forces for Operation Sledgehammer. The Mexicans managed to reach as far as City Park by the 29th of July where they dug in for an assumed counterattack against them. That was when President Al Smith and Imperial High Command authorized the commencement of Operation Sledgehammer.

From the city of Baton Rouge, the American Army stormed across the Mississippi broke through the thin lines that Hathor's forces had developed to protect the avenue that the Mexican reinforcements could move along. To the south the Imperial Navy guarded three British divisions as they landed to the south-east of Baton Rouge and marched north to meet the Americans attacking from Baton Rouge. The Mexican defenders along their occupied territories were defeated and the British and Americans defeated the last Mexican force at Lafayette. From there the British left two of their divisions as defenders and the other division marched alongside the American forces to attack the Mexican forces in New Orleans from the rear.

The attack on the Mexican rear was the most important parts of Operation Sledgehammer as it broke any remaining chance that the Mexicans would take New Orleans. The forces from Operation Sledgehammer attacked the Mexicans at midnight on the 7th of August as the American and British defenders counter attacked at the same time. The Mexicans had been running out of ammunition and the attack in some cases led to entire squads being wiped out and their corpses were found clasping empty guns. The allied forces began to crush the Mexican forces left in the city with the majority of the Mexican forces being forced along the Mississippi River as they were slowly crushed by the allies. The final phase of the Battle of New Orleans was the crushing of the Mississippi pocket where the Mexican forces in some cases were forced to fight against the allies with shovels that they had stolen from the people of Texas and Louisiana. The last Mexican soldier in New Orleans was killed on the 19th of August. The Battle of New Orleans was over Hathor had suffered one of her greatest defeats and her entire eastern front lay open to the allies. The American reaction was of absolute happiness and to this day the 19th of August is a Public Holiday in the United States of America.

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The Western front against Hathor following the defeat at New Orleans began to crumble as Operation Anvil pushed through the wide-open eastern front towards the Mexican border and soldiers were stripped from both the northern front and holding against Operation Anvil. Hathor was forced to withdraw from California and the west allowing the Baja California Remanent to reunite with the Americans after they had been temporarily separated by Hathor's assault towards the Pacific. After the Americans and Baja Californian Remanent reunited they launched Operation Liberty aimed to take back Arizona and Sonora from Hathor's occupation.

The Mexican forces in Arizona and Sonora were defeated several times by the British forces arriving from Canada and flanking them establishing several large pockets in Arizona and Sonora which they slowly wiped out through a large use of force. The loss of large parts of the Mexican forces in Arizona and Sonora led to Hathor ordering the withdrawal from Arizona and New Mexico to Texas and the forces in Sonora to the Mayo river from there to the Conchos and long the Rio Grande where they met the forces holding Texas. The Mexican defence lines in Texas were heavily focused around rivers and other natural barriers. As the Americans advanced to the Mayo river they found that Hathor's forces had stripped the population from the states and destroyed all infrastructure that they could in the region.

The Mexican withdrawal from the north-west of Mexico was the one of the foundations of the renewal of the Holy Christian Brotherhood as the women that had been forced to leave their homes as while in many cases their husbands or sons destroyed their houses. The Holy Christian Brotherhood thrived in this environment as many women turned to the resistance against Hathor and they were the most powerful. The leadership of the Holy Christian Brotherhood agreed for a reform of the rules for admission originally the only way to join was to be an unmarried Christian man not under the control of Hathor. The reform led to only having to be Christian and not under the control of Hathor and thousands of women joined the Holy Christian Brotherhood alongside many Homosexual males a group that would influence the worlds stance on homosexuality following the end of the Mexican war. The expanse in numbers and the people that joined the Holy Christian Brotherhood led to the reform of how they fought against Hathor. Instead of sabotaging factories and rail lines or wiping out patrols they began to make the mew working at the factories too sick to work while the food that was sent to the north and the Mexican soldiers that were fighting there was often badly cooked and in some cases poisoned.

-Extract from Jonathan Glassner's book the blood-soaked fields of Mexico: The rise of Hathor