Perhaps I shallThe people demand an update then
Also you should totally conquer Quebec and Louisiana, the selling was just temporary..
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((tt is not too late. i took an extended vacation where internet was bad and I didn't have time to play Victoria II or write up a chapter. Back now. Sorry for the long wait
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((I've been really busy these past few months, I'll try to put out an update sometime next week. This AAR will never die on its own, if it has to die, I'll put up a chapter detailing the fall of France.))
Like France, this AAR is eternal! Vive la France! Vive l'Empereurs d'autriche!
Glad to hear this AAR is continuing. I finally finished it in one go today after having partially read it but never got all the way multiple times before. Can't wait to see where it goes from here.
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Oui, l'Empire doit vivre! ((Don't fail me Google Translate))L'Empire autrichien pourrait encore vivre!
Thanks a lot! I'm happy that you finally finished the current chapters of the AAR, hope you enjoyed it a lot!Glad to hear this AAR is continuing. I finally finished it in one go today after having partially read it but never got all the way multiple times before. Can't wait to see where it goes from here.
So am I
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says aar is continuing,2 months and no posts
Oh well, gotta be patient for your free entertainment.
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I apologize, its been a busy few months for me. I have finished playing the next chapter and am writing it right now, I think I might be able to release it on Wednesday but I'm not too sure.says aar is continuing,2 months and no posts
. That made my day.
I apologize, its been a busy few months for me. I have finished playing the next chapter and am writing it right now, I think I might be able to release it on Wednesday but I'm not too sure.
apology accepted
Thanks a lot! I've been awfully busy these past few months, I'll try to get a chapter up on or around Thanksgiving.
Chapter Nine- Order, Stability, and Prosperity
Note the Egyptian troops liberating parts of Ethiopia
Look at this shocking violence within the sacred halls of government! America has no order
On August 1, 1854, Denmark declared war on the ungrateful German barbarians of Schleswig-Holstein after a refusal by the Schleswig- Holsteinians to obey their rightful suzerains. The Danish called for French assistance to deter the Prussians from interfering in their internal affairs.
We shall always support our loyal allies such as Denmark, no matter what their language sounds like
The French are a trustworthy and steadfast people so we, of course, honored the call to arms. As a show of force, we also called our allies in, the Russian Empire and the Austrian Empire, to show Prussia that France does not tolerate German militarism. With French monetary support, the Danish conducted a textbook pacification of the province.
It is unfortunate how many small German states are still under the Prussian boot
General Olaf Rye's Fifth Brigade of Danish infantry routing Schleswig-Holsteinian militia
In a very generous peace deal, Schleswig Holstein was split in two to recognize the fact that the Germans in the province desired independence. Schleswig was given to the Danes while Holstein was granted independence as the new Duchy of Holstein led by the inept German Duke of Augustenborg, Christian August II.
I still believe Holstein should remain under Danish rule, the Danes are too soft in this instance
True ugliness, look at Christian August II's inferior German features
In France, Napoleon III continued conducting military reforms; this time, he overhauled the strategic mobility of the French army. The French army was now able to set up temporary fortifications better and faster while retaining and even increasing its maneuverability in the operational theater. This meant the French army could better respond to threats in the overall strategical theater.
Perhaps there should be a line of forts behind the Rhineland? A good name would be the... Maginot Line
On October 3rd, 1854, the Ethiopian savages were forced to the negotiating table. After what was nearly a fortnight, a peace settlement was reached. Ethiopia would cede Tigray to the more civilized Egyptians who were under the benevolent influence of the French.
I still fail to see the value in such a barren and inhospitable landscape
Although this would cut off the port city of Assab and its surrounding environs from the rest of the Ethiopian nation, Ethiopia was determined to preserve their last link with the outside world, without Assab, they could have no trade or communication with other nations. In a generous gesture, Egypt (with French backing), allowed Ethiopia to keep the city. Peace was signed on October 11th.
Perhaps the French shall one day have a direct hand in civilizing Africa
In the waning days of January, 1855, Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte, prince impérial de France, was betrothed to Adélaïde Eugénie d'Orléans, Comtesse de Troyes. This was an attempt to establish a long term truce between the Bonapartists and the Orléanists and merge the Bourbon and Bonaparte dynasties. Alas, it was not to work out but that is not for this chapter.
Peace in our time for France?
True beauty, look at Louis-Napoleon's superior French features
In March of that same year, news arrived from the declining Empire of China of an enormous natural disaster resulting in millions of dead people. Apparently, it had to do with a simple river overflowing its banks and causing massive flooding. I can tell you one thing, this would not have happened in the French Empire!
Even today, the Yellow River is a force to be reckoned with.
Around that time, French agents in Flanders, formerly known as Belgium, reported of a secret alliance concluded between Prussia and Flanders. The foolish Flemish sought to regain Wallonia and recreate the oppressive abomination that was Belgium while helping the jingoistic Prussians to conquer the Rhineland. However, Napoleon III did not worry for France could easily take on both the Flemish and the Prussians at the same time. Pressing issues in France at the time included the issue of segregation. On the small island of Martinique in the Caribbean, Napoleon III had conducted reforms ensuring order and fairness on the island. Former French slaves and their former white masters had segregated themselves from another. Economic activity was suffering as a result and that was simply unacceptable to the results- oriented Napoleon III. He order the integration of the communities to further the interests of everyone in Martinique.
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress" - Progressive American intellectual Frederick Douglass
In Iberia, disorder reigned supreme. Rebels, radicals, reactionaries, all rose up in upheaval after upheaval. Such a danger was extended by the rise of the ultra-radicals, the anarchists who first arose in the German state of Saxony. Napoleon III, seeing the suffering the ordinary Spaniards were going through and seeing the threat of constant warfare in the Iberian Peninsula determined that it was necessary to bring peace and security to Spain no matter the means necessary, through force even. This time though, the French would succeed. The time was not yet ripe, reactionaries throughout Europe would fear the new era of peace French dominion in Europe would bring so France would have to wait…for the moment.
What could go wrong with a second intervention?
French innovations into operational strategy in the form of strategic mobility were basically concluded by April of 1855. Also in April, the radical faction of the Républicains was formed. The people in that faction were extremist anarchist bomb-throwers, dangers to society that were immediately banned by Napoleon III. Républicain radicals seeked to not only abolish the monarchy but to destroy the long established old order. They believed in mob violence and anarchy, things any civilized person would abhor. They were the Jacobins of a new era, despicable violent revolutionaries.
As is natural, France is the most prestigious country on the planet!
Research was now focused on the cultural aspects of France, specifically the improvement of the relationship between the state, government, and nation. It would give rise to increased debate in the public sphere about many governmental issues such as meritocracy, corruption, and more.
"Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers" - French free thinker Voltaire
British avarice and violence knew no bounds. Not content with their vicious conquest of India, the British imperiously demanded the region of Kachin from the Kingdom of Burma. Kachin was filled with loyal subjects of the Burmese king and was a vital part of the country so the king, naturally, refused to concede a single centimeter of territory to the British. The British blatantly violated the rights of the king of Burma as they marched tens of thousands of British Indian troops in Burma. Following such an act of aggression, the king of Dai Nam and Maharaja of the Sikh Empire both announced military support of Burma, in defiance of British threats.
If only the Indians could revolt...
The British 15th Hussars massacring Burmese troops
Unfortunately, the British possessed both superior technology and the will to use it over those uncivilized nations. In a short war, the “coalition” was easily defeated.
Oh boy, China seems to have some problems
On the Great Plain , the Russian Empire announced a plan to gradually subjugate the Mongolic khanates of Central Asia to counteract British influence there. It would mark the beginning of what would be called “the Great Game.” Central Asian convulsed as other central Asian nations with their own agendas began infighting to pick up the scraps that the Tsar would inevitably drop as his troops marched across the vast stretches of land that characterized the region.
France stands ready to support our ally in whatever endeavor they endeavor achieve
Developments in France continued apace as France started a civilizing mission in New Caledonia while ensuring that undesirable criminals in France would be kept subdued and away from civilized society by putting them in work camps on the island.
Labor camps are a mark of civilization... right?
The Ottoman Empire rightfully recognized the most Christian and Catholic Emperor Napoleon III as Defender of the Christian Faith in the Holy Land. Of course, the Russians, deriving from their semi-civilized Asiatic culture in the past (not to disrespect the great westernizing influence of Peter the Great who was mostly responsible for the enlightenment of the Russia boyars), stubbornly refused to acknowledge the superior protection the French could provide and cited a simple scrap of paper as their justification. The continent watched with bated breath as tensions began to rise. To seem people, war seemed inevitable.
What could go wrong?
Following these momentous events, the Ottoman Empire nationalized British assets in the country as the French government had requested Abdülmecid I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Islam, to end colonialistic British influence in the country. In France, philosophical cultural advances continued apace as the idea of functionalism began to be debated, which in very simple terms is a theory about the states of the mind being identified by what they do instead of what they consist of.
Caliph of Islam
Every women in France now has 2.1 children
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I extend my deepest apologies at the massive delay between chapters. Life, a new computer, and more complicated the writing. I will be more active than I was in the past few years.
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