LuckNES2: The Fatal Balance

[Insane_Panda]

Disenfranchised, I was working on my navy and quickly catching up with France. They started out with a fleet about 3 times larger then mine with professional training. I still did manage to beat them in the English Channel and I still have a lot of fight left within me.

Thats only because Cuiv put in a little less than neccessary, not because you completely overwhelmed her fleet

 

[Kentharu]

From the Ottoman Empire
To the United Kingdom of Great Britain

Very well, since you have thrown away peace then the Ottoman Empire ahs no choice but to back its allies. You will not survive this.

 

[Cuivienen]

TO: World
FROM: The French Republic

After much negotiation, the French Republic, the Greater Baltic Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain have come to an agreement. The Ottoman Empire has expressed a desire to be omitted from the revised treaty and is therefore not party to it. Below is the Treaty of Rouen as signed by the French, Baltic and British Heads of State.

Treaty of Rouen​

ANNO DOMINI 1817

The Parties of the British theatre of the Second Great War, the Republic of France, the Greater Baltic Union, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain, no longer seeing the need to extend the conflict, and instead seeking to resolve it, shall agree to the following terms of peace:

ARTICLE I.
The United Kingdom shall relinquish the islands of Falkland and South Georgia, and the island of Jamaica, the island of Ascension, and the island of Saint Helena to the Republic of France. The United Kingdom shall relinquish all claims to said islands. The United Kingdom shall further relinquish all land still controlled on the African continent to the Republic of France and shall relinquish all claims to all territory it once held on the African continent. Finally, the United Kingdom shall relinquish all claims to all islands and territories it once held in the vicinity of the Caribbean Sea.

ARTICLE II.
The United Kingdom shall pay to the Greater Baltic Union a sum of £2,000,000 (2 EPs) for damages to the Scandinavian fleet incurred during the war, and shall relinquish to the Greater Baltic Union the island of Bermuda.

ARTICLE III.
The United Kingdom shall sign Non-Aggression Pacts of ten years' duration with the the Republic of France and the Greater Baltic Union.

ARTICLE IV.
Any violation of the above terms will result in the annulment of this agreement, the Treaty of Rouen.​

Signed,
_________________
Napoleon Bonaparte, Consul of the French Republic

_________________
Karl Jahon, President of the Greater Baltic Union

_________________
George IV, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain


(OOC: Don't worry, Symph, IP will give you Bermuda this turn.)

 

[Sheep]

Pope Pius endorses the aforementioned treaty and champions it as postive step towards a long lasting peace.

 

[The Farow]

-Signed George IV, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.

From United Kingdom of Great Britain
To Russian Empire, Austria

Our alliance has been defeated. The British government no longer feels it is in our interests to keep an open alliance with the Russian and Austrian government. The abandoment of the German Reich and the British Empire by her fellow allies has shown a betrayal on the likes Europe will not forget for some time. Our government is still willing to cooperate but for now we feel isolationism is best for the people of the British Isles.

 

[Insane_Panda]

Indeed, I shall.

 

[alex994]

To Great Britain
From Qing China

The Qing Chinese Empire, after hearing news of your peace with France, grants your nation the same trading privileges as the other Europeans that trade with China.

 

[ThomAnder]

Mysore got owned

 

[Kentharu]

Myrsoe has the Ottoman Empire to back him. I'll leave it at that

 

[shortguy]

And they're facing a Britain with a rather modestly sized military whose troops will be raised thousands of miles away. And they have all the other states of the subcontinent at their back. Mysore will be fine, I'm sure.

 

[silver 2039]

To Republic of France
From Kingdom of Mysore

We are sad to see that France has chosen to forsake her friends and allies who came to her aid so quickly. Clearly as Chankaya said, power corrupts, and absoloute power corroupts absoloutley.

To Punjab, Ottoman Empire
From Kingdom of Mysore

Know that despite France's dissappointing action that you are not alone, and the Kingdom of Mysore will battle on and we will not rest until the British are compleltly drive from India. We trust that you are still with us?

@Moose I need a response to my pm

@Cuivenen damn you, now I need to write lengthy battle orders on a school night....

 

[Cuivienen]

The Early Consular Period
Excerpt from A Brief History of the Republican Era and its Impact on Modern Political Thought *​

The early history of the Republic is often obscured by patriotic writings of the time, and it is unclear what level of power the average citizen of France possessed in its earliest days. Certainly the Revolutionaries envisioned an egalitarian society, and their vision was followed through in the abolition of the monarchy and slavery, the establishment of the Sénat and other post-Revolutionary reforms. However, the level of turmoil in this period combined with the strong personality cults behind Lafayette and Bonaparte obscures what other powers the proto-Republican aspects of France possessed.

It is clear that Lafayette initially seized most of the authority of the Sénat following his rise to power, and his successful prosecution of what was then known as the Great War, now commonly referred to as the First Republican War, allowed him to maintain his authority. After the war came to a close, Lafayette, who himself possessed strong Republican tendencies, restored much of the old power of the Sénat and retired. While the Sénat almost certainly listened closely to any advice Lafayette provided during the brief Interconsulate, it was free to do as it wished.

This power did not remain for long, and the threats faced by the French not long after the conclusion of the First Republican War brought a quick end to the Interconsulate. The rise of British authority in South America at the expense of France and her allies in Spain woke France up to the fact that her enemies were defeated but not destroyed, and again the French looked to a powerful figure to unite behind as they had under Lafayette during the First Republican War. Lafayette himself was still alive, but too old to effectively lead the nation, and instead the Sénat and the people turned to a young Corsican military genius, Napoleon Bonaparte.

In a rapid series of power grabs strongly resembling Lafayette’s rise, Bonaparte soon asserted near-dictatorial control over France. The threat posed by the Holy Alliance, perhaps now even stronger than before the First Republican War, allowed Bonaparte to bypass the authority of the Sénat and implement his own policies of reform. Despite its brevity, the Interconsulate had seen significant degradation in the efficiency and capability of the French bureaucracy and military, and some argue that, had Bonaparte not stepped forward to assume control, it is likely that the nascent Republic would have been swallowed up by its rapidly strengthening enemies. In any case, there are few today who doubt the necessity of Bonaparte’s actions or do not credit Bonaparte for the establishment of the Consular system that would govern the Republic for ages to come.

Unlike the First Republican War, the Second Republican War was fought in fits and starts, with first the Austrians and then the British and Germans defeated by the French. Bonaparte’s successful prosecution of the war only increased his popularity. While Bonaparte did not possess as strong a Republican streak as Lafayette before him (Lafayette had died peacefully during the Second Republican War), he did see the Republic, and Republicanism, as a vessel for the expansion of his personal power. Nonetheless, it is clear to us today that factions opposing Bonaparte arose within the expanded Republic almost immediately following the Treaty of Rouen, and Bonaparte was forced to relinquish some of his own imperial ambitions in favor of behind-the-scenes control.

Early in the year 1818, ink still fresh on the page of Treaty of Rouen, Napoleon Bonaparte announced his retirement. However, unlike Lafayette before him, Bonaparte created a position for himself to fulfill in his retirement, a position modeled on ancient Rome, that of Proconsul. In a series of legislation pushed through the Sénat by his supporters on the day of his resignation, Bonaparte both managed to assure himself a permanent seat of power within the Republican government and assured that no one man would again gain the title of Consul. Instead, three Consulates were created, each centered at a different major city of the Republic, one in Barcelona, one in Cologne, and one in the ancient French capital of Paris. Nominally, these Consulates were intended to focus primarily on their own regions, but realistically all three asserted equal authority across the Republic. And, in the final bit of legislation, these Consuls were to be appointed by the Proconsul.

It seems ridiculous today to explain the system of four powers that governed the Republic during the Consular Period, the tradition having been carried on even after the Republic became defunct, but, if the description is pedantic, it is important to the understanding of how Bonaparte maintained his grip on power in the early Republic for so long. We will not discuss the Courts, as they were of little relevance to Bonaparte himself and were the only institution kept mostly intact through the First and Second Consulates and the Interconsulate and into the Consular Period.

Following Bonaparte’s resignation, the authority of legislation, often performed by Consular decree during the First and Second Consulates, was restored fully to the Sénat. Neither the Consuls nor the Proconsul would hold any ability to create laws ever again. Instead, to the Consuls was given the authority to enforce laws, and indeed they were required to enforce any law passed by the Sénat, though, if two of the three Consuls (or later a simple majority of the Consuls) vetoed any law, that law would require a supermajority within the Sénat to come into effect. The Consuls were, of course, themselves previously Sénateurs, appointed from the Sénat by the Proconsul, and served a single term of five years before retiring.

Retired Consuls were generally given a great deal of prestige, and their opinions often carried weight within the Sénat, but they had little real power. The only authority vested in former Consuls was the ability to choose from amongst themselves a new Proconsul upon the death or resignation of the previous Proconsul. The Proconsul, then, had the authority to appoint Consuls and also the authority to wage war with the assent of the Sénat. Thus, when Bonaparte retired, he appointed himself Proconsul and retained the ability to wage war, his greatest function as First Consul under the old system in any case. Today, the position of Proconsul holds little more than symbolic value, and in practice even in the late Consular Period it was the Sénat that chose the Consuls and the Consuls who waged war, but one can imagine the great power Bonaparte held even after his retirement at the beginning of the Consular Period.



*Published some time in the far future, well beyond the scope of this NES.

TO: Sultanate of Mysore
FROM: French Republic

We do not recall ever requesting the Mysoreans to declare war on the British, nor ever endorsing Mysorean attempts to incite revolutions within British India. It is our desire to see our allies triumph, of course, but you must understand that the French cannot all at one time devote themselves to every cause their myriad allies wish to pursue. We hope to maintain cordial relations with Mysore in the future and wish Mysore well in her war.

 

[Icmancin]

To: France and Greater Baltic Union
From: Empire of all Russias

We applaude the fact the peace has been settled in Europe. we extend the hand of peace and offer a 7 Year NAP and Trade Agreement to each of you.

 

[Cuivienen]

TO: Empire of All Russias
FROM: French Republic

That sounds like a wonderful plan. We agree to both the NAP and the trade agreement.

 

[Insane_Panda]

TO: The Empire of All Russias
FROM: The Greater Baltic Union

We agree to this.

 

[The Farow]

From United Kingdom of Great Britain
To Ottoman Empire

We do not wish to fight you anymore. Is there an acceptable peace we can negiotate?

 

[Kentharu]

From the Ottoman Empire
To the United Kingdom of Great Britain

Give up India and Persia. If you cannot do these things, then there shall still be war.

 

[Luckymoose]

Orders are due in 4 hours and 30 minutes. I only have like 5 order sets. So chop chop people.

 

[Symphony D.]

OOC: I'll do mine when I get home, which'll be about 2:30 from now.

 

[Kentharu]

farrow can you reply to my diplo