La Californie became a very chaotic place after the Declaration of Independence. Excitement was in the streets, so was anxiety over how the French Emperor would react to this outcry for liberty. Men and women daily gathered in the center of Sacramento, to hear the latest news.
Meanwhile, down at the front was Maréchal Leclerc. He had led the capture of Sacramento and the Central Valley 3 months ago; and was voted by the makeshift Congress to command the Californian army. Leclerc was a French defector, trained in a military academy of France he came to La Californie with the task of suppressing the voices of the Californians. Soon he sympathized with the Californian cause and joined the fight against the cruel tyranny of the French emperor.
In the Sacramento town center, pamphlets were being distributed. Spreading the seeds of revolution and uniting the people for liberty and freedom. The people knew that they were against an enormous task; they were doing what no nation had done before. They knew that they were going up against one of the world’s superpowers.
The pamphlets carried a message to all the people of La Californie in their struggle against Tyranny.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph….
OOC: Yes I did rip that quote from Thomas Paine.