Disenfrancised
Beep Beep
emu said:
Well he probably should have done it before they rebelled - it'll be much harder to do it quietly now.
NES2 VI - Last Semblance of Order.
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Well he probably should have done it before they rebelled - it'll be much harder to do it quietly now.
Oruc
Reactionary
Disenfrancised said:
he has an excuse to do it now though, I mean no one could fault him for it.
Kal'thzar said:
How? he just said he will continously rebell until Finland is free, so unless you somehow convince him to stop any other solutions will not be a Permanent one like I suggested
Reno
The Studio Ghibli Fanatic
emu said:
Then, in addition to killing half his populance, he would hve to change his government to get that kind decision through in the first place. And I'm more then certain that regular ordinary Swedes are not going to go along with the massive slaughter and the taking away of their freedoms.
Oruc
Reactionary
Reno said:Then, in addition to killing half his populance, he would hve to change his government to get that kind decision through in the first place. And I'm more then certain that regular ordinary Swedes are not going to go along with the massive slaughter and the taking away of their freedoms.
As opposed to Sweden being destroyed? I certainly would support it better then under a foreigners boot.
Harleqin
Hippo Power
OOC: Who said anything about destroying Sweden? 
I just want what is rightfully mine and the Finns want independence 
When I say mine I mean the part of this map which is in red as well as the part in Danish colour to the south of Sweden. The yellow parts would be nice, but is not my prime concern.
I just want what is rightfully mine and the Finns want independence When I say mine I mean the part of this map which is in red as well as the part in Danish colour to the south of Sweden. The yellow parts would be nice, but is not my prime concern.
Oruc
Reactionary
I didnt realise sweden how so little people
Disenfrancised
Beep Beep
Normally if it isn't up by now it means it won't be done till tomorrow 
oh well.
oh well.
das
Regeneration In Process
Update 4 - Year 1744
Non-Military Events:
The French colonization of their American territories continues, as new towns arise and several large forts were set up.
The death of Benedict XIV and the reconciliationary stance taken by the Papal cardinals has, as if to spite all those who claimed that things can't get any more confusing than this, caused a schism in the CCC - one wing agreeing to negotiate with the cardinals and rejoining the mainstream Catholic Church, another distancing itself even further from the Holy See, losing many of its original hierarchs in the process but gaining converts in war-struck (see below) Latin America.
As Irish economy continues to plummet, a revolutionary situation begins brewing (-1 Living Standards, -2 Confidence). A rather pathetic attempt to back up the royal prestige with public rallies (that soon turn into clashes as they coincided with rather more widespread anti-government riots) and a new (temporarily-succesful, but unprofitable and probably untenable) colonial expedition to Patagonia barely did anything. The Oireachtas is demanding the complete removal of all the remaining powers from the king, apart from the ceremonial ones, while the people themselves seem to be increasingly in favour of killing the King and most Oireachtas members to create a radical republic in their stead and "take everything and split it up".
The International Exposition is held in Paris.
(see spotlight)
(+1 French Education, Culture, Confidence, +1 Irish Education, +1 Spanish Education, +1 Krakowian Education, +1 Mughal Military Leadership)
Spanish economy also continues to take damage, as much business is relocated elsewhere, and as certain other bad things happen (-1 Economy, -1 Living Standards). To make things worse, anti-government agitation continues; panicking, the present Habsburg king abdicated (+1 Confidence) in the favour of Rodequiz Gonzales of an ancient Leonese noble family; however, this switch of power ultimately made things worse (see military events)... though not as bad as things couuld have been had Rodequiz not immediately enacted reforms, sharing power with a representative Cortes and lowering tariffs (+1 Confidence).
As Krakow gains greater access to the Baltic (see military events) and the Adriatic (having annexed all of Illyria from Venice) Seas than ever before, and as the industrial production, especially in Silesia, reaches its zenith, the Krakowians, through export of industrial goods, have won much profit (+1 Economy).
The Kingdom of Naples, a Spanish possession, is ceded to the Papal States, along with the Italian regions of Venice that have been annexed as per the partition treaty with the Krakow Union (-1 Culture, +1 Economy). Meanwhile, with the death of Pope Innocent XIV, the country falls under the oligarchic reign of the cardinals who have still failed to elect a replacement. They seem to care more about their petty intrigues than running the country (-1 Confidence, -1 Civilian Leadership), though things will probably improve again once a Pope is chosen. IF a Pope is chosen...
As the Ottoman Empire's revival continues, the past investment in the development of Ankara and the surrounding regions pays off (+Ankara economic center).
The Mughals make an emphasis on preparing military cadre, injuring other spheres of education (-1 Civilian Leadership, -1 Education).
The Russian trade develops Ninguta into a full-scale trade center (+Ninguta economic center), a one whose profits are under Russian control. Another Chinese city, Xiang Gang, becomes a notable trade center in the wake of the temporary crippling of regional European trade in 1743, hijacking much commerce from Macao... and thus, Canton (+Xiang Gang economic center, -Macao, Canton economic centers).
A second French expedition to "Nouveau Corse" turned out even less unsuccesful than the first one, as heavy storms and attrition caused much casualties (-2 squadrons). Then they ran into more pirates (see miltiary events), and generally were distracted by the ensuing problems. The Parlement has decided that these expeditions are a needless waste of ships and funds, as the "Nouveau Corse", even if it exists, is trully not worth the bother.
Military Events:
With Spanish government prestige shacken by the events of 1743, confusion caused by the attempted Habsburg coup (see below) spreading and local separatism still on the ascendant, the radical republican agitation for a general rising in Latin America against the Spanish rule has inspired a series of rebellions. However, the Spanish government was not completely unprepared, causing the rebel success to be much lesser than it could have been... But lets not get ahead of ourselves now, and instead look at how the Rebel Wars of 1744 developed in that first year. At first, things developed pretty similarily from Columbia to la Plata. Several loud assassinations took place - the Spanish government pinned the blame on revolutionary organizations, and the revolutionary organizations retorted that the Spanish themselves were behind it all, which is possible as those killed were, for the most part, conservative leaders of pro-Habsburg allegiences. Meanwhile, a sudden increase in pirate activities damaged the Spanish commerce and communications with the colonies slightly (they were well-guarded, however, and the pirates in most cases were driven off). A few military ships were sabotaged in dock. Then, the first rebellions broke out in Porto Belizan and in Buenos Aires... and rather anticlimatically, were easily defeated - the Columbians, not particularily numerous in any case, were not concentrated enough and not angry enough neither after the new Spanish king granted their land considerable autonomy, while most of the Platines were eager supporters of the Gonzalo dynasty, almost the only ones in America. The out-numbered rebels were surrounded by garrisons and dispersed with cannon-fire, though the more die-hard Platine republicans decided to continue the struggle in the countryside, where they fought on until October.
More important developments took place elsewhere. In Peru, using the Spanish distraction elsewhere and the damage done by the intensifying attacks on Spanish maritime communications, the Quechua rose up in rebellion, securing Cuzco and some other inland territories. Attempts to incite Spanish rebellions in coastal Peru have failed, but in New Granada large-scale rebellions did commence, in the region of Venezuela anyway; they were assisted by some volunteers from Europe, mostly French. Here, the Spanish were forced to retreat westwards, towards Bogota where they rallied and, with the help of the local loyalists (+2 Spanish irregular divisions), defeated the rebels at Tunja and drove them back to the eastern coast; however, the Spanish logistics were overstrained by this, and not much progress was made beyond this. Further north, in the Carribean, a fleet suddenly emerged under a strange banner, the banner of Carribean revolutionaries, and defeated a part of the Spanish navy at Saba. Soon after, slave rebellions commenced in the Spanish Carribean colonies (-Havanna economic center), assisted by the revolutionaries at the cost of alienating much of the local white population (+1 Spanish irregular division), and only with the arrival of Spanish reinforcements was the rebel fleet dispersed or destroyed and the colonies regained, some of the slaves even then continuing a guerrila war in the countryside. Yet the main battles were to take place in Mexico, where tensions have been rising for some time now. Here, the rebels had the most initial success - in part because, when the Habsburg coup came, some of the local conservatives rose up against the Gonzalos. Using this moment, the radical republicans staged a rebellion of their own just as the die-hard Habsburgists retreated into the countryside to wage a guerrila war. Monterrey, Mexico City and Acapulco were quickly secured, though the Spanish garrison in Veracruz held out. Before the Spanish forces had crushed the Habsburgists, they already needed to fight off the revolutionaries as well; thankfully, they were assisted in this by less Habsburgist of Mexican conservatives, and by the local Amerind tribes who simply distrusted the revolutionaries too much, preffering the more predictable Spanish rule (+5 Spanish irregular divisions), and thus managed to hold out on the early stages. However, large portions of Mexico were lost before reinforcements arrived. When they had, the rebels were routed near Monterrey and indeed the north-east was retaken almost completely, but the attempted counter-attack towards Mexico City was defeated, and the war here stalemated as the rebelsbegun to grow more organized...
(-11 Spanish divisions, -3 Spanish irregular divisions, -7 Spanish squadrons, -2 Spanish Espana ironclads)
The English king decides to prop his low prestige up through nationalist words and nationalist deeds alike, quite succesfully (+1 Confidence). The words part is quite obvious, but the specific deed he had in mind was the reconquest of Scotland. With overwhelming force, the English invaded Scotland, and their element of surprise was augmented by a development in the separatist Highlands, where all hell broke loose just a week before as a pro-Irish rebellion commenced there. While parts of the Scottish army were distracted there, the English, despite inferior training and bad logistics, took Edinburgh and Glasgow by sheer numbers. There, their advance slowed down as the Scotts distracted more troops and took up good defensive positions, but in the end, the English broke through and seized Aberdeen with many casualties, having captured the Scottish president along the way. While the rest of the government fled for France, the ragtag remnants of the Scottish army, or rather General Duncan Bothwell who commanded them, has decided to pledge allegience to King Cameron of Ireland in exchange for protcetion. This gave the English forces a pause, as did their exhaustion and the need to fight the Scottish guerrilas (-1 English Culture, 1 Economy from Scotland to England, 1 division from Scotland to Ireland).
(-Scotland as an independent nation, -7 English divisions)
Although Alberto I had abdicated from the Spanish throne, far from all of the Habsburgs agreed to concede their power to some Leonese upstarts. Jose, Alberto's younger brother who was in charge of the Madrid garrison, had prepared a coup d'etat against Rodequiz I, with the clandestine support of the important conservative families. However, Rodequiz was tipped off to the military conspiracy against him; not wishing for bloodshedding amongst Spaniards in such a time, he asked Jose to come to the palace urgently, apparently hoping to make some sort of a deal with the ambitious commander; but Jose realized that he was discovered and launched a military coup that Rodequiz only barely fought off with the help of civilian militias (+5 Spanish irregular divisions (including the loyalist militias that joined later on)) and loyal forces in Madrid. Jose escaped into the countryside with those of his supporters who did not abandon him, and, with the help of conservative elements, briefly besieged Madrid while the rebellion spread. This was used by the Basques and the Catalans to rebel anew, but the National-Liberals, despite the urging of some of their leaders, remained indecisive as the policies of Rodequiz weakened their popular support and resulted in ever-growing divisions within their ranks. Finally, several National-Liberal leaders officially declared their support for the "progressive" Rodequiz I, while others incited rebellions in Seville and the rest of southern Spain, using the dissent caused by the decline of trade with the Americans. Long story cut short, however, Rodequiz came out victorious; Jose was defeated at Alcorcon near Madrid and was betrayed by his officers who had surrendered, the National-Liberals were crushed as well, the Basques only held out by the virtue of being comparatively insignificant and the Catalans lost all but the besieged Barcelona. Yet Spain was weakened significantly, and if the example of the previous sick man of Europe is any indication, it might soon become the prey of its envious neighbours...
(-6 Spanish divisions, -3 Spanish irregular divisions)
As tensions continued to grow in Scandinavia over the disputed territory of Skane (in this case, including Halland and Blekinge), Denmark-Norway, alarmed by the Swedish military build-up, declared war on the Swedish Republic. If taken alone, Denmark-Norway could have at best hoped for a draw; but, the point is, it was not about to let itself be taken alone, and instead has immediately begun bringing in allies. The first ones, the pro-Danish Snaphanerne separatists, immediately begun waging a guerrila war, but after the first few successes were quickly cracked down upon. This has diverted a large portion of the Swedish army to Skane, and most other Swedish forces were massing further north and skirmishing around the border; and that weakened their positions elsewhere. First, the Krakow Union joined the war effort against the Republic, seeking to reclaim the contested region of Pommerania, and despite the arrival of Swedish reinforcements there the Krakowians routed them, occupying the entire region. However, the intended ferry of Krakowian forces towards Stockholm was delayed and eventually cancelled due to the uncertainty at sea, where the Swedes avoided confrontation with the Danish fleet. Meanwhile, using the weakness of Swedish garrisons, the Finns rose up in rebellion, with Danish-supplied arms and funds, and with the assistance of some Finnish-born soldiers and officers that defected from the Swedish army (2 divisions from Sweden to Finnish Rebels); the weak Swedish garrisons in Finland were overran quite quickly, apart from Turku which was besieged and eventually surrendered as well. On the main front, in Skane itself, the Danes confronted very ready, eager, numerically-superior (if only marginally so) Swedes... and defeated them, because they just happened to have taken along a large French Foreign Legion expeditionary corps, albeit, despite all, the Swedes managed to retreat in good order into Halland from where they fought on. But that did not matter, for the final blow was then landed - the Swedish fleet, damaged in skirmishes with the Danes, was crushed by the Russians at Khiuma, as the Union of Russia-Lithuania-Romania entered the war. Russian forces quickly secured all the Swedish Baltic islands of note save for the island of Oland that was too well-defended. Then the Russians landed near Stockholm, quickly forcing the underdefended city's surrender as the Swedish government hastily fled north for Uppsala (-1 Civilian Leadership, -1 Confidence, 1 Economy from Sweden to Finnish Rebels).
(-4 French Foreign Legion corps, -7 Danish divisions, -4 Danish squadrons, -1 Dannish Danneborg-class, -15 Swedish divisions, -13 Swedish squadrons, -1 Finnish division, -2 Finnish irregular divisions, -3 Krakowian divisions, -1 Krakowian GotGC division, -1 Russian division, -3 Russian squadrons)
In Sicily, a new abortive rebellion is defeated in a matter of weeks with scarcely any casualties to the Spanish; the rebel movement there seems to have been crushed fully. Spanish garrisons prevented any other Italian rebellions, though there is some simmering dissent in the remaining Spanish Italian possessions.
The pro-Krakowian "Federalist" movement in Serbia has launched a coup d'etat, with the assistance of some military elements and, according to rumours, some elite units of the Krakowian army. The King and the forces loyal to him were taken by surprise and swiftly crushed in a series of battles during which the rebels demonstrated surprisingly good disciplinne, training and firepower... and as soon as Belgrade was theirs, the Federalists signed the decree that incorporated Serbia into the Krakow Union (-1 Culture). An anti-Krakowian rebellion soon begun in Kraguyevac, but it was put down by the regular Krakowian forces after some fighting.
(-Serbia as a nation, -1 Krakowian division)
Spanish and Portuguese expansion in Africa goes on.
(-1 Spanish division, -1 Portuguese division)
A Sennarese-Abyssinian border conflict resumed.
(-1 Sennarese division, -1 Abyssinian division)
The outcome of the Zulu War was not in doubt at first, as pretty much everybody was sure that a great colonial empire such as Portugal would easily crush some pathetic tribal confederation - after all, the Portuguese did so in the past a countless amount of times. Yet the Zulus stretched this war for years, and only in 1744 did they face their defeat, even then due to certain new factors. Firstly, the Zulus themselves have been weakened and grew ever more disunited due to Portuguese diplomacy, the death of Qwabe Zulu and the controversial adoptation of Christianity by his son. Secondly, the Portuguese were sick and tired of the Zulu resistance, and went for an overkill, deploying great, well-led, well-trained, well-armed armies, specially prepared and trained for counter-insurgency warfare within Africa. Long story cut short, all the Zulu efforts to defeat the Portuguese resulted in surprisingly-high casualties augmented by attrition and disease. Methodically, the Portuguese eliminated the Zulus; mile by mile, they secured all the territory, they cut off all the paths of escape, and with fire and sword they crushed and slaughtered all those who resisted (for many tribes, fearful of their fate and suspicious of their Emperor's new faith, betrayed the rebellion now that the tide was clearly turned). Mpande Zulu himself died in one of the last battles, charging into the fray to escape his betrayers that intended to turn him in alive. Fin. Mostly.
(-Zulu Rebels as a faction, -8 Portuguese divisions)
The Afghan Khanate faces some hard times. To the west, as Azeri and Sunni rebellions (+5 Ottoman irregular divisions) behind their lines begin, the Ottomans break through in northern Iraq against the badly outnumbered Afghans there and take over much of the country, assisted by another attack through the desert, like in the last year's campaign against the Caliphate. The remaining Afghan forces quickly fell back to more defensible positions, but soon are threatened from the south as the French, despite the Parlement opposition's protests about needlessly antagonizing the Portuguese by military action in their sphere of influence, have dispatched a large force to seize Karachi. But by the time they arrived at that city, the Mughal banner was already flying over it, and the French decided to just advance along the coast from there with naval support, crushing all the well-prepared Afghan positions that were waiting for the French to land there where they could be easily shelled. In culmination, the fleur de lis was flown over Shiraz. And as for our Mughals, they struck out for Afghanistan Proper, seeking to restore that old Mughal holding back to its rightful status of a province. However, the Mughal armies were hampered by bad logistics and well-prepared Afghan defenses; in the end, they still did break through towards Kabul, but only with large casualties and too tired to assault it, settling down for a siege. It seems that the Afghan Khanate has largely survived this turn owing to logistical problems and other mistakes of its various enemies - mistakes that are unlikely to be repeated, as is understood all too well (-1 Afghan Confidence)...
(-2 French Foreign Legion corps, -1 French squadron, -6 Ottoman divisions, -1 Ottoman UU, -16 Afghan divisions, -9 Mughal divisions, -10 Mughal Imperial Guard divisions)
Meanwhile, the Arab tribes fought back attempts of conquest by both sides, gradually signing some alliances amongst themselves. Refusing to give any general battles and harassing, with the help of the merciless sun, all those who dared invade their desert, the Arabs however probably survived more because of the Ottomans AND the Afghans having better things to do than bury them in corpses.
(-1 Ottoman division, -2 Afghan irregular divisions)
A rather pathetic Burmese rebellion against Qing rule is stomped down by the vast Chinese hosts that were waiting for just such an occasion.
To punish the vile pirates that caused so much trouble in South-East Asia, the Portuguese have dispatched a sizeable expedition to the Pacific Ocean. Problematically, they didn't find pirates, but instead bumped into the Spanish fleet that was there for the same purposes; some shots were exchanged, but the Portuguese then realized that these were real Spaniards and remembered their instructions, so war was avoided and the fleets split up. Having failed to find too many pirates apart from some Malays, the Spanish were quite ignorant as to the presence of a large French fleet in the region as well, claiming new lands in King's name. Along the way, the French admiral was also ordered from local French colonial authorities to look for the pirates that seemed to be lying low for now... for the most part. Indeed, "most" was the key word here, as the French soon enough found a lone (possibly in connection to the diseases there) pirate ship. What exactly they found there has not been disclosed yet, but according to much gossip, they had discovered that a certain foreign power was behind it all...
Random Events:
Despite Qwabe's death, the Zulu rebels fight on, and their fury grows (+1 Culture, Confidence). Mpande Zulu's authority is sufficient to inspire a neophite Catholic religious fervour (+1 Culture).
The Brunswickian king's popularity grows, just like the country's strenght (+1 Confidence).
Although still troubled, the Ottoman Empire seems to be getting back on its feet (+1 Confidence)...
De Sousa's adventures in Zululand make him even more of a national hero, inspiring tens of thousands of men to join the Portuguese army (+5 divisions).
The Chinese European student program begins to pay off (+1 Education).
A wave of Byzantine patriotism continues since the victories in the Independence War, as it is called in Greece (+1 Culture).
The death of the old unpopular Pope has caused some popular relief (+1 Confidence).
In spite of all, King Cameron's popularity among the more devout of Irishmen grows (+2 Confidence). A new "Celtic nationalism" is spreading as well (+1 Culture).
The National-Liberal campaign of individual terror damaged the Spanish ranks of civil officials (-1 Civilian Leadership).
A general decline in education quality has been noticed in Portugal (-1 Education).
The Augsburger army is in a rot (-1 Army Training).
Life quality visibly detiriorates in the Papal States (-1 Living Standards).
Quality of Brunswickian roads and harbours declines (-1 Infrastructure).
The war-fervour in Denmark-Norway declines after the first wave of enthusiasm dies down (-1 Culture).
Public disillusionment with the present government sets in in the Union (of Russia-Lithuania-Romania) (-1 Confidence).
Spotlight:
The Universal Exposition.
"Ah, the great social events! nothing is as exciting and dull as they."
- Prince Louis de Conde, "Diaries of a Courtier". Year 1744.
...in the end, for all the gossip and rumours that circulated among the cultural elite of France and Europe, the Universal Exposition that took place to mark the end of the extensive renovation program in Paris has gone by somewhat anticlimatically, with the minimum of deaths.
But I am getting ahead of myself. As already mentioned, the Universal Exposition was to mark the end of the "Nouveau Paris" programme, which over the course of theree years and a sizeable portion of the French royal budget completely changed the largely medieval (narrow streets, bad sanitation, although ofcourse Paris was Paris) city of Paris into a grand, modern (but not absurdly so - the design for an ugly tall metal tower, much-circulated, was obvious unaccepted and the crackpot architect who came up with it soon went completely mad from disappointment after the Parlement rejected his project) city worthy of the world's greatest empire. Wide, well-paved new streets and squares gave the city a grand feel, as did the general beautification, with fountains and statues and parks. The Tuileries Palace - the very center of the French world-wide empire - also underwent general repair and restoration, having somewhat suffered in recent years. Seeking to enhance France's international prestige and diplomatic relations, Kign Julien-Francois I has decided to start this aforementioned Universal Exposition, where the achievements of French arts and sciences would be showed off, as well as the French capital. Delegations from all over the world were dispatched (well, from all over Eurasia anyway; there were also many rumours of a "Zulu delegation", but, predictably, the Zulus did not come, perhaps contrary to their own wishes) to the exposition; most importantly, Prince Wuxi from China and King Frederyk VI of Denmark-Norway have honoured Paris with their visits, others sending more low-ranking officials. Quite predictably, the Afghans did not send anybody - by the time the Exposition came, the war in the Persian Gulf had already started (or intensified).
As for those who did come... It was quite hard not to see the international tensions show in the ball halls of Paris, for the thin veil of etiquette was not enough to hide the dagger-stares the Swedish delegates were dealing to the companions of Frederyk VI and to the Russian delegates. Things were even worse with the Spanish delegation, which fled with nary a goodbye when the "little civil war" in Spain begun, to the jeering of the Parisian crowd. One of the Scottish delegates caused a scandal when news came of his country's fall - he got horribly drunk and assaulted the English delegation, but was beaten off with the help of the gendarmerie. The Papal delegates got into a nearly-violent theological debate with Parisian Huguenots, whose ranks saw a recent increase as some of the disillusioned local Catholics switched faith.
Yet it got no further than this, at least among the delegates themselves. Mostly, the Exposition went by quite well - the French army was paraded to the awe of locals and foreigners alike (the Mughal delegates were particularily impressed), paintings and sculptures were exhibited, speeches were made, and as for technology - it was there as well, with the demonstration of the latest in military and civilian technology, from the new, perfected Spanish hot-air balloons through the long, grand Krakowian trains to the experimental French "submarine".
The 8th day of the Exposition was somewhat marred by the sudden battles on the city's outskirts (which the militaristic Mughal delegates attended as well, writing down accounts of the events and of tactics and weapons used, while the excited Danish delegates (who were also in a war-like mood after the latest victories in Scandinavia) pestered the French officers with suggestions). A ragtag band of what turned out to be Sicilian separatists (of all people!) have ingeniously sneaked through towards the city, but some of them were searched and arrested at the entrance to the city, causing the others to open fire on the French gendarmerie and garrison forces. The outnumbered, poorly-armed, tired Sicilians were soon surrounded and forced to surrender; at the interrogation they confessed (according to the information leaks) to an insane plan of storming into Paris and "killing the Pope"; unfortunately, before they got to Paris the Pope already died of a heart attack back in Rome, having never intended to go to Paris in the first place, so it all turned out to be somewhat pointless.
Indeed, in the end it was somewhat anticlimatic and peaceful, there weren't even any "deluded anarchist bomb-throwers jumping at the king with the goal of bayonneting him with sharp poisoned knives attached to sniper rifles" that were predicted, probably in jest, by Louis de Conde. In spite of all, the exposition attained the goals set, and it has already been proposed in some circles that these become more annual.
NPC Diplo:
From: Scottish Government-in-Exile
To: The Kingdom of France
Help us to reclaim our land from the vile English!
From: Catalan Rebels
To: The Kingdom of France
We request your support against the Castillian tyrants!
From: The Swedish Riksdag
To: President Carl Gustaf Nordin
Let us face the facts - we have been defeated. We should enter peace negotiations now and try to preserve as much of Sweden's honour, power and sovereignity as possible.
From: The Kingdom of Bulgaria
To: The Krakow Union
We request... nay, we demand that you withdraw from the territories of the Kingdom of Serbia and restore the legitimate Serbian government to power!
From: The Kingdom of Bulgaria
To: The Union of Russia-Lithuania-Romania and the Kingdom of Brunswick
We believe that we should make a common stance against the Krakowian aggression in Serbia, to make them back down.
*secret*
From: The Empire of Abyssinia
To: The Kingdom of Portugal
We ask for your military assistance against the wretched Sennarese!
*secret*
OOC:
Don't forget that you need to invest eco. points into project progress (many of you forgot to do so).
Harleqin, not only does St. Petersburg not exist, it isn't/wasn't/wouldn't have been within Swedish territory.
Sorry, the military part is somewhat rushed as its late here.
Non-Military Events:
The French colonization of their American territories continues, as new towns arise and several large forts were set up.
The death of Benedict XIV and the reconciliationary stance taken by the Papal cardinals has, as if to spite all those who claimed that things can't get any more confusing than this, caused a schism in the CCC - one wing agreeing to negotiate with the cardinals and rejoining the mainstream Catholic Church, another distancing itself even further from the Holy See, losing many of its original hierarchs in the process but gaining converts in war-struck (see below) Latin America.
As Irish economy continues to plummet, a revolutionary situation begins brewing (-1 Living Standards, -2 Confidence). A rather pathetic attempt to back up the royal prestige with public rallies (that soon turn into clashes as they coincided with rather more widespread anti-government riots) and a new (temporarily-succesful, but unprofitable and probably untenable) colonial expedition to Patagonia barely did anything. The Oireachtas is demanding the complete removal of all the remaining powers from the king, apart from the ceremonial ones, while the people themselves seem to be increasingly in favour of killing the King and most Oireachtas members to create a radical republic in their stead and "take everything and split it up".
The International Exposition is held in Paris.
(see spotlight)
(+1 French Education, Culture, Confidence, +1 Irish Education, +1 Spanish Education, +1 Krakowian Education, +1 Mughal Military Leadership)
Spanish economy also continues to take damage, as much business is relocated elsewhere, and as certain other bad things happen (-1 Economy, -1 Living Standards). To make things worse, anti-government agitation continues; panicking, the present Habsburg king abdicated (+1 Confidence) in the favour of Rodequiz Gonzales of an ancient Leonese noble family; however, this switch of power ultimately made things worse (see military events)... though not as bad as things couuld have been had Rodequiz not immediately enacted reforms, sharing power with a representative Cortes and lowering tariffs (+1 Confidence).
As Krakow gains greater access to the Baltic (see military events) and the Adriatic (having annexed all of Illyria from Venice) Seas than ever before, and as the industrial production, especially in Silesia, reaches its zenith, the Krakowians, through export of industrial goods, have won much profit (+1 Economy).
The Kingdom of Naples, a Spanish possession, is ceded to the Papal States, along with the Italian regions of Venice that have been annexed as per the partition treaty with the Krakow Union (-1 Culture, +1 Economy). Meanwhile, with the death of Pope Innocent XIV, the country falls under the oligarchic reign of the cardinals who have still failed to elect a replacement. They seem to care more about their petty intrigues than running the country (-1 Confidence, -1 Civilian Leadership), though things will probably improve again once a Pope is chosen. IF a Pope is chosen...
As the Ottoman Empire's revival continues, the past investment in the development of Ankara and the surrounding regions pays off (+Ankara economic center).
The Mughals make an emphasis on preparing military cadre, injuring other spheres of education (-1 Civilian Leadership, -1 Education).
The Russian trade develops Ninguta into a full-scale trade center (+Ninguta economic center), a one whose profits are under Russian control. Another Chinese city, Xiang Gang, becomes a notable trade center in the wake of the temporary crippling of regional European trade in 1743, hijacking much commerce from Macao... and thus, Canton (+Xiang Gang economic center, -Macao, Canton economic centers).
A second French expedition to "Nouveau Corse" turned out even less unsuccesful than the first one, as heavy storms and attrition caused much casualties (-2 squadrons). Then they ran into more pirates (see miltiary events), and generally were distracted by the ensuing problems. The Parlement has decided that these expeditions are a needless waste of ships and funds, as the "Nouveau Corse", even if it exists, is trully not worth the bother.
Military Events:
With Spanish government prestige shacken by the events of 1743, confusion caused by the attempted Habsburg coup (see below) spreading and local separatism still on the ascendant, the radical republican agitation for a general rising in Latin America against the Spanish rule has inspired a series of rebellions. However, the Spanish government was not completely unprepared, causing the rebel success to be much lesser than it could have been... But lets not get ahead of ourselves now, and instead look at how the Rebel Wars of 1744 developed in that first year. At first, things developed pretty similarily from Columbia to la Plata. Several loud assassinations took place - the Spanish government pinned the blame on revolutionary organizations, and the revolutionary organizations retorted that the Spanish themselves were behind it all, which is possible as those killed were, for the most part, conservative leaders of pro-Habsburg allegiences. Meanwhile, a sudden increase in pirate activities damaged the Spanish commerce and communications with the colonies slightly (they were well-guarded, however, and the pirates in most cases were driven off). A few military ships were sabotaged in dock. Then, the first rebellions broke out in Porto Belizan and in Buenos Aires... and rather anticlimatically, were easily defeated - the Columbians, not particularily numerous in any case, were not concentrated enough and not angry enough neither after the new Spanish king granted their land considerable autonomy, while most of the Platines were eager supporters of the Gonzalo dynasty, almost the only ones in America. The out-numbered rebels were surrounded by garrisons and dispersed with cannon-fire, though the more die-hard Platine republicans decided to continue the struggle in the countryside, where they fought on until October.
More important developments took place elsewhere. In Peru, using the Spanish distraction elsewhere and the damage done by the intensifying attacks on Spanish maritime communications, the Quechua rose up in rebellion, securing Cuzco and some other inland territories. Attempts to incite Spanish rebellions in coastal Peru have failed, but in New Granada large-scale rebellions did commence, in the region of Venezuela anyway; they were assisted by some volunteers from Europe, mostly French. Here, the Spanish were forced to retreat westwards, towards Bogota where they rallied and, with the help of the local loyalists (+2 Spanish irregular divisions), defeated the rebels at Tunja and drove them back to the eastern coast; however, the Spanish logistics were overstrained by this, and not much progress was made beyond this. Further north, in the Carribean, a fleet suddenly emerged under a strange banner, the banner of Carribean revolutionaries, and defeated a part of the Spanish navy at Saba. Soon after, slave rebellions commenced in the Spanish Carribean colonies (-Havanna economic center), assisted by the revolutionaries at the cost of alienating much of the local white population (+1 Spanish irregular division), and only with the arrival of Spanish reinforcements was the rebel fleet dispersed or destroyed and the colonies regained, some of the slaves even then continuing a guerrila war in the countryside. Yet the main battles were to take place in Mexico, where tensions have been rising for some time now. Here, the rebels had the most initial success - in part because, when the Habsburg coup came, some of the local conservatives rose up against the Gonzalos. Using this moment, the radical republicans staged a rebellion of their own just as the die-hard Habsburgists retreated into the countryside to wage a guerrila war. Monterrey, Mexico City and Acapulco were quickly secured, though the Spanish garrison in Veracruz held out. Before the Spanish forces had crushed the Habsburgists, they already needed to fight off the revolutionaries as well; thankfully, they were assisted in this by less Habsburgist of Mexican conservatives, and by the local Amerind tribes who simply distrusted the revolutionaries too much, preffering the more predictable Spanish rule (+5 Spanish irregular divisions), and thus managed to hold out on the early stages. However, large portions of Mexico were lost before reinforcements arrived. When they had, the rebels were routed near Monterrey and indeed the north-east was retaken almost completely, but the attempted counter-attack towards Mexico City was defeated, and the war here stalemated as the rebelsbegun to grow more organized...
(-11 Spanish divisions, -3 Spanish irregular divisions, -7 Spanish squadrons, -2 Spanish Espana ironclads)
The English king decides to prop his low prestige up through nationalist words and nationalist deeds alike, quite succesfully (+1 Confidence). The words part is quite obvious, but the specific deed he had in mind was the reconquest of Scotland. With overwhelming force, the English invaded Scotland, and their element of surprise was augmented by a development in the separatist Highlands, where all hell broke loose just a week before as a pro-Irish rebellion commenced there. While parts of the Scottish army were distracted there, the English, despite inferior training and bad logistics, took Edinburgh and Glasgow by sheer numbers. There, their advance slowed down as the Scotts distracted more troops and took up good defensive positions, but in the end, the English broke through and seized Aberdeen with many casualties, having captured the Scottish president along the way. While the rest of the government fled for France, the ragtag remnants of the Scottish army, or rather General Duncan Bothwell who commanded them, has decided to pledge allegience to King Cameron of Ireland in exchange for protcetion. This gave the English forces a pause, as did their exhaustion and the need to fight the Scottish guerrilas (-1 English Culture, 1 Economy from Scotland to England, 1 division from Scotland to Ireland).
(-Scotland as an independent nation, -7 English divisions)
Although Alberto I had abdicated from the Spanish throne, far from all of the Habsburgs agreed to concede their power to some Leonese upstarts. Jose, Alberto's younger brother who was in charge of the Madrid garrison, had prepared a coup d'etat against Rodequiz I, with the clandestine support of the important conservative families. However, Rodequiz was tipped off to the military conspiracy against him; not wishing for bloodshedding amongst Spaniards in such a time, he asked Jose to come to the palace urgently, apparently hoping to make some sort of a deal with the ambitious commander; but Jose realized that he was discovered and launched a military coup that Rodequiz only barely fought off with the help of civilian militias (+5 Spanish irregular divisions (including the loyalist militias that joined later on)) and loyal forces in Madrid. Jose escaped into the countryside with those of his supporters who did not abandon him, and, with the help of conservative elements, briefly besieged Madrid while the rebellion spread. This was used by the Basques and the Catalans to rebel anew, but the National-Liberals, despite the urging of some of their leaders, remained indecisive as the policies of Rodequiz weakened their popular support and resulted in ever-growing divisions within their ranks. Finally, several National-Liberal leaders officially declared their support for the "progressive" Rodequiz I, while others incited rebellions in Seville and the rest of southern Spain, using the dissent caused by the decline of trade with the Americans. Long story cut short, however, Rodequiz came out victorious; Jose was defeated at Alcorcon near Madrid and was betrayed by his officers who had surrendered, the National-Liberals were crushed as well, the Basques only held out by the virtue of being comparatively insignificant and the Catalans lost all but the besieged Barcelona. Yet Spain was weakened significantly, and if the example of the previous sick man of Europe is any indication, it might soon become the prey of its envious neighbours...
(-6 Spanish divisions, -3 Spanish irregular divisions)
As tensions continued to grow in Scandinavia over the disputed territory of Skane (in this case, including Halland and Blekinge), Denmark-Norway, alarmed by the Swedish military build-up, declared war on the Swedish Republic. If taken alone, Denmark-Norway could have at best hoped for a draw; but, the point is, it was not about to let itself be taken alone, and instead has immediately begun bringing in allies. The first ones, the pro-Danish Snaphanerne separatists, immediately begun waging a guerrila war, but after the first few successes were quickly cracked down upon. This has diverted a large portion of the Swedish army to Skane, and most other Swedish forces were massing further north and skirmishing around the border; and that weakened their positions elsewhere. First, the Krakow Union joined the war effort against the Republic, seeking to reclaim the contested region of Pommerania, and despite the arrival of Swedish reinforcements there the Krakowians routed them, occupying the entire region. However, the intended ferry of Krakowian forces towards Stockholm was delayed and eventually cancelled due to the uncertainty at sea, where the Swedes avoided confrontation with the Danish fleet. Meanwhile, using the weakness of Swedish garrisons, the Finns rose up in rebellion, with Danish-supplied arms and funds, and with the assistance of some Finnish-born soldiers and officers that defected from the Swedish army (2 divisions from Sweden to Finnish Rebels); the weak Swedish garrisons in Finland were overran quite quickly, apart from Turku which was besieged and eventually surrendered as well. On the main front, in Skane itself, the Danes confronted very ready, eager, numerically-superior (if only marginally so) Swedes... and defeated them, because they just happened to have taken along a large French Foreign Legion expeditionary corps, albeit, despite all, the Swedes managed to retreat in good order into Halland from where they fought on. But that did not matter, for the final blow was then landed - the Swedish fleet, damaged in skirmishes with the Danes, was crushed by the Russians at Khiuma, as the Union of Russia-Lithuania-Romania entered the war. Russian forces quickly secured all the Swedish Baltic islands of note save for the island of Oland that was too well-defended. Then the Russians landed near Stockholm, quickly forcing the underdefended city's surrender as the Swedish government hastily fled north for Uppsala (-1 Civilian Leadership, -1 Confidence, 1 Economy from Sweden to Finnish Rebels).
(-4 French Foreign Legion corps, -7 Danish divisions, -4 Danish squadrons, -1 Dannish Danneborg-class, -15 Swedish divisions, -13 Swedish squadrons, -1 Finnish division, -2 Finnish irregular divisions, -3 Krakowian divisions, -1 Krakowian GotGC division, -1 Russian division, -3 Russian squadrons)
In Sicily, a new abortive rebellion is defeated in a matter of weeks with scarcely any casualties to the Spanish; the rebel movement there seems to have been crushed fully. Spanish garrisons prevented any other Italian rebellions, though there is some simmering dissent in the remaining Spanish Italian possessions.
The pro-Krakowian "Federalist" movement in Serbia has launched a coup d'etat, with the assistance of some military elements and, according to rumours, some elite units of the Krakowian army. The King and the forces loyal to him were taken by surprise and swiftly crushed in a series of battles during which the rebels demonstrated surprisingly good disciplinne, training and firepower... and as soon as Belgrade was theirs, the Federalists signed the decree that incorporated Serbia into the Krakow Union (-1 Culture). An anti-Krakowian rebellion soon begun in Kraguyevac, but it was put down by the regular Krakowian forces after some fighting.
(-Serbia as a nation, -1 Krakowian division)
Spanish and Portuguese expansion in Africa goes on.
(-1 Spanish division, -1 Portuguese division)
A Sennarese-Abyssinian border conflict resumed.
(-1 Sennarese division, -1 Abyssinian division)
The outcome of the Zulu War was not in doubt at first, as pretty much everybody was sure that a great colonial empire such as Portugal would easily crush some pathetic tribal confederation - after all, the Portuguese did so in the past a countless amount of times. Yet the Zulus stretched this war for years, and only in 1744 did they face their defeat, even then due to certain new factors. Firstly, the Zulus themselves have been weakened and grew ever more disunited due to Portuguese diplomacy, the death of Qwabe Zulu and the controversial adoptation of Christianity by his son. Secondly, the Portuguese were sick and tired of the Zulu resistance, and went for an overkill, deploying great, well-led, well-trained, well-armed armies, specially prepared and trained for counter-insurgency warfare within Africa. Long story cut short, all the Zulu efforts to defeat the Portuguese resulted in surprisingly-high casualties augmented by attrition and disease. Methodically, the Portuguese eliminated the Zulus; mile by mile, they secured all the territory, they cut off all the paths of escape, and with fire and sword they crushed and slaughtered all those who resisted (for many tribes, fearful of their fate and suspicious of their Emperor's new faith, betrayed the rebellion now that the tide was clearly turned). Mpande Zulu himself died in one of the last battles, charging into the fray to escape his betrayers that intended to turn him in alive. Fin. Mostly.
(-Zulu Rebels as a faction, -8 Portuguese divisions)
The Afghan Khanate faces some hard times. To the west, as Azeri and Sunni rebellions (+5 Ottoman irregular divisions) behind their lines begin, the Ottomans break through in northern Iraq against the badly outnumbered Afghans there and take over much of the country, assisted by another attack through the desert, like in the last year's campaign against the Caliphate. The remaining Afghan forces quickly fell back to more defensible positions, but soon are threatened from the south as the French, despite the Parlement opposition's protests about needlessly antagonizing the Portuguese by military action in their sphere of influence, have dispatched a large force to seize Karachi. But by the time they arrived at that city, the Mughal banner was already flying over it, and the French decided to just advance along the coast from there with naval support, crushing all the well-prepared Afghan positions that were waiting for the French to land there where they could be easily shelled. In culmination, the fleur de lis was flown over Shiraz. And as for our Mughals, they struck out for Afghanistan Proper, seeking to restore that old Mughal holding back to its rightful status of a province. However, the Mughal armies were hampered by bad logistics and well-prepared Afghan defenses; in the end, they still did break through towards Kabul, but only with large casualties and too tired to assault it, settling down for a siege. It seems that the Afghan Khanate has largely survived this turn owing to logistical problems and other mistakes of its various enemies - mistakes that are unlikely to be repeated, as is understood all too well (-1 Afghan Confidence)...
(-2 French Foreign Legion corps, -1 French squadron, -6 Ottoman divisions, -1 Ottoman UU, -16 Afghan divisions, -9 Mughal divisions, -10 Mughal Imperial Guard divisions)
Meanwhile, the Arab tribes fought back attempts of conquest by both sides, gradually signing some alliances amongst themselves. Refusing to give any general battles and harassing, with the help of the merciless sun, all those who dared invade their desert, the Arabs however probably survived more because of the Ottomans AND the Afghans having better things to do than bury them in corpses.
(-1 Ottoman division, -2 Afghan irregular divisions)
A rather pathetic Burmese rebellion against Qing rule is stomped down by the vast Chinese hosts that were waiting for just such an occasion.
To punish the vile pirates that caused so much trouble in South-East Asia, the Portuguese have dispatched a sizeable expedition to the Pacific Ocean. Problematically, they didn't find pirates, but instead bumped into the Spanish fleet that was there for the same purposes; some shots were exchanged, but the Portuguese then realized that these were real Spaniards and remembered their instructions, so war was avoided and the fleets split up. Having failed to find too many pirates apart from some Malays, the Spanish were quite ignorant as to the presence of a large French fleet in the region as well, claiming new lands in King's name. Along the way, the French admiral was also ordered from local French colonial authorities to look for the pirates that seemed to be lying low for now... for the most part. Indeed, "most" was the key word here, as the French soon enough found a lone (possibly in connection to the diseases there) pirate ship. What exactly they found there has not been disclosed yet, but according to much gossip, they had discovered that a certain foreign power was behind it all...
Random Events:
Despite Qwabe's death, the Zulu rebels fight on, and their fury grows (+1 Culture, Confidence). Mpande Zulu's authority is sufficient to inspire a neophite Catholic religious fervour (+1 Culture).
The Brunswickian king's popularity grows, just like the country's strenght (+1 Confidence).
Although still troubled, the Ottoman Empire seems to be getting back on its feet (+1 Confidence)...
De Sousa's adventures in Zululand make him even more of a national hero, inspiring tens of thousands of men to join the Portuguese army (+5 divisions).
The Chinese European student program begins to pay off (+1 Education).
A wave of Byzantine patriotism continues since the victories in the Independence War, as it is called in Greece (+1 Culture).
The death of the old unpopular Pope has caused some popular relief (+1 Confidence).
In spite of all, King Cameron's popularity among the more devout of Irishmen grows (+2 Confidence). A new "Celtic nationalism" is spreading as well (+1 Culture).
The National-Liberal campaign of individual terror damaged the Spanish ranks of civil officials (-1 Civilian Leadership).
A general decline in education quality has been noticed in Portugal (-1 Education).
The Augsburger army is in a rot (-1 Army Training).
Life quality visibly detiriorates in the Papal States (-1 Living Standards).
Quality of Brunswickian roads and harbours declines (-1 Infrastructure).
The war-fervour in Denmark-Norway declines after the first wave of enthusiasm dies down (-1 Culture).
Public disillusionment with the present government sets in in the Union (of Russia-Lithuania-Romania) (-1 Confidence).
Spotlight:
The Universal Exposition.
"Ah, the great social events! nothing is as exciting and dull as they."
- Prince Louis de Conde, "Diaries of a Courtier". Year 1744.
...in the end, for all the gossip and rumours that circulated among the cultural elite of France and Europe, the Universal Exposition that took place to mark the end of the extensive renovation program in Paris has gone by somewhat anticlimatically, with the minimum of deaths.
But I am getting ahead of myself. As already mentioned, the Universal Exposition was to mark the end of the "Nouveau Paris" programme, which over the course of theree years and a sizeable portion of the French royal budget completely changed the largely medieval (narrow streets, bad sanitation, although ofcourse Paris was Paris) city of Paris into a grand, modern (but not absurdly so - the design for an ugly tall metal tower, much-circulated, was obvious unaccepted and the crackpot architect who came up with it soon went completely mad from disappointment after the Parlement rejected his project) city worthy of the world's greatest empire. Wide, well-paved new streets and squares gave the city a grand feel, as did the general beautification, with fountains and statues and parks. The Tuileries Palace - the very center of the French world-wide empire - also underwent general repair and restoration, having somewhat suffered in recent years. Seeking to enhance France's international prestige and diplomatic relations, Kign Julien-Francois I has decided to start this aforementioned Universal Exposition, where the achievements of French arts and sciences would be showed off, as well as the French capital. Delegations from all over the world were dispatched (well, from all over Eurasia anyway; there were also many rumours of a "Zulu delegation", but, predictably, the Zulus did not come, perhaps contrary to their own wishes) to the exposition; most importantly, Prince Wuxi from China and King Frederyk VI of Denmark-Norway have honoured Paris with their visits, others sending more low-ranking officials. Quite predictably, the Afghans did not send anybody - by the time the Exposition came, the war in the Persian Gulf had already started (or intensified).
As for those who did come... It was quite hard not to see the international tensions show in the ball halls of Paris, for the thin veil of etiquette was not enough to hide the dagger-stares the Swedish delegates were dealing to the companions of Frederyk VI and to the Russian delegates. Things were even worse with the Spanish delegation, which fled with nary a goodbye when the "little civil war" in Spain begun, to the jeering of the Parisian crowd. One of the Scottish delegates caused a scandal when news came of his country's fall - he got horribly drunk and assaulted the English delegation, but was beaten off with the help of the gendarmerie. The Papal delegates got into a nearly-violent theological debate with Parisian Huguenots, whose ranks saw a recent increase as some of the disillusioned local Catholics switched faith.
Yet it got no further than this, at least among the delegates themselves. Mostly, the Exposition went by quite well - the French army was paraded to the awe of locals and foreigners alike (the Mughal delegates were particularily impressed), paintings and sculptures were exhibited, speeches were made, and as for technology - it was there as well, with the demonstration of the latest in military and civilian technology, from the new, perfected Spanish hot-air balloons through the long, grand Krakowian trains to the experimental French "submarine".
The 8th day of the Exposition was somewhat marred by the sudden battles on the city's outskirts (which the militaristic Mughal delegates attended as well, writing down accounts of the events and of tactics and weapons used, while the excited Danish delegates (who were also in a war-like mood after the latest victories in Scandinavia) pestered the French officers with suggestions). A ragtag band of what turned out to be Sicilian separatists (of all people!) have ingeniously sneaked through towards the city, but some of them were searched and arrested at the entrance to the city, causing the others to open fire on the French gendarmerie and garrison forces. The outnumbered, poorly-armed, tired Sicilians were soon surrounded and forced to surrender; at the interrogation they confessed (according to the information leaks) to an insane plan of storming into Paris and "killing the Pope"; unfortunately, before they got to Paris the Pope already died of a heart attack back in Rome, having never intended to go to Paris in the first place, so it all turned out to be somewhat pointless.
Indeed, in the end it was somewhat anticlimatic and peaceful, there weren't even any "deluded anarchist bomb-throwers jumping at the king with the goal of bayonneting him with sharp poisoned knives attached to sniper rifles" that were predicted, probably in jest, by Louis de Conde. In spite of all, the exposition attained the goals set, and it has already been proposed in some circles that these become more annual.
NPC Diplo:
From: Scottish Government-in-Exile
To: The Kingdom of France
Help us to reclaim our land from the vile English!
From: Catalan Rebels
To: The Kingdom of France
We request your support against the Castillian tyrants!
From: The Swedish Riksdag
To: President Carl Gustaf Nordin
Let us face the facts - we have been defeated. We should enter peace negotiations now and try to preserve as much of Sweden's honour, power and sovereignity as possible.
From: The Kingdom of Bulgaria
To: The Krakow Union
We request... nay, we demand that you withdraw from the territories of the Kingdom of Serbia and restore the legitimate Serbian government to power!
From: The Kingdom of Bulgaria
To: The Union of Russia-Lithuania-Romania and the Kingdom of Brunswick
We believe that we should make a common stance against the Krakowian aggression in Serbia, to make them back down.
*secret*
From: The Empire of Abyssinia
To: The Kingdom of Portugal
We ask for your military assistance against the wretched Sennarese!
*secret*
OOC:
Don't forget that you need to invest eco. points into project progress (many of you forgot to do so).
Harleqin, not only does St. Petersburg not exist, it isn't/wasn't/wouldn't have been within Swedish territory.
Sorry, the military part is somewhat rushed as its late here.
das
Regeneration In Process
tossi
Der kleine Prinz
Good update. The spotlight is fun .
Question: Can these CCC guys be found in Brazil, too?
.Question: Can these CCC guys be found in Brazil, too?
Wubba360
Emperor
No I'm dead
Wubba360
Emperor
Very well, to another rebellion. I will not be left gone forever I will return.
tossi
Der kleine Prinz
From: Portugal
To: France
We are very interested in informations regarding the pirate activites. Actually we would be quite offended if you didn't share your knowleadge with us.
OOC: Wubba, you held out quite long. Remeber for the future: It is allmost impossible for a rebellion to succed, if the mother nation is not occupied somewhere else.
To: France
We are very interested in informations regarding the pirate activites. Actually we would be quite offended if you didn't share your knowleadge with us.
OOC: Wubba, you held out quite long. Remeber for the future: It is allmost impossible for a rebellion to succed, if the mother nation is not occupied somewhere else.
Icmancin
WSNR Pte
Well... that sucked... Last abortive attempt for rebellion. I guess I'll just lurk. If I try to take ANOTHER nation I'll just get yelled at. Bulgaria and Japan do look fun though... if Krakow and China don't get to them first.
Symphony D.
Deity
Confirming Japan.
TO: Qing Chinese Empire
FROM: Japanese Empire
Oh great masters of Asia, we humbly ask that the Imperial court grant an indefinite NAP with our meager nation, in the interests of friendship and peace.
TO: Kingdom of France
FROM: Japanese Empire
The French nation, and indeed the French people, have proven themselves among the greatest of all in the world, and as such the Emperor humbly asks the King of France for a full alliance. Our two peoples have much to gain from one another. We extend our hands in friendship and welcome the French people with open arms - we only hope you might reciprocate.
TO: Qing Chinese Empire
FROM: Japanese Empire
Oh great masters of Asia, we humbly ask that the Imperial court grant an indefinite NAP with our meager nation, in the interests of friendship and peace.
TO: Kingdom of France
FROM: Japanese Empire
The French nation, and indeed the French people, have proven themselves among the greatest of all in the world, and as such the Emperor humbly asks the King of France for a full alliance. Our two peoples have much to gain from one another. We extend our hands in friendship and welcome the French people with open arms - we only hope you might reciprocate.
Swissempire
Poet Jester
Ummm..... What happened to the forces dispatched to Afganistan. Are the just in French Territory now????
ANd YAY for Ireland controling northern Scotland, the tables have been turned!
And I apparently wasted 1/2 my eco points????
And I should be at Academic Education....
BUT AMAZING UPDATE, MADE FOR A VERY GOOD READ!
ANd YAY for Ireland controling northern Scotland, the tables have been turned!
And I apparently wasted 1/2 my eco points????
And I should be at Academic Education....
BUT AMAZING UPDATE, MADE FOR A VERY GOOD READ!
