Shadowbound
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What does this have to do with China?
The Paths of Glory
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What does this have to do with China?
From Russia-Lithuania
To the Christian world
We were just told by the Yujje Regents of the rightful Solomonid dynasty that persecution of Orthodox Christians (including of foreign missionaries) is about to occur in Abyssinia. The Regents also attempted to blackmail us, requesting gifts in exchange of safety of Russian merchants (which so far have rarely ventured into that distant region). While we refuse to give in to such blackmail, we also warn other fellow Christian states from sending any missions to Abyssinia, as it's likely that the same scheme will be applied to them in the future.
We still wish to reiterate that we view the Solomonid dynasty as the rightful rulers of Abyssinia, and the crimes of the Yujje "Regents" will be once repaid by the true, independent Emperor.
To the Christian world
We were just told by the Yujje Regents of the rightful Solomonid dynasty that persecution of Orthodox Christians (including of foreign missionaries) is about to occur in Abyssinia. The Regents also attempted to blackmail us, requesting gifts in exchange of safety of Russian merchants (which so far have rarely ventured into that distant region). While we refuse to give in to such blackmail, we also warn other fellow Christian states from sending any missions to Abyssinia, as it's likely that the same scheme will be applied to them in the future.
We still wish to reiterate that we view the Solomonid dynasty as the rightful rulers of Abyssinia, and the crimes of the Yujje "Regents" will be once repaid by the true, independent Emperor.
Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
Trembling, the bud
Spring flower, contemplation
An unknown autumn
Many blessings are wished upon the western sojourner.
We give him this poem for edification.
Nihon-koku does not establish foreign embassies.
-Hidetaka Tokugawa
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At some point, in orders or in this thread, make note of who your ruler is because otherwise I'm going to be drawing names from a hat.
All hail Fred II, King of Great Britain
All hail Fred II, King of Great Britain
Seon
Not An Evil Liar
bloody frederick wilhelms, why do you haunt me beyond Germany
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Pact of the Danube
The Kingdom of Austria, the Kingdom of Hungary, and the Kingdom of Bavaria agree to a treaty of mutual defense, pledging our armies to each other’s defense, for the sake of peace in Europe and and deepening the bonds of friendship and unity among the signatories.
Signed - Otto-Henry King of Bavaria
The Kingdom of Austria, the Kingdom of Hungary, and the Kingdom of Bavaria agree to a treaty of mutual defense, pledging our armies to each other’s defense, for the sake of peace in Europe and and deepening the bonds of friendship and unity among the signatories.
Signed - Otto-Henry King of Bavaria
thomas.berubeg
Wandering the World
Signed - Launcelot Esterhazy, King of Hungary, Slovakia, and Transylvania
Brougal
Chieftain
Signed - Maximilian III of Austria
Terran Empress
Hornet
The Republic of Sweden accepts the offer.
Ståthållare of the Riksdag of The Estates and the Republic of Sweden - Hans von Roxendorff
Danwar
Augustus
After thinking it over for awhile, I think I'm going to cancel taking part in this game. I am deeply sorry to any I have inconvenienced but I simply can't put my heart into playing this like I could in other IOTs. Hopefully Khalistan is minor enough for no one to be effected by my dropping out.
Shadowbound, this game system looks really cool nevertheless. This is not your fault in any way, but mine. If anyone else wants to play as Khalistan, go ahead.
Shadowbound, this game system looks really cool nevertheless. This is not your fault in any way, but mine. If anyone else wants to play as Khalistan, go ahead.
why don't you switch to sicily or something
Danwar
Augustus
possibly because a new IOT just popped up that looks fun
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Update 1 - 1790
“He has the soul of a diplomat; that is, he is very good at flattering his enemies.”
-Jean-Louis de Bancalis de Maurel, French Ambassador to Hungary
As the new year begins in 1790, a new age is beginning. The Great Powers continue to jockey for dominance on the world stage but they’ve begun to turn towards new tools, revolutionary and innovative in more ways than one. But every sword has two edges. Progress has its price and it is paid with blood and iron.
Western Europe
A new political order is formalized in Europe with the signing of the Treaty of Vilnius by the French Empire and the Russian-Lithuanian Union: both claimants to the Roman mantle. In truth this has been a long time coming since their respective victory over their regional rivals and already it is challenged as emerging alliances work to counter the Paris-Moscow axis. But, for the moment, peace prevails from Brest to Tsaritsyn.
In Ireland, King Philip moves to consolidate his control over the country, establishing a modern bureaucracy, neutering the Irish Parliament, and centralizing authority around himself. But this act provokes resistance, especially from the Protestant lords and Anglo-Irish, who have convened a rogue parliament in Belfast in defiance of his authority.
(Ireland: Enacts Administrative Reform, Discards New Government, government changed to Administrative Monarchy, -1 Stability)
Paris is the center of the world, a bustling metropolis home to culture and finance. And home to more and more people, as many peasants from the countryside enter the cities of northern France in search of jobs and opportunity. This is to the discomfort of the physiocratic government under the Duc de Broglie, though French parliamentary politics have not seen him take action against it.
(France: 10 economy from Occitania to France).
The aftermath of the Nine Years’ War left Spanish finances in a desperate state. Beyond the usual repackaging and refinancing of debt, the Spanish Prime Minister Francisco Baltasar de Velasco made a tour of the major powers of Western Europe, soliciting financial support from on-and-off rivals in London, Paris, and Amsterdam. Whether his beneficiaries were motivated by altruism or realpolitik in supporting the ailing Spanish Empire, he succeeded in buying a few months in interest payments. This was enough time to implement further reforms to military supply that had nearly put Seville on stable fiscal footing by the end of the year.
(Spain: Enact Fiscal Reform, General Staff)
Alfons VII worked to pivot Aragon from a maritime focus, mothballing a significant fraction of the royal fleet. Seeing as the Mediterranean was firmly under the thumb of much greater powers this was not a bad strategy and many of the discharged sailors soon found employment in the Aragonese merchant fleet. His efforts this year were directed towards reconciliation with local administrative bodies, many of whom found his arguments in favor of centralization convincing given Aragon’s precarious independence. He also put energy towards raising the quality of his army’s drill and training, being the key asset to preserve that independence.
(Aragon: Adopt Military Discipline, Enact Propaganda in Aragon, +1 economy Aragon)
Britain enacted similar fiscal reforms to reduce interest payments from its lingering debt. This has strained international capital, making the prospect of future debt restructuring no longer guaranteed.
(Britain: Enact Fiscal Reform)
Part of this was due to increased taxes in the Netherlands, where King Willem Casimir worked to consolidate his revenues, no longer able to rely on the riches of the East Indies to keep state finances in the black. The Dutch are one of the few major sources of credit not tied down, most Dutch debt residing in the defunct East Indies Company, and they may be unwilling to stomach lower interest rates.
(Netherlands: Enact Administrative Reform, Propaganda in Netherlands)
Ferdinand III is keen to strengthen the Sicilian fleet, overseeing the installation of modern copper sheathing for his ships. The utility of these new inventions in the calm waters of the Mediterranean for a fleet that always has ready access to a port is debatable, especially in light of setbacks in Tunisia.
(Sicily: Adopt Copper Bottoming)
There is an upsurge in radical sentiments in Venice, as the city becomes a gathering point for Italian nationalists and republicans.
(Bavaria: -1 confidence Venetia)
General feelings of goodwill and peace are prevalent in Central Europe, especially in the Confederation of the Rhine. Rhenish nobles are frequent guests at Polish balls and Swedish galas, leading several Confederate Princes to reduce the size of their standing armies, feeling secure with guarantees of non-aggression from their neighbors.
Denmark-Norway overhauled many of its shipyards this year, adopting the French standard for naval designs. Its merchant marine had plenty of work, largely supporting Sweden’s fledgling colonial empire in the absence of any Swedish Atlantic presence.
(Denmark-Norway: Adopt Uniform Naval Design, +1 economy Norway)
Eastern Europe
The Kingdoms of Bavaria, Austria, and Hungary joined together in signing a treaty of mutual defence, creating a new power bloc in Central Europe. Both South German kingdoms took advantage of this to remove internal economic barriers and invigorate commerce. The revitalization of trade along the Danube has benefitted Vienna, bringing new life to the Hapsburgs’ historic capital.
(Bavaria: Adopt National Market) (Austria: Adopt National Market, +1 economy Austria)
The lessons of the Third Northern War are still being processed, with the major powers of Eastern Europe formalizing the establishment of a permanent planning body for their militaries. Russia, Sweden, and Poland had maintained all these “stavkas” since the end of the war, but 1790 saw them grow to their full responsibility.
(Russia-Lithuania, Sweden, Poland: Adopt General Staff)
Nationalist sentiment is on the rise in Finland, as the local population resents the imposition of Swedish language and culture. In the face of overwhelming Swedish military might they are merely able to undermine Swedish rule, however, through civil acts and vandalism.
(Sweden: -5% Centralization in Swedish Finland)
The Polish government, under young ministers like Stanisław Mokronowski and Louis von Julich-Berg, has worked to strengthen the economy of the country, establishing a ministry for weights and measures and removing internal tariffs. They’ve also worked to shore up Polish popularity in Brandenberg, appealing to the German nobility. But more competition isn’t always a good thing and the winter has seen a collapse of Prussian industry in the face of competition from more sophisticated parts of the kingdom.
(Poland: Adopt National Market, Enact Propaganda in Brandenberg, -1 MC Prussia)
The Hungarian royal elections were one of the most watched events of 1790, as half a dozen foreign princelings competed for the Crown of St. Stephen. But the Hungarian magnates were not swayed by their entreaties and were soon resolved to the election of a local notable as king, to the particular dismay of the pro-Vasa faction. Led by Wladimir Piziak, one of the Polish-Hungarian marcher lords, they stormed out of the convention halls in Buda, provoking a minor crisis that led to a week of frantic negotiations. Ultimately they returned to vote in a show of unanimity for a scion of the Esterhazys as King. King Launcelot’s election was accompanied by a series of political compromises, codified in a Constitution modelled on the defunct Polish one which formalized the continued power of the Diet, and in the issuing of strategic land grants along the Turkish border to key military supporters.
(Hungary: Adopt Constitution, Discard New Government, government changed to Parliamentary Monarchy)
A highly effective pasha took power in Serbia, defusing tensions between the local aristocracy and Sultan Mahmud II’s government.
(Ottoman Empire: +1 Confidence in Serbia)
Russia experimented with manufactories in its heartland, operated by state serfs and dedicated to the production of armaments for the Union’s military. Alongside modifications to the conscription laws and limited self-emancipation from serfdom they were very well received, justifying larger scale implementation to the Duma and Seimas.
(Russia-Lithuania: Progressive Experimentation in Muscovy, +1 Confidence Muscovy)
A proposal in the Lithuanian Seimas to mandate the use of the western alphabet in schools within that half of the country, pushing out Cyrillic, makes it far before failing to ultimately reach a majority. It’s part of a broader movement in both Vilnius and Moscow that seeks further westernization of Russia through the adoption of Latin characters for the Russian language. But the legislation caused considerable distress in Ruthenia, inflaming tensions between the slavic-speaking population and the Lithuanian magnates.
(Russia-Lithuania: -1 Confidence Lithuanian Ruthenia)
Something seems to have spooked Heraclius of Georgia, as the Persian client-ruler raises taxes and expands his army.
(Georgia: Enact Administrative Reform)
Africa and the Middle East
A pair of exiled Mamluk rulers, Ibrahim Bey and Murad Bey, returned to Cairo from Upper Egypt this year and with the backing of a cabal of officers drove out the Ottoman governor and seized control of the province. Their control of the country is reaching towards Port Suez, the center of French efforts to build a great canal to the Red Sea, and the expected fighting between them and the Ottoman forces has ground construction on the canal to a halt.
(Ottoman Empire: Egypt and Sudan to 0% Centralization, -5 Irregulars)
The death of the Dutch client-king of the Kongo without a clear heir has seen the region slide into tribal warfare, weakening the Netherlands’ control over its chief African colony.
(Netherlands: -5% Centralization Dutch Kongo)
As its European ambitions are frustrated, Sweden has turned to Africa for expansion, establishing trading posts in the Niger Delta and in a promising protected bay in the South African desert. Its reluctance to get involved in the slave trade has limited the value of these trade posts: after all, what value is there in Africa besides its labor?
A wave of British settlers are encouraged to emigrate to the Cape Colony by London, sparking conflicts with the already settled Dutch-speaking colonists. Rather than live alongside the Anglos many of them have pushed forward into the frontier, with the support of the British government. The frontiersmen have come into conflict with local African tribes, pushing them out of some of their southern pastures.
A Sicilian punitive expedition in Tunisia was destroyed by Berber tribesmen in an ambush outside of Sufetula.
(Sicily: -1 regiment)
Even as Mahmud II’s control is challenged in Egypt he strengthens his hand in the Turkish heartland of Anatolia. Beyond just blinding and/or castrating potential rivals the Sultan filled key posts with competent loyalists across Turkey, packing government offices with his supporters.
(Ottoman Empire: Enact Propaganda, Administrative Reform in Anatolia)
The Persian Shah enacted restrictions on the presence of foreign merchants and missionaries this year, closing Persian markets. While they saw a mixed response in Persia itself they did end up strengthening his hold over Irak, edging out lingering Turkish influence. A coincidental ascendancy of pro-Afsharid tribes in Afghanistan also occurred to Mashhad’s benefit.
(Afsharid Persia: Adopt Mercantilism, +5% Centralization Mesopotamia, +1 Confidence Afghanistan)
Persian troops were dispatched to augment the existing garrison in Oman, struggling to tie the most distant, religiously and geographically, of the Shah’s domains to the empire. More success was had with the carrot than the stick as tribal warriors and the rough terrain did considerable damage to the Persian reinforcements. Meetings with religious leaders succeeded in encouraging them to preach harmony between Ibadi and Shia.
(Afsharid Persia: -1 Irregular, +1 Confidence Arabia)
India
The unexpected death of Rajit Sirvan Eghbali has paralyzed the Sikh Empire. The military barons are jockeying for position in the aftermath, trying to maneuver one of their own misl onto the throne. But the succession has remained relative peaceful and the Confederacy is largely running itself in the absence of a ruler.
(Sikh Empire: -1 Confidence Punjab, +1 Stability)
Peshwa Madhavrao II began major reforms in the Maratha Empire, to the horror of the traditional stakeholders in its Confederate system. The Maratha had spread their feudal system across India, establishing members of their warrior-aristocracy as rulers of sub-domains held in fief to the Bhosle or Mughal Emperors, though in practice these were hereditary. The Peshwa upset this status quo beginning in Rajasthan, reshuffling their holdings and responsibilities and integrating the native Rajput princes into the government. He justified it under the pretense of boosting the production of opium and cotton, but this explanation didn’t fool those affected. While gradual, gradual change can only be so gradual when it is so radical, and it was fortunate for Madhavrao that these reforms were so well received among the Rajputs, who were very interested in acquiring greater power within the Maratha government itself.
(Maratha Empire: Discard Feudalism, Enact Progressive Experimentation and Integrated Elites in Rajasthan, +1 Confidence Rajasthan, Government changed to Administrative Monarchy)
His centralizing efforts were less well received elsewhere in the Maratha Empire. A palace conspiracy to install one of his nephews on the throne was thwarted, as was another to have the Bhosle Emperor remove him from power. With all of this the new treaty negotiated with the British didn’t raise an eyebrow: the European cannons purchased were soon being used to execute traitors. These coup attempts provided ample fodder to remove troublesome notables from power in the Maratha homelands but the situation was worse out in the provinces. In Northern India, along the Ganges, the local nobility has rejected the Peshwa’s attempt to centralize the Confederacy, culminating in the Nawab of Oudh seizing Delhi and installing a new puppet Emperor on the Mughal throne after defeating a loyalist garrison. Dissent simmers in Central Indian Nagpur as the Maratha ruling class is unwilling to give up their posts, and the Kingdom of Nepal, always a tenuous conquest, has quietly slipped away without overt action. Fortunately for Madhavrao he's been able to secure the center of Maratha rule, but North India is making a very bold effort to escape Pune's control and it will take significant campaigning to bring it all back into the fold.
(Maratha Empire: Centralization to 0% in Nepal, Ganges, -10% Centralization in Nagpur, -2 Confidence Ganges, -1 Confidence Nagpur, -20 Irregulars)
Able administrators in the French-controlled India have rationalized the administration of one of its colonies, taking advantage of the death of a French client ruler to establish firmer control over the protectorate.
(France: +5% Centralization French Circars)
A new player enters Indian politics, with the distant Republic of Sweden negotiating with Mysore for the establishment of a trade post in Calicut. While surprised, Tipu Sultan turned right around and used the proceeds from the lease to purchase European cannons and hire skilled military advisors from Sweden and Spain to modernize his army. He also invested considerable effort in modernizing Mysore’s administration, knowing that the creation of a force capable of standing up to European powers would be expensive.
(Mysore: Enact Administrative Reform, Discard Irregulars)
There is an uptick in piracy in the Indian Ocean, imperiling British ships traveling between the Cape and the East Indies.
East Asia
The arrival of Qing officials and inspectors in the tributary kingdom of Assam seriously alarmed its ruler, for whom Qing rule had been nominal since its establishment. Officials are pleased to report to the Qianlong Emperor that he has become much more compliant, with tribute arriving on time and, often, in excess.
(Qing China: +1 Confidence, +5% Centralization Assam)
Binnya Ran of Pegu patronized traditional Mon culture, requiring Mon dress and fashion in the kingdom’s heartland of the Irrawaddy Delta. His goal, to push out the lingering Burmese influence of the Taungoo, is on its way to succeeding. His army of occupation continues to battle rebel forces in Burma, symbolically destroying many of the traditional strongholds of the stillborn Konbaung Dynasty.
(Hanthawaddy Pegu: Enact Propaganda in Irrawaddy Delta, +1 confidence Ava)
The deployment of additional British troops and targeted propaganda have secured the power of their client-ruler in Siam, backing up the fragile monarchy by solidifying alliances with other local notables.
(Britain: Enact Propaganda in Siam)
Emperor Quang Trung of Annam works to consolidate control over the country, campaigning politically and military in the north, the seat of the old Trinh rivals. But his policies face backlash in the south, especially in the regions conquered from Siam, and a rebellion has seen control of that region slip away from his control for the moment.
(Tay Son Annam: Enact Propaganda in Dai Viet, Administrative Reform, Centralization to 0% in Khmer)
The Qianlong Emperor is the recipient of many fine gifts this year, with tribute arriving from the usual sources but also far-flung powers like Afsharid Persia and Great Britain. To those who keep track this is the furthest any Chinese tributary system has yet to reach.
A nascent rebellion was crushed in Yunnan by local garrisons: the regional administrators have placed the blame on the Ming revivalist White Lotus Society.
(Qing China: -1 irregular)
The Russian government succeeds in achieving a limited opening of the massive Qing Empire to trade, sending state-owned caravans to meet with Chinese merchants across the vast expanse of Siberia.
(Russia-Lithuania: +2 economy Russian Far East) (Qing China: +1 economy Mongolia)
Tokugawa Hidetaka, under the influence of the liberal chamberlain Tanuma Okitsugu, brought many of Japan’s daimyo to Kyoto to convene a Great Roju Council, a mass assembly of the island kingdom’s feudal lords. Hidetaka used the council to pass a number of, in his mind, much needed reforms, abolishing century-old distinction between Fudai and Tozama, those who supported the Tokugawa in their ascent and those who did not. But the majority of the Roju remained Fudai, many of whom were given their lands as administrators by the Tokugawa clan, and the nominal equality was soon found to be hollow by the southern lords who now also chafed on additional measures passed by the Roju Council. Most importantly, however, Hidetaka gave his blessing for the opening of Japan, officially ending the isolationist Sakoku policies. The southern daimyo took advantage of this, inviting in French and Bavarian advisors and, on their recommendations, enacting land reforms to mixed results, as the hoped-for manufacturing has yet to develop even as agricultural yields decline.
(Tokugawa Japan: Enact Administrative Reform, Discard Serfdom in Kyushu and Shikoku)
As Japan opens up to the world, tensions between British colonial administrators and the population of Nagasaki have cooled. Shameful as it is, the treaty-port has become popular for arranging trade agreements between daimyo and foreign powers such as Britain, France, Spain, and the Qing.
(Britain: +1 Confidence in Nagasaki Treaty-Port, +5 economy)
Americas
Russian fur traders are encouraged by Moscow to establish a permanent settlement on Kodiak Island. The decline of the Aleut tribes under ecological and colonial pressures has prompted the Union government to take a more direct hand, importing cossacks for security and Siberian hunters to do the work.
Britain too took a renewed interest in its North American interests, a large supply and settlement convoy departing with haste and braving the Atlantic in early winter. British settlers and traders pushed west and south from the colony, in some cases into disputably French territory.
Negotiations between the rebel assembly in Nouvelle Anvers and King-Emperor Louis XIV broke down in 1790, despite a proclamation by the later promising considerable autonomy and amnesty for the colonies. Events within the domestic politics of the Colombians had to do with it: the radical republicanism and religious undertones present had transformed it from a tax dispute into a struggle between good and evil for many delegates. But Louis’s magnanimity had some effect, especially in Acadia, with its closer commercial ties to France. As yet unthreatened by the fighting many of their grievances were potentially addressed and Acadian troops fighting in other provinces frequently deserted.
(Colombie: -1 confidence Acadia, -2 irregulars)
Fighting began in Caroline where an imperial army of 10,000 under Louis-François de Lambertye struck north out of Floride. Harassed along the way by colonial irregulars, Louis-François nonetheless pushed forward along the coast, where rebel forces only faced him in a stand-up battle outside the Carolinian capital of Charleville. He was able to easily brush aside the poorly trained, outnumbered militia and secure the city. Using the port to receive resupply has somewhat diminished the effect of partisans on de Lambertye’s forces but in truth he only controls the territory his army personally occupies, chiefly the coastal cities. Caroline’s government has fled north, establishing a temporary capital, but the civil administration of the colony has been much disrupted; rebel policies of resource denial towards the French have hit Caroline hard.
(Colombie: -4 Irregulars, -5% Centralization Caroline, -1 Confidence Caroline) (France: -2 regiments)
The rebel leadership expected the main French thrust to be at Nouvelle Bretagne and prepared accordingly. They were very mistaken. In reality, King Louis had directed that the main French thrust would come overland, with a massive force of 25,000 men under the Louis, Duc de Mahon travelling up the Mississippi and over the Great Lakes. This was a massive logistical endeavor, as some of the territory they would pass through were only French as an exercise in map-making, and their relative success in doing so is a credit to Mahon’s staff and the ample funding provided. Forts and supply depots were established along the Mississippi, new treaties worked out with the native tribes, and new, much better maps were all made to support this massive endeavor.
Unfortunately, no plan survives contact with the enemy and Mahon’s original strategy to use the Great Lakes to quickly transport troops and supplies floundered on the discovery of armed rebel barges, apparently purpose-built for the lakes. The Colombians, it seemed, had the opposite plan, though their strategy to launch offensives and subvert native tribes in the interior was largely thwarted by Mahon’s presence. Mahon was able to make slow progress along the lakes using his artillery to ward off the ramshackle rebel flotilla. This meant he didn’t reach Canada, and rebel-held territory, until September by which point the Canadian winter forced him to establish winter quarters in the Niagara Peninsula.
His ultimate plan was to strike towards Quebec in the Spring and relieve the garrison there, but that will almost certainly have to be revised. Lacking in artillery the Colombians were unable to take the redoubt, so instead a force of rebel rangers in October infiltrated the fort’s docks and demolished them with arson and sabotage before the regulars could react. This has made resupply by sea much more prohibitive, making a large part of Mahon’s objective in reaching the fort null and void.
(Colombie: -1 irregulars) (France: -1 regiment)
The massive deployment of French troops in the Mississippi has had local benefits for the security of the region, with the newly-founded forts establishing stronger French control over the interior.
(France: +5% Centralization French Louisiana)
A segment of the formidable French fleet took to the seas to establish a blockade of the rebel colonies: this was a task greater than it was able, both due to the length of the coastline and the Colombian aptitude for smuggling. The great Man o Wars took up positions outside the major harbors like Nouvelle Anvers and Philippa while the lighter frigates ranged the coast, hunting down rebel craft. But this made them easy prey for Colombian frigates, many of which were designed to be heavier tonnage than their European counterparts, sinking a number in scattered engagements in the Western Atlantic.
(France: -5 frigates) (Colombie: -1 frigate)
A rise in slave unrest is noted in Brazil, making local administrators uneasy. More and more slaves are trying to escape and those that do succeed disappear. The colonial governor has blamed the Dutch, who have been upping the scale of their black-market trade with the colony.
(Spain: -1 confidence Brazil)
OOC: Stats for this turn.
Right, housekeeping.
Danwar has dropped as Khalistan: I’m still more interested in a new player for the Ottomans. You, as players, are encouraged to help with this, because until they’re filled by someone else I’m playing them whereas other NPCs are fairly passive or guided by coin tosses.
Some changes have been made to political reforms: Propaganda has gone away forever*, replaced with the existing reforms and a new reform called Populist Measures. General Staff has been renamed Stavka for flavor.
Economic growth will also suffer from diminishing returns in the future, with repeated investments of MC in the same province seeing reduced growth.
Some states were renamed: the Columbian rebels are now Colombie, and Lithuanian Ukraine is Lithuanian Ruthenia, for example.
Note that stats are in a separate spreadsheet from last turn's, so the 1790 and 1791 stats have different links.
*or, at least, until I find a good way to have players buy confidence
“He has the soul of a diplomat; that is, he is very good at flattering his enemies.”
-Jean-Louis de Bancalis de Maurel, French Ambassador to Hungary
As the new year begins in 1790, a new age is beginning. The Great Powers continue to jockey for dominance on the world stage but they’ve begun to turn towards new tools, revolutionary and innovative in more ways than one. But every sword has two edges. Progress has its price and it is paid with blood and iron.
Western Europe
A new political order is formalized in Europe with the signing of the Treaty of Vilnius by the French Empire and the Russian-Lithuanian Union: both claimants to the Roman mantle. In truth this has been a long time coming since their respective victory over their regional rivals and already it is challenged as emerging alliances work to counter the Paris-Moscow axis. But, for the moment, peace prevails from Brest to Tsaritsyn.
In Ireland, King Philip moves to consolidate his control over the country, establishing a modern bureaucracy, neutering the Irish Parliament, and centralizing authority around himself. But this act provokes resistance, especially from the Protestant lords and Anglo-Irish, who have convened a rogue parliament in Belfast in defiance of his authority.
(Ireland: Enacts Administrative Reform, Discards New Government, government changed to Administrative Monarchy, -1 Stability)
Paris is the center of the world, a bustling metropolis home to culture and finance. And home to more and more people, as many peasants from the countryside enter the cities of northern France in search of jobs and opportunity. This is to the discomfort of the physiocratic government under the Duc de Broglie, though French parliamentary politics have not seen him take action against it.
(France: 10 economy from Occitania to France).
The aftermath of the Nine Years’ War left Spanish finances in a desperate state. Beyond the usual repackaging and refinancing of debt, the Spanish Prime Minister Francisco Baltasar de Velasco made a tour of the major powers of Western Europe, soliciting financial support from on-and-off rivals in London, Paris, and Amsterdam. Whether his beneficiaries were motivated by altruism or realpolitik in supporting the ailing Spanish Empire, he succeeded in buying a few months in interest payments. This was enough time to implement further reforms to military supply that had nearly put Seville on stable fiscal footing by the end of the year.
(Spain: Enact Fiscal Reform, General Staff)
Alfons VII worked to pivot Aragon from a maritime focus, mothballing a significant fraction of the royal fleet. Seeing as the Mediterranean was firmly under the thumb of much greater powers this was not a bad strategy and many of the discharged sailors soon found employment in the Aragonese merchant fleet. His efforts this year were directed towards reconciliation with local administrative bodies, many of whom found his arguments in favor of centralization convincing given Aragon’s precarious independence. He also put energy towards raising the quality of his army’s drill and training, being the key asset to preserve that independence.
(Aragon: Adopt Military Discipline, Enact Propaganda in Aragon, +1 economy Aragon)
Britain enacted similar fiscal reforms to reduce interest payments from its lingering debt. This has strained international capital, making the prospect of future debt restructuring no longer guaranteed.
(Britain: Enact Fiscal Reform)
Part of this was due to increased taxes in the Netherlands, where King Willem Casimir worked to consolidate his revenues, no longer able to rely on the riches of the East Indies to keep state finances in the black. The Dutch are one of the few major sources of credit not tied down, most Dutch debt residing in the defunct East Indies Company, and they may be unwilling to stomach lower interest rates.
(Netherlands: Enact Administrative Reform, Propaganda in Netherlands)
Ferdinand III is keen to strengthen the Sicilian fleet, overseeing the installation of modern copper sheathing for his ships. The utility of these new inventions in the calm waters of the Mediterranean for a fleet that always has ready access to a port is debatable, especially in light of setbacks in Tunisia.
(Sicily: Adopt Copper Bottoming)
There is an upsurge in radical sentiments in Venice, as the city becomes a gathering point for Italian nationalists and republicans.
(Bavaria: -1 confidence Venetia)
General feelings of goodwill and peace are prevalent in Central Europe, especially in the Confederation of the Rhine. Rhenish nobles are frequent guests at Polish balls and Swedish galas, leading several Confederate Princes to reduce the size of their standing armies, feeling secure with guarantees of non-aggression from their neighbors.
Denmark-Norway overhauled many of its shipyards this year, adopting the French standard for naval designs. Its merchant marine had plenty of work, largely supporting Sweden’s fledgling colonial empire in the absence of any Swedish Atlantic presence.
(Denmark-Norway: Adopt Uniform Naval Design, +1 economy Norway)
Eastern Europe
The Kingdoms of Bavaria, Austria, and Hungary joined together in signing a treaty of mutual defence, creating a new power bloc in Central Europe. Both South German kingdoms took advantage of this to remove internal economic barriers and invigorate commerce. The revitalization of trade along the Danube has benefitted Vienna, bringing new life to the Hapsburgs’ historic capital.
(Bavaria: Adopt National Market) (Austria: Adopt National Market, +1 economy Austria)
The lessons of the Third Northern War are still being processed, with the major powers of Eastern Europe formalizing the establishment of a permanent planning body for their militaries. Russia, Sweden, and Poland had maintained all these “stavkas” since the end of the war, but 1790 saw them grow to their full responsibility.
(Russia-Lithuania, Sweden, Poland: Adopt General Staff)
Nationalist sentiment is on the rise in Finland, as the local population resents the imposition of Swedish language and culture. In the face of overwhelming Swedish military might they are merely able to undermine Swedish rule, however, through civil acts and vandalism.
(Sweden: -5% Centralization in Swedish Finland)
The Polish government, under young ministers like Stanisław Mokronowski and Louis von Julich-Berg, has worked to strengthen the economy of the country, establishing a ministry for weights and measures and removing internal tariffs. They’ve also worked to shore up Polish popularity in Brandenberg, appealing to the German nobility. But more competition isn’t always a good thing and the winter has seen a collapse of Prussian industry in the face of competition from more sophisticated parts of the kingdom.
(Poland: Adopt National Market, Enact Propaganda in Brandenberg, -1 MC Prussia)
The Hungarian royal elections were one of the most watched events of 1790, as half a dozen foreign princelings competed for the Crown of St. Stephen. But the Hungarian magnates were not swayed by their entreaties and were soon resolved to the election of a local notable as king, to the particular dismay of the pro-Vasa faction. Led by Wladimir Piziak, one of the Polish-Hungarian marcher lords, they stormed out of the convention halls in Buda, provoking a minor crisis that led to a week of frantic negotiations. Ultimately they returned to vote in a show of unanimity for a scion of the Esterhazys as King. King Launcelot’s election was accompanied by a series of political compromises, codified in a Constitution modelled on the defunct Polish one which formalized the continued power of the Diet, and in the issuing of strategic land grants along the Turkish border to key military supporters.
(Hungary: Adopt Constitution, Discard New Government, government changed to Parliamentary Monarchy)
A highly effective pasha took power in Serbia, defusing tensions between the local aristocracy and Sultan Mahmud II’s government.
(Ottoman Empire: +1 Confidence in Serbia)
Russia experimented with manufactories in its heartland, operated by state serfs and dedicated to the production of armaments for the Union’s military. Alongside modifications to the conscription laws and limited self-emancipation from serfdom they were very well received, justifying larger scale implementation to the Duma and Seimas.
(Russia-Lithuania: Progressive Experimentation in Muscovy, +1 Confidence Muscovy)
A proposal in the Lithuanian Seimas to mandate the use of the western alphabet in schools within that half of the country, pushing out Cyrillic, makes it far before failing to ultimately reach a majority. It’s part of a broader movement in both Vilnius and Moscow that seeks further westernization of Russia through the adoption of Latin characters for the Russian language. But the legislation caused considerable distress in Ruthenia, inflaming tensions between the slavic-speaking population and the Lithuanian magnates.
(Russia-Lithuania: -1 Confidence Lithuanian Ruthenia)
Something seems to have spooked Heraclius of Georgia, as the Persian client-ruler raises taxes and expands his army.
(Georgia: Enact Administrative Reform)
Africa and the Middle East
A pair of exiled Mamluk rulers, Ibrahim Bey and Murad Bey, returned to Cairo from Upper Egypt this year and with the backing of a cabal of officers drove out the Ottoman governor and seized control of the province. Their control of the country is reaching towards Port Suez, the center of French efforts to build a great canal to the Red Sea, and the expected fighting between them and the Ottoman forces has ground construction on the canal to a halt.
(Ottoman Empire: Egypt and Sudan to 0% Centralization, -5 Irregulars)
The death of the Dutch client-king of the Kongo without a clear heir has seen the region slide into tribal warfare, weakening the Netherlands’ control over its chief African colony.
(Netherlands: -5% Centralization Dutch Kongo)
As its European ambitions are frustrated, Sweden has turned to Africa for expansion, establishing trading posts in the Niger Delta and in a promising protected bay in the South African desert. Its reluctance to get involved in the slave trade has limited the value of these trade posts: after all, what value is there in Africa besides its labor?
A wave of British settlers are encouraged to emigrate to the Cape Colony by London, sparking conflicts with the already settled Dutch-speaking colonists. Rather than live alongside the Anglos many of them have pushed forward into the frontier, with the support of the British government. The frontiersmen have come into conflict with local African tribes, pushing them out of some of their southern pastures.
A Sicilian punitive expedition in Tunisia was destroyed by Berber tribesmen in an ambush outside of Sufetula.
(Sicily: -1 regiment)
Even as Mahmud II’s control is challenged in Egypt he strengthens his hand in the Turkish heartland of Anatolia. Beyond just blinding and/or castrating potential rivals the Sultan filled key posts with competent loyalists across Turkey, packing government offices with his supporters.
(Ottoman Empire: Enact Propaganda, Administrative Reform in Anatolia)
The Persian Shah enacted restrictions on the presence of foreign merchants and missionaries this year, closing Persian markets. While they saw a mixed response in Persia itself they did end up strengthening his hold over Irak, edging out lingering Turkish influence. A coincidental ascendancy of pro-Afsharid tribes in Afghanistan also occurred to Mashhad’s benefit.
(Afsharid Persia: Adopt Mercantilism, +5% Centralization Mesopotamia, +1 Confidence Afghanistan)
Persian troops were dispatched to augment the existing garrison in Oman, struggling to tie the most distant, religiously and geographically, of the Shah’s domains to the empire. More success was had with the carrot than the stick as tribal warriors and the rough terrain did considerable damage to the Persian reinforcements. Meetings with religious leaders succeeded in encouraging them to preach harmony between Ibadi and Shia.
(Afsharid Persia: -1 Irregular, +1 Confidence Arabia)
India
The unexpected death of Rajit Sirvan Eghbali has paralyzed the Sikh Empire. The military barons are jockeying for position in the aftermath, trying to maneuver one of their own misl onto the throne. But the succession has remained relative peaceful and the Confederacy is largely running itself in the absence of a ruler.
(Sikh Empire: -1 Confidence Punjab, +1 Stability)
Peshwa Madhavrao II began major reforms in the Maratha Empire, to the horror of the traditional stakeholders in its Confederate system. The Maratha had spread their feudal system across India, establishing members of their warrior-aristocracy as rulers of sub-domains held in fief to the Bhosle or Mughal Emperors, though in practice these were hereditary. The Peshwa upset this status quo beginning in Rajasthan, reshuffling their holdings and responsibilities and integrating the native Rajput princes into the government. He justified it under the pretense of boosting the production of opium and cotton, but this explanation didn’t fool those affected. While gradual, gradual change can only be so gradual when it is so radical, and it was fortunate for Madhavrao that these reforms were so well received among the Rajputs, who were very interested in acquiring greater power within the Maratha government itself.
(Maratha Empire: Discard Feudalism, Enact Progressive Experimentation and Integrated Elites in Rajasthan, +1 Confidence Rajasthan, Government changed to Administrative Monarchy)
His centralizing efforts were less well received elsewhere in the Maratha Empire. A palace conspiracy to install one of his nephews on the throne was thwarted, as was another to have the Bhosle Emperor remove him from power. With all of this the new treaty negotiated with the British didn’t raise an eyebrow: the European cannons purchased were soon being used to execute traitors. These coup attempts provided ample fodder to remove troublesome notables from power in the Maratha homelands but the situation was worse out in the provinces. In Northern India, along the Ganges, the local nobility has rejected the Peshwa’s attempt to centralize the Confederacy, culminating in the Nawab of Oudh seizing Delhi and installing a new puppet Emperor on the Mughal throne after defeating a loyalist garrison. Dissent simmers in Central Indian Nagpur as the Maratha ruling class is unwilling to give up their posts, and the Kingdom of Nepal, always a tenuous conquest, has quietly slipped away without overt action. Fortunately for Madhavrao he's been able to secure the center of Maratha rule, but North India is making a very bold effort to escape Pune's control and it will take significant campaigning to bring it all back into the fold.
(Maratha Empire: Centralization to 0% in Nepal, Ganges, -10% Centralization in Nagpur, -2 Confidence Ganges, -1 Confidence Nagpur, -20 Irregulars)
Able administrators in the French-controlled India have rationalized the administration of one of its colonies, taking advantage of the death of a French client ruler to establish firmer control over the protectorate.
(France: +5% Centralization French Circars)
A new player enters Indian politics, with the distant Republic of Sweden negotiating with Mysore for the establishment of a trade post in Calicut. While surprised, Tipu Sultan turned right around and used the proceeds from the lease to purchase European cannons and hire skilled military advisors from Sweden and Spain to modernize his army. He also invested considerable effort in modernizing Mysore’s administration, knowing that the creation of a force capable of standing up to European powers would be expensive.
(Mysore: Enact Administrative Reform, Discard Irregulars)
There is an uptick in piracy in the Indian Ocean, imperiling British ships traveling between the Cape and the East Indies.
East Asia
The arrival of Qing officials and inspectors in the tributary kingdom of Assam seriously alarmed its ruler, for whom Qing rule had been nominal since its establishment. Officials are pleased to report to the Qianlong Emperor that he has become much more compliant, with tribute arriving on time and, often, in excess.
(Qing China: +1 Confidence, +5% Centralization Assam)
Binnya Ran of Pegu patronized traditional Mon culture, requiring Mon dress and fashion in the kingdom’s heartland of the Irrawaddy Delta. His goal, to push out the lingering Burmese influence of the Taungoo, is on its way to succeeding. His army of occupation continues to battle rebel forces in Burma, symbolically destroying many of the traditional strongholds of the stillborn Konbaung Dynasty.
(Hanthawaddy Pegu: Enact Propaganda in Irrawaddy Delta, +1 confidence Ava)
The deployment of additional British troops and targeted propaganda have secured the power of their client-ruler in Siam, backing up the fragile monarchy by solidifying alliances with other local notables.
(Britain: Enact Propaganda in Siam)
Emperor Quang Trung of Annam works to consolidate control over the country, campaigning politically and military in the north, the seat of the old Trinh rivals. But his policies face backlash in the south, especially in the regions conquered from Siam, and a rebellion has seen control of that region slip away from his control for the moment.
(Tay Son Annam: Enact Propaganda in Dai Viet, Administrative Reform, Centralization to 0% in Khmer)
The Qianlong Emperor is the recipient of many fine gifts this year, with tribute arriving from the usual sources but also far-flung powers like Afsharid Persia and Great Britain. To those who keep track this is the furthest any Chinese tributary system has yet to reach.
A nascent rebellion was crushed in Yunnan by local garrisons: the regional administrators have placed the blame on the Ming revivalist White Lotus Society.
(Qing China: -1 irregular)
The Russian government succeeds in achieving a limited opening of the massive Qing Empire to trade, sending state-owned caravans to meet with Chinese merchants across the vast expanse of Siberia.
(Russia-Lithuania: +2 economy Russian Far East) (Qing China: +1 economy Mongolia)
Tokugawa Hidetaka, under the influence of the liberal chamberlain Tanuma Okitsugu, brought many of Japan’s daimyo to Kyoto to convene a Great Roju Council, a mass assembly of the island kingdom’s feudal lords. Hidetaka used the council to pass a number of, in his mind, much needed reforms, abolishing century-old distinction between Fudai and Tozama, those who supported the Tokugawa in their ascent and those who did not. But the majority of the Roju remained Fudai, many of whom were given their lands as administrators by the Tokugawa clan, and the nominal equality was soon found to be hollow by the southern lords who now also chafed on additional measures passed by the Roju Council. Most importantly, however, Hidetaka gave his blessing for the opening of Japan, officially ending the isolationist Sakoku policies. The southern daimyo took advantage of this, inviting in French and Bavarian advisors and, on their recommendations, enacting land reforms to mixed results, as the hoped-for manufacturing has yet to develop even as agricultural yields decline.
(Tokugawa Japan: Enact Administrative Reform, Discard Serfdom in Kyushu and Shikoku)
As Japan opens up to the world, tensions between British colonial administrators and the population of Nagasaki have cooled. Shameful as it is, the treaty-port has become popular for arranging trade agreements between daimyo and foreign powers such as Britain, France, Spain, and the Qing.
(Britain: +1 Confidence in Nagasaki Treaty-Port, +5 economy)
Americas
Russian fur traders are encouraged by Moscow to establish a permanent settlement on Kodiak Island. The decline of the Aleut tribes under ecological and colonial pressures has prompted the Union government to take a more direct hand, importing cossacks for security and Siberian hunters to do the work.
Britain too took a renewed interest in its North American interests, a large supply and settlement convoy departing with haste and braving the Atlantic in early winter. British settlers and traders pushed west and south from the colony, in some cases into disputably French territory.
Negotiations between the rebel assembly in Nouvelle Anvers and King-Emperor Louis XIV broke down in 1790, despite a proclamation by the later promising considerable autonomy and amnesty for the colonies. Events within the domestic politics of the Colombians had to do with it: the radical republicanism and religious undertones present had transformed it from a tax dispute into a struggle between good and evil for many delegates. But Louis’s magnanimity had some effect, especially in Acadia, with its closer commercial ties to France. As yet unthreatened by the fighting many of their grievances were potentially addressed and Acadian troops fighting in other provinces frequently deserted.
(Colombie: -1 confidence Acadia, -2 irregulars)
Fighting began in Caroline where an imperial army of 10,000 under Louis-François de Lambertye struck north out of Floride. Harassed along the way by colonial irregulars, Louis-François nonetheless pushed forward along the coast, where rebel forces only faced him in a stand-up battle outside the Carolinian capital of Charleville. He was able to easily brush aside the poorly trained, outnumbered militia and secure the city. Using the port to receive resupply has somewhat diminished the effect of partisans on de Lambertye’s forces but in truth he only controls the territory his army personally occupies, chiefly the coastal cities. Caroline’s government has fled north, establishing a temporary capital, but the civil administration of the colony has been much disrupted; rebel policies of resource denial towards the French have hit Caroline hard.
(Colombie: -4 Irregulars, -5% Centralization Caroline, -1 Confidence Caroline) (France: -2 regiments)
The rebel leadership expected the main French thrust to be at Nouvelle Bretagne and prepared accordingly. They were very mistaken. In reality, King Louis had directed that the main French thrust would come overland, with a massive force of 25,000 men under the Louis, Duc de Mahon travelling up the Mississippi and over the Great Lakes. This was a massive logistical endeavor, as some of the territory they would pass through were only French as an exercise in map-making, and their relative success in doing so is a credit to Mahon’s staff and the ample funding provided. Forts and supply depots were established along the Mississippi, new treaties worked out with the native tribes, and new, much better maps were all made to support this massive endeavor.
Unfortunately, no plan survives contact with the enemy and Mahon’s original strategy to use the Great Lakes to quickly transport troops and supplies floundered on the discovery of armed rebel barges, apparently purpose-built for the lakes. The Colombians, it seemed, had the opposite plan, though their strategy to launch offensives and subvert native tribes in the interior was largely thwarted by Mahon’s presence. Mahon was able to make slow progress along the lakes using his artillery to ward off the ramshackle rebel flotilla. This meant he didn’t reach Canada, and rebel-held territory, until September by which point the Canadian winter forced him to establish winter quarters in the Niagara Peninsula.
His ultimate plan was to strike towards Quebec in the Spring and relieve the garrison there, but that will almost certainly have to be revised. Lacking in artillery the Colombians were unable to take the redoubt, so instead a force of rebel rangers in October infiltrated the fort’s docks and demolished them with arson and sabotage before the regulars could react. This has made resupply by sea much more prohibitive, making a large part of Mahon’s objective in reaching the fort null and void.
(Colombie: -1 irregulars) (France: -1 regiment)
The massive deployment of French troops in the Mississippi has had local benefits for the security of the region, with the newly-founded forts establishing stronger French control over the interior.
(France: +5% Centralization French Louisiana)
A segment of the formidable French fleet took to the seas to establish a blockade of the rebel colonies: this was a task greater than it was able, both due to the length of the coastline and the Colombian aptitude for smuggling. The great Man o Wars took up positions outside the major harbors like Nouvelle Anvers and Philippa while the lighter frigates ranged the coast, hunting down rebel craft. But this made them easy prey for Colombian frigates, many of which were designed to be heavier tonnage than their European counterparts, sinking a number in scattered engagements in the Western Atlantic.
(France: -5 frigates) (Colombie: -1 frigate)
A rise in slave unrest is noted in Brazil, making local administrators uneasy. More and more slaves are trying to escape and those that do succeed disappear. The colonial governor has blamed the Dutch, who have been upping the scale of their black-market trade with the colony.
(Spain: -1 confidence Brazil)
Spoiler Map 1791 :
OOC: Stats for this turn.
Right, housekeeping.
Danwar has dropped as Khalistan: I’m still more interested in a new player for the Ottomans. You, as players, are encouraged to help with this, because until they’re filled by someone else I’m playing them whereas other NPCs are fairly passive or guided by coin tosses.
Some changes have been made to political reforms: Propaganda has gone away forever*, replaced with the existing reforms and a new reform called Populist Measures. General Staff has been renamed Stavka for flavor.
Economic growth will also suffer from diminishing returns in the future, with repeated investments of MC in the same province seeing reduced growth.
Some states were renamed: the Columbian rebels are now Colombie, and Lithuanian Ukraine is Lithuanian Ruthenia, for example.
Note that stats are in a separate spreadsheet from last turn's, so the 1790 and 1791 stats have different links.
*or, at least, until I find a good way to have players buy confidence
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the following declaration begins appearing on posters and in public declarations throughout the lands of Colombie and abroad in Louisiane, Floride, and the French colonies of Colombie beyond.
Colombie Declaration D’Indepedence
When the people’s will is united in reason and rectitude to dissolve the bonds that tie them to oppression and tyranny and to seek righteous independence, necessarily their struggle is just. And the nation they raise be strengthened by their unity, their reason, and their just cause.
We, the people of Colombie recognize that all men are created equal, and that they be endowed with unalienable rights, rights to Vie, Liberté, Dignité, and Fraternité. These rights are inherent to humanity and cannot be given or taken away by men, not by kings, aristocrats, tyrants, or other.
These, the rights of the people, must be upheld and defended through laws and government. And the laws that defend humanity must come from its people- from the consent of the governed. Government and laws must necessarily arise from the people, representing and enacting the peoples’ will. And when governance ceases to represent the peoples’ will, the people are justified, and in just cause, and indeed it is their, the peoples duty, to overthrow the tyranny they suffer under.
By these truths, which we hold to be self-evident and undeniable, and due the insults levied upon we, the people, it our sacred and just duty, to throw off the tyranny of the crown of King Louis the XIV.
"He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
"He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
"He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
"He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
"He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness of his invasions on the rights of the people.
"He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
"He has endeavoured to prevent the population of la Colombie; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
"He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
"He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
"He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
"He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
"For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
"For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
"For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
"For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
"For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
"For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
"For abolishing the free System of French Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into la Colombie.
"For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
"For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
"He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
"He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
"He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
"He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
"He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us.
"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
We therefore, the representatives of la Colombie, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of la Colombie, solemnly publish and declare, that la Colombie is, and of Right ought to be, Free and Independent. We absolve from all Allegiance to the French Crown, and that all political connection between us and the State of France, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent Nation, we have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent Nations may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
(with apologies to the American declaration of independence upon which this is based and its reasons for insult are directly plagiarized)
Colombie Declaration D’Indepedence
When the people’s will is united in reason and rectitude to dissolve the bonds that tie them to oppression and tyranny and to seek righteous independence, necessarily their struggle is just. And the nation they raise be strengthened by their unity, their reason, and their just cause.
We, the people of Colombie recognize that all men are created equal, and that they be endowed with unalienable rights, rights to Vie, Liberté, Dignité, and Fraternité. These rights are inherent to humanity and cannot be given or taken away by men, not by kings, aristocrats, tyrants, or other.
These, the rights of the people, must be upheld and defended through laws and government. And the laws that defend humanity must come from its people- from the consent of the governed. Government and laws must necessarily arise from the people, representing and enacting the peoples’ will. And when governance ceases to represent the peoples’ will, the people are justified, and in just cause, and indeed it is their, the peoples duty, to overthrow the tyranny they suffer under.
By these truths, which we hold to be self-evident and undeniable, and due the insults levied upon we, the people, it our sacred and just duty, to throw off the tyranny of the crown of King Louis the XIV.
"He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
"He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
"He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
"He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
"He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness of his invasions on the rights of the people.
"He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
"He has endeavoured to prevent the population of la Colombie; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
"He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
"He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
"He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
"He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
"For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
"For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
"For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
"For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
"For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
"For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
"For abolishing the free System of French Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into la Colombie.
"For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
"For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
"He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
"He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
"He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
"He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
"He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us.
"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
We therefore, the representatives of la Colombie, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of la Colombie, solemnly publish and declare, that la Colombie is, and of Right ought to be, Free and Independent. We absolve from all Allegiance to the French Crown, and that all political connection between us and the State of France, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent Nation, we have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent Nations may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
(with apologies to the American declaration of independence upon which this is based and its reasons for insult are directly plagiarized)
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Golden Bull - 1791
It is written in the Most Holy Scriptures "Let every person be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God and those which exist are established by God." (Romans 13:1). Likewise did the Saviour proclaim that man should render unto Caesar that which was due him (Matthew 22:21). By this did Our Lord Jesus Christ, Emperor of Emperors and Saviour of Mankind teach that the Emperor bears authority and imperium, being appointed by divine providence to rule and to govern his people in obedience to the divine law, respecting always the law of God which is superior to any wile of sinful man. This truth, clearly spoken by the Lord as recorded in the Holy Scriptures, has always and everywhere been held by Christians. Indeed Christ himself did affirm this with his own sacred body and blood, by affirming the right of Pontius Pilate to put him to death saying "You would have no authority over Me if it were not given to you from above" (John 19:11). Thus it is clear and sound teaching that the public authority is given the power to kill wrongdoers, and that not unjustly, since it is necessary for the defence of the commonwealth. In denying this the rebels neglect the truth that human 'liberte' is not absolute or independent of his social nature as a member of the commonwealth bearing obligations to society and susceptibility to just punishment, inasmuch they inculcate an untruth for neither death nor the punitive sovereignty of the crown are contrary to human dignity or true freedom.
Yet it has come to pass that certain radicals, drowning out the voices of reason within the congresses of the Columbine revolt and tyrannically in the manner of a baying mob oppressing the voice of those subjects favourable to our most generous offer for local autonomy [which We proposed inasmuch to rectify the legitimate grievances of certain subjects of ours regarding local conditions brought about by the recent war with Great Britain which have aggrieved not just our Colonies but Us and all of France] have come to deny the God-given authority of Our rule and raised up sinful human nature under guise of "reason", which in truth is nothing more than moral license and self-indulgence, as justification for their rebellion. They have replaced the writ of God with their own worldly wilfulness and proved the lie to their own claims of rational judgement by the calumnies and lies they hurl against Us. Proclaiming as they do such absurd and self-evident falsehoods as the claim that the crown has sent foreign mercenaries against its subjects and oppressed the people of Our colonies amongst other such hysterics, even as rapacious rebel brigands burn farms and hinder legitimate enterprise of innocent non-combatants with the full and enthusiastic support of the general congress.
To this end, the General Congress in its so-called proclamation of independence is charged with the following grave crimes.
It is in the service of the latter that we charge the Duc de Mahon and all our loyal deputies to strive to the utmost to restore order and serenity to our colonies and plantations in North America, charging them to bring to trial and judgement those rebels who obstinately persist in denying the legitimate authority of the Crown and wage unrelenting war against us and Our loyal subjects, and to protect and support where able those subjects who have been subject to the predations and tyranny of the rebel administration, restoring damaged amenities and properties and likewise ensuring the restoration of lawful business and commerce throughout our plantations and colonies.
issued at Versailles April 03 1791 anno domini nostril Iesu Christi and decreed to be promulgated throughout the North American colonies.
His Imperial Majesty Louis XIV - Emperor of the Romans and King of France.
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nb: 100% original Jeho.
It is written in the Most Holy Scriptures "Let every person be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God and those which exist are established by God." (Romans 13:1). Likewise did the Saviour proclaim that man should render unto Caesar that which was due him (Matthew 22:21). By this did Our Lord Jesus Christ, Emperor of Emperors and Saviour of Mankind teach that the Emperor bears authority and imperium, being appointed by divine providence to rule and to govern his people in obedience to the divine law, respecting always the law of God which is superior to any wile of sinful man. This truth, clearly spoken by the Lord as recorded in the Holy Scriptures, has always and everywhere been held by Christians. Indeed Christ himself did affirm this with his own sacred body and blood, by affirming the right of Pontius Pilate to put him to death saying "You would have no authority over Me if it were not given to you from above" (John 19:11). Thus it is clear and sound teaching that the public authority is given the power to kill wrongdoers, and that not unjustly, since it is necessary for the defence of the commonwealth. In denying this the rebels neglect the truth that human 'liberte' is not absolute or independent of his social nature as a member of the commonwealth bearing obligations to society and susceptibility to just punishment, inasmuch they inculcate an untruth for neither death nor the punitive sovereignty of the crown are contrary to human dignity or true freedom.
Yet it has come to pass that certain radicals, drowning out the voices of reason within the congresses of the Columbine revolt and tyrannically in the manner of a baying mob oppressing the voice of those subjects favourable to our most generous offer for local autonomy [which We proposed inasmuch to rectify the legitimate grievances of certain subjects of ours regarding local conditions brought about by the recent war with Great Britain which have aggrieved not just our Colonies but Us and all of France] have come to deny the God-given authority of Our rule and raised up sinful human nature under guise of "reason", which in truth is nothing more than moral license and self-indulgence, as justification for their rebellion. They have replaced the writ of God with their own worldly wilfulness and proved the lie to their own claims of rational judgement by the calumnies and lies they hurl against Us. Proclaiming as they do such absurd and self-evident falsehoods as the claim that the crown has sent foreign mercenaries against its subjects and oppressed the people of Our colonies amongst other such hysterics, even as rapacious rebel brigands burn farms and hinder legitimate enterprise of innocent non-combatants with the full and enthusiastic support of the general congress.
To this end, the General Congress in its so-called proclamation of independence is charged with the following grave crimes.
- Apostasy and atheism, denying the indelible teachings of Christ as proclaimed in scripture and affirmed by both the Catholic and Reformed religions..
- Rebellion against the legitimate authority of the Crown
- Tyranny and criminal oppression of loyal subjects of the same Crown.
- Levying civil war against Our Subjects in Louisiana, Florida and Huron with the aim of subjecting them to the same oppression and mob rule that now prevails in the rebel colonies.
- Conducting treasonous discourse with foreign nations against the sovereignty of the Empire.
- Lese Majeste and calumny against the sacred person of the Emperor.
- Plundering, pillaging and engaging in acts of Banditry against our subjects in Caroline and elsewhere.
- Exciting insurrection and apostasy elsewhere in Our Empire.
It is in the service of the latter that we charge the Duc de Mahon and all our loyal deputies to strive to the utmost to restore order and serenity to our colonies and plantations in North America, charging them to bring to trial and judgement those rebels who obstinately persist in denying the legitimate authority of the Crown and wage unrelenting war against us and Our loyal subjects, and to protect and support where able those subjects who have been subject to the predations and tyranny of the rebel administration, restoring damaged amenities and properties and likewise ensuring the restoration of lawful business and commerce throughout our plantations and colonies.
issued at Versailles April 03 1791 anno domini nostril Iesu Christi and decreed to be promulgated throughout the North American colonies.
His Imperial Majesty Louis XIV - Emperor of the Romans and King of France.
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nb: 100% original Jeho.
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Great update, Shadow. Looking forward to the future.
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Some new reforms have been added and language clarified.
Orders for Turn 2, which will cover 1791, are due August 31st.
Orders for Turn 2, which will cover 1791, are due August 31st.
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To: The Bhosle and Mughal Emperors, and to the Princes of the Maratha Confederacy
From: Emperor Louis XIV of France
According to the Pact of Amhedabad between France and the Maratha princes, non-aggression is agreed between Our Empire and the same princes of India for five years to be renegotiated upon lapse.
However concerned with regards to military treaties between the confederate government and Great Britain, and acknowledging that it has come to pass that the princes of India currently wage war against each other with the various princedoms being divided amongst themselves. France can only inquire as to what guarantee it posesses that the terms of this pact shall be upheld? Likewise to what authority may France turn to guarantee its efficacy? Thus we appeal to the liege-lords of the Confederacy the most honourable Bhosle and the great Mughal to clarify the status of the principalities and the regency of Madhavrao II. Pending this clarification we can only consider the previous pact in abeyance in the absence of suzerainty binding over its intended beneficiaries.
Should this matter be clarified as to the respective members participation in voluntary confederation then France is wholeheartedly prepared to renew its commitment to the pact for the duration of its term.
~ Louis XIV.
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