Chapter Ninety Eight
Navarra revolts in November 1785 as my troops scramble towards the new wars and sit in dreary sieges in the old wars. The next three months will see uprisings in Timbuktu, Yola, Rio de Janeiro, Fernando Po, Porto Seguro, Anhui, Nazca and Gran Paro.
Mali and Sokoto annexed - February 1786
That just leaves OPMs Morocco and Kanem Bornu left independent in the Sunni world.
Idah, Caqueta and Limosin revolt in March. Peru sends a warning in April, that’s basically goodnight from them. There are another three revolts; Eora, Ningxia and Asturias.
Peace with Mexico - May 1786
That took some doing, this leaves Mexico with four provinces so two wars to annexation. I still have some British provinces I’d like to capture in this war. Pisa revolts that month. Cartagena and the Kurils revolt in June.
Peace with Cherokee - June 1786
Haiti is now an OPM and I can move that army out to try and take some more Caribbean islands. July sees revolts in Linz and Greater Namaquala. Nazca rebels in August. Lienz converts in September. Itamaraca rebels.
October brings six new cores and the sieges are still dragging on! Ganzhou, Mutsu and Tumbes rebel. Tirol also converts. Kyaukse converts in early November. Germany is the main focus for missionaries but I’m diverting the odd one to South East Asia to help calm things down in that area. Cayor, Lima and Perigord revolt. December; Armagnac, Tumbes and Cajamarca rebel.
Peace with Great Britain - December 1786
That’s Britain in Northern Mexico along with provinces in the Caribbean, Pacific , Brittany, Norway and of course a border with diplomatically ‘interesting’ Scotland.
Peace with Sweden - December 1786
Not a 100% peace deal but my armies had simply ran out of steam and tropical West Africa is a harsh place to go on the offensive.
All but unbelievably the Horde is at peace.
Pipil revolts in January 1787. By early April the deafening silence has driven the Khan to distraction…
War with Ireland - April 1787
Portugal had guaranteed Ireland and I was warned by Peru. Mixtec and Antioquia rebel at the news as do Roussillon and Mellila later in the month. May brings five revolts; Valenciennes, Cumbria, Yola and Calabar. Cayor and Itenines rebel in June.
Since I’m tidying up South America…
War with Chimu - July 1787
Only Chimu can be reached at the moment. Fiji and Barcelona rebel as does Espirito Santo later on.
Chimu is annexed in early August.
Peace with Ireland - September 1787
They are now an OPM. Cauca and Woiworung revolt.
War with Scotland - October 1787
I’m already at war with Portugal but other than that…
There’s revolts in Cuenca and Kii. Linz converts. Chorotega and Jeolla revolt in November. Trier converts in December. January 1788 starts with a core on Bourgogne and a ‘victory’ in Futa Jallon…
The French have the dreaded Latin Cuirassiers. Goias revolts and Castile sends a warning towards the end of January… February starts with revolts; Barunggam, Santana and Thang Long.
Peace with Mexico - February 1788
Mexico is now an OPM - the fourth province they had after the last peace deal has since defected to Canada. The Baleares revolt in March.
April brings four more revolts; Arica, Guayana, Bahia and Arequipa. The wars are going nowhere in particular as sieges are proving slow once again. Shawnee white peaced out around this time. Tierra del Fuego rebels in May.
Milan sends a warning in June - they’re allied to Castile anyway so that’s not such a big deal. Schwaben converts at the back end of the month and I finally kill that French force in West Africa.
Peace with Scotland - July 1788
Another new OPM just waiting for the chance to be annexed in the near future.
Peace with Canada - July 1788
It’s a shame I couldn’t grab that last Canadian province in the American South West but their time will come (they’ve two provinces in the North so it’s not that important as I couldn‘t OPM them). Burgos revolts. Tamaulipas rebels in August.
September is quiet with the next revolts a month later in Aberdeen and Calabar. Peru is annexed in the last days of October. Elsass converts in November and three more provinces rebel (Atacama, Huamanga and Chiancon). Konstanz converts in early December.
1789 starts with two rebellions in Hamgyeong and another one in Huillimapu. Ilheus revolts in March. April brings revolts in Worms, Atakapa and Trondelag. May sees a revolt in Cuzco.
Peace with Great Britain - May 1789
This is a 96 point peace deal adding British Southern California, a couple of Caribbean provinces, Iceland and some more tidying up around the British Isles. Sao Tome revolts a month later.
Keng Tung cores in August and Baden rebels. Once the rebels are defeated Baden promptly converts. Meath rebels in September - just days after most of my European sealift capacity has started a transatlantic run via the Brazilian coast to deliver 32000 new troops into Mexico.
Peace with France - October 1789
France is now down to two provinces; the capital Saintonge and a province in Alaska. I now have a bizarre and frankly worrying mental picture of Nicolas Sarkozy hooking up with Sarah Palin.
Peace with Portugal - November 1789
Drat!
That’s probably extended WC by a decade. The problem here is that while Portugal’s capital was in Europe those North American provinces would only be 2 or possibly 4 (if very high value) war score each. Now the capital is in North America those provinces will cost full value for war score - much like reducing any of the other majors. There’s not a lot of time left but Portugal has guaranteed a lot of minors…
Parana and Charcas revolt. December brings rebellions in Braganza and Hsenwi. And now it’s 1790 so there’ll be a state of the world type update next.
Rebel Count = 6060 (+83)
Rebels = 29,171,000 (+268,000)
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