Hello Everyone, This is my second attempt an AAR, my first one being the ill fated Mexican AAR that ended with several marsupials stealing a 1997 Volkswagon Jetta, and driving through St. Peter's square, drunk off of... well just read it and find out for yourself.
Here, I will be trying to create an entertaining story, and im not above anything to create that story (yes i will mod and cheating is an option). This, is a story of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the inspiration for which came from ComradeOm's CK AAR, The de Lusignan Dream.
The basic idea for this story is that, using the Kingdom of Cyprus as a base, Guy de Lusignan leads a crusade against the mamelukes and recaptures the holy land in the 14th century. His succesors expanded outwards, defeating the Ottoman and Persian empires in the process -- numerous other crusader states are developed, the most important one being the Kingdom of Egypt. Egypts fate is intertwined with Jerusalem, in that neither Jerusalem nor Constantinople was able to maintain a permanent grasp on it, and as such a very mixed population developed.
This all came to a halt in the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt in 1799 came to a crashing demise at the second battle of the pyramids, when a joint Anglo-Turkish force smashed his already deteriorating army. In 1805, Napoleon felt that he could force the British to the table by destroying their trade with India, which they had been developing to replace their lost American colonies. The Army of the Levant, a detachment of the Grand Army, would prove to be Napoleon's best trained army of the war, and would destroy the nearly 400,000 strong Ottoman Army at the Battle of Ankara. However, Wellington would sully the victory with a naval defeat at the Battle of the Nile, destroying the Army of the Levant's chance at returning to Europe. Wellington then doubled back and engaged a combinded Franco-Spanish fleet at gibralter, inflicting a decisive naval defeat on the Bonapartes, and cutting off Napoleon from his forces in Outremer (the Emperor had rushed back to Paris, just as in 1799).
While in the Outremer, the Army of the Levant secured the Crusader's throne for Napoleon, after ousting the reigning Habsburg monarch, Ferdinand V, who's father had secured the throne by force of arms, after nearly a century of vacancy. The Army of the Levant remained in the Outremer, making the mistake of mistrusting the extremely supportive locals, and refusing to allow them to take up arms in defense of their own Homeland. After Hostilities resumed with the Ottomans in 1813, the Army of the Levant faced a reorganized Ottoman Army, and British and Russian expiditionary forces. Though considerably better trained than the French forces on the Continent, the Army of the Levant was whittled down, battle by battle, eventually being forced to the walls of Jerusalem itself, where militia units were finally incorporated into a larger mass. During the Battle of the Old City, 480,000 allied troops were either killed, wounded or captured: the entirity of the allied main battle force. However the entire armed forces of Jerusalem, including the army of the Levant, numbered only 120,000, and the nations coffers had been drained by the French War effort and much of its territory was occupied by the Ottomans (who were mobilizing another 300,000 men).
The Congress of Vienna recognized the situation of the Levant, and, thanks to the Austrian Emperor's prodding, allowed the Napoleon II, the so called king of rome, to ascede to the Crusader's Throne, so long as Jerusalem would be stripped of a good portion of it's territory, to be placed under Ottoman rule, despite the fact that it had been under Jerusalemite jurisdiction since the 14th and 15th centuries (in the case of the Kingdom of Baghdad, since 1702).
Napoleon II died in 1835 after a brief reign, in a hunting accident, leaving the throne to his infant son, the regency yet to be decided. Parliament is likely to pick a regent in mid 1836.
I'm going to post some starting events and some military info, then hopefully I'll have a narrative or history book post up tommorow (later today, really).
Thank you and enjoy
-Maximilliano
Here, I will be trying to create an entertaining story, and im not above anything to create that story (yes i will mod and cheating is an option). This, is a story of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the inspiration for which came from ComradeOm's CK AAR, The de Lusignan Dream.
The basic idea for this story is that, using the Kingdom of Cyprus as a base, Guy de Lusignan leads a crusade against the mamelukes and recaptures the holy land in the 14th century. His succesors expanded outwards, defeating the Ottoman and Persian empires in the process -- numerous other crusader states are developed, the most important one being the Kingdom of Egypt. Egypts fate is intertwined with Jerusalem, in that neither Jerusalem nor Constantinople was able to maintain a permanent grasp on it, and as such a very mixed population developed.
This all came to a halt in the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt in 1799 came to a crashing demise at the second battle of the pyramids, when a joint Anglo-Turkish force smashed his already deteriorating army. In 1805, Napoleon felt that he could force the British to the table by destroying their trade with India, which they had been developing to replace their lost American colonies. The Army of the Levant, a detachment of the Grand Army, would prove to be Napoleon's best trained army of the war, and would destroy the nearly 400,000 strong Ottoman Army at the Battle of Ankara. However, Wellington would sully the victory with a naval defeat at the Battle of the Nile, destroying the Army of the Levant's chance at returning to Europe. Wellington then doubled back and engaged a combinded Franco-Spanish fleet at gibralter, inflicting a decisive naval defeat on the Bonapartes, and cutting off Napoleon from his forces in Outremer (the Emperor had rushed back to Paris, just as in 1799).
While in the Outremer, the Army of the Levant secured the Crusader's throne for Napoleon, after ousting the reigning Habsburg monarch, Ferdinand V, who's father had secured the throne by force of arms, after nearly a century of vacancy. The Army of the Levant remained in the Outremer, making the mistake of mistrusting the extremely supportive locals, and refusing to allow them to take up arms in defense of their own Homeland. After Hostilities resumed with the Ottomans in 1813, the Army of the Levant faced a reorganized Ottoman Army, and British and Russian expiditionary forces. Though considerably better trained than the French forces on the Continent, the Army of the Levant was whittled down, battle by battle, eventually being forced to the walls of Jerusalem itself, where militia units were finally incorporated into a larger mass. During the Battle of the Old City, 480,000 allied troops were either killed, wounded or captured: the entirity of the allied main battle force. However the entire armed forces of Jerusalem, including the army of the Levant, numbered only 120,000, and the nations coffers had been drained by the French War effort and much of its territory was occupied by the Ottomans (who were mobilizing another 300,000 men).
The Congress of Vienna recognized the situation of the Levant, and, thanks to the Austrian Emperor's prodding, allowed the Napoleon II, the so called king of rome, to ascede to the Crusader's Throne, so long as Jerusalem would be stripped of a good portion of it's territory, to be placed under Ottoman rule, despite the fact that it had been under Jerusalemite jurisdiction since the 14th and 15th centuries (in the case of the Kingdom of Baghdad, since 1702).
Napoleon II died in 1835 after a brief reign, in a hunting accident, leaving the throne to his infant son, the regency yet to be decided. Parliament is likely to pick a regent in mid 1836.
I'm going to post some starting events and some military info, then hopefully I'll have a narrative or history book post up tommorow (later today, really).
Thank you and enjoy
-Maximilliano