Freiheit, Gleichheit und Brüderlichkeit - A Revolutionary DW AAR

[thekinguter]

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This is my AAR about the liberal movements in my DW game roughly between the height of the enlightened times to the liberal movements in Europe. I might even consider converting to Victoria 2. I will start playing as the Ottomans, as they are the first supporters of the Enlightened movement, since they have the "Liberty, Equalty, Fraternity" flag and I will move onto the revolutionary target, and shift between countries. I don't want to tell a country's story, I want to tell the story of a political movement in a different timeline. I hope you enjoy.
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Freiheit, Gleichheit und Bruderlichkeit
The phrase.
The phrase is a rough german translation from the turk "özgürlük, eşitlik ve kardeşlik"
, coined by the liberality philosopher Mahzun Cemal during Sultan Bayezid III's reign. It became the centerpiece of the new ideological movement of the XVIII Century, liberality. It was adopted by artists and philosophers all over Europe, and became the chant of the revolutionaries of the XIX Century..


Introduction



For centuries, monarchs have ruled in absolute power. Noblemen and Clergymen in Europe have ruled over the oppressed mass with no organized opposition to their rule.
The powerful turk has ruled unchallenged in the East and the organized opposition in the West is becoming more and more unstable. The great Osmanli dynasty has achieved a true hegemony over South Africa, Cuba, Egypt, Somalia, Arabia and Crimea and many people are under their grasp.

Ruled by the islamic law, they are obliged to tolerate other religious movements that would have been otherwise persecuted in Europe. Their enourmous support to the Arts lead many Byzantine refugees to return to their lost lands to join the Osmanli court. Under the last great Ottoman Emperor, Bayezid III Osmanli (1704-1754), a new way of thought was evolving from Islamic tolerance, artistic idealism and ancient greek texts of philosophy. The main movement was called özgürlükçülük, what the europeans would rougly translate to liberality.


THE YEAR IS 1760.




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We are at the height of the Ottoman Empire. Their capital, Istanbul, is the biggest city in Europe and is the biggest trade centre in the world. Goods from all over the silk road and the Ottoman colonies travel from Istanbul to Europe, and Istanbul is the center of the world.

The Holy Roman Empire is in steady decline, and the Von Hapsburgs are uniting the diferent areas under their rule. Their historical enemies, the Bohemians, Burgundians, Milanese and Dutch are mere shadows of their former selves. The Bohemians have been reduced to one little province, the Milanese have lost their European holdings and transfered to the Americas. The Burgundians still posses their lands, but are dishonorable scum who not only have exhausted their reputation, but also their people and their war capabilities.

Joseph II von Hapsburg rules in Vienna, and his absolutist policies of trade restriction and serfdom contrast heavily with his sworn rival, Bayezid III. But Joseph II has reformed heavily the HRE, and is preparing to push the turks off Europe.

The Rus' states fell to the Hordes, and after the Hordes were eaten by the Crimean Khans, they took up arms and formed their own muslim state, Russia. However, Russia fell to the Times of Troubles, where the islamist elite collapsed to the Orthodox Church. For ages, Orthodox Murom ruled the russians, but now the islamic russians, financed by the Ottomans, have the upper hand against the Orthodox Church.

France fell to a joint coalition of burgundians, englishmen and castillians. For hundreds of years, the French throne has been empty, waiting for grabs. For the first time in many many years, there are two posible claimants: Burgundy and Orleans. Burgundy had been seen as the spiritual succesor to the French crown for years, but lucky inheritances and land grabs have given the chance to the once small Orleans to claim the French throne.

Italy was once dominated by the Papal States and Milan, but since the great reformation wars, the pope lost all it's lands to a protestan Urbino, and Milan was kicked out of Europe by Modena and the turks. Now Modena, heavily influenced by the turkish and austrian cultures, sits in Roma with the goal of uniting the italians.

Hungary and Poland, once lands of the turks, are vassal emirates of the Ottoman Sultan. With strong independent movements and low conversion rates, the Ottoman sultan decided to give these peoples the right to rule themselves, as long as they provided the Sultan troops in battles and an annual tribute.

Sweden once ruled all of Scandinavia, but the pan-scandinavian movement is forever lost. Norway, Finland and Denmark revolted from their masters and are now plotting to recover their lost lands. Many historians say that the religious diferences of the four countries are irreparable. While Sweden is catholic, Norway and Denmark have their own interpretations of the christian faith, while Finland is having an heretic wave in their country.

It is the time for the different kingdoms and principalities to grow up intro great nation-states and empires. The cards are on the table, let's see how it turns out!

 

[thekinguter]

Table of Contents

Chapters

1.- Introduction
2.- First Moves (1761-1771)
3.- Rise of Nations (1771-1805)

 

[Ashantai]

A good beginning! I will be following this.

 

[thekinguter]

Chapter 2: First Moves



Ottoman Empire
The decade of 1761-1771 was a very turbulent one for the world. The Ottoman empire had internal unrest because the Osmanli dynasty had no male heirs, so Cihangir I Ramazanogu was chosen for the job. Cihangir I died in 1762, two years after his ascension to the throne. This took the Ottoman Empire into a regency, and the nobles were divided between the cumhuriyetçi and the monarşistler. One faction wanted to have a noble republic based on the liberality ideology. The other one wanted to have a benevolent hereditary dictatorship, based in an agreement between the monarch and the people, leaded by Cihangir's son. This took the Ottoman empire to the painful War of the Princes, where six different pretenders contended to the throne, some being mere warlords and others being powerful republican leaders.

By 1771 it was still uncertain who would rule the Ottoman Empire, but the capital kept under the control of a Regency Council.



Spanish Empire

Spain had been a strong nation since the Avalos dynasty united the Kingdoms of Aragon and Castille in 1581. But decades of taxation and colonial oppresion led to political unrest, and the founding fathers of the spanish american colonies, Faustino Reynaldo of Chile and Baltasar Emigdio of La Plata, took up arms against their European masters. This new wave of uncertainness in Spain took the crown by surprise, and many troops were sent from Spain and México to fight the revolters. However, years of oppresion by the Spanish Inquisition and the crown led to a minor revolt of revolutionaries in Madrid to rise up. These "descontentos" sought to abolish the absolute monarchy and terminate the Inquisition in Spain, and install the Swedish political system of a Constitutional Monarchy in place. The Ávalos were taken by surprise again, when in 1763 Orleanist funded revolters took up arms in many parts of rural Spain.





Duchy of Orleans

Orleans rose to prominence when Antoine de Montpezat rose against the burgundians' dream of adding France to the Holy Roman Empire as a province. The Orleanist movement took hold of several provinces and established their own duchy in the heart of France, conviniently taking hold of Ille-de-France, the ancient capital.
A combination of luck and strong diplomacy allowed them to conquer the weak Bretons and inherit several minor counties in France. A strong French identity was rising around the duchy, specially after winning a trade-league war against Switzerland and Spain.

The plan to fund revolutionaries in Spain backfired when a shipment of arms was stolen and transported to French Colonial Africa instead. Here, vanguardist jesuit fronteermen organized in the Chateau d' Muhl to govern themselves. The Orleanist crown had tormented the native african population and imposed heavy tax rights over the jesuits in Africa, who had converted and administered the colonies for many years. The jesuit population had made an attempt to diminish taxes in the colonies, but the Orleanists issued a bill to take over jesuit monasteries who were not paying their taxes. The jesuits, organized by Oscar Muhl of the influential Muhl traders, rose up in revolution.


The Burgundians were Orleanists' sworn enemy. The long lived French Civil War between Burgundy and Orleans was still going, and both had claims on Paris, but this time Orleans controlled it. Burgundy was unable to recover both from infamy and war exhaustion, as their expansionist wars in North Germany were far too expensive for them. They were considered dishonorable scum by most Europeans, and many fought containment wars with them, until finally a war with Austria left them with no regiments and the Ottomans jumped on them with no resistance, diving the Duchy of Burgundy into lesser states.


Meanwhile, the Orleanists were unable to push back the rebels, and in 1768 they declared their independence. A nation called Brazil was created in the coasts of Africa, by french jesuits and hannoverian slave traders.


((Brazil is a weird mix of cultures, don't mind them being hannoverian, they also tolerate Ashanti, Portuguese and Cosmopolitaine..))


Kingdom of Bohemia
Bohemia had been the main adversary of the Von Hapsburgs, and the main reason why the HRE had not been united yet. Their strong power and high popularity amongst the electors had kept the von Hapsburgs from enacting the Hereditary Monarchy reform in the empire in 1740. But their time was over, and the Bohemian Wars of Aggresion crippled Bohemia's public image, and the imperial throne was lost to Austria, just before the Hereditary monarchy reform. An alliance of Russia, Poland, Hungary, Sweden and Ottomans defeated the once infinitly powerful kingdom. The kingdom, who controlled from Prague to Moscow and from Danzig to Wallachia, had now been wisely divided by small nations that were released in the war. In these small 10 years, Bohemia lost their provinces to pretty much everyone, and a Regency Council did not help them much. By 1770, they only had three provinces, and the Ottomans jumped on them, taking two provinces and vassalizing them. Now one of the main powers of Europe was disbanded, but does this mean Austria has the way clear to uniting the Empire?



Archduchy of Austria
Austria started out with many rivals in the way to the Imperial Throne. But with the fall of Burgundy, Milan and Bohemia, he had no clear rival to the throne. With enough votes, Austria steadily enacted lots of reforms. The complicated system of alliances in the empire prevented the austrian emperor to go around force-converting the protestant princes of the empire, but with the other powers gone, and with the Ottomans and Spanish in a civil war, the von Hapsburgs gathered enough authority to enact the reforms. By 1771, there was only one reform left.


But the way to power was not as open as they thought. Unlike other monarchs like the Orleanists or the Spanish, the von Hapsburgs had no fear to say that they had divine origin, and that they were the only link between god and the people. The absolute monarchy of the Hapsburgs was rough and tyrannical, but it was the most stable government in Europe. The price the Austrian people had paid for peace was high. The new movements in Spain and Turkey took hold of the Austrian middle class. A new chant was heard in Vienna. FREIHEIT, GLEICHHEIT UND BRUNDERLICHKEIT! (liberty, equiality and fraternity)


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Thanks Ashantai, it means something to me, being my first AAR. I will write this AAR for you, being you my first reader, and for Orleans (the randomness of orleans is my inspirator after this aar).

 

[Avindian]

A fascinating idea; I've not played much with the revolutionary mechanic in DW because it's so hard to trigger without, essentially, screwing up on purpose. I look forward to more!

 

[Aliasing]

Huzzah! A Revolutionary AAR that doesn't focus to much on one country yet.

 

[thekinguter]

FEEDBACK:

Thanks for your support guys. I'll post the next chapter in some hours from here. Any suggestion is appreciated.

@Aliasing: I will take it into consideration, it won't degenerate into a one-country AAR.
@Avindian: Whenever I've seen the mechanic play, it's usually on someone else's country whom I've wrecked with the years. It's fun to switch countries from your big nasty empire to the revolutionary country and try to defeat your own empire. Sadly, as this disables achievements, it's unlikely players would do so.

Not to spoil your fun, I will not talk about the mechanic until it comes to play, though by the name of the AAR it's easy to guess who becomes the revolutionary country

Also, without Blobhemia and Burgundy, the borders will look more realistic/historical without my intervention!

 

[thekinguter]

Chapter 3: Rise of Nations (1771-1805)



For ages have nations slept oppressed under the nobility and clergy. But the revolutionary ideals are too much pressure on the Ancient Regime and the idea of turk liberality has spread even in the most harsh regimes, like Austria.

Europe has in turmoil, and the great powers had to use all of their capabilities to supress the revolts in Madrid, Vienna and Istanbul. As unbelivable as it may seem, this did not prevent the monarchs in Europe to fight between each other, fueling the fires of revolution.

And so, Carlos III de Avalos the Spanish King, had a difficult decision to make. Would he retreat his troops from America and cede the colonies to the new revolutionaries, but save his absolutist realm in Europe? Or would he make concessions with the liberalites and write a constitution and cede power, but keep the empire united?

But there was really no choice after all. Old kings will be old kings, tyrants will be tyrants. They would not make the decision to innovate by themselves.

The exception would be the Ottoman Empire, where religious and cultural tolerance took the next step towards political tolerance. Without an oppresive clergy, there would be many cultural and political innovations.

Ottoman Empire

The republican faction was defeated in the great battle of Ankara where 30K troops lead by Cihangir I's son defeated over 45.000 revolutionaries. The new monarch, had recently came of age and proved to be a military mastermind. With the support of the army and the artists of the empire, he started a benevolent monarchy. He crowned himself Ahmet II Ramazonoglu. He was a truly enlightened ruler, and while he did not share his power, he indeed was considered a beacon of light in a war-torn europe. He tried to represent the people, and under moderate tolerance he held his realm until his death in 1821.


Spanish Empire

Spain held itself together with the help of the imperial garrison of Mexico and South America, but only barely. But as the turkish phrase said: "Old kings will always be old kings". Instead of an agreement with any of the two revolutionary parties, the colonialists and the liberalists, the old king chose to attack both instead and keep his power no matter the cost. "Ideas cannot be killed" replied Baltasar Emigdio of La Plata, revolutionary leader in the Americas. He and his chilean counterpart declared their independence from the corrupt and decadent empire.




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While their independence was only recognized by the Ottoman empire, who guaranteed their independence, many other revolutionaries all over the Americas sought to free themselves from the chains of European oppresion. The crown prepared troops to invade Argentina and Chile, but had to redirect their troops to North America to take down the American Revolt.

However, boundary squabbles with the English led the Spanish Empire to a gruesome war in North America. The war looked nasty for the English, but they redirected troops from their Amazonian Colonies and ended up winning a large chunk out of North America.


The difference between the spanish north and the english south led to different nationalist and patriots groups trying to create an independent spanish nation in the north of america. But those attempts and the american english attempts of independence failed for the lack of support the spanish north americans gave them.

By 1805 the third revolutionary country in the Americas revolted, Paraguay. More on that the next chapter.


Kingdom of the Swedes.
In 1801, Swedish Kalifornien radicals took over the ports of änglar and declared their independence from the Swedish representativ monarki. While Sweden had been bound to a constitution and a parliament, they did not represent Kalifornien people in the parliament and they did not allow them to hold public offices. Instead, Kalifornien had to rely on Swedish bureaucrats to rule themselves. This was a decisive step in the independence movements, since after Kalifornien's independence the sole motive was to seek independence and not decentralization or more local autonomy.
The swedes voted against a reconquest of the lost regions, and they were busy fighting Norway and Denmark in the Danish Reconquest war. Pan-Scandinavianism had died, and religious differences between the scandinavians marked the differences between them.. differences that were building up every day.
Now Sweden had to accept their new reality: They were no longer the leading power in the north. Denmark was richer and more developed, and soon Sweden found itself in Denmark's Sphere of Influence.

((Scandinavia after Sweden's defeat.))

Duchy of Orleans
Burgundy lied in shambles, and many little principalities were using up the space Burgundy once occupied. With no opposition in the south and west, as Spain was busy fighting England, and no opposition in the east and north, as Austria was uniting the empire and Sweden was fighting Denmark, the orleanists had all the perfect conditions to go around raiding, maiming and raping the flemish principalities. A vassal state was created in Flanders, and the duke of Orleans was crowned King of France. The frankish crown was back in Versailles with the orleanist court, and France was back in the game. Antoine II d' Montpezat ruled for twenty years as the first king of France in a long long time.

Kingdom of England
Once a puny little kingdom in Europe, no bigger than Poland or Hungary, now the english crown had large colonial assets in North America. With the possibilities of expansion on the Great Plains, the english fortified their new colonial possesions, and gave benefits and took precautions with the liberalists in North America. They had learnt from the other monarchs' mistakes and maintained a steady hold in North America. However, in the isles of Britannia, many enemies threatened the english crown. Wales, Cornwall, Scotland, Ireland and York were independent and threatened english possesions. York was an inpenetrable fortress, founded by Cromwall's supporters and other refugees of the lost english civil war, and was indeed the single most defensive city in the world. This, and lucky alliances, had allowed the relatively peaceful Republic to survive for many decades. But now every single great power in Europe was busy and the English wanted to take their chances.


Archduchy of Austria
Joseph II von Hapsburg is known in Germany as "The iron man". He routed the Austrian rebels, having no regiments of his own, using only his vassals' troops. His denouncement of the liberalist movement as "mob rule" led to bad relations with the Ottomans, as it was considered an insult by the enlightened turk ruler.
His skill and boldness led him to unite the empire in 1802, opposing both his vassals' will and the revolutionaries' desires. With the new lands the austrian bureaucrats found themselves overextendended, and in the following months they were also in financial troubles. The conditions were perfect for a revolution, and as the argentinian president had said: "Ideas can't be killed". He died soon afterwards, but his son Hektor I was a complete douche with no consideration for diplomacy and chaos soon followed.

People rallied in the streets, burning monasteries and attacking state prisions to free revolutionaries and to use them as fortresses. The von Hapsburgs still ruled in Vienna, but the realm was in turmoil.


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((There are two revolution events, one for the start of the events, and one for the actual revolution and deposition of the king))

 

[damienreave]

This sort of global history AAR is a great change of pace, and gets two thumbs up for me.

It will be over all too soon, but an importation into Vicky 2 would make the story only just beginning... an appealing prospect!

 

[Ashantai]

Vive la revolution!

Great and unique AAR!

 

[gooy]

this looks nice does the turkish liberalism also influence muslim countries?

 

[thekinguter]

this looks nice does the turkish liberalism also influence muslim countries?

Not yet, because the Turkish Empire is highly centralized and provinces in Anatolia and the Balkans have Universities and centres of thought while Syria and Mesopotamia are there pretty much only for the taxes and the Turkish Carribean is under strong garrisons of 15K+ men. Also, the turkish monarchs embrace the liberal philosophy and host debates and cultural events. There ARE independence movements in Turkish Somalia, Turkish Crimea and Turkish Egypt, we'll get more of that later. But turkish liberalism is going to look like child's play when we get to german liberalism so let's wait until tommorow for the next two updates, which are going to be slightly different to the other updates because i'm going to explain mainly what the revolution in Austria is about. But don't worry, then we'll return to the default world-wide updates.

EDIT (03/11): I'm posting the next two updates tommorow because of time problems.

 

[thekinguter]

((Suggested Soundtrack for this update: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dytT5OnXU0A&feature=related))

The Revolution is here!


Prelude
Before 1761 the German upper classes looked to the Ottoman Empire for intellectual, cultural and architectural leadership; Turkish was the language of high society. By the decade of 1801 the German Enlightenment was omnipresent in german music, philosophy, science and literature, and effectively emerged as an intellectual force independent of the Ottoman Empire. By then, the gap between the nobility and the commoners had widened because of bad financial moves by Hektor von Hapsburg and because the Austrian ducat had lost it's value when the empire united. The administrative hell of adapting the small bureaucracy of the Archduchy into the constraints of a large international empire, together with the sudden centralization led to tax problems when many serfs, who previously had to stay in their area of birth for their entire life unless called to form a colony, began to disappear. Hektor I was an incapable ruler, so the imperial councellors had to lead the realm by themselves. The counselors soon realized that to keep the empire united, the landed nobility of many rural areas in Germany had to be appeased, since they had lived in a decentralized feudal system for over a 1000 years. Many feasts and expensive balls were held for the nobilty in the Grand Vienna Hapsburg Palace, and many architects were hired to improve palaces in rural areas. This time before the revolution was called "the time of the great balls" and many aristocrats in Europe imitated the German styles. The Hapsburgs, always loyal to the Catholic Church, granted lands and tax rights to the exiled papacy to gather support for the empire, to effectively counter the ideologically secularized liberalists in their lands. By 1805, Hektor I's head advisor realized that there was no future for the empire this way, with the ongoing feasts too expensive to afford, outright separatist rebellion in rural areas and financial and administrative troubles in all Germany. The liberalist movement gathered strength from the many upset peasants who hated the absolutist regime and from the well-to-do merchant middle-class who both wanted more representation and were also collapsing under the inflation and excessive tariffs.


Vienna collapsed in rebellion after liberalist radicals seized state prisions to free their comrades who had been imprisioned in earlier rebellions. An armed guard, called "the citizen guard" formed a militia that blocked Vienna from the Empire's armies that had been patrolling near Bavaria. The peasants joined the fight all over the Rhine and took the opportunity to hang nobles in Oldenburg and Sundgau, and soon the peasants' militia fought and defeated the aristocratic-led particularist rebellion in Swadia. The peasants burned monasteries and sacked palaces, taking the loot for themselves. Leading the peasant rebellion was the peasant Viktor Jochen, who was headed towards Vienna himself. The von Hapsburg army could have routed the rebels if they could have reorganized and regrouped, but they were divided and divided they fell. Former artillery commander, Wilhelm Fiedrich Schmidt, had been given command of the Imperial Army of Holstein after his commander and the other men upper in the chain-of-command had fled north to Denmark and Sweden. Then, Friedrich lead the army towards Brandenburg, where he joined the revolutionary cause. The Hapsburgs were outmaneuvered and by march the 31st, the Hapsburg palace was in flames. The radical liberalists and the citizen guard were in control of the capital of the empire, Vienna, and the nation had awakened at last!

Storming of the Von Hapsburg palace in Vienna

The citizen guard had no leader, it was a militia led by men who represented their own cause and acted for the same goal. But the radical liberalists chose a chairman to represent themselves with foreign emisaries and the other rebellions in Germany. This chairman was called Georg Wilhelm Meyer, a merchant who had studied in Instanbul ((rich merchants were allowed to travel in 18th century germany, unlike peasants)).
Emperor Hektor I was taken to trial and later to the guillotine by the radical liberalists, who sought to impose a republic headed by a National Assembly.

Bye bye Von Hapsburgs!

All members of the von Hapsburgs royal court were hung or shot, together with all possible succesors to the throne. There is however, certain doubts about Karl von Hapsburg-Wittelsbach, a distant cousin of Hektor... people say that when the revolutionaries fired upon him, no blood came out of his body and when they returned later to burn his corpse they found the body of the family butler instead. The revolutionaries denied such claims but the legend stuck, and many claim that Karl lives.. maybe in Imperial Canada or Imperial India.
Whatever was Karl's destiny, the von Hapsburg dynasty fell from power, and the revolutionaries were in control of the capital. Most nobles fled from the empire to more authoritarian realms, like Spain, France, England and Russia.

The National Assembly in it's first meeting.

The revolutionaries invited Viktor Jorchen leader of the peasant movement, representatives of every imperial region, representatives of the major merchant houses, chairmen of peasant assemblies and important philosophers to the first meeting of the National Assembly. The first national assembly was held the 4th of June, 1806.
Jorchen's faction wanted a complete redistribution of land, an act allowing peasants to hold a council every 6 months to govern their towns and villages and to confiscate monasteries and lands from the nobility to share upon peasants. This movement was called the Avengists or Kompensatoren.
Georg Wilhelm Meyer was the spokesman of the radical liberalists who wanted freedom of trade, abolition of the nobility and a parliament to represent the people's desires. They were the konstitutionells' or the constitutionalists, and represented the burghers and professionals of Germany.
Both factions couldn't decide over most of the most important acts, but the metric system was implemented, the bureaucracy was expanded, the monasteries were abolished, nobility was abolished and lands were confiscated, a legal code of the rights of men was written and it became the place-holder for the constitution of the republic because Jorchen's faction wouldn't agree on with the merchants about the issue of peasant self-governance.


The Federation elected Georg Wilhelm Meyer as Consul of the Republic.

Georg Wilhelm Meyer had been the spokesman, and therefore he was seen as the natural leader of the revolution. He was chosen to preside the National Assembly as Consul of the Republic. Also, a national army was created.. lead by the leader of the national army of german: a midget called Friedrich Schmitd, who secretly plotted to take the government of the republic for himself and turn the revolution into an empire and spread the revolutionary fires through Europe into a new age. However, the republic was united in a revolutionary wave when the monarchs of Europe denounced the revolution and united in a Coalition to dismantle it.

Meantime, in Orleans, Antoine III decides the german revolution threatens his way of life and cramps his style

The Montpezat, who had recently crowned themselves kings of France, were upset by the deposition of their distant relative, Hektor I (After all, by this point most royal families were related). Antoine III d' Montpezat famously said his phrase that passed on to history : "It is good to be the king". He denounced the uppity peasants and the jealous merchants and gathered with the other european rulers: the Swedish premier, the Spanish Emperor, the English King, the Polish-Russian monarch and the Hungarian Sultan (The portugese monarch was indisposed as he had contracted diarrea from some Arabian spices he had eaten during his visit to his summer house in Yemen). The ottoman sultan was upset because the other rulers had kept him out of the loop for his weird ideas and radical idealism. "Idiots" he thought. "I'm going to teach them a lesson on Ottoman greatness".
The Ottoman Sultan, despite his enlightened status and liberalist ideas, was a king after all. No matter how radical he would get, he still was boss. He reorganized his regiments, and called back his ships from the Carribean to invade Germany.
He failed tremendously at being the first monarch to invade the revolutionary country when he realized Switzerland was already fighting with the Germans. The french monarch mocked him for his sillyness and invaded Germany from the west bank of the Rhine, together with the other members of the coalition.

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((Recomended soundtrack for this part: Carmen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQI5LtRtrb0&feature=related))
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The liberalist volksarmee marches towards Hungary

The french coalition was composed mostly of Western Europe and the Ottoman alliance was built on Ottoman vassals (Hungary, Poland) and Russia. The liberalist armies were over 900.000 and leading in technology. The Ottomans were many and brutal, but ineffective. The Ottomans had controlled the port of Venice for over 300 years, and had now been lost to an advancing Friedrich Schmidt. Sultan Ahmet III picked his best general, Osman Gumulcineli, to lead an army from Croatia to Vienna. The french coalition was occupying most of Flanders, but had lost Denmark to the Germans. The germans enforced a peace treaty with Denmark, where denmark surrendered upper Holstein and gave up much of their coffers in gold to the national assembly of germany.
Switzerland was difficult to capture because of the atrittion, and when the Germans arrived to the capital of Bern, it had already been burnt and razed to the ground. The long march back from the alps took many lives from Friedrich Schmidt's army, but not enough to prevent him from making decisive victories in the Balkans. By 1812, Friedrich was sieging the Ottoman Capital. Finally, the Russian Tzar came out of nowhere and gave the Germans a good beating in Mecklenburg, where they occupied most of Brandenburg and Saxony. The fighting was intensive, but it was all decided in the battle of Tirol, where most of the armies of the Ottoman Empire and Germany fought between each other, with both the Ottoman Grand Marshall and the German Head General. Friedrich Schimdt was captured by the enemy, and the Ottoman Marshall won the battle and then marched onto Vienna. In the north, it was all over too quick, but before the year was over the entire French navy had been sunk in the Channel and the Russian army had lost control of north-eastern germany but the Ottomans had jumped in from Poland and retaken the provinces for themselves and even Denmark had attacked Germany (even though they had a truce) and occupied it's former territories. In the south, Germany had anhililated the Coalition's troops and the Ottoman provinces in the balkans, but had ultimately lost Vienna. After some months of guerilla warefare in Bavaria, the revolutionary council was deposed and peace was made with the foreign powers (except Switzerland, they still wanted more).

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Ottoman General Osman Gumulcineli enters a defeated Vienna victoriously.

The Ottomans had restored order, but at what price? The revolutionary wave in Turkey had been stopped dead by Ahmet's commitment to their cause. Ahmet contradicted himself and his philosophy, and now people are beggining to realize what's really going on.