ENGLAND
The Red Menace
Well, it was a good session for England. Due to a combination of skill and luck, our income has swollen to over 100d a month now. Colonies in the Americas are producing tobacco and fish for English consumption. The English navy is proud and strong. The English army is victorious. Inflation is now somewhat under control.
After the expiration of the Anglo-Portugese alliance, Portugal joined the Spanish in an Iberian coalition. England first turned to Denmark. The Danish were cold and aloof, demanding Acadie and Nova Scotia for an alliance. England refused to bend to such demands and so she approached France. The stench of the French king still burns in my nose. He demanded Calais for an alliance. Again, England refused. And so finally England approached the Spanish, whom also rebuffed them. It was a cold day in England. Many children cried for lack of friends.
Shortly after the Spanish Civil War, the Spaniards asked for the English to give them the English trading posts in Cuba. For the sum of 100d, they were sold to the Spanish. England needed the money and it was used to send many Englishmen to the more defensible territories in North America. Then the Dutch people began their revolt from Spain. Many came to the English court asking for our position, but we remained aloof waiting to see what developed.
The Danish joined the Dutch and pursued a war against Spain. The Spanish asked for our help and the glittering prize of a virtually undefended Danish New World was too good to resist. War was declared upon Denmark and the English Colonial Militia took Massachussetts, then Manhattan, then struck against the Danish Colonial Army in Connecticut, routing it north into Adirondack before the cowards fled across the border into French Canada with a few thousand souls. Victorious, English troops moved to take the remaining nearby Danish possessions of Micmac and Isle Royale. The Danish navy was sighted patrolling off the coast of Anglia, but it retreated. The English did see how large the force was, and so new galleys were raised in the Anglia shipyards.
Then the Swedes declared war. We had considered this eventuality and raised a few reinforcements for the home army before moving it north to wait in Yorkshire. The Swedish army remained in Northumberland while the English fleet crushed the Swedish fleet in the Firth of Forth. Then the English engaged in several battles with the Swedes, now isolated from their escape route and eventually they were destroyed. As yet, no more Swedish armies have invaded England. The home army remains vigilant!
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