Revolutions/civil wars you would like in Victoria

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I don't remember the ringleaders, or many of the details, but there was a Fenian plot to use Irish Union (and I presume Confederate) Civil War veterans to invade Canada and use it as a way to Irish Independence. Failed miserably, IIRC the plotters were captured early on, and certainly tiny in the grand scheme of things, but an interesting and quirky potential rebellion.

Sepoy Rebellion 1857, Boer War, Crimean War and any other event which weakens Britain when I play another country.

Finally, the Austro-Prussian war of 1835 which will break out on January 1st, or whenever I get my first diplomat as Austria

 

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I don't remember the ringleaders, or many of the details, but there was a Fenian plot to use Irish Union (and I presume Confederate) Civil War veterans to invade Canada and use it as a way to Irish Independence. Failed miserably, IIRC the plotters were captured early on, and certainly tiny in the grand scheme of things, but an interesting and quirky potential rebellion.

It was somewhat significant from the British/Canadian point of view, as it underscored the insecure position of Canada after total Union victory and helped dive both Canadian confederation and the construction of the transcanada railway.

Then we need, of course, the 1837 Rebellions in Canada. Although somewhat of a non-starter, the Mackenzie rebellion led to one of the better insulting Canadian warsongs still making rounds. It gloats about the (rather controversial) cutting out, firing, and sending down Niagra Falls of an American steamboat on the American shore during the post-rebellion muttering period. In the interest of remaining dead on topic and fostering brotherly love and goodwill across the undefended border, I'll reproduce it here:

Anonymous
A Ballad of the Caroline
(1837-1838)
(To the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy)

When first Mackenzie's rebel band
Was beat at Gallows Hill, sir,
To Buffalo they did retreat
And said we used him ill, sir.

CHORUS:

Yankee-doodle, boys, huzzah,
Down, outside, and up the middle;
Yankee-doodle, boys, huzzah,
Trumpet, drum and fiddle.

The Buffalonians sympathized
And kicked up such a roar, sir,
And kicked up such a windy noise
It reached the British shore, sir.

The steamer, bound for Navy Isle,
Left Buffalo one morning
For to assist Mackenzie's band,
Britannia's thunder scorning.

But when the lion shook his mane,
And looked a little grim, sir,
He said 'twas not a Texas game
That they could play with him, sir.

A party left the British shore,
Led on by gallant Drew, sir,
To set the Caroline on fire,
And beat her pirate crew, sir.

The Yankees say they did invent
The steamboat first of all, sir;
But Britons taught their Yankee boats
To navigate the Falls, sir.

The spirit of our Wolfe and Brock
Doth still around us hover,
And still we stand on Queenston's rock
To drive the Yankees over.

No slave shall ever breathe our air,
No tyrant's laws shall bind us,
So keep your Yankee mob at home
For Britons still you'll find us.

 

[Halibutt]

January Uprising in Poland