timanfaya said:
I'm totally interested!!like i said, i love doing events pics!
just let me know what pics do you want me to do and i'll do it!
@Kaiser, great, I look forward to your input once again.
@Timanfaya, outstanding! Below are some events that need pics. I will give the name and the description and you do the pic however you see fit, since those Napoleonic ones you have already done are great.
I will start with the French.
name = "The Execution of Louis XVI"
desc = "On the 21st of January 1793, the former King of France, Louis XVI, who had been ousted from his throne was executed by guillotine. This caused a massive outcry in nations bordering France, this ultimately led to the beginning of the war of the First Coalition."
name = "The Committee for Public Safety"
desc = "Set up by the National Convention on April 6th 1793, the Committee for Public Safety formed the de facto executive government of France during the so-called reign of terror. Led by the Jacobins under Robespierre, the committee centralised denunciations, trials, and executions under the supervision of this committee of twelve members."
name = "The Levée en Masse"
desc = "From this moment until such time as its enemies shall have been driven from the soil of the Republic, all Frenchmen are in permanent requisition for the services of the armies. The young men shall fight; the married men shall forge arms and transport provisions; the old men shall betake themselves to the public squares in order to arouse the courage of the warriors and preach hatred of kings and the unity of the Republic."
name = "Revolt in the Vendée"
desc = "In March 1793, the people of Vendée rose up against the Republic in favor of the old monarchy, the rebels soon created the 'Armée Royale et Catholique' (Royal and Catholic Army) to counter the French Republican army. This revolt was the largest internal counter-revolutionary attack on the republic. The Republic sent 45,000 men to destroy the revolt, but the Rebels held the Vendée until august 1793, when it was mercilessly crushed."
name = "The Victory at Fleurus"
desc = "The French victory at Fleurus in the Austrian Netherlands saw the French occupation of these lands and the German lands west of the Rhine as the direct outcome. This would help spreading the revolution further."
name = "The Batavian Republic"
desc = "After having defeated the Austrians in the Austrian Netherlands, the French armies moved into Holland and found many allies, the Dutch had had a small, but nasty civil war between those in favour of the King and monarchy and those who wanted to get rid of the nepotistic and corrupt system of ruling. The Patriots faction fled, but returned when the Batavian Republic was proclaimed."
name = "French Victory in Italy - Sardinia!"
desc = "After having defeated the combined, Austro-Sardinian armies the French armies moved fast across Italy, taking many lands. The French soon created the Cisalpine Republic and annexed all of mainland European Sardinia-Piedmont, the King of Sardinia-Piedmont fled to the Island of Sardinia."
name = "The Ligurian Republic"
desc = "After having defeated the many Austro-Italians armies that lay between them, the French took the Republic of Genoa and reformed it into the Ligurian Republic."
name = "The Invasion of Venice"
desc = "Napoleon Bonaparte, commander of the French Forces in Italy, decided it was time to end the Republic of Venices life, by invading the City-state. With Venice under French control, Napoleon would use the city as a bargining tool with Austria."
name = "Venice Annexed"
desc = "After having defeating the small Venetian army and navy, the French soon occupied the city state."
name = "The Treaty of Campo Formio"
desc = "General Bonaparte, having defeated time after time the Austrian armies in Italy quickly made the nation realise it couldn’t keep up the fight, an Austrian representative and Napoleon himself drew up a peace treaty. Austria would give up the Netherlands and accept the independence of the Cisalpine Republic for getting the lands of the former Republic of Venice."
name = "The Cisalpine Republic"
desc = "After having defeated all their enemies in Italy, the French set up the Cisalpine Republic, using the lands taken from Modena and Venice, this would stay as it was till 1802 when it bacame the Italian Republic and then in 1805 the Kingdom of Italy."
name = "The First Treaty of Basel"
desc = "After the French defeated the combined Austro-Prussian forces and took over Holland, they proclaimed the Batavian Republic, the Prussians decided it was best to make peace instead of lose even more land to the almost unstoppable French Republic. In the treaty all of the western bank of the Rhine was ceded to France."
name = "Kleves controlled"
desc = "Prussia refused to sign the treaty of Basel, and France quickly took control of the possessions Prussia had on the western bank of the Rhine."
name = "France declares war"
desc = "On April 20th 1792 the National Convention declared war upon Austria and it's ally Sardinia-Piedomont, this was due to the percieved threat to the revolution and Austria's continued resistance and interference with France's internal affairs."
name = "The creation of the Armee Du Midi"
desc = "France began to conscript men to fill the armies needed to defend the Republic. The Armee Du Midi was the first one created."
name = "The creation of the Armee Des l'Interior"
desc = "France began to conscript men to fill the armies needed to defend the Republic. The Armee Des l'Interior was the second one created."
name = "The creation of the Armee Des Vosages"
desc = "France began to conscript men to fill the armies needed to defend the Republic. The Armee Des Vosages was the third one created."
name = "The creation of the Armee Des Pyranees"
desc = "In October 1792 the Armee Du Midi was reinforced and spilt into two, the Armee Des Pyranees and the Armee Des Alpes."
name = "The creation of the Armee Des Alpes"
desc = "In October 1792 the Armee Du Midi was reinforced and spilt into two, the Armee Des Pyranees and the Armee Des Alpes."
name = "The creation of the Armee De Savoie"
desc = "In November 1792 the Armee Des Alpes was reinforced and spilt into two, the Armee De Savoie and the Armee D'Italie."
name = "The creation of the Armee D'Italie"
desc = "In October 1792 the Armee Du Midi was reinforced and spilt into two, the Armee Des Pyranees and the Armee Des Alpes."
name = "The Invasion of Holland"
desc = "The National COnvention has decided that the French Forces in Belgium needed to bring the revolution to Holland, by invading the nation. With the Batavian Republic created and under French control, the French Northern frontier is more secure."
name = "The Helvetian Republic"
desc = "After having defeated the Austro-Sardinian army in Piedmont, the French armies moved into Switzerland and found many allies who wanted to get rid of the nepotistic and corrupt regime. The Helvetian Republic was proclaimed."
name = "The Invasion of Switzerland"
desc = "The National COnvention has decided that the French Forces in Italy need to bring the revolution to Switzerland, by invading the nation. With the Helvetian Republic created and under French control, the French Southern frontier is more secure."
name = "Invasion of the Papal States"
desc = "On 7 March 1798, under the rule of the French Directoire, French forces invaded the Papal States and established a new Roman Republic, partly in revenge for the murder of French general Mathurin-Léonard Duphot the previous year. The French then formed a Roman Republic, but the Republic was short lived as it was re-formed back into the Papal States in 1800."
name = "Restoring the Papal States"
desc = "After having been under French control for 2 years, the vassal state of the Roman Republic was re-formed back into the Papal States, although the last Pope had died during his exile in France, the Papal states would stay independant till 1808, when it was annexed fully into France's empire."
name = "The Treaty of Rome"
desc = "After the French defeated the combined Austro-Prussian forces and took over Piedmont and Lombardy Pope Pius VI decided it was best to make peace instead of lose even more land to the almost unstopable French Republic. In the treaty the northern tier of the Papal States were ceded to France."
name = "The Treaty of Luneville"
desc = "Decisive defeats at Marengo and Hohenlinden forced the Austrians to sit down again at the peace table with France and they were pleasantly surprised by the mild terms demanded. Vienna had to reaffirm its commitment to the Treaty of Campo Formio, while France paid compensation for dispossessed Rhine princes."
I figure this is a good enough beginning list of events. Also I imagine some of these could probably share a pic, but each having their own would be better.
Cheers, Thorgrimm