This is really, really good. I love your writing...it's very fluid.
Re map...Isn't it great when everyone loves you.
Re map...Isn't it great when everyone loves you.
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Your style is great. You are giving the right explanations to everything, so that it seems to be absolutely logical. I could forget that it is you that made these decisions about war and peace.
MrT.- Thanks. Coming from someone as prolific as you in terms of AARs, your praise means a lot to me. And yes, it is great when everyone loves you... or at least everyone that counts.
sorcerer- I sort of tailor my policy decisions to the quality of the monarch making them. I thought I went to war too often in the past few decades, but then I realized that I had legitimate reasons to go to war for the most part even if I didn't have the obvious CB, so it doesn't seem like such a bad thing in the end. I'll just have to see how this turns out though, because it could still end badly.
Pessimist to the end,
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sorcerer- I sort of tailor my policy decisions to the quality of the monarch making them. I thought I went to war too often in the past few decades, but then I realized that I had legitimate reasons to go to war for the most part even if I didn't have the obvious CB, so it doesn't seem like such a bad thing in the end. I'll just have to see how this turns out though, because it could still end badly.
Pessimist to the end,
M
Sorry for the delay....
I've been working on a long term web project for a while now, but this weekend it got a bit more intense, so I was unable to post anything additional to my AAR for the past few days.
However, that being said, I should have the next twenty years up tomorrow and on Monday afternoon Eastern at the latest.
Sorry,
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I've been working on a long term web project for a while now, but this weekend it got a bit more intense, so I was unable to post anything additional to my AAR for the past few days.
However, that being said, I should have the next twenty years up tomorrow and on Monday afternoon Eastern at the latest.
Sorry,
M
The nature of Scottish society is abhorrent to everything a monarch would wish of his nation. I would do anything in my power to prevent our own empire from becoming so decadent.
Louis XVI, King of France, in a letter to Maria-Theresa July 1773
After the liberation of Lithuania, Scotland was unencumbered by foreign wars for well over a decade, and was able to turn its financial resources inward. New domestic policies affected the entire nation, based entirely on the radical demographic shift in the Empire's population towards the northern cities. Unlike some of the newly enlarged cities on the continent, the expansion was government-controlled through a rigid permit system which kept sprawl to a minimum, and led to better construction and wider street, linear street designs. Parliament wanted its cities to be the best and most efficient in Europe, and it did not become such a progressive society to have slums or any other form of sloppy building. One minister in particular, Richard Dunham, Lord Ulster, had a profound effect on Scottish urban planning with the idea of government housing, with long-term profitability being the key to his plans. Since the government was to build these residences, they would be of a long-lasting and substantial nature, so over a period of decades, the cost of building would be recouped and then profits would be drawn from said structures.
Peace was something the Scotland was not ready for, given its heavy military expenditures and the relative youth of its male population to this point. With an older male population, war had been relegated to a secondary role in foreign policy. Instead, massive public works projects were begun, beginning with the development of a series of canals and paved roadways connecting the major centers of trade and the burgeoning industrial sectors together. Coal from Wales and the Southwest were shipped northward to the very cities that needed them most. The cost-effectiveness of the canal systems meant prices of goods began to decrease, so consumption began to rise. The speed of these systems also meant that perishables were in far fresher condition, and were less likely to make those who ate them sick. Hunger was slowly being wiped out, and a stronger populace was more able to endure the occasional plagues that would have once killed or crippled hundreds or thousands.
However, the Scottish colonial spirit did bring a totally new malady back to Edinburgh in 1753- cholera. For 10 long months, the capital, the shining pinnacle of European civilization was ravaged by this killer, which brought down poor and rich alike, though the poorer segments of society were afflicted by a ratio of more than 2:1, but they were less likely to die from the disease. It is theorized that because of their general health and their generations of exposure to previous disease had given them some added benefit against the Indian illness. In early 1754, during a particularly cold winter, the pallor of the disease seemed to be lifted from the country, and was not seen again for more than 7 decades. It did arise in the far reaches of Europe the following year, particularly around the Black Sea area, but it did not really spread across the continent.
As Scotland was finally settling into peacetime spending, Sweden again pulled them into war with their mutual enemy Denmark. James VIII, seeing that full involvement would be disastrous to the nation, joined the war in word alone, but Scottish aid was not needed, as Sweden demanded and received all Danish possessions barring the capital and a large cash indemnity for their efforts.
James and his Parliament throughout his long reign had become quite close, their roles well-defined and done with the utmost of professionalism. Of course, there had been a few incidences that did blur the lines between the two ruling branches, such as the 1748 Welsh rebellion, sponsored in part by their French and Polish enemies and the Great Lincoln Fire in 1757, which destroyed much of the central core of the city, a core which was then rebuilt in the more modern techniques that were being implemented in the public housing front.
However, war was something which Scotland was going to have to fight again in earnest with the Fifty Month War (1760-1764), which was essentially Poland's first attempt to reabsorb their former territories. Scottish troops took a defensive stance; protecting their vassals territories while Lithuanian armies were created for counterattack. With heavy Scottish loans, the counterattack was quick to come, pushing Polish forces from their own borders and allowing the Knoxist-Lutheran League to quickly leave the war with Lithuanian forces fighting well on Polish soil. Lithuania finally accepted peace for a large cash settlement.
Given the volatility of the region, one of James final acts as king was to order that all border provinces within the Scottish dominion needed stronger fortresses to defend against the rapidly modernizing armies of her enemies. But James would not live to see his final act carried out, as he died of pneumonia on January 4, 1766. With the ascension of Charles III, Scottish foreign policies were once again in the hands of an incapable man.
Europe in 1766
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Louis XVI, King of France, in a letter to Maria-Theresa July 1773
After the liberation of Lithuania, Scotland was unencumbered by foreign wars for well over a decade, and was able to turn its financial resources inward. New domestic policies affected the entire nation, based entirely on the radical demographic shift in the Empire's population towards the northern cities. Unlike some of the newly enlarged cities on the continent, the expansion was government-controlled through a rigid permit system which kept sprawl to a minimum, and led to better construction and wider street, linear street designs. Parliament wanted its cities to be the best and most efficient in Europe, and it did not become such a progressive society to have slums or any other form of sloppy building. One minister in particular, Richard Dunham, Lord Ulster, had a profound effect on Scottish urban planning with the idea of government housing, with long-term profitability being the key to his plans. Since the government was to build these residences, they would be of a long-lasting and substantial nature, so over a period of decades, the cost of building would be recouped and then profits would be drawn from said structures.
Peace was something the Scotland was not ready for, given its heavy military expenditures and the relative youth of its male population to this point. With an older male population, war had been relegated to a secondary role in foreign policy. Instead, massive public works projects were begun, beginning with the development of a series of canals and paved roadways connecting the major centers of trade and the burgeoning industrial sectors together. Coal from Wales and the Southwest were shipped northward to the very cities that needed them most. The cost-effectiveness of the canal systems meant prices of goods began to decrease, so consumption began to rise. The speed of these systems also meant that perishables were in far fresher condition, and were less likely to make those who ate them sick. Hunger was slowly being wiped out, and a stronger populace was more able to endure the occasional plagues that would have once killed or crippled hundreds or thousands.
However, the Scottish colonial spirit did bring a totally new malady back to Edinburgh in 1753- cholera. For 10 long months, the capital, the shining pinnacle of European civilization was ravaged by this killer, which brought down poor and rich alike, though the poorer segments of society were afflicted by a ratio of more than 2:1, but they were less likely to die from the disease. It is theorized that because of their general health and their generations of exposure to previous disease had given them some added benefit against the Indian illness. In early 1754, during a particularly cold winter, the pallor of the disease seemed to be lifted from the country, and was not seen again for more than 7 decades. It did arise in the far reaches of Europe the following year, particularly around the Black Sea area, but it did not really spread across the continent.
As Scotland was finally settling into peacetime spending, Sweden again pulled them into war with their mutual enemy Denmark. James VIII, seeing that full involvement would be disastrous to the nation, joined the war in word alone, but Scottish aid was not needed, as Sweden demanded and received all Danish possessions barring the capital and a large cash indemnity for their efforts.
James and his Parliament throughout his long reign had become quite close, their roles well-defined and done with the utmost of professionalism. Of course, there had been a few incidences that did blur the lines between the two ruling branches, such as the 1748 Welsh rebellion, sponsored in part by their French and Polish enemies and the Great Lincoln Fire in 1757, which destroyed much of the central core of the city, a core which was then rebuilt in the more modern techniques that were being implemented in the public housing front.
However, war was something which Scotland was going to have to fight again in earnest with the Fifty Month War (1760-1764), which was essentially Poland's first attempt to reabsorb their former territories. Scottish troops took a defensive stance; protecting their vassals territories while Lithuanian armies were created for counterattack. With heavy Scottish loans, the counterattack was quick to come, pushing Polish forces from their own borders and allowing the Knoxist-Lutheran League to quickly leave the war with Lithuanian forces fighting well on Polish soil. Lithuania finally accepted peace for a large cash settlement.
Given the volatility of the region, one of James final acts as king was to order that all border provinces within the Scottish dominion needed stronger fortresses to defend against the rapidly modernizing armies of her enemies. But James would not live to see his final act carried out, as he died of pneumonia on January 4, 1766. With the ascension of Charles III, Scottish foreign policies were once again in the hands of an incapable man.
Europe in 1766
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Nice installment!
Holy Wlak! Europe is divided amongst a fairly small number of HUGE players. Just look at 'em!!! Russia, Lithuania, Ottomans, Austria... Wouldn't want to take more than one of them on at a time. It'd be a blood bath.
I wonder what you have in store for your last 50ish years.
Holy Wlak! Europe is divided amongst a fairly small number of HUGE players. Just look at 'em!!! Russia, Lithuania, Ottomans, Austria... Wouldn't want to take more than one of them on at a time. It'd be a blood bath.
I wonder what you have in store for your last 50ish years.
It gets messy... gets REAL messy.... and fun... hehehehehehe.... someone's going to get it... I wonder who....
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Good AAR. Could we have a composite world map and some economic figures, pretty please?
Ps. If you have not completed the game as yet, may I formally petition you to liberate Denmark.
Ps. If you have not completed the game as yet, may I formally petition you to liberate Denmark.
We'll see what happens after 1820... because this AAR is going to continue after 1820 because Sweden holds all of the Denmark's land, not the Stuarts.
What sort of economic figures are you looking for?
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What sort of economic figures are you looking for?
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Charles III is a baboon. He is about as qualified to run a nation as a slave would be to perform the complete works of Moliere.
Voltaire, Incompetence and the Scottish Monarch 1775
How Scotland survived the tumultuous 22 year reign of Charles III or as he is sometimes referred to, Charles the Incompetent is something of a mystery. Both as a statesmen and symbol of the Scottish people, he was a failure. Though no land was lost, Scotland's international reputation was damaged for decades.
Charles had no tact as a diplomat, and given the great diplomatic moves his predecessor had made, it was quite striking. He was known to make outrageous statements which luckily for the Scottish people fell upon more rational ears on the continent.
Statements such as, "The French are at best a minor power, and should be no concern for a nation such as we. If we were to wage war, they would clearly lose. Of course, we mustn't seem to be the aggressor, so we must wait until they make the first move," would have perhaps led to war a century before, but clearly luck was on Scotland's side, as no one instigated war despite clear provocation.
Scotland did engage in war, but highly unsuccessfully, needing superior numbers to fight for draws in 1768 (Poland), 1771 (Russia), 1780 (Austria) and 1784 (Denmark). It was in this final war of Charles' reign that Sweden finally annexed its former subjugator, and truly made the Baltic a Swedish lake. This annexation removed one of Scotland's great enemies from action in future conflict.
The Scottish people had little confidence in his abilities either, and their were two failed attempts on his life in 1774 and 1779 by groups which wished that Henry IX or a regent would take over the foreign policy of the nation, but both attacks were unsuccessful. This feeling affected the Scottish economy and tax base of the nation. It also made the previous work by James XIII far less viable, since the new housing was not being used in the way it was originally intended. Those that were inhabited did make a profit after a decade or so, but the population boom that was expected did not happen until sometime in the 19th century.
Charles III, a religious man and some speculate a closet Catholic, also attacked the Deist and atheist views of the universities, institutions which had been perhaps the strongest supporters of the Stuart monarchy since their inception. New waves of democratic thought began circulating through the whole university system, instead of the southern schools as had been the previous pattern. The students of Glasgow and Aberdeen also protested Scottish intervention in the Russian and Austrian wars with Sweden, something Charles did not look kindly on. He asked the Parliament to send the home armies to break up these protests, but was rebuked by the Houses, as they were sympathetic to the protestors.
Charles sent troops himself on both occasions, clearly violating the law, but he said that it was in the nations best interest to quell such open rebellions against the legal authority of the monarchy, but Parliament did not accept this explanation, and denied the king funding for wars of conquest the rest of his reign.
As he neared his death, Charles III began to moderate some of his views, but he still believed that he had been correct in sending force to quell the student protests. He did make peace with the universities and Deists, even though he still felt that religion should have a more important role in the life of the Scottish people. In his elder years, he completed a book called The Spirit of Reform, which called on the Scottish people to re-embrace the Kirk and leave the Deist ways in the past, and for a few decades, there was a minor revival of the Presbyterian church in the empire, but it did not take completely, as the Deists had been around for such a time that the national institutions had been shaped more by their values than the Reformists.
In January 1788, Charles III finally passed, giving the more than competent Henry IX the throne. Henry's reign brought new challenges and rewards for the Scottish people, but he was perhaps only second to James VIII in political savvy.
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Voltaire, Incompetence and the Scottish Monarch 1775
How Scotland survived the tumultuous 22 year reign of Charles III or as he is sometimes referred to, Charles the Incompetent is something of a mystery. Both as a statesmen and symbol of the Scottish people, he was a failure. Though no land was lost, Scotland's international reputation was damaged for decades.
Charles had no tact as a diplomat, and given the great diplomatic moves his predecessor had made, it was quite striking. He was known to make outrageous statements which luckily for the Scottish people fell upon more rational ears on the continent.
Statements such as, "The French are at best a minor power, and should be no concern for a nation such as we. If we were to wage war, they would clearly lose. Of course, we mustn't seem to be the aggressor, so we must wait until they make the first move," would have perhaps led to war a century before, but clearly luck was on Scotland's side, as no one instigated war despite clear provocation.
Scotland did engage in war, but highly unsuccessfully, needing superior numbers to fight for draws in 1768 (Poland), 1771 (Russia), 1780 (Austria) and 1784 (Denmark). It was in this final war of Charles' reign that Sweden finally annexed its former subjugator, and truly made the Baltic a Swedish lake. This annexation removed one of Scotland's great enemies from action in future conflict.
The Scottish people had little confidence in his abilities either, and their were two failed attempts on his life in 1774 and 1779 by groups which wished that Henry IX or a regent would take over the foreign policy of the nation, but both attacks were unsuccessful. This feeling affected the Scottish economy and tax base of the nation. It also made the previous work by James XIII far less viable, since the new housing was not being used in the way it was originally intended. Those that were inhabited did make a profit after a decade or so, but the population boom that was expected did not happen until sometime in the 19th century.
Charles III, a religious man and some speculate a closet Catholic, also attacked the Deist and atheist views of the universities, institutions which had been perhaps the strongest supporters of the Stuart monarchy since their inception. New waves of democratic thought began circulating through the whole university system, instead of the southern schools as had been the previous pattern. The students of Glasgow and Aberdeen also protested Scottish intervention in the Russian and Austrian wars with Sweden, something Charles did not look kindly on. He asked the Parliament to send the home armies to break up these protests, but was rebuked by the Houses, as they were sympathetic to the protestors.
Charles sent troops himself on both occasions, clearly violating the law, but he said that it was in the nations best interest to quell such open rebellions against the legal authority of the monarchy, but Parliament did not accept this explanation, and denied the king funding for wars of conquest the rest of his reign.
As he neared his death, Charles III began to moderate some of his views, but he still believed that he had been correct in sending force to quell the student protests. He did make peace with the universities and Deists, even though he still felt that religion should have a more important role in the life of the Scottish people. In his elder years, he completed a book called The Spirit of Reform, which called on the Scottish people to re-embrace the Kirk and leave the Deist ways in the past, and for a few decades, there was a minor revival of the Presbyterian church in the empire, but it did not take completely, as the Deists had been around for such a time that the national institutions had been shaped more by their values than the Reformists.
In January 1788, Charles III finally passed, giving the more than competent Henry IX the throne. Henry's reign brought new challenges and rewards for the Scottish people, but he was perhaps only second to James VIII in political savvy.
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I was mainly thinking of a monthly income breakdown and monthly naval and army expenses. I sort of lost track of your colonial adventures, and was wondering which sort of finances was actually supporting Scotland. Likewise the infrastructure: How many of the different sorts of manufactories are actually in use? Just wondering, really.
I'm curious what your colonial empire looks like. See how it stacks up compared to my Scotland's,in the not so great and not so popular Gaelic Sword AAR.
I'll post my colonial empire soon...
Economically, I was making between 6 and 800 ducats a month, with a military expenditure of between 30 and 60 a month. I finished my trade and infrastructure early, so most of my finances were in military research.
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Economically, I was making between 6 and 800 ducats a month, with a military expenditure of between 30 and 60 a month. I finished my trade and infrastructure early, so most of my finances were in military research.
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Considering the size of most of the competition, it doesn't surprise me that each of you is finding it tough to make any inroads into one anothers' territories. By the time you can build stuff and get it there, the enemy can put about double the forces into the field...and visa versa.
Now that last paragraph is a loaded one. Can't wait to see how he flexes his tongue.
Now that last paragraph is a loaded one. Can't wait to see how he flexes his tongue.
Great work Bismarck!! Both with the game play and ofcourse the AAR.
Is there a possibility to see some screens of the Asian possessions?
Keep the good work up!
Is there a possibility to see some screens of the Asian possessions?
Keep the good work up!
The long awaited update.....
I know this chapter of the long and glorious history of the Scottish people has been awfully delayed, but as I promised from the outset, I am going to complete this.
Bismarck, Today
We fought them on all our lands, but they were too strong for us. For peace, we had to give up all that we had fought so hard to attain: freedom, liberty, democracy... and adopt their models instead. Perhaps, if we gain a foothold in their government, using their political apparatus, we can destroy them from within.
Rene Chateaubriand, Liberty, Fraternity and Freedom Betrayed, 1817
With the ascension of Henri IX to the throne, Scotland once again regained its international footing, and many of his predecessors transgressions were forgiven. Henri was also given quite a gift with the events that were happening within the Scottish people's long term enemy, France. Divisions were more deeply defined than ever before and the people were turning against their monarch and aristocracy.
Instead of trying to prevent Revolutionary forces from conquering the French countryside, Henri IX had corps trying to escalate their actions. He realized that a France that was divided and changing from within would be less of a threat in the future.
He also knew that France's neighbors would contain the revolution within the Empire's borders, so the movements and military actions would tear the country apart. At first, French authorities were able to stem the tide of revolution, but the Scottish aristocracy was able to supply weapons to the north eastern and western provinces of French empire and sweep the Imperial forces back towards the capital, before capturing and liberating Paris for themselves.
In case there was any spillover into Scottish-held territories, the Scottish military forces were amassed anywhere a potential breech could occur. This included the fortification of the three French Gaelic provinces to prevent some misguided attempt on the part of the newly formed Directory to retake them as French possessions.
The Houses were getting more and more bold in their incursions into royal power. In 1794, they raised an army for what they said was the defence of the homeland, but clearly had other motives in mind. Henri took control of those armies and shipped them to Flanders and the New World to protect their foreign interests.
Henri knew that eventually their was going to be a war, as their could only be one master of Western Europe, and with Napoleon's aggressive posturing, if he didn't directly begin a war, he would nonetheless be the cause. Henri had no formal cause to declare war however, but he prepared troops for offensives he knew would be coming.
He didn't have to wait long, as French forces invaded Cologne on August 12, 1801. This was taken as an immediate declaration of war on all members of the long-standing Knoxist-Lutheran League, which mobilized for war. The combined Scottish armies, having been organized for just such events crossed the border into France just days after the initial attack on Cologne.
The early phases of the war were perhaps the most violent, as the great generals of the revolution, including Emperor Napoleon, were bested throughout the country, and drove southward, first dividing the French territories in three and then systematically capturing the smaller, defenseless lands in short sieges and hard-fought assaults. Scottish fleets also ensured that both the motherland would be safe from the trepasses of their Southern enemies, and also cut off supplies from the few remaining French armies and garrisons. The battles, now senonomous with their brutality and ferocity of their fighting: Rouen, Geneva, Champagne, Marseilles. One general at the time remarked that the Seine river was so dammed with the dead and dying that he thought a battalion could cross before the obstruction was torn apart by the current.
Nevertheless, French forces were able to continue to put up a spirited fight, holding out for nearly half a decade under the numerically superior League forces. Henri wanted desperately to bring the French people under the rule of a Reformed Church, in essence making the whole of France a Huguenot state, but the people were unwilling to convert, and Napoleon was dead set against such a condition. Henri, knowing that his health was grave, and that some resolution to the war was needed, demanded that if the French would not join their religion, then they must become a Scottish vassal, a condition that was enough to make France no longer a threat, but would still allow their development as a nation. Napoleon, far from pleased, signed the agreement just 2 weeks before the death of Henri IX.
At the end of Henri IX's reign, the fundemental make-up of the European power system has be radically altered. A line could be drawn between the northwest and the southeast of the continent dividing the two spanning general alliances in the region, and Burgundy and Cologne ceased to exist as separate political entities.
Edgar Francis I, his successor, had to deal with conflict in a different region, and the European theatre was relatively settled by the time his reign began.
Asiatic territories
North America
Europe 1808
Africa
South America
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I know this chapter of the long and glorious history of the Scottish people has been awfully delayed, but as I promised from the outset, I am going to complete this.
Bismarck, Today
We fought them on all our lands, but they were too strong for us. For peace, we had to give up all that we had fought so hard to attain: freedom, liberty, democracy... and adopt their models instead. Perhaps, if we gain a foothold in their government, using their political apparatus, we can destroy them from within.
Rene Chateaubriand, Liberty, Fraternity and Freedom Betrayed, 1817
With the ascension of Henri IX to the throne, Scotland once again regained its international footing, and many of his predecessors transgressions were forgiven. Henri was also given quite a gift with the events that were happening within the Scottish people's long term enemy, France. Divisions were more deeply defined than ever before and the people were turning against their monarch and aristocracy.
Instead of trying to prevent Revolutionary forces from conquering the French countryside, Henri IX had corps trying to escalate their actions. He realized that a France that was divided and changing from within would be less of a threat in the future.
He also knew that France's neighbors would contain the revolution within the Empire's borders, so the movements and military actions would tear the country apart. At first, French authorities were able to stem the tide of revolution, but the Scottish aristocracy was able to supply weapons to the north eastern and western provinces of French empire and sweep the Imperial forces back towards the capital, before capturing and liberating Paris for themselves.
In case there was any spillover into Scottish-held territories, the Scottish military forces were amassed anywhere a potential breech could occur. This included the fortification of the three French Gaelic provinces to prevent some misguided attempt on the part of the newly formed Directory to retake them as French possessions.
The Houses were getting more and more bold in their incursions into royal power. In 1794, they raised an army for what they said was the defence of the homeland, but clearly had other motives in mind. Henri took control of those armies and shipped them to Flanders and the New World to protect their foreign interests.
Henri knew that eventually their was going to be a war, as their could only be one master of Western Europe, and with Napoleon's aggressive posturing, if he didn't directly begin a war, he would nonetheless be the cause. Henri had no formal cause to declare war however, but he prepared troops for offensives he knew would be coming.
He didn't have to wait long, as French forces invaded Cologne on August 12, 1801. This was taken as an immediate declaration of war on all members of the long-standing Knoxist-Lutheran League, which mobilized for war. The combined Scottish armies, having been organized for just such events crossed the border into France just days after the initial attack on Cologne.
The early phases of the war were perhaps the most violent, as the great generals of the revolution, including Emperor Napoleon, were bested throughout the country, and drove southward, first dividing the French territories in three and then systematically capturing the smaller, defenseless lands in short sieges and hard-fought assaults. Scottish fleets also ensured that both the motherland would be safe from the trepasses of their Southern enemies, and also cut off supplies from the few remaining French armies and garrisons. The battles, now senonomous with their brutality and ferocity of their fighting: Rouen, Geneva, Champagne, Marseilles. One general at the time remarked that the Seine river was so dammed with the dead and dying that he thought a battalion could cross before the obstruction was torn apart by the current.
Nevertheless, French forces were able to continue to put up a spirited fight, holding out for nearly half a decade under the numerically superior League forces. Henri wanted desperately to bring the French people under the rule of a Reformed Church, in essence making the whole of France a Huguenot state, but the people were unwilling to convert, and Napoleon was dead set against such a condition. Henri, knowing that his health was grave, and that some resolution to the war was needed, demanded that if the French would not join their religion, then they must become a Scottish vassal, a condition that was enough to make France no longer a threat, but would still allow their development as a nation. Napoleon, far from pleased, signed the agreement just 2 weeks before the death of Henri IX.
At the end of Henri IX's reign, the fundemental make-up of the European power system has be radically altered. A line could be drawn between the northwest and the southeast of the continent dividing the two spanning general alliances in the region, and Burgundy and Cologne ceased to exist as separate political entities.
Edgar Francis I, his successor, had to deal with conflict in a different region, and the European theatre was relatively settled by the time his reign began.
Asiatic territories
North America
Europe 1808
Africa
South America
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Holy Dinah! Look at all that dark blue.
[note to self]Must erradicate Scottish ASAP in my France game[/note to self]
BTW, isn't Spain far too large at the moment.
[note to self]Must erradicate Scottish ASAP in my France game[/note to self]
BTW, isn't Spain far too large at the moment.