The Second War Between the States (1868-1869)
The first shots of this second war came not on land and not even between the KA and the CSA. The battle took place off the coast of California. Two Mexican frigates, which were both understrength and ill trained, attacked the KA Pacific fleet. The fleet was made up of three frigates and one commerce raider. The Mexicans surprised to find any KA ships in the Pacific fled to the south. The commerce raider cut off the only Mexican line of retreat and so they had to fight it out. For hours the KA frigates pounded the Mexicans ships and they slipped below the water on March 27 just before the daylight faded.
From April 3 through April 9 every KA division attacked from Texas to the Atlantic. As expected this overloaded the Confederates with an inexhaustable number of troops. They could defend anywhere and they started falling back.
Meanwhile in Europe there was an impasse as neither the Prussians or French were willing to attack the other as both their number were equal at roughly 40,000. France used this deadlock though to prepare several armies for transport to North America. Later in late May Denmark declared war on Prussia to get revenge for the humiliation of years earlier further hurting the war in europe.
There weren't many points of this war that really stand out but one is the battle of Richmond. The KA was presented with the same situation in Virginia as the USA did and McClellan hadn't budged forward. Now Grant plowed through men With Grant's army more then double the size of the Army of Northern Virigina there was no problem. It was also commanded by Lee who had failed first in 1861 and again in 1868. Why he was not replaced with a more able general we may never know. Still he did his best to put up a line to hold back Grant. His 32,000 men fought in desperation to hold the enemy at the gates. The lines failed and Grant took Richmond after no more then a week of battle.
To the west Seidita also commanded his front with skill encircling 10,000 Confederate soldiers in Oklahoma. The advance continued on all fronts while another 30,000 men we deployed to Los Angelas in mid June1868. These troops were originally planned to be used against Mexico with a landing close to the capital. Unfortunatly the ships were stuck in port until safety of the seas could be assured.
The last four or five months showed the true brutality of Grant and those serving under him. On September 17 he burned the Shenandoah region of Virginia. His men continued their advance down to Atlanta arriving on the first day of December. He defeated the 10,000 confederate troops and bruned the city to theground 14 days after taking it. Grant's comment on this in his memoirs were simply "I was cold…"
The last great battle of the civil war took place in Pensacola, Florida. Generals Sherman and Longstreet both on their respective sides. Longstreet's job was simple defend the port while the last of the Confederate leadership fled to Central and South America. The only problem Longstreet had was his men were outnumbered three-to-one. The KA with 60,000 and the CSA 20,000.
Sherman's waves off men crashed into the fortifications that Longstreet had set up like the waves of the beaches. One army was led by Prince Frederick Dent Grant heir to the throne. (His father had gotten Sherman to teach him in the conduc of battle ) FDG was no General like his father. He wasn't a terrible general but nothing that could take that position. He was hit with a bullet and immediently fell from his horse dead. It struck him directly in the heart.
The battle was won by Sherman after weeks of battle in late January 1869. The battle though told of things to come. Those same tactics used by Grant would be seen again in Abu Dhabi, Iceland, Greenland, Switzerland, Israel, and many other battles but not for another ten years at the earliest.
With the battle over the Confederate States defeated at Penascola the failure could no longer be denied. Longstreet as supreme commander of all Confederate forces surrenders to the KA. The KA was instantly recognized as the most powerful country worldwide. No nation not even the UK could claim to wipe the number 10 world power from the face of the earth (or even the Indian confederact whom they made peace with in April 1869) .
The KA now had well over 46,000,000 people in its borders. But still Mexico needed to be delt with. On March 5, Sherman achieved his beach head in Vera Cruz and drove westwards. In roughly two month he took Mexico City. Mexico immediently submitted and proclaimed their alliegence to the Kingdom of America as their vassal state.
On the day after (March 9, 1869) Grant lay dieing in his bed of throat cancer. Finally feeling the pain many of his own citizens were going through he agreed to give out free health care. Even at low quality it was something. Grant's situation worsened throughout the day. The Pope finally arrived at 7:30 that evening. Immediently after finishing his prayer Grant died. Upon finding the King was no longer breathing they all turned to Ulysses S. Grant Jr. King of America and yelled "The King is dead, Long live the King!".
The reign of US Grant Jr. had begun at only age 17, a reign that would take the Kingdom of America to the far corners of the globe and into wars that would, in total, cost over a million lives.
