1799-The End - The Advent of a new world order.
England stood as number 1 in 1799. Her mighty fleet, enourmous wealth, great colonial empire was outstanding. Only Spain, Holland and to some extent Portugal had that vast territories under their control.
Although all the great colonial empires were in the enemy alliance England was still unsure if she could justify starting an aggressive war. She made that clear to the french king but France didn´t listen to England as she was out to seek revenge on the ones who left her all alone in 1791.
At that time Denmark was in heavy negotiations with Russia over the the province Finnmark which was a new addition to the russian empire and was populated by Scandinavians. Russia tried to get Denmark out of the old alliance with England stating that the english leader was not to be trusted. The Danish king laughed at this:
"Wyvern (Russia) :*Magic is not trustworthy"
"Mowers (Denmark) :*he is, my phone bill to him this week has been £15"
And now the Danish king and the English king talked about how and if they would support France in a aggressive war. It was decided with a bit of persuasion from the Danish king that England and Denmark would support France in her bid for continental hegemony whilst they would ensure joint Danish-English supremacy over the rest of the world.
And so aided by Napoleon in 1799 France decleared war on Austria. It was agreed by all sides that this war would finally decide who was the one in charge in Europe.
Portugal wisely had a secret agreement with England and peaced out immeaditly and with Spain it had been agreed that both nations would not fight in the colonies.
Thousands of soldiers began to march over Europe while the english fleet set out to fight the 2nd biggest fleet in the world in the waters before Amsterdam. Commanded by Admiral Nelson the 304 warships met the 239 dutch warships. The battle raged for 2 days but due superior leadership and equipment the english fleet destroyed the dutch fleet without significant looses.
The french king lateron reported that main dutch army was broken whilst plundering in the province of Orleanais which made the dutch empire no threat anymore. For a more exact explanation of the french war against the continental powers check this post from Damo in the middle of the page:
French journal
For the next three years Columbia and England attacked the dutch colonial empire all around the world. And while the war on the continent raged on Holland had to turn over part of her colonial empire to England:
"August 15, 1806 : Netherlands accepted peace with England on the following terms : Manado to England, Wairoa to England, Whangarei to England, Salabanka to England, Viti Levu to England, Campeche to Colombia, Yucatanto Colombia, Buru to England, Sorong to England, Taranaki to England, Kauai to England, Oahu to England, Wewak to England & Nicaragua to Colombia. "
England had now secured her a dominant position in the Pacific Ocean also and expanded her possesions in Indonesia significantly.
France had meanwhile smashed Prussia, Austria and Holland and turned towards Spain. She regained much of the territory lost in the 1791 war and gained Flandern from Holland also.
Holland was beaten, Spain had to give up Mexico. The future looked bright for the French-English-Danish alliance when all of sudden Sweden broke apart ceding two provinces to Russia. Denmark and England were furious and England used the main reserve army in England to land in Russia to humble Russia for that. 1 year ago St.Petersburg had been stormed to relieve Sweden but it did prove to be not significant enough to peace Russia out. Under the command of Duke Wellington England achieved amazing success in a blitz campaign in Russia lasting mere months:
As most of mainland russia was under control England offered Russia peace for ceding Moscow!
Russia didn´t give in but lost stability. Russia was on the brink of total destruction. England occupying the heartland, War Exhaustion extremely high and the Muslim league of OE, Persia and the Mughal Empire joining the fun.
England never wanted to wage war on Russia and only did so to aid her ally Sweden. Seeing Russia was helpless England then offered the hand of friendship to her. For letting the former two swedish provinces revolt back England aided Russia with an emergency financial packet of 1500 ducats.
So with October coming round Duke Wellington embarked on the ships in the Gulf of Ingermanland. The fleet then cruised directly to China the last of the austrian-russian allies yet unbeaten. 70k new recruits merged with Wellington in Anglia and sailing for 3months they arrived in the Gulf of Beijing landing there to support the small Indian expedition force that fought against impossible odds in China:
China sued for peace after some battles and was persuaded to give up her CoT in Shanghai for 1000 ducats.
My income was about 900-1000 but together with the plundering in China I was able to get in this:
And guess what the gold income was Wewak my first gold province.
England now truly ruled the waves! 450 warships under her command with nearby all strategic islands of the world under english control, India, NA, Indonesia and Australia under her control. An income twice as big as the next richest power.
The last years were only peace and England maxed techs out finally in 1807 with gaining infra tech 10. One more war was fought against Holland destroying her completely and making her a mediocre power.
The Muslim League whitepeaced with Russia. England finally paid all state gifts for Ganges. 30.000 ducats as stated by Peter.
CoTs under english control:
Anglia, Manhattan, Falklands, Tahiti, Jakarta, Ganges and Shanghai and one I can´t remember in Australia.
And the end picture by Wyvern:
