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    Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    The Commonwealth of Egalitarian Republics With the uprising in Victoria and the ongoing wars in Chiapas, New Granada, and Vietnam, Mathieu Cordonnier considered it necessary to strengthen the international nature of Neiderhofferism. "We need to stand firm against the economic oppressors of...
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    Alternate Songs Thread

    The following two songs are meant to be from TL-191 The Sword of Remembrance by John Phillip Sousa, 1914 (sung to the tune of Die Wacht am Rhein - with revisions by Zoidberg12) Remembrance looks on Ellis fair, 'Cross oceans, for her sons despair, Rebels have took her kindred dear, and force...
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    Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    Chinese Intervention in Vietnam China was the one major non-Neiderhofferist power intervening in the Victorian revolution; its leadership, Wen Pan and Carl Salazar included, were worried about the potential discrediting of the newfound Chinese power. To do so, attention had to be turned down...
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    Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    The Battle of Letterkenny Letterkenny was a small town settled by Irish immigrants in the central portion of Victoria; it was a key intersection of multiple highways in the country, and such a natural target for the forces of Maziwa Makuu, whose forces began advancing on it as soon as...
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    Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    The intervention in Victoria The civil war in Victoria, backed by Neiderhofferists and by extension France, was deeply worrying to Berlin, to Mexico City, and to London. The possibility of a member of the United British Empire falling to the revolutionaries was simply terrifying, something...
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    Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    I have deliberately avoided doing anything with For All Nails as to preserve my originality. I have not read the project nor do I intend to until this timeline is finished.
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    Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    The Victorian Revolution The Dominion of Victoria was a state that was characterized by a degree of segregation between the minority European population and the majority indigenous African population. It was not government imposed; indeed the Prime Minister of the country was African, and so...
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    A Silly Timeline: The Year England Had Seven Kings

    It is a high honor to have my name used as a high bar here, but let the glory go first and foremost to Zioneer.
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    A Silly Timeline: The Year England Had Seven Kings

    This is so wonderfully wry and irreverent. I love it.
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    Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    The Militarization of Piedmont, Sicily, and Sardinia In 1982, the Prime Minister of Italy, Sigismondo Morasco felt deeply fearful of Neiderhofferist France. Elected after the fall of the Serafini government, Morasco was of a military background, and had fought against the French in Provence...
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    Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    The German-British Defense Agreement The agreement signed between McKinney and Schickendanz, authorized by both Priestland and Schottenstein, allocated several billion Thaler to the British government for the reconstruction of the southern counties of England, as well as less funds for the...
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    Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    British and German Cooperation German Foreign Minister Adalwin Schickendanz was sent to London by Prime Minister Schottenstein to discuss the possibility of a joint military strategy to effectively prevent revolutionary France from spreading their ideology to either country. "Britain is a...
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    Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    The Rhenish Wall In the months and years after the war in Europe, many refugees in France and the Netherlands attempted to escape to the relatively free nation of Germany (despite its less than stellar record in eastern Europe). The border with Italy was already fortified; very few people...
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    Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    India under Military Rule The military government, descended from the force sent out by Governor-General Theodore Worden had decided to take control of the country by force with the beginning of the Second Global War. Commanding General Charles Keating, chosen by the other generals after...
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    Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    Chinese Reconstruction With the end of the war in Russia that had been seen in both Nanjing and Berlin as pointless and unnecessary, the Chinese government could focus on the long and expensive process of rebuilding (although this was coupled with the concern of Neiderhofferism rising in...
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    Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    Stanton and Tibet Beauregard Stanton, the former genius North American general, had set up shop as the dictator of Tibet. "North America is lost to the Mexican hordes," he said to a Chinese journalist, "and now we have to rebuild democracy and discipline in another part of the world. My...
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    Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    The Treaty of Chimkent The war in Russia between Germany and China had grown to be a clear stalemate after the battle of Krasnoyarsk; there had been many pointless advances and retreats between Jia and Broeckmann. By June 1981, both sides were weary of war. The Germans were the first to...
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    Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    Neiderhofferists in Latin America New Granada was far from the only Latin American state to fall to Neiderhofferism. After the foundation of the Egalitarian Republic of New Granada, President Orozco immediately opened up relations with Cordonnier in France, who responded to her overtures...
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    Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    The New Granadan Revolution General Quintero Orozco, a New Granadan military leader who had sided with the loyalists in the Mexican Civil War, had been installed as the leader of his home country after its end. There had been rumors of a Neiderhofferist revolution brewing in New Granada for...
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    Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    Mercator and Portillo Adrian Mercator had inherited his father's disdain for radical Neiderhofferism; during his rule as President of Mexico, small-time rebels had been put down violently to the condemnation of North America, Britain, France, and Germany. Adrian, however, saw that the...
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