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Part One: The Early Struggles
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The events leading up to the New Revolutionary Era begin with its spiritual forefather, the original American Revolution, and subsequent ill-fated rebellions against British hegemony in North America.
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Without any French naval support, General Washington consistently outmaneuvered the British, despite the Royal Navy's increasing stranglehold on the seas. Exhausted with the war, Great Britain gave up on trying to control the Patriot-dominated countryside and resorted to a new strategy: the United Empire Plan. In accordance with the UE plan, Britain stayed away from the negotiating table until after a massive redeployment by sea put them in control of most of the major coastal cities of the nascent United States. In the peace agreement they remained British territory as “Treaty Cities”, a humiliation to the Americans equivalent to the one they had dealt to the Empire. From these ports Great Britain would continue its economic dominance of the States, ruthlessly suppressing unlicensed (as in unlicensed with them) maritime trade and keeping out foreign merchant vessels (forcing the US to continue to export raw materials to and import manufactured goods from Great Britain).


Patriots and Empire would face down again in the Maritime War, where the US navy (officially referred to in the following treaties as a “pirate fleet”) was defeated and then scuttled and Congress forced to accept terms surrendering the States' right to build a navy ever again. Treated as a separate issue was the utter destruction of American militias at the hands of the British Army in the frontier and the reaffirmed mandate of the Empire over the Old Northwest Territory, putting the American settlers there under British military rule. Followed with the British defeat of France in the Continental Wars and the subsequent transference of Louisiana Territory to the British Empire, US expansion would be completely cut off.


Trapped behind layers of British imperialism, the misfortune of the United States would continue with the Slave Uprising; in which revolting planters led armies against armed abolitionist forces in a clash that delivered unprecedented carnage among civilians and property and showed the official government as weak and without the faith of the people due to years of humiliating obeisance to Great Britain.


This anti-British, anti-Congress feeling would boil to the surface in the Labor Rebellion; where workers, kept starving by minimum quotas on imported British goods, surged into the Treaty Cities and rioted against Imperial officials and Loyalist-descendant merchants. The Laborers, who believed the righteousness of their cause could defeat superior weapons and training, were obliterated nearly to the last man by Anglo-German forces (fresh from their victory over Franco Alliance forces in the Second Continental War and their subsequent division of Europe into British and German spheres of influence). A fresh wave of treaties guaranteeing British and German privileges throughout the interior of the States sealed the fate of Congress in the eyes of the people.
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