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DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING?
THE REVOLUTIONARY WARS OF 1848-1868

AND WHAT HAPPENED AFTER


Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

Will you join in our crusade?

Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!


- Les Misérables


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This is a TL about revolutions, the chaos they provoke, the emotions they make people feel and the efforts of reactionaries to stop them. It is about how people act in extraordinary situations. It is about war and bloodshed. But, most fundamentally, it is about the world changing forever.

Listen to the symphony, and let the music play.

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1998

The student looked at his exam paper anxiously, the question loomed before him like some terrible, unkillable dragon. It was deceptively simple - "Name three causes of the 1849 London Risings". Hadn't that had something to do with King Ernest Augustus? Last Hanoverian...the questions about the South Germans' Sunbomb Project in European War Three (1933-1946) had been bad enough. Then it hit him...hadn't old Ernest been something of a reactionary...steadily, firmly he began to write the answer to the best of his knowledge. Ten minutes later, the exam ended. He had filled in every single question.

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Europe in 1898
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