God Save These American States

[Virginia Liberal]

To the north of the Federal Republic of America lay the British realms of the Crown Confederation of New Albion and the smallest of the American Republics the Union of New English States. While this area of North America was moving at a notably slower pace than their cousins to the south during the 1860’s there there were things of note happening in the northern part of the continent.

Gambling and Growing the tails of the Crown Confederation of New Albion

For the CCNA the 1860’s were marked by continued struggle to build a unified nation out of a collection of colonies that really didn’t like each other and had their own political goals. The National Government would finally be able to assert its authority as the two National Coalition Parties continued to solidify and seep down into the Commonwealths. This would be seen in the Crown Confederation Defense Service Act that would be passed in 1865. This act would require that each male citizen serve for two years in the military of the Crown Confederation of New Albion upon reaching the age of sixteen. These conscripts would be divided up to meet the needs of the Confederation Army and the Royal Confederation Navy. Following their two years of active service these conscripts would spend the next decade in the active reserves. Active Reserve units would be based in each commonwealth and would gather and drill on the first weekend of each month; after their decade in the active reserves they would simply join their local militia units. In place of the Active Reserve conscripts that were placed in the navy would spend a decade in the Merchant Marine, before being discharged from service. While the Crown Confederation Defense Service Act would increase the CCNA’s military capability that was not its main objective. The act was designed by Senator Robert Wiseman (Tories from Lakeland) to start the process of breaking the citizens viewing themselves as citizens of their Commonwealths and see themselves as citizens of the Confederation. The CCNA Government would also start a massive Railroad build push in 1868 with the passage of the Iron Road Act. The IRA sought to triple the amount of railroad lines in the Confederation by the year 1880. This would cause the Iron and Steel industries to expand to meet the increased demand caused by this act pushing the CCNA’s industrial development along.

As the Decade drew to a close the First Peoples Nation would see its membership increased as the surviving tribes from the Plains War with the Federal Republic of America flet north seeking safety form the The welcoming of these new nations into the FPN would serve to worsen the relations between Britain and the FRA following the Yellowstone incursion by General Custer. However as cooler heads would prevail in London and Hamilton war would be averted if just by the skin of their teeth. With the government of the FRA issuing a formal apology. Instead the FPN would spend the decade continuing to scour the orphanages of Europe and Asia taking children and bringing them back to be raised in the culture of the tribes of the FPN. They would also start sending scouts abroad to find a replacement for the buffalo which was now extinct, along with its European cousin.

The Union of New English States and the Whale Wars

While their Royalist brothers were still adjusting to being swallowed whole by the CCNA. The UNES aka the enlarged Republic of Vermont had moved past the early stages of restoring the Republic form of Government to the bulk of New England to forming an actual country. The political mood in Adams was generally good natured. The Republicans held the presidency and control of the Congress. The Green Party made up a sizable minority but had yet to win over enough of the population of the new states to break the Republican majority. The CCNA’s conscription act, something that most expected to draw the attention of the politicians in Adams actually didn't. All the UNES did was to reinstate its own conscription law that it had allowed to expire following the end of Hostilities. No, the politicians in Adams' eyes were drawn to the sea where a drama was unfolding. Known as the “Whale Wars” in the newspapers and along the harbor fronts, contact between UNES whalers and those from the Commonwealth of New England and Occasionally the Irish were becoming increasingly hostile to the point where ships had been burned and crews killed. For a change no one in Adams, Richardsburg, or New Dublin wanted to go to war over this issue but all wanted these incidents to stop. So on March 7,1865 delegates from all of the countries that practiced whaling (which was all the American, and European Nations that had coast lines would attend the Congress of Madrid to settle the whaling issue. This would create the Madrid Treaty on Whaling of 1865. This Congress would establish rules to govern whaling, as well as an international council on Whaling that would govern the whaling industry in the future. Each member nation would commit ships to form the Whaling Taskforce that the ICW would use to enforce these laws.

Mexico

On February 28, 1863 70 year old Emperor Christobal de Montazuma dies and his son 45 year old Crown Prince Juan Carlosand his wife Princess Shou'an becomes Emperor and Empress of Mexico. Their eldest son Antonio becomes Crown Prince. They will be officially crowned on August 15,1863. The New Emperor is a member of the generation that fought and died in the Commonwealth-Mexican War back in the 1840’s. As such the new emperor is far from a war hawk. However many in the Parliament are shocked then when one of his first actions is to ask the Parliament for the largest defense spending bill in the last twenty years. However he is quick to explain his reasoning why. Since the end of the war Mexico has spent the bare minimum on the army and navy and both are now completely outclassed by their potential enemies. Mexico’s army is equipped with single shot breech loading rifles and her fleet is made up of wooden hulled warships. After much debate the Parliament agrees with the Emperor and the Military Restoration Act of 1866 will be passed.

The Military Restoration Act of 1866 provides funds for the adoption of modern equipment for the Army and Marine formations. It also lays out a 15 year building plan that will see the Mexican Armada completely do away with wooden hulled ships in favor of Iron (and later steel) ships. The Armada will place its first order for Ironclad battleships the next year; these were a class of four; 5,000 ton central battery Ironclads based upon the British Ironclad HMS Penelope that had been laid down two years earlier. They were named after the current Emperor’s father, Emperor Christobal. While The Ironclad fleet was being to be built Emperor Juan Carlos would dispatch Admiral Carlos Jesus de Guadalahara lead a squadron of 48 ships and a force of 60,000 soldiers under the command of Prince Roberto Phillip (Emperor Juan Carlos’s 3rd son) to the Hawaiian Islands to establish a Mexican Presence on those Islands.

The Fleet would arrive off of the Hawaiian Islands on March 17,1866. Once there The Prince would lead a short and bloody conquest of the Island Kingdom. During the course of this conquest he would see to it that every male member of the royal family was executed. After several popular revolts were extinguished by the Mexican troops Hawaii would be officially declared under Mexican Protection on May 1,1866. Roberto would seek out the one surviving member of the Hawaiian line of succession Prince Victoria(1) who was just 17 years old. After several days of negotiating with her they would announce their engagement. Roberto would ensure that his father recognized Victoria as the heir apparent to the throne of Hawaii. In exchange for this she would marry Robert and he would serve as her equal partner and co-ruler. A week later they were married by a catholic Priest in the Kawaiahaʻo Church.

Princess Victoria on her Coronation day 17 years old

Kawaiahaʻo Church in 1866

The Iolani Place in 1866

Two months later they would be crowned King and King of Hawaii in the ʻIolani Palace. As his first act as King Roberto would grant Mexico a five hundred year agreement for basing rights at Pearl Harbor, and the ability to station up to 100,000 soldiers in the Hawaiian Islands. In return his father Emperor Juan Carlos ensure the Roberto would be the commander of all Mexican forces stationed in Hawaii and Mexico would assist Hawaii in the training of a modern army and navy.

Flag of Hawaii 1867

1. Younger than the OTL Victoria but I’m using the otl picture

 

[Board 3659]

Noice going to read the chapter soon

 

[traveller76]

Good update. I am waiting to see the rise of new industries across the continent.

 

[Virginia Liberal]

Good update. I am waiting to see the rise of new industries across the continent.

Thanks the Steel Age is approaching fast Next chapter will bring us into the 1870's

 

[Virginia Liberal]

next update is in the works about 50% through it takes place in South America and we have a war

 

[Virginia Liberal]

Peru: The Andes War Part 1

The 1870’s would begin with a bang as on July 17,1871 The Kingdom of Peru would declare war on the Franco-Spanish Empire. Peru had spent the last twenty five years building railroads across the Andes to the Eastern part of the Kingdom. (OTL Bolivia). By the end of the 1860’s they had six railroads pushed through the mountains and railheads at the border with French New Aquitaine. So when 1870 dawned and King Carlos asked if they were ready for war the parliamentary leaders agreed so on July 17, 1871 the elderly Carlos I/V would ask the Parliament of Peru to declare war on the Franco-Spanish Empire. The Vote yes was overwhelming and Peru was at war with France. Peru had 600,000 troops deployed along the border with New Aquitaine. These troops were divided up into the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Armies; each army had 200,000 men with supporting artillery. Peru even had constructed a squadron of River Ironclads on the Paraguay River.

The Peruvian Invasion would catch the French forces in South America off guard and meet with success at first. As they advanced hundred of miles into New Aquitaine fighting only occasional pitched battles with local militia units that generally retreated. This was till they reached the fortified city of Fort du Paraguay (1). This city had been built as a heavily fortified base from which early French settlers could advance along the Paraguay River. Over the decades the governors of New Aquitaine had chosen to maintain and expand the defenses there making the city the most fortified place in South America. The Forts that surrounded the city were manned by a permanent garrison of 150,000 soldiers and had a River flotilla of twelve ships to support it. On September 17,1871 the Peruvian 1st Army would arrive just north of the defensive works at Fort du Paraguay which were a raised position on the south side of the Rio Salado and the swamps that surrounded it. While on the West bank of the Paraguay River was the first of the massive forts, Fort Blanco. General Iñigo Anchondo would take two days to scout the area before he began the attack. However the Navies would not wait on the land forces on September 18,1871 the two river fleets would fight the Battle of Isla Tres Bocas. The French fleet consisted of 7 Ironclad gunboats and 5 unarmored gunboats. The Peruvian Fleet consisted of 8 Ironclads. The battle would last three hours and both fleets would disengage. The French would lose three unarmored gunboats but the Ironclads on both sides were unscaved. The Infantry attack would begin on September 20,1871. The Peruvian Forces had to fight their way across the swamp land and the attack was a failure and the Peruvians were forced to pull back. By the end of the month both sides had become entrenched along the Salado River. The First Army’s advance had been halted. In October the Second army would arrive and would be able to envelop the city and the forts around it. This would start the siege of Fort du Paraguay.

Meanwhile the 3rd army was advancing along the eastern foothills of the Andes with their objective being the Rail hub and mining town of Nouveau Loyn (2). Here like the 2nd and 1st armies further east they found little opposition till they neared their objective. At Nouveau Loyn they encountered the Western Army composed of 110,000 men. This force was a mixture of militia units built around a single Corps of Regular army soldiers. The Battle of Nouveau Loyn would last for 5 days between November 17 to the 23 of 1871 before the French defenders were forced to withdraw. With December nearing the Peruvians felt confident that they could get a favorable settlement out of France. They were shocked when their ambassador was turned away with the French Foreign minister telling him that France will not yield to the old pretender. As the new year began King Carlos I/V passed away and his son Phillip Louis Carlos would become King Phillip I of Peru and King Phillip V of Spain.

1872 would see the French ship five Armies from France to New Aquitaine, just over 1 million men in total. While Peru would fully mobilize its economy for war, call up its reserves and begin conscription. The Reserves were sent to reinforce the three existing armies while the conscripts were formed into new units. The Conscript units were not rushed into battle just yet as they were to receive a detailed training program. As the men were slowly starting to be pulled out of factories it was the children too young for military service and the women who moved into the factories to replace them. The 1872 campaigns would focus once more on Fort du Paraguay in the East/North while in the west the focus would fall on Nouveau Pau (3). The Peruvian Plan was to have their western army take Nouveau Pau which if they could take would place them in position to either strike at the capital of New Aquitaine Nouveau Bordeaux or at Nouveau Agen and cut the flow of supplies of the Paraguay River to Fort de Paraguay.

While the Third army was conducting this campaign the First and Second armies would renew their assault on Fort du Paraguay, in the hopes of defeating it before France could break the siege. Meanwhile the Peruvian Armada would sail around Cape Horn and start a blockade of New Aquitaine. The Peruvian Fleet would deploy a Marine and small army contingent ashore at the mouth of the Deseado River where they would establish a fortified harbor they named Puerto Deseado. Once they had this base established the Peruvian Fleet would start pushing up the coast.

On August 24,1872 they would engage the French Southern fleet off the Bahia Blanca. The Battle of the Bahia Blanca was one of the largest battle of Ironclad ships in history the Armada de Peru had 46 Ironclad warships supported by 8 unarmored ships. The French Southern Fleet consisted of
50 Ironclad warships 2 of which were actually the new Steelclad ships l'Armure and
L'incassable. Steelclads were an evloution of the Ironclad ships that first appeared in the 1870’s Steelclads used a new Nickel-Steel alloy armor which was harder allowing for thinner plates that gave more protection. These two ships massive by the days standard at 16,590 tons displacement carried a main battery of four 17 inch rifled breech loading guns in twin armored enclosed Armored Barbettes one fore and one aft of the secondary and tertiary batteries in the central box battery.

The Steelclad Battleship FS l'Armure in route to New Aquitaine

Peruvian Flagship ARP Toro she and all six of her sisters were part of the Atlantic Fleet.

The battle would begin at 1400h with the two fleets scouting forced of Armored Frigates clashing. The battle lines of both fleets soon joined in. The battle would last till dusk however when the two fleets broke apart it was clear that the French had been the Victor. They had sunk 7 of the Peruvian Ironclads plus all 8 of the unarmored ships and damaged another 11 to various degrees. The two Steelclads had sunk 3 ironclads each and damaged many more taking only Minor damage in return. In exchange for this they had lost 5 ironclads sunk and 10 damaged. However the Peruvians had been forced to fall back and the French supply route to Europe was intact.

…. to be continued

1. OTL Asunción
2. OTL Salta
3. OTL Cordoba

 

[Virginia Liberal]

So this became a two parter.

 

[Virginia Liberal]

 

[CountofDooku]

Need to make a new world map for this, my last one is no lonegr up to date ^^

 

[Virginia Liberal]

Need to make a new world map for this, my last one is no lonegr up to date ^^

I'll PM you what the out come of the war will look like

 

[CountofDooku]

I'll PM you what the out come of the war will look like

Very nice

 

[Virginia Liberal]

To the south of the siege at Fort du Paraguay an army was marshaling. This was the French 18th Army; its commander was Phillip Louvel David. David had been fresh out of officer training academy in the last year of the Second War of Spanish succession. He had then commanded a Corps during the War of Moroccan Independence. He had just received his promotion to Général d'armée when the 18th Army was formed. He was well acquainted with the weapons of modern warfare, and was itching to prove the tactics that he and his colleagues had come up with in war games during the recent decades of peace. Key to his strategy was the massive guns that the River flotilla was transporting up the river. As well as their recently developed quick firing 75mm field guns.

On October 8, 1872 the French counter attack began. The Peruvian siege lines around Fort de Paraguay had to be partially abandoned as the trenches south of the Paraguay and Pilcomayo Rivers had to be abandoned under the weight of the attack on them. To the west a second French army forced the Peruvian Western forces to abandon their positions at Nouveau Pau. This would begin the Race to the Pacific as both sides began to try and Flank each other. By the time autumn started in March there was a continuous line from the Brazilian Border across the Andes to the Pacific Coast. Peru would adopt a defensive posture from here on out as they struggled to mass enough manpower for an offensive. The Peruvians also deployed the newest Machine guns the gas operated Henry Guns (1). Five hundred of which reached the trench lines in April of 1873. The arrival of these guns would come just as the French launched their fall offensive aimed at enlarging their bridge heads across the Pilcomayo River. The Bronzeville offensive would cost the French over 250,000 casualties and see them make only minuscule gains in return for the cost in blood. It also put any new offensives on hold till more reinforcements were either trained locally or brought in from France. Meanwhile France decided to shift its attention to Patagonia where Peruvian forces still held their forward base at Puerto Deseado.

The assault on Puerto Deseado would be two pronged The first was an Overland force of 60,000 men commanded by Général de corps d'armée Christophe Vasseur. Vasseur’s force was to occupy the hills to the North West of the harbor and cut off any overland retreat. Meanwhile the Fleet would return to finish off the Peruvian Fleet and cut off the Sea route of escape.

Almost from the start things went poorly for the French Forces of the Patagonian Army. The overland route had poor maps and struggled finding water. They had been planned to arrive around June 15,1873 instead the dehydrated survivors of the march limped into the hills north of the harbor around July 25. 1873 and then were more obsessed with getting water than entrenching. Then on July 30, 1873 the Peruvians would attack the French army driving it off into the desert and capturing what little equipment had survived the march south. Most importantly they captured the French Cavalry remounts. This allowed the Peruvians to set up two companies of Mounted infantry which they would use to patrol the Deseado River denying the French access to the easy source of freshwater.

Meanwhile at sea the Navy was also having difficulties. The Steelclad battleship L'incassable would develop engine problems and was unable to sail with the Fleet that steamed south. Then as they were sailing south they ran into a line of Peruvian picket ships spoiling the element of surprise for them.

The two fleets would meet for the second time 68 miles off the coast of the small village of Punta Delgada. The Peruvian fleet consisted of 28 Ironclads, the French Fleet consisted of 23 Ironclad plus the l'Armure. The Battle of Punta Delgada began at 1000h on June 1, 1873. It was an even battle with the Peruvians having a slight (five ship) advantage, however the French had the Steelcad l'Armure. For three hours the two fleets battled each other with the French getting the better of the Peruvians thanks to l'Armure Then at 1425 she suffered an explosion in her coal bunker. While it didn’t outright sink the ship it left her dead in the water. With l'Armure now out of the fight Admiral Gautier Dembélé would order his ships to begin to withdraw with l'Armure under tow. The Peruvians continent, driving the French off, decided to tend to their own wounded. The Peruvians had lost 9 Ironclads sunk and 4 more heavily damaged. The French had lost 5 Ironclads sunk and 3 more heavily plus the Steelclad l'Armure. The difference was that the French had the ability to repair the damaged ships and the Peruvians did not have this ability at Puerto Deseado.

As 1873 moved into the Spring of the Southern Hemisphere the war had settled into a stalemate on both the northern and Southern front. In Paris the King and the Parliament (not to speak of the French public) were growing tired of this war. In Lima the Peruvian Cortes were growing very sick of this war it was becoming costly in men and material and while going on the defensive they had not suffered a defeat they had no hope of advancing or taking Fort de Paraguay away from the French anymore either. In addition to that the Colombians were rattling sabers to the north meaning that the latest batch of reinforcements were instead heading north to reinforce the northern border. It was on September 2nd that King Phillip himself asked the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister to see if anyone would be willing to mediate a peace treaty between Peru and France. However, as peace looked like it was set to return A force from the CAS state of Falkland would land on Tierra del Fuego and claim the island and the southernmost tip of Patagonia for the CAS.

Treaty talks between the Peruvians and French would begin on November 1, 1873 in Stockholm Sweden. The treaty was reached fairly quickly. In it the French recognized Peruvian Control of both East and West Patagonia south of the Chubut River, in exchange the Peruvians would return the northern border to the pre war border. The CAS would then pay the Peruvians 1.5 million dollars for Tierra del Fuego.

The treaty left both the French and the Peruvians feeling unsatisfied the French had maintained their current borders of New Aquitaine but had failed to drive the Peruvians out by force to many in the french high command it seemed that the issued of the Bloody Decade had yet to be resolved. France also began a hunt for its own gas operated machine gun. For Peru, while they had achieved their secondary goal of control of Patagonia, they had not achieved their primary goal: a direct route from their current rail network to the Atlantic Ocean. For both sides the butcher's bill was a long and bloody one. The French had deployed just under 2 million men in the conflict and had suffered 895,600 total casualties (KIA, WIA, MIA) the Peruvians had deployed 1.4 million men in the conflict and had suffered 699,369 total casualties.

The French would put new focus on fortifying the border between New Aquitaine and Trans Andes Peru. The population of New Aquitaine was also subjected to conscription for the first time and its Territorial Defense Force transformed into the Army of New Aquitaine. The Peruvians were forced to turn their attention to the north as Colombia had completely remilitarized the border between them for the first time since the Ecuador War almost a century ago.

1. 1914 Martin Gun

 

[JustinTexas]

To the south of the siege at Fort du Paraguay an army was marshaling. This was the French 18th Army; its commander was Phillip Louvel David. David had been fresh out of officer training academy in the last year of the Second War of Spanish succession. He had then commanded a Corps during the War of Moroccan Independence. He had just received his promotion to Général d'armée when the 18th Army was formed. He was well acquainted with the weapons of modern warfare, and was itching to prove the tactics that he and his colleagues had come up with in war games during the recent decades of peace. Key to his strategy was the massive guns that the River flotilla was transporting up the river. As well as their recently developed quick firing 75mm field guns.

On October 8, 1872 the French counter attack began. The Peruvian siege lines around Fort de Paraguay had to be partially abandoned as the trenches south of the Paraguay and Pilcomayo Rivers had to be abandoned under the weight of the attack on them. To the west a second French army forced the Peruvian Western forces to abandon their positions at Nouveau Pau. This would begin the Race to the Pacific as both sides began to try and Flank each other. By the time autumn started in March there was a continuous line from the Brazilian Border across the Andes to the Pacific Coast. Peru would adopt a defensive posture from here on out as they struggled to mass enough manpower for an offensive. The Peruvians also deployed the newest Machine guns the gas operated Henry Guns (1). Five hundred of which reached the trench lines in April of 1873. The arrival of these guns would come just as the French launched their fall offensive aimed at enlarging their bridge heads across the Pilcomayo River. The Bronzeville offensive would cost the French over 250,000 casualties and see them make only minuscule gains in return for the cost in blood. It also put any new offensives on hold till more reinforcements were either trained locally or brought in from France. Meanwhile France decided to shift its attention to Patagonia where Peruvian forces still held their forward base at Puerto Deseado.

The assault on Puerto Deseado would be two pronged The first was an Overland force of 60,000 men commanded by Général de corps d'armée Christophe Vasseur. Vasseur’s force was to occupy the hills to the North West of the harbor and cut off any overland retreat. Meanwhile the Fleet would return to finish off the Peruvian Fleet and cut off the Sea route of escape.

Almost from the start things went poorly for the French Forces of the Patagonian Army. The overland route had poor maps and struggled finding water. They had been planned to arrive around June 15,1873 instead the dehydrated survivors of the march limped into the hills north of the harbor around July 25. 1873 and then were more obsessed with getting water than entrenching. Then on July 30, 1873 the Peruvians would attack the French army driving it off into the desert and capturing what little equipment had survived the march south. Most importantly they captured the French Cavalry remounts. This allowed the Peruvians to set up two companies of Mounted infantry which they would use to patrol the Deseado River denying the French access to the easy source of freshwater.

Meanwhile at sea the Navy was also having difficulties. The Steelclad battleship L'incassable would develop engine problems and was unable to sail with the Fleet that steamed south. Then as they were sailing south they ran into a line of Peruvian picket ships spoiling the element of surprise for them.

The two fleets would meet for the second time 68 miles off the coast of the small village of Punta Delgada. The Peruvian fleet consisted of 28 Ironclads, the French Fleet consisted of 23 Ironclad plus the l'Armure. The Battle of Punta Delgada began at 1000h on June 1, 1873. It was an even battle with the Peruvians having a slight (five ship) advantage, however the French had the Steelcad l'Armure. For three hours the two fleets battled each other with the French getting the better of the Peruvians thanks to l'Armure Then at 1425 she suffered an explosion in her coal bunker. While it didn’t outright sink the ship it left her dead in the water. With l'Armure now out of the fight Admiral Gautier Dembélé would order his ships to begin to withdraw with l'Armure under tow. The Peruvians continent, driving the French off, decided to tend to their own wounded. The Peruvians had lost 9 Ironclads sunk and 4 more heavily damaged. The French had lost 5 Ironclads sunk and 3 more heavily plus the Steelclad l'Armure. The difference was that the French had the ability to repair the damaged ships and the Peruvians did not have this ability at Puerto Deseado.

As 1873 moved into the Spring of the Southern Hemisphere the war had settled into a stalemate on both the northern and Southern front. In Paris the King and the Parliament (not to speak of the French public) were growing tired of this war. In Lima the Peruvian Cortes were growing very sick of this war it was becoming costly in men and material and while going on the defensive they had not suffered a defeat they had no hope of advancing or taking Fort de Paraguay away from the French anymore either. In addition to that the Colombians were rattling sabers to the north meaning that the latest batch of reinforcements were instead heading north to reinforce the northern border. It was on September 2nd that King Phillip himself asked the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister to see if anyone would be willing to mediate a peace treaty between Peru and France. However, as peace looked like it was set to return A force from the CAS state of Falkland would land on Tierra del Fuego and claim the island and the southernmost tip of Patagonia for the CAS.

Treaty talks between the Peruvians and French would begin on November 1, 1873 in Stockholm Sweden. The treaty was reached fairly quickly. In it the French recognized Peruvian Control of both East and West Patagonia south of the Chubut River, in exchange the Peruvians would return the northern border to the pre war border. The CAS would then pay the Peruvians 1.5 million dollars for Tierra del Fuego.

The treaty left both the French and the Peruvians feeling unsatisfied the French had maintained their current borders of New Aquitaine but had failed to drive the Peruvians out by force to many in the french high command it seemed that the issued of the Bloody Decade had yet to be resolved. France also began a hunt for its own gas operated machine gun. For Peru, while they had achieved their secondary goal of control of Patagonia, they had not achieved their primary goal: a direct route from their current rail network to the Atlantic Ocean. For both sides the butcher's bill was a long and bloody one. The French had deployed just under 2 million men in the conflict and had suffered 895,600 total casualties (KIA, WIA, MIA) the Peruvians had deployed 1.4 million men in the conflict and had suffered 699,369 total casualties.

The French would put new focus on fortifying the border between New Aquitaine and Trans Andes Peru. The population of New Aquitaine was also subjected to conscription for the first time and its Territorial Defense Force transformed into the Army of New Aquitaine. The Peruvians were forced to turn their attention to the north as Colombia had completely remilitarized the border between them for the first time since the Ecuador War almost a century ago.

1. 1914 Martin Gun

Another great update cas has expanded a little more. What is the 1914 Martin gun I don’t know if I every heard of it?

 

[Virginia Liberal]

Another great update cas has expanded a little more. What is the 1914 Martin gun I don’t know if I every heard of it?

its a refined version of the Colt 1895 aka potato digger

 

[CountofDooku]

Current World Map:

Edit: Fixed India:

 

[Taunay]

Current World Map:

Edit: Fixed India:

Is that a Portuguese New Zealand? 😳

 

[CountofDooku]

Is that a Portuguese New Zealand? 😳

No different color as far as I know, tried to remain close to the original map colors of Virginia Liberal.

 

[Virginia Liberal]

Hope to have an update posted by Sunday or monday

 

[traveller76]

Hope to have an update posted by Sunday or monday

Will we see an update on South Asia or East Asia anytime soon?

 

[Virginia Liberal]

So the next update will cover France (briefly cause they have already partly been covered) the East Indes Federation and everyone's favorite bunch of Radical Christian Zelots the Christian Republic of Pacifica