Considering that TTL's Charles Felix is a jingoistic hot head set on restoring this kingdom's lost prestige..........
God Save These American States
The British Empire in the 1830’s
The British Empire in the 1830’s
As the 1830’s dawned King George IV of Great Britain was a sickly man and he was increasingly aware that his time on this earth was growing less and less. For the most part he couldn't complain The Empire was stronger now than when his father George III left it in his hands. He had seen the biggest part of the Indian continent added to the Empire, China had been humbled in the Great Opium war the Quing dynasty shattered into smaller more easily dealt with realms. British North America had not only been defended but thanks to the settlement plan he had championed had successfully seen the Population rise to be equal to the American Republics. And he had brought the Rising star of the Mederatranin in to a firm alliance with the Empire. He should have been happy to lay his worldly burdens down but there was one hang up that prevented this, Henry Prince of Wales (Prince Lionheart) his eldest son had no interest in becoming king or governing the realm instead he wanted to dedicate his life to the Royal Army and allow his younger brother Richard Duke of York. George had been putting this decision off for several years now hoping that Henry would see sense but it had never happened. So in October of 1830 as George IV lay on his death bed his two eldest sons and Prime Minister F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (Tory) gathered and a new order of succession was drawn up with Henry giving up the title Prince of Wells and taking the Title Henry Duke of Mann and would be given residence on the Isle of Mann. His children could inherit the tile and estates granted to him,His Children would drop below his youngest sister Princess Wilhelmina Amelia and any children she may have in the line of succession. While Richard William Edward Duke of York would become Richard William Edward Prince of Wales and his 9 year old son would become Henry Edward Alexander Duke of York. These changes would be legalized with the passage of the Succession Act of 1830.
Henry Edward Augustus Hanover Duke of Mann and King Richard IV King of the United Kingdom of the British Isles, and The Crown Republic of New England
On February 2, 1831 George IV would peacefully passed away at the age of sixty nine. His second son would take the throne of the British Empire when he was asked what his regal name would be he simply answered “My Name is Richard, so that would make me Richard IV.” Richard IV would be crowned King of the United Kingdom of the British Isles, and The Crown Republic of New England. Ten year old Henry Duke of York became Henry Prince of Wales. As Duke of York Richard had been in the middle of the politics of the British Empire and so King Richard IV had a perspective on British Politics and the British people that no king since Charles II had had. Being crowned king placed some constitutional constraints upon Richard IV but he made it clear that he would be taking a very active role in the government.
As the 1830’s progressed it became clear that two major problems were on the horizon. First was the fact that following the Dutch Revolution France was not only the the dominant power in Western Europe but also controlled the entire southern shore of the English Channel. Then to make thing even better by the mid 1830 the French Navy commissioned its 57th Ship ship of the line and the first steam powered Ship of the line. This meant that because the Royal Navy was spread out covering the far flung empire that in the Event of a war they could achieve parody with the Home Fleet This tied in to the second was the situation in America where both the Federal Republic of America and the Commonwealth of American States had both shown a renewed aggressiveness with the recent Mississippi War in which they dissected the Republic of Louisiana and the Republic of Cuba. With Louisiana being split between the two countries and Cuba being annexed into the Commonwealth of American States. The British would respond to all this with the Defense Bill of 1838 which would expand the Royal Navy including the construction of 12 steam powered ships of the line and the Army of British North America. However much to Henry Duke of Mann’s frustration it did not allow for the procurement of a new cap lock Rifled Musket, like several European Powers were switching to. Instead the Brown Bess conversion to Cap lock that had begun in the late 1820’s would continue as would the conversion of the older rifles like the Ferguson Baker and Brunswick rifles, it also meant that the British Army would field a mix armament instead of a universal Rifled Musket. King Richard also leaned on the Crown Republic of New England to increase its defense spending.
Politically in Great Britain the Tories lead by Prime Minister F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich and Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet would control parliament throughout the 1830’s. This is largely due to the actions of King Richard who was able to get the Tories to pass the Parliamentary Reform Act of 1833 added 200 seats to the House of Commons and extended the franchise to all English men of the age of 25 (at the insistence of the King). This extension of the vote to the working class served to kill the fledgling Chartist Republican movement in Britain, and strengthened the view of the King in the eyes of the Working class. (1) Still following the 1839 general election it was the Whigs who prevailed as John Russell, 1st Earl Russell became Prime Minister and formed a government.
Overseas Territory
Away from the home islands the British empire was prospering the British East India Company had rested control of most of India during the 1820’s with the Britain or it Mantra Puppet state controlling ⅔ or India the French and their Mysore puppet state controlled the remaining third of the continent. When the Durch Revolution forced King William II to flee to the Cape Colony and set up the Dutch Overseas Kingdom he had sought British protection for his poor and underdeveloped nation as well as the promise that given the chance the British would help him win back his lost Eruoean lands. This would result in the Secret Treaty of Kaapstat signed and ratified in 1838. The existence would be the reason for the British not recognizing the Second Dutch Republic or signing the 1838 Dutch Neutrality and Independence Treaty. In exchange for this the Dutch of Seas Republic sold the British Empire the Island of Sri Lanka and rights to build naval bases in the Dutch East Indies. The Colonies of New Hanover and Kingsland on the Continent of Australia would see a population increase in the 1830’s as the Penal Colony Act of 1833 began directing Penal colonists from England and Ireland away from British North America and the two Australian Colonies. By the End of the Decade the population of New Hanover on the West Coast of Australia would be just over 115,000 and the population of Kingsland on the South East Coast of Australia would be just over 125,000 people.
Australia the off blue is the swedish settlement of New Stockholm.
Now we come to British North America the 1820’s and early 1830's had seen British colonization policy focused on building up the population of the Sprawling lands that were British North America; and these policies had done their job nicely with the The massive colony having 4,096,007 by the 1840 census. At the urging of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Earl of Ontario (after the Great Lake) The commander of the Royal Army of British North America. British North America was reorganized form large territories into a series of Commonwealths. These Commonwealths would have more local authority than the old territories, but nowhere near the level of old American Colonies. The Territory of Lower Canada would become the Crown Colony of Qubec, the Territory of Upper Canada become the Commonwealth of Canada, The Large Michigan Territory would be broken up into three Commonwealths The large southern Peninsula would now be known as the Commonwealth of Huron, the Smaller northern Northern Peninsula would be known as Commonwealth of Superior and the land South of Lake Superior and between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi would know be known as the Commonwealth of Michigan.(2) The Vast open lands of Missouri and Prince Rupert were left as is as their populations didn’t warrant a change at this point. The last changes for British North America came from the Defense Bill of 1838 which funded the construction of Forts in the Commonwealth”s of Huron, Michigan, and Ontario; and the creation of a Royal Naval Dockyard at Sydney Harbor in Nova Scotia.
British North America 4,096,007 people not counting the Crown Republic of New England.
Commonwealth of Canada: 775,399
Commonwealth of Michigan: 796,578
Commonwealth of Huron: 762,578
Crown Colony of Quebec: 610,550
Commonwealth of Superior: 350,550
Crown Colony of Missouri: 349,896
Crown Colony of Prince Rupert's Land: 225,456
Commonwealth of Nova Scotia 177,000
Crown Colony of Prince Edward Island 48,000
British North America end of the 1830's I know it looks rough this was not an easy map to make I will try to refine it.
As the 1830’s dawned King George IV of Great Britain was a sickly man and he was increasingly aware that his time on this earth was growing less and less. For the most part he couldn't complain The Empire was stronger now than when his father George III left it in his hands. He had seen the biggest part of the Indian continent added to the Empire, China had been humbled in the Great Opium war the Quing dynasty shattered into smaller more easily dealt with realms. British North America had not only been defended but thanks to the settlement plan he had championed had successfully seen the Population rise to be equal to the American Republics. And he had brought the Rising star of the Mederatranin in to a firm alliance with the Empire. He should have been happy to lay his worldly burdens down but there was one hang up that prevented this, Henry Prince of Wales (Prince Lionheart) his eldest son had no interest in becoming king or governing the realm instead he wanted to dedicate his life to the Royal Army and allow his younger brother Richard Duke of York. George had been putting this decision off for several years now hoping that Henry would see sense but it had never happened. So in October of 1830 as George IV lay on his death bed his two eldest sons and Prime Minister F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (Tory) gathered and a new order of succession was drawn up with Henry giving up the title Prince of Wells and taking the Title Henry Duke of Mann and would be given residence on the Isle of Mann. His children could inherit the tile and estates granted to him,His Children would drop below his youngest sister Princess Wilhelmina Amelia and any children she may have in the line of succession. While Richard William Edward Duke of York would become Richard William Edward Prince of Wales and his 9 year old son would become Henry Edward Alexander Duke of York. These changes would be legalized with the passage of the Succession Act of 1830.
Henry Edward Augustus Hanover Duke of Mann and King Richard IV King of the United Kingdom of the British Isles, and The Crown Republic of New England
On February 2, 1831 George IV would peacefully passed away at the age of sixty nine. His second son would take the throne of the British Empire when he was asked what his regal name would be he simply answered “My Name is Richard, so that would make me Richard IV.” Richard IV would be crowned King of the United Kingdom of the British Isles, and The Crown Republic of New England. Ten year old Henry Duke of York became Henry Prince of Wales. As Duke of York Richard had been in the middle of the politics of the British Empire and so King Richard IV had a perspective on British Politics and the British people that no king since Charles II had had. Being crowned king placed some constitutional constraints upon Richard IV but he made it clear that he would be taking a very active role in the government.
As the 1830’s progressed it became clear that two major problems were on the horizon. First was the fact that following the Dutch Revolution France was not only the the dominant power in Western Europe but also controlled the entire southern shore of the English Channel. Then to make thing even better by the mid 1830 the French Navy commissioned its 57th Ship ship of the line and the first steam powered Ship of the line. This meant that because the Royal Navy was spread out covering the far flung empire that in the Event of a war they could achieve parody with the Home Fleet This tied in to the second was the situation in America where both the Federal Republic of America and the Commonwealth of American States had both shown a renewed aggressiveness with the recent Mississippi War in which they dissected the Republic of Louisiana and the Republic of Cuba. With Louisiana being split between the two countries and Cuba being annexed into the Commonwealth of American States. The British would respond to all this with the Defense Bill of 1838 which would expand the Royal Navy including the construction of 12 steam powered ships of the line and the Army of British North America. However much to Henry Duke of Mann’s frustration it did not allow for the procurement of a new cap lock Rifled Musket, like several European Powers were switching to. Instead the Brown Bess conversion to Cap lock that had begun in the late 1820’s would continue as would the conversion of the older rifles like the Ferguson Baker and Brunswick rifles, it also meant that the British Army would field a mix armament instead of a universal Rifled Musket. King Richard also leaned on the Crown Republic of New England to increase its defense spending.
Politically in Great Britain the Tories lead by Prime Minister F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich and Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet would control parliament throughout the 1830’s. This is largely due to the actions of King Richard who was able to get the Tories to pass the Parliamentary Reform Act of 1833 added 200 seats to the House of Commons and extended the franchise to all English men of the age of 25 (at the insistence of the King). This extension of the vote to the working class served to kill the fledgling Chartist Republican movement in Britain, and strengthened the view of the King in the eyes of the Working class. (1) Still following the 1839 general election it was the Whigs who prevailed as John Russell, 1st Earl Russell became Prime Minister and formed a government.
Overseas Territory
Away from the home islands the British empire was prospering the British East India Company had rested control of most of India during the 1820’s with the Britain or it Mantra Puppet state controlling ⅔ or India the French and their Mysore puppet state controlled the remaining third of the continent. When the Durch Revolution forced King William II to flee to the Cape Colony and set up the Dutch Overseas Kingdom he had sought British protection for his poor and underdeveloped nation as well as the promise that given the chance the British would help him win back his lost Eruoean lands. This would result in the Secret Treaty of Kaapstat signed and ratified in 1838. The existence would be the reason for the British not recognizing the Second Dutch Republic or signing the 1838 Dutch Neutrality and Independence Treaty. In exchange for this the Dutch of Seas Republic sold the British Empire the Island of Sri Lanka and rights to build naval bases in the Dutch East Indies. The Colonies of New Hanover and Kingsland on the Continent of Australia would see a population increase in the 1830’s as the Penal Colony Act of 1833 began directing Penal colonists from England and Ireland away from British North America and the two Australian Colonies. By the End of the Decade the population of New Hanover on the West Coast of Australia would be just over 115,000 and the population of Kingsland on the South East Coast of Australia would be just over 125,000 people.
Australia the off blue is the swedish settlement of New Stockholm.
Now we come to British North America the 1820’s and early 1830's had seen British colonization policy focused on building up the population of the Sprawling lands that were British North America; and these policies had done their job nicely with the The massive colony having 4,096,007 by the 1840 census. At the urging of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Earl of Ontario (after the Great Lake) The commander of the Royal Army of British North America. British North America was reorganized form large territories into a series of Commonwealths. These Commonwealths would have more local authority than the old territories, but nowhere near the level of old American Colonies. The Territory of Lower Canada would become the Crown Colony of Qubec, the Territory of Upper Canada become the Commonwealth of Canada, The Large Michigan Territory would be broken up into three Commonwealths The large southern Peninsula would now be known as the Commonwealth of Huron, the Smaller northern Northern Peninsula would be known as Commonwealth of Superior and the land South of Lake Superior and between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi would know be known as the Commonwealth of Michigan.(2) The Vast open lands of Missouri and Prince Rupert were left as is as their populations didn’t warrant a change at this point. The last changes for British North America came from the Defense Bill of 1838 which funded the construction of Forts in the Commonwealth”s of Huron, Michigan, and Ontario; and the creation of a Royal Naval Dockyard at Sydney Harbor in Nova Scotia.
British North America 4,096,007 people not counting the Crown Republic of New England.
Commonwealth of Canada: 775,399
Commonwealth of Michigan: 796,578
Commonwealth of Huron: 762,578
Crown Colony of Quebec: 610,550
Commonwealth of Superior: 350,550
Crown Colony of Missouri: 349,896
Crown Colony of Prince Rupert's Land: 225,456
Commonwealth of Nova Scotia 177,000
Crown Colony of Prince Edward Island 48,000
British North America end of the 1830's I know it looks rough this was not an easy map to make I will try to refine it.
- I have looked up information on how the British Electoral process works and as an feel like I’m nowhere near enough informed to actually have it make since so I’m gonna leave by British politics vague other than for story needs. If someone can help me better under stand it feel free to PM me and I can go more in depth.
- )Huron is the Lower Peninsula of Michigan OTL, Superior is the Upper Peninsula of Michigan plus some of Wisconsin OTL, Michigan is Wisconsin plus Chicago area OTL
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Russian Emprie in the 1830's
Russia land for the Russians
When he came to throne in 1816 at the end of his Regency Micheal II had a vision of the Russia that he wanted to create and it had nothing to do with the Knightly orders that had been his father Paul I’s vision. Micheal freely admitted that his father was an idiot. No Micheal’s vision of Russia’s future was of an industrialized Empire of free Russians ruled by the Czar as the Father of the Nation and with Russian Orthodox Church providing the moral guidance that every free Russian Citizen would need. In the 1820’s Russia had joined the British Coalition in the Great Opium war that destroyed the old order in China and had annexed much of Manchuria afterwards giving them an ice free port in the Pacific at Port Arthur. Russia had also gain strong influence in the Joseon Kingdom (Korea). Which under Russian supervision would be transformed into the Korean Empire in March of 1834 as it began to adopt western industry and weaponry and military tactics.
By the beginning of the 1830’s Czar Michael II had been on the Throne for fourteen years and his vision of a new Russia started to take shape. The freed serfs had been granted lands if they wanted it but many were encouraged to move to the cities were the developing factories needed labor. Under the Ministry of Industrial Production and Development factories offered good steady wages even during the cold Russian winters in which no farm work could be done, adding to this in 1837, Russia became the first country in the Industrialized world to have a state mandated 90 hour work week. 1837 would also see the competing of the Moscow and Black Sea Railway which had begun construction in 1825, after importing six steam engines from Britain, gauged to Russia’s extra wide gauge track at five ft, nine inches wide. The Rail line was 1,026 miles long and had been built in two sections one running south from Moscow to Kiev and the other running north from Sevastopol to Kiev. The St. Petersburg and Moscow Railway would also be completed in 1839 having started later as would the Moscow and Minsk Railway. Russia had also established its first locomotive works in 1834 The Imperial Locomotive Factory with locations in Moscow, Kiev and St. Petersburg. Micheal would also encourage the Russian Textile and Iron/Steal working industries.
Then in 1839 Micheal II issued an edict to the Ministry of Railroad Development in which he called for a Railroad to be built to connect Moscow with Port Author and Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. Isidor Koshkin the head of the Ministry of Railroad Development would spend the next 5 years darning up the Trans Siberian Railway Program. When it was issued in 1844 It would establish no less than four state owned or partially state owned Railroads that would have the task to make the Czar's Dream a reality. with the Rail line not being completed until 1873 in the last years of Micheal's Reign.
Micheal II also saw the need to reform the Russian Imperial Army. Micheal’s primary reason for doing this was to build the moral of the average soldier, create a professional officer corps, and to use the army as a means to take the Russian peasants out of their traditional village farms and create the educated manpower base that the budding Russian Industries needed. To achieve this he cut the number of years that each conscript had to serve from 10 years of active service to 4 years of active service and an addition 3 as an active reservist. During the years as an active reservist soldiers alternate weeks of training and drilling with weeks of technical classes training them for industrial jobs Micheal would open a slew of regional officer academies based upon the military academies in Prussia, France, and Britain. He also mandated that every senior officer attend one tactical and strategic class every two years. No new officer commissions would be awarded to anyone without a diploma from on of the Imperial Military academies starting in 1834 the year the first classes would graduate. The Imperial Army would also begin converting their rifles and muskets to cap lock models and the rifles would be rebored to fire the .58 caliber wolfshot bullet. However for the most part the average Russian soldier was armed with smooth bore muskets. The navy would see the Imperial fleet expanded and the Pacific Fleet created in 1831 and then expanded greatly in 1836 when gold was discovered in the Yukon River valley. This super strong gold rush would bring the Russian Treasury much needed gold reserves after Micheal's reform programs had nearly exhausted it.
In an era where the old order was falling in line with the march of Constitutionalism Michael II and his reforms would fall well short of the bar. Micheal would create and implement a Constitution on March 27, 1838. This constitution created and a unicameral elected legislature known as the Imperial Council. The Imperial Council at 800 seats; of these seats 400 were directly elected by all Russian males and had served in the military, or owned at least two acres land. The remaining 400 were appointed by the Czar. Under the Constitution the Imperial Council could pass any law it wanted to but nothing became a law without the Czar's approval. Second the Czar could issue Imperial Edicts whenever he wanted, there was legally no difference between a law created in the Imperial Council and approved by the Czar's and an Imperial Edict. The Czar also named the Premier the head of the Imperial Council. The first election held in September of 1839 would see the Constitutional Democrat Party and the Orthodox Peasants Party as the two big winners the CDP carrying many of the cities and the OPD carrying the countryside districts. Czar Micheal II would use most of his seats for the Imperial Unity Party which supported the Czar Position and of which Micheal was the head. He would award a larger number of seats to the winner of the election the Constitutional Democratic Party and give the last fifty seats he had to the runner up in the general election the Orthodox Peasants Party. In keeping with the will of the general election Micheal would appoint the leader of the CDP Dmitry Bychkov of St. Petersburg as the First Premier of the Russian Empire, even though the Imperial Unity Party had the most seats on the Imperial Council, according to Micheal as he was the head of the party it was not in the running form the Premiership.
Imperial Council 1839 election
Elected seats
Constitutional Democratic Party 175 seats
Orthodox Peasants Party 150 seats
Imperial Unity Party 50 seats
Ukrainian National Party 10 seats
Russian Jewish Democratic Party 10 seats
Russian Plebeian Party 5
Czar Appointed Seats
Imperial Unity Party 250 seats
Constitutional Democratic Party 100 seats
Orthodox Peasants Party: 50 seats
Totals
Imperial Unity Party 300 seats
Constitutional Democratic Party: 275 seats
Orthodox Peasants Party: 200 seats
Ukrainian National Party 10 seats
Russian Jewish Democratic Party 10 seats
Russian Plebeian Party 5
House of Romanov Russian Line
Michael (II) Pavlovich Romanov -m(1815)-Anastasia Andreyevna Gorchakov
-Tsarevich Ivan Mikhailovich of Russia (Born 11/21/1815)
-Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (Born 5/15/1818)
-Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia (Born 7/4/1820)
-Grand Duke Paul Mikhailovich of Russia (Born 9/21/1822)
-Grand Duchess Elizabeta Mikhailovna of Russia (Born 12/25/1825)
-Grand Duchess Alexandra Mikhailovna of Russia (Born 6/16/1827)
-Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia (Born 12/13/1828)
When he came to throne in 1816 at the end of his Regency Micheal II had a vision of the Russia that he wanted to create and it had nothing to do with the Knightly orders that had been his father Paul I’s vision. Micheal freely admitted that his father was an idiot. No Micheal’s vision of Russia’s future was of an industrialized Empire of free Russians ruled by the Czar as the Father of the Nation and with Russian Orthodox Church providing the moral guidance that every free Russian Citizen would need. In the 1820’s Russia had joined the British Coalition in the Great Opium war that destroyed the old order in China and had annexed much of Manchuria afterwards giving them an ice free port in the Pacific at Port Arthur. Russia had also gain strong influence in the Joseon Kingdom (Korea). Which under Russian supervision would be transformed into the Korean Empire in March of 1834 as it began to adopt western industry and weaponry and military tactics.
By the beginning of the 1830’s Czar Michael II had been on the Throne for fourteen years and his vision of a new Russia started to take shape. The freed serfs had been granted lands if they wanted it but many were encouraged to move to the cities were the developing factories needed labor. Under the Ministry of Industrial Production and Development factories offered good steady wages even during the cold Russian winters in which no farm work could be done, adding to this in 1837, Russia became the first country in the Industrialized world to have a state mandated 90 hour work week. 1837 would also see the competing of the Moscow and Black Sea Railway which had begun construction in 1825, after importing six steam engines from Britain, gauged to Russia’s extra wide gauge track at five ft, nine inches wide. The Rail line was 1,026 miles long and had been built in two sections one running south from Moscow to Kiev and the other running north from Sevastopol to Kiev. The St. Petersburg and Moscow Railway would also be completed in 1839 having started later as would the Moscow and Minsk Railway. Russia had also established its first locomotive works in 1834 The Imperial Locomotive Factory with locations in Moscow, Kiev and St. Petersburg. Micheal would also encourage the Russian Textile and Iron/Steal working industries.
Then in 1839 Micheal II issued an edict to the Ministry of Railroad Development in which he called for a Railroad to be built to connect Moscow with Port Author and Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. Isidor Koshkin the head of the Ministry of Railroad Development would spend the next 5 years darning up the Trans Siberian Railway Program. When it was issued in 1844 It would establish no less than four state owned or partially state owned Railroads that would have the task to make the Czar's Dream a reality. with the Rail line not being completed until 1873 in the last years of Micheal's Reign.
Micheal II also saw the need to reform the Russian Imperial Army. Micheal’s primary reason for doing this was to build the moral of the average soldier, create a professional officer corps, and to use the army as a means to take the Russian peasants out of their traditional village farms and create the educated manpower base that the budding Russian Industries needed. To achieve this he cut the number of years that each conscript had to serve from 10 years of active service to 4 years of active service and an addition 3 as an active reservist. During the years as an active reservist soldiers alternate weeks of training and drilling with weeks of technical classes training them for industrial jobs Micheal would open a slew of regional officer academies based upon the military academies in Prussia, France, and Britain. He also mandated that every senior officer attend one tactical and strategic class every two years. No new officer commissions would be awarded to anyone without a diploma from on of the Imperial Military academies starting in 1834 the year the first classes would graduate. The Imperial Army would also begin converting their rifles and muskets to cap lock models and the rifles would be rebored to fire the .58 caliber wolfshot bullet. However for the most part the average Russian soldier was armed with smooth bore muskets. The navy would see the Imperial fleet expanded and the Pacific Fleet created in 1831 and then expanded greatly in 1836 when gold was discovered in the Yukon River valley. This super strong gold rush would bring the Russian Treasury much needed gold reserves after Micheal's reform programs had nearly exhausted it.
In an era where the old order was falling in line with the march of Constitutionalism Michael II and his reforms would fall well short of the bar. Micheal would create and implement a Constitution on March 27, 1838. This constitution created and a unicameral elected legislature known as the Imperial Council. The Imperial Council at 800 seats; of these seats 400 were directly elected by all Russian males and had served in the military, or owned at least two acres land. The remaining 400 were appointed by the Czar. Under the Constitution the Imperial Council could pass any law it wanted to but nothing became a law without the Czar's approval. Second the Czar could issue Imperial Edicts whenever he wanted, there was legally no difference between a law created in the Imperial Council and approved by the Czar's and an Imperial Edict. The Czar also named the Premier the head of the Imperial Council. The first election held in September of 1839 would see the Constitutional Democrat Party and the Orthodox Peasants Party as the two big winners the CDP carrying many of the cities and the OPD carrying the countryside districts. Czar Micheal II would use most of his seats for the Imperial Unity Party which supported the Czar Position and of which Micheal was the head. He would award a larger number of seats to the winner of the election the Constitutional Democratic Party and give the last fifty seats he had to the runner up in the general election the Orthodox Peasants Party. In keeping with the will of the general election Micheal would appoint the leader of the CDP Dmitry Bychkov of St. Petersburg as the First Premier of the Russian Empire, even though the Imperial Unity Party had the most seats on the Imperial Council, according to Micheal as he was the head of the party it was not in the running form the Premiership.
Imperial Council 1839 election
Elected seats
Constitutional Democratic Party 175 seats
Orthodox Peasants Party 150 seats
Imperial Unity Party 50 seats
Ukrainian National Party 10 seats
Russian Jewish Democratic Party 10 seats
Russian Plebeian Party 5
Czar Appointed Seats
Imperial Unity Party 250 seats
Constitutional Democratic Party 100 seats
Orthodox Peasants Party: 50 seats
Totals
Imperial Unity Party 300 seats
Constitutional Democratic Party: 275 seats
Orthodox Peasants Party: 200 seats
Ukrainian National Party 10 seats
Russian Jewish Democratic Party 10 seats
Russian Plebeian Party 5
House of Romanov Russian Line
Michael (II) Pavlovich Romanov -m(1815)-Anastasia Andreyevna Gorchakov
-Tsarevich Ivan Mikhailovich of Russia (Born 11/21/1815)
-Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (Born 5/15/1818)
-Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia (Born 7/4/1820)
-Grand Duke Paul Mikhailovich of Russia (Born 9/21/1822)
-Grand Duchess Elizabeta Mikhailovna of Russia (Born 12/25/1825)
-Grand Duchess Alexandra Mikhailovna of Russia (Born 6/16/1827)
-Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia (Born 12/13/1828)
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Yes Asia has felt my butterflies in swarms. Japan has been affected in the France 1810-1820 chapter the Rosebud treaty gave the French a colony on the home islands and allowed the French to station 40,000 troops outside of that colony and opened Japan up to french trade.
Same chapter saw France help Thailand conquer Laos and Cambodia while the French colonized Vietnam. Thailand is a French ally not puppet.
And Korea well what the Russians intentions are remains to be seen.
Next chapter takes us to the fun oligarchy known as the Republic of Louisiana
Also when dealing with Asian countries with the exception of Thailand/Siam I will not be using the Imperial Era names, this is due exclusively to the fact that I have no clue how to make them and be anything close enough to realistic with them. I exclude because they are all Rama I, II, III, IV ect. If someone knows how they are derived and can help me come up with realistic regal names for China and Japan then I will gladly accept like @isabella did with the way Russian names are derived. (and I'm mostly sure I'm not completely butchering them anymore.)
I'm not trying to offend anyone by saying example emperor bob of china I don't want to disrespect some of the oldest cultures in the world either.
Chris
I'm not trying to offend anyone by saying example emperor bob of china I don't want to disrespect some of the oldest cultures in the world either.
Chris
You have put the wrong name for Micheal’s Empress (likely the one of her father)...
The correct form would be Andreiana Ivanovna Gorchakova... Andrei is a male name non female
Thanks but after all that I realize that I copied and pasted the wrong name when I made the family tree *headslap*
I told you who that was the name of her father...
Her correct surname is Gorchakova with a final -a
Yeah I saw that this morning but my blood shot eyes couldn't see it last night lol.
made a map of the north of Nordic Europe its still rough but it give you and idea what it looks like
1830's: Asian Digression
Japan
Flag of the Japan adopted in 1820 (note the similarities to the Flag of the Kingdom of France)
The 1820’s and 1830’s were not a fun time if you were a citizen of Japan.During this period the French would constantly creep deeper and deeper into the government of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the dawn of the year 1840 Japan had become a French client state was becoming more and more a French Colony every day.
However, Japan's fate was not set in stone as the French control over the Tokugawas government grew a group of Japanese warriors left Japan looking for the means to evict the French from their country. Led by Imperial Prince Toshihito this band of warriors would find employment with France’s long time rival the British Empire more specifically the British East India Company. Toshihito would assemble a Division’s worth of Japanes ranging from the sons of Samurai to peasants seeking their own fortune. They would learn how the Euorpeans fought and the weapons of war that they fought with. The Japanese under Toshihito would distinguish themselves in the conquest of India in the 1820s; afterwards the Japanese Division would be brought to Britain and receive a commendation for their valor and service to the Brithsh Empire. When the British learned that he was a member of the Japanese Imperial Family, Toshihito was invited to visit with King George IV and the Royal Family. During his time in London Toshihito would become friends with then Prince of Wales Henry (the Lionheart reborn), gifting the prince a custom made Katana (several sword smiths were attached to the Japanese exiles) he and his officers would tour many british textile mills, Ironworks, and shipyards while in England. The British seeing a possible dagger to stab the French where they lest expected it encouraged Imperial Prince Toshihito to gather as many of his country men who hated the french occupation of Japan as much as he did to gather in England where they could train to drive the French from Japan and bring Japan into the modern age as the “Britain of the Pacific”. In 1836 Britain would set up a small industrial base in Northwest Australia This settlement named Kasetsu jūtaku would have its own Ironworks, textile mill and armory in short everything the Japanese exiles needed to train an army to retake their homeland. By the end of the 1830’s Prince Toshihito had turned Kasetsu jūtaku into a small city with a civilian population of 20,000 mostly Japanese men women and children in addition to 6,000 man strong Army.
The Chinese Nations
Flags of the Chinese States as of 1840
For the Chinese the 1830’s were a chaotic time for the Chinese the old united Qing Empire is gone in its place are several states that are vying for power. The northernmost is the Qing Empire the remnant of the old empire however Emperor Miankai is just a figure head, and is often sickly. In his stead the Empire ruled by General Chen Huacheng. The Qing Empire is the weakest of the Chinese States as it is saddled with the Treaty of Beijing.
To the South of the Qing Empire Remnant is the Second Ming Empire. Based out of Nanjing and ruled by Emperor Zhu Xiuxiang is much more stable than the Qing Empire. The Nanjing Government has been able to stabilize their economy. This was largely thanks to trade deals with Palmetto Trading Company and the Eagle East India Company two American based trading companies. With a stable economy Emperor Zhu Xiuxiang has been able to invest in improving the industries of the of the Second Ming Empire, throughout the 1830’s. All most all of these improvements were Financed by the two American trading companies.
Both the Divine Heavenly Kingdom, and the Hui Islamic Republic both spent the decade focused on suppressing internal dissidents. Relying upon European imports to meet the needs that they would have had to expand their own industry to meet.
The Christian Republic of Pacifica
The Christian Republic of Pacifica is the most successful of the Fransiscanist republics that were born out of the Iberian Revolution. From its inception till 1824 Pacifica was caught in a civil war brought on by its very birth, as the native tribal religions and the Sizable Muslim population living in Pacifica rebelled a the thought of living under a new Christian Theocracy. The result of this twenty year long civil war was the extermination of Islam and the native religions in the former Philippians. It was during this time that the Inquisition or the
Itim na pari (black priest) became the symbol of the new Franciscan Christian government as they cleansed all traces of the opposing religions out of rebelling zones. Rebel combatants and those who refused to convert were reduced to slave labor in “reeducation missions”.
With the Philippines pacified by the mid 1820’s and victory declared by Archbishop Emesto Marvin Parker Cabrales on March 17, 1824 one would think that they would celebrate and enjoy their “cleansed” nation. Yet the peace would last just eight years on June 12, 1832 the Christian Republic of Pacifica would beginning what would be a ten year campaign that would result conquest of the Island. While the military was busy Archbishop Emesto Marvin Parker Cabrales would be busy at home making used of the Spanish who had fled the fall of the Union of Iberian Christian Republics to modernize Pacifica’s industrial base (by modernize I mean built form starch.) All of this means that by the beginning of the 1840’s the Christian Republic of Pacifica would join the Siamese Empire as the only two Asian nations to have been fully westernized.
The Siamese Empire
A staunch French Ally The Siamese Empire would spend the 1830’s working on integrating its new territory in Laos and Cambodia into the empire as well as fighting a series of wars with the Burmese Kingdoms. During this time the Siamese Imperial Navy would be founded in 1833 with the commissioning of 5 old French Ships of the line and 12 old French Frigates. By the start of the 1840’s Siam was one of two asian nations fully capable of repelling an European invasion should one come.
The Empire of Korea
In the wake of the Great Opium War the Joseon Kingdom fell into the Russian Sphere of Influence. Compared to the other European Colonial Powers Czar Michael II and the Russian Empire were pretty easy going and laid back Masters. Crown Prince Hyomyeong Regent for the Joseon Kingdom for his seriously Ill father would meet with the Russian Minister to Korea Stanislav Rostislavovich Podshivalov found that he liked many of the ideas that he Russians offered Korea in exchange for favorable trade status, usage of Ports, the ability to station troops in Korea, and construct defenses and naval bases. Russia would guarantee Independence of the Korean state, proved aid building modern industries and train the Joseon Army and Navy to be on par with the Russian counterparts. Russia would even agree to finance the building of a Railroad From Vladivostok to Puson. When he Came to the throne following his father’s death, Crown Prince would name himself the first Emperor of the Empire of Korea, ending the Joseon Kingdom and the beginning of the Korean Empire, which he intended to model after the Empire’s Russian benefactors.
The Far East as of 1840
And China
****Author's note****
Yes I said that our favorite dysfunctional Oligarchy Louisiana was next but once yall started talking about Asia well my mind wandered. I am not responsible for this
Flag of the Japan adopted in 1820 (note the similarities to the Flag of the Kingdom of France)
The 1820’s and 1830’s were not a fun time if you were a citizen of Japan.During this period the French would constantly creep deeper and deeper into the government of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the dawn of the year 1840 Japan had become a French client state was becoming more and more a French Colony every day.
However, Japan's fate was not set in stone as the French control over the Tokugawas government grew a group of Japanese warriors left Japan looking for the means to evict the French from their country. Led by Imperial Prince Toshihito this band of warriors would find employment with France’s long time rival the British Empire more specifically the British East India Company. Toshihito would assemble a Division’s worth of Japanes ranging from the sons of Samurai to peasants seeking their own fortune. They would learn how the Euorpeans fought and the weapons of war that they fought with. The Japanese under Toshihito would distinguish themselves in the conquest of India in the 1820s; afterwards the Japanese Division would be brought to Britain and receive a commendation for their valor and service to the Brithsh Empire. When the British learned that he was a member of the Japanese Imperial Family, Toshihito was invited to visit with King George IV and the Royal Family. During his time in London Toshihito would become friends with then Prince of Wales Henry (the Lionheart reborn), gifting the prince a custom made Katana (several sword smiths were attached to the Japanese exiles) he and his officers would tour many british textile mills, Ironworks, and shipyards while in England. The British seeing a possible dagger to stab the French where they lest expected it encouraged Imperial Prince Toshihito to gather as many of his country men who hated the french occupation of Japan as much as he did to gather in England where they could train to drive the French from Japan and bring Japan into the modern age as the “Britain of the Pacific”. In 1836 Britain would set up a small industrial base in Northwest Australia This settlement named Kasetsu jūtaku would have its own Ironworks, textile mill and armory in short everything the Japanese exiles needed to train an army to retake their homeland. By the end of the 1830’s Prince Toshihito had turned Kasetsu jūtaku into a small city with a civilian population of 20,000 mostly Japanese men women and children in addition to 6,000 man strong Army.
The Chinese Nations
Flags of the Chinese States as of 1840
For the Chinese the 1830’s were a chaotic time for the Chinese the old united Qing Empire is gone in its place are several states that are vying for power. The northernmost is the Qing Empire the remnant of the old empire however Emperor Miankai is just a figure head, and is often sickly. In his stead the Empire ruled by General Chen Huacheng. The Qing Empire is the weakest of the Chinese States as it is saddled with the Treaty of Beijing.
To the South of the Qing Empire Remnant is the Second Ming Empire. Based out of Nanjing and ruled by Emperor Zhu Xiuxiang is much more stable than the Qing Empire. The Nanjing Government has been able to stabilize their economy. This was largely thanks to trade deals with Palmetto Trading Company and the Eagle East India Company two American based trading companies. With a stable economy Emperor Zhu Xiuxiang has been able to invest in improving the industries of the of the Second Ming Empire, throughout the 1830’s. All most all of these improvements were Financed by the two American trading companies.
Both the Divine Heavenly Kingdom, and the Hui Islamic Republic both spent the decade focused on suppressing internal dissidents. Relying upon European imports to meet the needs that they would have had to expand their own industry to meet.
The Christian Republic of Pacifica
The Christian Republic of Pacifica is the most successful of the Fransiscanist republics that were born out of the Iberian Revolution. From its inception till 1824 Pacifica was caught in a civil war brought on by its very birth, as the native tribal religions and the Sizable Muslim population living in Pacifica rebelled a the thought of living under a new Christian Theocracy. The result of this twenty year long civil war was the extermination of Islam and the native religions in the former Philippians. It was during this time that the Inquisition or the
Itim na pari (black priest) became the symbol of the new Franciscan Christian government as they cleansed all traces of the opposing religions out of rebelling zones. Rebel combatants and those who refused to convert were reduced to slave labor in “reeducation missions”.
With the Philippines pacified by the mid 1820’s and victory declared by Archbishop Emesto Marvin Parker Cabrales on March 17, 1824 one would think that they would celebrate and enjoy their “cleansed” nation. Yet the peace would last just eight years on June 12, 1832 the Christian Republic of Pacifica would beginning what would be a ten year campaign that would result conquest of the Island. While the military was busy Archbishop Emesto Marvin Parker Cabrales would be busy at home making used of the Spanish who had fled the fall of the Union of Iberian Christian Republics to modernize Pacifica’s industrial base (by modernize I mean built form starch.) All of this means that by the beginning of the 1840’s the Christian Republic of Pacifica would join the Siamese Empire as the only two Asian nations to have been fully westernized.
The Siamese Empire
A staunch French Ally The Siamese Empire would spend the 1830’s working on integrating its new territory in Laos and Cambodia into the empire as well as fighting a series of wars with the Burmese Kingdoms. During this time the Siamese Imperial Navy would be founded in 1833 with the commissioning of 5 old French Ships of the line and 12 old French Frigates. By the start of the 1840’s Siam was one of two asian nations fully capable of repelling an European invasion should one come.
The Empire of Korea
In the wake of the Great Opium War the Joseon Kingdom fell into the Russian Sphere of Influence. Compared to the other European Colonial Powers Czar Michael II and the Russian Empire were pretty easy going and laid back Masters. Crown Prince Hyomyeong Regent for the Joseon Kingdom for his seriously Ill father would meet with the Russian Minister to Korea Stanislav Rostislavovich Podshivalov found that he liked many of the ideas that he Russians offered Korea in exchange for favorable trade status, usage of Ports, the ability to station troops in Korea, and construct defenses and naval bases. Russia would guarantee Independence of the Korean state, proved aid building modern industries and train the Joseon Army and Navy to be on par with the Russian counterparts. Russia would even agree to finance the building of a Railroad From Vladivostok to Puson. When he Came to the throne following his father’s death, Crown Prince would name himself the first Emperor of the Empire of Korea, ending the Joseon Kingdom and the beginning of the Korean Empire, which he intended to model after the Empire’s Russian benefactors.
The Far East as of 1840
And China
****Author's note****
Yes I said that our favorite dysfunctional Oligarchy Louisiana was next but once yall started talking about Asia well my mind wandered. I am not responsible for this
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As long as the trade and their Conession ports are unharmed then most of Europe will sit back and roast a winner on the fire of a burning China. The British hope to be able to use japan as an annoyance to the French but the Japanese Imperials hanging out in Australia don't have a ride back to japan unless a major European war breaks out or so Britain believes at any rate.
The world is on the cusp of a major war like not seen since the American revolutionary war maybe back as far as the Seven Years War. ( TTL lacks the Napoleonic Wars). But the spark will not come from Asia. I wonder if anyone can guess.
And its gonna be a WTF spark that will be R rated
The world is on the cusp of a major war like not seen since the American revolutionary war maybe back as far as the Seven Years War. ( TTL lacks the Napoleonic Wars). But the spark will not come from Asia. I wonder if anyone can guess.
And its gonna be a WTF spark that will be R rated
Fall of the Republic of Louisiana
The Republic of Louisiana
For the Republic of Louisiana the 1830’s were the decade that broke the the Republic. The decade started with the Republic in a precarious spot. The actions of the underground railroad sponsored by the high percentage of Abolitionist in New Orleans had ruined relations with the Commonwealth of American States and Internally their own policies were stirring the pot of resentment among the lower classes. Into this mix entered a band of filibusters lead by Christopher Wallings arrived in Petite Roche on a river steamboat and began sowing pro Commonwealth propaganda among the poor working class people there and in other river towns up and down the Arkansas, Mississippi and Red Rivers. By 1836 it was just a matter of what would cause the powder keg to blow up and when would it happen.
The answer to these questions would come a year later on June 17, 1837 when the merchantman Carolina Pine docked in New Orleans. The Ship a trader from Wilmington N.C. was here to pick up a shipment of Sugar bound for North Carolina, however when a group of abolitionist heard that their were slaves on board the ship they stormed the ship to free the slaves. Where most countries would remove the abolitionist and apologize Louisianian president Jacques Dupré would instead support the actions of the radicals and impound the ship and imprison its crew. To say that the CAS was enraged by this would be an understatement. And Chancellor Andrew Jackson demanded the release of the crew and the ship, the return of any human property that may have been sized with the ship, a formal apology and 5 million dollars in compensation (in Commonwealth Gold dollars not the worthless Louisianian “Bluebuck” dollar). On July 20, 1837 President Jacques Dupré would refuse Jackson’s demands (he didn’t really have a choice the Republic didn’t have that much money in its treasury) he would tell his commanders to ready the army and navy for war because it was surely coming. And he was right on August 1, 1831 Chancellor Andrew Jackson would ask the Combined Commonwealth Council and House of Delegate to declare war on the Republic of Louisiana. The vote was never in doubt On August 1, 1837 the Commonwealth of American States declared war on the Republic of Louisiana. This would lead to what would become as the Mississippi War a short lived affair that would reshape the map of North America.
Jacques Dupré (Republican Party) 1828-1838
For Louisiana the War arrived on April 10, 1837 when five River boats escorted by four river gunboats sailed up attacked Fort Tulipe that guarded the junction of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers. The Battle of Fort Tulipe would see its 1,500 man garrison pitted against 8,000 Virginia and 7,000 North Carolinian (total of 15,000 men ) commanded by Major General John Tyler of Virginia. The battle of Fort Tulipe would last just two days as the Americans quickly overran the undermanned Louisanan fort. Leaving a Garrison under a young Second Lieutenant George W. Lee (1) the Commonwealth flotilla will continue on to Petite Roche. The Commonwealth Flotilla would arrive at just down river from the city on April 22, 1837 where it would land General Tyler's Army before the gunboats commanded by Commodore Charles G. Hardee moved up river to provide artillery support for the ground forces. The battle of Petite Roche would take place on the evening of April 22, 1837 and would pit the Commonwealth army under General Tyler 12,000 strong mainly infantry with around 500 cavalry and 5 small field guns (cavalry and artillery limited by space on the transports) against a Louisianian Force numbering 8,000 infantry supported by 1,000 cavalry (using the term loosely) and 10 pieces of Artillery varying in size and age commanded by General Thomas Frenchman. Despite having more mounted troops the Louisianian forces were lacking in training and standard equipment. The disciplined professional soldiers of Virginia and North Carolina quickly routed the defenders and occupied the city giving it the anglophile name of Little Rock. After leaving another garrison at Little Rock slightly larger and under the command of Captain James Davis. Tyler and his commanded re-boarded hist transports and set sail once more this time back down the river with his sights on the Lower Mississippi now that Louisianian upper Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers were under Commonwealth Control. Tyler would first stop at Fort Washington Georgia to take on Reinforcements and resupply. Not heading down river until until March 23, 1837.
Tyler's Campaign was not happening in a vacuum, much to the shock of the Louisianians On March 7, 1837 a Federal Republic of America force commanded by Colonel William S. Hamilton to take St. Louis and control of the northernmost part of Louisiana.
Meanwhile in the Mississippi Delta The Commonwealth Navy Gulf Squadron commanded by Admiral John Irvine Bulloch had arrived off the coast of the port of New Orleans. Recently reinforced Gulf Squadron consisted of eight ships of the line twelve sailing frigates, eight steam frigates, ten steam sloops and fifteen sailing sloops behind the warships were transports carrying the Commonwealth Marine Brigade 6,500 men trained in amphibious assaults and fighting on board ships commanded by Brigadier General Winfield Scott and the 2nd Corps of the Commonwealth Army 10,000 men and 18 field guns from the Army of Georgia, 10,000 men and 12 field guns from the Army of South Carolina and 5,000 men and 6 field guns from the Army of Florida commanded Major General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Jr. of South Carolina. On March 15,1837 after a week of naval bombardment Scott’s marines would assault Fort Republic that guards the entrance to New Orleans Harbor. Unlike Fort Tulipe, Fort Republic was fully manned with 64 guns and a Regiment of Infantry inside it. The battle of Fort Republic began at Dawn (Scott having landed his men during the night under the light of a mostly fully moon), as would last until dusk but after a full day of fighting and very heavy losses for his Marines at 1745 Scott would hoist the Commonwealth Flag over the Fort with as the last Louisianian troops surrendered.
With the fall of Fort Republic the Louisianian Government knew that its goose was cooked with a Commonwealth Army advancing down the Mississippi and a Commonwealth army coming ashore at the city gates President Jacques Dupré knew that the jig was up so during the Night of the March 15th he met with the rest of the leading families of the Republic and they drew up their articles of surrender. The next morning under a white flag President Jacques Dupré along with General Jacques Toutant-Beauregard approached the Commonwealth Forces. He offered a cease fire and the terms of surrender of the Republic of Louisiana. The terms offered were
The new constitution of the State of Louisiana was ratified on December 7, 1837 it would be come the second state to be admitted as a Free state outlawing Slavery inside its borders (the State of Dominico was the first admitted in July 1832) but respecting the rights of slave owners living in other states who might travel though the state. A new flag was adopted with the old flag of the Republic of Louisiana in the canton a white field with a gold right and bottom borders, named the state flag to many Louisianians it would be know as the Surrender Fag; and the Army of Louisiana would continue to fight under the old flag.
The Flag of the State of Louisiana (The Surrender Flag)
For the Republic of Louisiana the 1830’s were the decade that broke the the Republic. The decade started with the Republic in a precarious spot. The actions of the underground railroad sponsored by the high percentage of Abolitionist in New Orleans had ruined relations with the Commonwealth of American States and Internally their own policies were stirring the pot of resentment among the lower classes. Into this mix entered a band of filibusters lead by Christopher Wallings arrived in Petite Roche on a river steamboat and began sowing pro Commonwealth propaganda among the poor working class people there and in other river towns up and down the Arkansas, Mississippi and Red Rivers. By 1836 it was just a matter of what would cause the powder keg to blow up and when would it happen.
The answer to these questions would come a year later on June 17, 1837 when the merchantman Carolina Pine docked in New Orleans. The Ship a trader from Wilmington N.C. was here to pick up a shipment of Sugar bound for North Carolina, however when a group of abolitionist heard that their were slaves on board the ship they stormed the ship to free the slaves. Where most countries would remove the abolitionist and apologize Louisianian president Jacques Dupré would instead support the actions of the radicals and impound the ship and imprison its crew. To say that the CAS was enraged by this would be an understatement. And Chancellor Andrew Jackson demanded the release of the crew and the ship, the return of any human property that may have been sized with the ship, a formal apology and 5 million dollars in compensation (in Commonwealth Gold dollars not the worthless Louisianian “Bluebuck” dollar). On July 20, 1837 President Jacques Dupré would refuse Jackson’s demands (he didn’t really have a choice the Republic didn’t have that much money in its treasury) he would tell his commanders to ready the army and navy for war because it was surely coming. And he was right on August 1, 1831 Chancellor Andrew Jackson would ask the Combined Commonwealth Council and House of Delegate to declare war on the Republic of Louisiana. The vote was never in doubt On August 1, 1837 the Commonwealth of American States declared war on the Republic of Louisiana. This would lead to what would become as the Mississippi War a short lived affair that would reshape the map of North America.
Jacques Dupré (Republican Party) 1828-1838
For Louisiana the War arrived on April 10, 1837 when five River boats escorted by four river gunboats sailed up attacked Fort Tulipe that guarded the junction of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers. The Battle of Fort Tulipe would see its 1,500 man garrison pitted against 8,000 Virginia and 7,000 North Carolinian (total of 15,000 men ) commanded by Major General John Tyler of Virginia. The battle of Fort Tulipe would last just two days as the Americans quickly overran the undermanned Louisanan fort. Leaving a Garrison under a young Second Lieutenant George W. Lee (1) the Commonwealth flotilla will continue on to Petite Roche. The Commonwealth Flotilla would arrive at just down river from the city on April 22, 1837 where it would land General Tyler's Army before the gunboats commanded by Commodore Charles G. Hardee moved up river to provide artillery support for the ground forces. The battle of Petite Roche would take place on the evening of April 22, 1837 and would pit the Commonwealth army under General Tyler 12,000 strong mainly infantry with around 500 cavalry and 5 small field guns (cavalry and artillery limited by space on the transports) against a Louisianian Force numbering 8,000 infantry supported by 1,000 cavalry (using the term loosely) and 10 pieces of Artillery varying in size and age commanded by General Thomas Frenchman. Despite having more mounted troops the Louisianian forces were lacking in training and standard equipment. The disciplined professional soldiers of Virginia and North Carolina quickly routed the defenders and occupied the city giving it the anglophile name of Little Rock. After leaving another garrison at Little Rock slightly larger and under the command of Captain James Davis. Tyler and his commanded re-boarded hist transports and set sail once more this time back down the river with his sights on the Lower Mississippi now that Louisianian upper Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers were under Commonwealth Control. Tyler would first stop at Fort Washington Georgia to take on Reinforcements and resupply. Not heading down river until until March 23, 1837.
Tyler's Campaign was not happening in a vacuum, much to the shock of the Louisianians On March 7, 1837 a Federal Republic of America force commanded by Colonel William S. Hamilton to take St. Louis and control of the northernmost part of Louisiana.
Meanwhile in the Mississippi Delta The Commonwealth Navy Gulf Squadron commanded by Admiral John Irvine Bulloch had arrived off the coast of the port of New Orleans. Recently reinforced Gulf Squadron consisted of eight ships of the line twelve sailing frigates, eight steam frigates, ten steam sloops and fifteen sailing sloops behind the warships were transports carrying the Commonwealth Marine Brigade 6,500 men trained in amphibious assaults and fighting on board ships commanded by Brigadier General Winfield Scott and the 2nd Corps of the Commonwealth Army 10,000 men and 18 field guns from the Army of Georgia, 10,000 men and 12 field guns from the Army of South Carolina and 5,000 men and 6 field guns from the Army of Florida commanded Major General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Jr. of South Carolina. On March 15,1837 after a week of naval bombardment Scott’s marines would assault Fort Republic that guards the entrance to New Orleans Harbor. Unlike Fort Tulipe, Fort Republic was fully manned with 64 guns and a Regiment of Infantry inside it. The battle of Fort Republic began at Dawn (Scott having landed his men during the night under the light of a mostly fully moon), as would last until dusk but after a full day of fighting and very heavy losses for his Marines at 1745 Scott would hoist the Commonwealth Flag over the Fort with as the last Louisianian troops surrendered.
With the fall of Fort Republic the Louisianian Government knew that its goose was cooked with a Commonwealth Army advancing down the Mississippi and a Commonwealth army coming ashore at the city gates President Jacques Dupré knew that the jig was up so during the Night of the March 15th he met with the rest of the leading families of the Republic and they drew up their articles of surrender. The next morning under a white flag President Jacques Dupré along with General Jacques Toutant-Beauregard approached the Commonwealth Forces. He offered a cease fire and the terms of surrender of the Republic of Louisiana. The terms offered were
- The Republic of Louisiana Formally surrenders to the Armed Forces of the Commonwealth of American States and the Federal Republic of America.
All territory north of the Arkansas River Mississippi Junction line goes to the Commonwealth of American States or the Federal Republic of America depending upon occupation divisions of the Victors. - The Mississippi River will become the Eastern Boundary for the Republic of Louisiana ceeding all lands east of the mississippi river to the Commonwealth of American States.
- The Republic of Louisiana will cease all tolls on traffic on the Mississippi River.
- The Republic of Louisiana her by asks for admittance and accepts statehood in the Commonwealth of American States, and will adjust its laws to conform with the Charter of the Commonwealth of American States.
The new constitution of the State of Louisiana was ratified on December 7, 1837 it would be come the second state to be admitted as a Free state outlawing Slavery inside its borders (the State of Dominico was the first admitted in July 1832) but respecting the rights of slave owners living in other states who might travel though the state. A new flag was adopted with the old flag of the Republic of Louisiana in the canton a white field with a gold right and bottom borders, named the state flag to many Louisianians it would be know as the Surrender Fag; and the Army of Louisiana would continue to fight under the old flag.
The Flag of the State of Louisiana (The Surrender Flag)
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EDit to Last chapter. William Henry Harrison has been replaced with John Tyler.