Hello. I'll need a few guest writers to help me get started on the Napoleonic Wars.
Here's how I had this planned:
1. War ends by 1813, early 1814 at the latest.
2. Napoleon wins the ATL Waterloo but ultimately loses the war.
3. Saxony sides with UK along with Prussia as opposed to France IOTL.
4. France only loses a small part of it's territory(Lotharingia & Alsace-Lorraine)
5. The death toll will change: some who haven't died as of 1 July, 1807 will
live, and some won't.
For those who'd like to contribute a page:
Write a small 1 or 2 sentence summary of what your idea was here, but send the actual post in a personal message.
By the way, I would like page styles will be done in the 'Decades of Darkness' fashion. Here are a few examples:
Dates:
Selected Important Dates in the history of [region:] [years ex. 1812-14]
Taken from “[name of book here]”
By [author's name here]
[I would assume this would be where the author lives or where he/she wrote the book or something like that.]
© [year] [publishing company:] [location of company]. Used with permission.
General Stuff:
Extracts from "[book's title here]"
By [Author's name]
[name of educational establishment]
[location of establishment]
(c) [year] [publisher: location(usually the same as that of the university of other educational establishment}]
or
Extracts from "[name of book here]"
By [author's name]
[location of author. For U.S. & Canadian locations, do City, State/Province. e.g. Richmond, Virginia, or Toronto, Ontario]
[country]
(c) [year] [publishing company's name:] [location of publisher; many times the same as that of the author.] Used with permission.
Excerpts taken from [author's name, e.g. John Smith's]“[book title here]”. (C) [year]: [publisher]. Used with permission.
Documents:
Excerpts from [document]
Originally published in: "[name of book]"
(c)[year] [author's name]
[publisher]
[location]
For an example of what I'd like to see, I have decided to take a couple of random pieces from Decades of Darkness to illustrate(with apologies to Jared):
"Taken from: “Blood and Iron: The Concise Encyclopaedia of Military Historyâ€
(c) 1949 General D. Hanson (retd)
Vanderbilt Press
New York City: Long Island
Republic of New England
Second Napoleonic Wars (16 February 1884 – 28 August 1885).
Series of linked wars in Europe, with associated colonial struggles in Africa and Asia, precipitated by the formation of the Axis Pact between France and Russia (and later Spain). The immediate cause of the war was the Franco-Spanish annexation of Aragon, and subsequent Anglo-German demands for withdrawal. The wars were fought between the Axis Powers, initially France, Russia, Spain, Serbia and Montenegro, and later Italy, and the Allies (not all of whom were allied), initially the British Empire, Germany and Turkey, and later Portugal, the United States, Brazil, Greece, and New England. The wars resulted in the breaking of the Franco-Russian alliance, the re-creation of Aragon, and significant territorial changes within Europe and in the colonial empires.
State Entry Exit Combat Forces Casualties
Brazil 1870 1871 40,000 6,000
France 1870 1871 1,050,000 340,000
Germany [1] 1870 1871 1,800,000 460,000
Italy 1870 1871 850,000 280,000
Montenegro 1870 1870 20,000 6,000
New England 1871 1871 200,000 30,000
Serbia 1870 1871 115,000 36,000
Spain 1870 1871 650,000 110,000
Portugal 1870 1871 430,000 75,000
Russia 1870 1871 1,500,000 520,000
Turkey 1870 1871 180,000 55,000
UK [2] 1870 1871 740,000 110,000
USA 1870 1871 105,000 13,000
* * *"
" Taken from: “Thomson’s Illustrated Guide to the Second Napoleonic Wars”
(c) 1950, Prof. D. Kohlhoff
Clinton University
De Witt Press, Rochester, Niagara, New England
In 1885, the Austrians recommenced a drive into the Apennines, but the reformed Army of the Enza launched a surprise counter-offensive toward Parma. This attack did not succeed in capturing the city, but it forced the Austrians to divert resources, and this stalled their already-difficult drive southward. The Austrians resumed their attacks later in the year, but the Italian fortifications were well-constructed and courageously defended, sufficient to hold off the Austrians until events on other fronts began to impinge on the Italian theatre...
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And for those with ideas in general, just put them here, on the forums.