In this country , it is good to kill an admiral from time to time
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We didn't lost any world war what are you saying ?
The official government was in London France signed the German Capitulation as a winner nation .
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Rectification they had a minor setback.We didn't lost any world war what are you saying ?
France signed the German Capitulation as a winner nation .
Indeed.
They have gotten many military support from their allies on the continent. They also figure that the Danish Navy is going to occupy the French and the English for their own blockade runners to be effective. Edinburg aims are to provoke a collapse of the English first lines before the total mobilisation of England can be effective all the while Saxony and the rest of the Union throw the French armies behind the Rhine.
Don't forget, a lot of generals figure this is going to be a quick war, such is the new power of the artillery and the other modern weapons recently developped. But no, Scotland wants revenge and will never learn...
Not under this name, but yes I intend for someone to rise as the spokesman for non-violence. Of course it will be after the Great War...
Apologies for the readers by the way but there will be no update this week. I was working on my TL The End of Times plus beta-ing on my Harry Potter AU plus playing some Total War plus reading...and there is only so much one can do during free time. The declarations of war will begin next week!
This is War! (The Great War Begins 1897)
Nothing now could prevent the dramatic escalation of violence and bloodshed. Russia had declared war against Poland, threatening the integrity itself of the European Union. In the next hours, Sigismund IV of Poland was demanding the assistance of his allies and addressing the Seljm to prepare the general mobilisation.
Poland called for help and Central Europe answered. On September 1 1897, Saxony, Hungary-Austria, Finland and Serbia declared war to the Tsar. Declaring war to Moscow was according to all treaties an act of war against the Grande Entente as a whole and on September 2, France declared war to the European Union, followed by Ireland, England, Transylvania, Dutch Germany, the Grand Duchy of Westphalia, the Holy Empire of Spain and the Kingdom of Portugal.
Between these promises of murder and artillery bombardment, there were already enough participants for a terrible continental conflict. But the system of alliances had not yet completed its deadly task.
On September 3, Scotland honoured its engagements with the European Union and declared war on the Entente. The Great War was not going to spare the British Isles. In the southern Balkans, an insulting speech from the Serbian ambassador that Greece was responsible for this dramatic turn of events set the minds and the souls of the Greeks on the war path. Athens would declare war to Belgrade twenty-two hours later.
And then the results of Prince Paulus disastrous and murderous evasion reached the world. The Kingdom of Batavia, joined by the Empire of Annam and the Kingdom of Burma, declared war to the UPNG and the Republic of the Cape. Dozens of ultimatums later on September 7, the Batavian Pact was at war with the Slaver’s Alliance and the Central Alliance.
On September 8, the Empire of New Spain after countless internal deliberations declared war to the Entente, respecting the treaty it had signed with the European Union. This day also saw the rest of the Grande Entente declare their support for France and Russia, whoever the enemy they had to fight was.
On September 9, the Sultanate of Aceh territorial waters were violated by a Batavian task force as they pursued the infamous Theodore Roosevelt. Added to the secret negotiations Pondicherry had made with Princess Ingrid, this was the spark needed for the Entente to declare war on the Batavian Pact.
But the tensions were finally at a point of no-return on other continents. A bloody frontier incident of one hundred and forty-two deaths in Japan led to the two Shogunates declaring war on each other...and the two Japans were both part of a more important faction. On September 12, the world shook in consternation as the Central Alliance declared war to the Grande Entente and their opponents reciprocated. Skirmishes between the Spanish and the Italians echoed in the dunes of Africa. The war of the Blanquist Directorate ceased the cheap pretension it was a conflict where the armies were ‘patriotic volunteers’.
As millions of men were mobilised, hundreds of trains transported tens of thousands guns to the battlefields, propaganda efforts went out of control. Newspapers, leaflets and practically every existing information method bombarded the population with military recruitment offers and incitation to support the war effort. Common sayings spread from provinces to provinces were that the world struggle was finally at hand. In Saxony, Emperor Gustav and his ministers went further, telling their audiences the Entente was a rotten edifice and the war would be over by Christmas.
War plans were redrawn to adjust new realities but the diplomatic waters were now chaotic with raiders attacking the merchantmen not fast enough to find refuge in safe harbours. A fight between a Floridian light cruiser defending a convoy of ‘forced labourers’ and a Louisianan cruiser squadron ended in a victory for the Republic before the commander of New Orleans realised his mistake. On September 13, the Batavian pact and the Slaver’s Alliance were at war.
One day later, the Saxon Empire unleashed its infamous and nightmarish Plan Attila. Since the western frontier the Saxons had was fortified powerfully, the Saxon General Staff decided to simply get around it. On September 14, the rapidly mobilised Saxon 3rd Army invaded neutral Bavaria. Sixteen hours later, the Republic of Hungary-Austria 2nd Army was breaking through Bavaria’s eastern defences. Maximillian II of Bavaria had been severely restricted in his powers to declare war and maintain the armed forces at a sufficient degree of preparation, but against the endless waves of infantry and artillery he faced, Bavaria would have stood no chance anyway. In two weeks, the neutral Kingdom was occupied, its citizens were crushed under the iron fist of Saxony and its army was annihilated. Maximillian II was officially shot trying to flee to the Swiss Republic with the royal treasury but awful rumours circulated days after the Saxons had executed him after he had surrendered. The German Line financed by Paris and the continental members of the Entente had been bypassed. The Union armies marched in Westphalia to meet the incoming 1st French Army.
Ignoring neutrality conventions and invading a sovereign territory without a declaration of war wasn’t without consequences. As Austrian troops tried to occupy the Duchy of Liechtenstein the same way they had dismantled Bavaria, they were meet by an entire division of Swiss troops. A furious fight echoed in the Duchy, and at the end of the day the Swiss soldiers emerged victorious. On September 28, the Swiss Republic and the Duchy of Liechtenstein allied with the Grande Entente and declared war to the European Union.
On the seas, the first great naval battle was fought in the Gulf of Aden as the French Navy tried to secure at all costs its supply lines between Europe and India. Led by Admiral Fayet de la Tour, the French inflicted a decisive defeat to the Omani, losing one battleship but destroying three in return and inflicting heavy damages on the lighter units. The Omani navy fled to the Persian Gulf and its African squadron withdrew to Zanzibar.
And these were just the first skirmishes where thousands of me and women died. The armies were called to arms in unprecedented numbers and the numbers of guns and rifles brought for the great offensives appeared to be endless. From the mountains of South America to the humid forest of Africa, from the freezing plains of Russia to the warm deserts of Australasia, war had come.
Peace had left this world and as the war unfurled into a myriad of fronts, there was little hope it would return. The continents burned and if there was one thing the rare neutral nations left to be spectators were sure, it was the fact this world would never be the same again...
Nothing now could prevent the dramatic escalation of violence and bloodshed. Russia had declared war against Poland, threatening the integrity itself of the European Union. In the next hours, Sigismund IV of Poland was demanding the assistance of his allies and addressing the Seljm to prepare the general mobilisation.
Poland called for help and Central Europe answered. On September 1 1897, Saxony, Hungary-Austria, Finland and Serbia declared war to the Tsar. Declaring war to Moscow was according to all treaties an act of war against the Grande Entente as a whole and on September 2, France declared war to the European Union, followed by Ireland, England, Transylvania, Dutch Germany, the Grand Duchy of Westphalia, the Holy Empire of Spain and the Kingdom of Portugal.
Between these promises of murder and artillery bombardment, there were already enough participants for a terrible continental conflict. But the system of alliances had not yet completed its deadly task.
On September 3, Scotland honoured its engagements with the European Union and declared war on the Entente. The Great War was not going to spare the British Isles. In the southern Balkans, an insulting speech from the Serbian ambassador that Greece was responsible for this dramatic turn of events set the minds and the souls of the Greeks on the war path. Athens would declare war to Belgrade twenty-two hours later.
And then the results of Prince Paulus disastrous and murderous evasion reached the world. The Kingdom of Batavia, joined by the Empire of Annam and the Kingdom of Burma, declared war to the UPNG and the Republic of the Cape. Dozens of ultimatums later on September 7, the Batavian Pact was at war with the Slaver’s Alliance and the Central Alliance.
On September 8, the Empire of New Spain after countless internal deliberations declared war to the Entente, respecting the treaty it had signed with the European Union. This day also saw the rest of the Grande Entente declare their support for France and Russia, whoever the enemy they had to fight was.
On September 9, the Sultanate of Aceh territorial waters were violated by a Batavian task force as they pursued the infamous Theodore Roosevelt. Added to the secret negotiations Pondicherry had made with Princess Ingrid, this was the spark needed for the Entente to declare war on the Batavian Pact.
But the tensions were finally at a point of no-return on other continents. A bloody frontier incident of one hundred and forty-two deaths in Japan led to the two Shogunates declaring war on each other...and the two Japans were both part of a more important faction. On September 12, the world shook in consternation as the Central Alliance declared war to the Grande Entente and their opponents reciprocated. Skirmishes between the Spanish and the Italians echoed in the dunes of Africa. The war of the Blanquist Directorate ceased the cheap pretension it was a conflict where the armies were ‘patriotic volunteers’.
As millions of men were mobilised, hundreds of trains transported tens of thousands guns to the battlefields, propaganda efforts went out of control. Newspapers, leaflets and practically every existing information method bombarded the population with military recruitment offers and incitation to support the war effort. Common sayings spread from provinces to provinces were that the world struggle was finally at hand. In Saxony, Emperor Gustav and his ministers went further, telling their audiences the Entente was a rotten edifice and the war would be over by Christmas.
War plans were redrawn to adjust new realities but the diplomatic waters were now chaotic with raiders attacking the merchantmen not fast enough to find refuge in safe harbours. A fight between a Floridian light cruiser defending a convoy of ‘forced labourers’ and a Louisianan cruiser squadron ended in a victory for the Republic before the commander of New Orleans realised his mistake. On September 13, the Batavian pact and the Slaver’s Alliance were at war.
One day later, the Saxon Empire unleashed its infamous and nightmarish Plan Attila. Since the western frontier the Saxons had was fortified powerfully, the Saxon General Staff decided to simply get around it. On September 14, the rapidly mobilised Saxon 3rd Army invaded neutral Bavaria. Sixteen hours later, the Republic of Hungary-Austria 2nd Army was breaking through Bavaria’s eastern defences. Maximillian II of Bavaria had been severely restricted in his powers to declare war and maintain the armed forces at a sufficient degree of preparation, but against the endless waves of infantry and artillery he faced, Bavaria would have stood no chance anyway. In two weeks, the neutral Kingdom was occupied, its citizens were crushed under the iron fist of Saxony and its army was annihilated. Maximillian II was officially shot trying to flee to the Swiss Republic with the royal treasury but awful rumours circulated days after the Saxons had executed him after he had surrendered. The German Line financed by Paris and the continental members of the Entente had been bypassed. The Union armies marched in Westphalia to meet the incoming 1st French Army.
Ignoring neutrality conventions and invading a sovereign territory without a declaration of war wasn’t without consequences. As Austrian troops tried to occupy the Duchy of Liechtenstein the same way they had dismantled Bavaria, they were meet by an entire division of Swiss troops. A furious fight echoed in the Duchy, and at the end of the day the Swiss soldiers emerged victorious. On September 28, the Swiss Republic and the Duchy of Liechtenstein allied with the Grande Entente and declared war to the European Union.
On the seas, the first great naval battle was fought in the Gulf of Aden as the French Navy tried to secure at all costs its supply lines between Europe and India. Led by Admiral Fayet de la Tour, the French inflicted a decisive defeat to the Omani, losing one battleship but destroying three in return and inflicting heavy damages on the lighter units. The Omani navy fled to the Persian Gulf and its African squadron withdrew to Zanzibar.
And these were just the first skirmishes where thousands of me and women died. The armies were called to arms in unprecedented numbers and the numbers of guns and rifles brought for the great offensives appeared to be endless. From the mountains of South America to the humid forest of Africa, from the freezing plains of Russia to the warm deserts of Australasia, war had come.
Peace had left this world and as the war unfurled into a myriad of fronts, there was little hope it would return. The continents burned and if there was one thing the rare neutral nations left to be spectators were sure, it was the fact this world would never be the same again...
A war front? No.
They will have multiple ones of course...
Well the scale of this conflict is still unprecedented for the actors...
The current nations not at war at the end of September 1897 are:
Ottoman Empire, Republic of North Italy, Princedom of Monaco, Kingdom of Madagascar, Republic of Australasia
Republic of Albania, Republic of Sweden, Republic of Maryland, Tibet, Afghan Empire
Well, our dear Saxon Emperor figures that if he wins this conflict, there will be no one to care about a little breach of neutrality. If he wins...
Then again, if he lose, he'll be pretty much left with nothing anyways
I'm kind of interested on the effect that a war in Westphalia territory under Saxon agression will have on the people of Westphalia desire to form Germany...
It would be rather Ironic for Gustave to push them To Embrace the French.
Then again, if he lose, he'll be pretty much left with nothing anyways
I'm kind of interested on the effect that a war in Westphalia territory under Saxon agression will have on the people of Westphalia desire to form Germany...
It would be rather Ironic for Gustave to push them To Embrace the French.
Everything or nothing, a pretty risky strategy when the fate of a nation is at stake...
Well it is not going to make the Westphalians too fond of the Saxons for one.
There will be some neutral or non-allied countries joining the war in the future, but not everyone. Plus as the endless casualty lists will begin to arrive, the majority of the population are going to think about how horrible this war is and how to leave it.
There will pressure and financial incentives on the neutrals to wage war and open new fronts. But when one see the outcome can be the destruction of everything you hold dear...