Industrialization of Europe, before the Paneuropean Revolution (1851)
Further industrialization after the revolutions (1880)
Factory symbols indicate a major industrial area.
The Paneuropean Revolution was a critical moment in the history of Europe, and arguably an inevitable result of the failure of the French Revolution. At the Congress of Vienna in 1814, Napoleon I was deposed and his son Napoleon II was enthroned in his place as Emperor of the French. He was constantly under the supervision of Friedrich von Gentz, until Gentz's death in 1832. Napoleon II died soon after, in 1836, but not before supporting the Polish rebels in their war of independence from personal union with Russia and conquering Egypt from the Ottomans. Aside from the independence of the Polish Commonwealth and Kingdom of Greece, the Congress of Europe remained fairly constant between 1814 and 1851. However, in 1851, nearly half a century of peasant and workers' frustrations toward the Bonaparte-Habsburg order erupted and swept away the Viennese system. A Parliament of Paneuropea convened at Munich on May 5 and declared a Paneuropean Republic. Popular revolts and mutinies among liberal segments of the military forced the Austrian emperor to abdicate, and von Wessenburg to resign as chancellor. After a relatively bloodless year of civil unrest, depositions, and abdications, central Europe was united as a federal republic modeled after the United States. In the south, a similar process happened in Italy, and revolutionaries drove the Pope and the Italian president, Maximilian von Habsburg, off their thrones. Aurelius Saffi of the Action Party proclaimed the restoration of the Roman Republic on March 20, 1853. In a panic, France, Spain, Britain, Russia and the Netherlands formed an alliance to contain the new Paneuropean Republic for fear that it may try to attack them or annex Rome or Greater Serbia. However, despite a standoff between 1853 and 1855, no war came. In 1880 though, war seems to be an increasingly likely possibility. Paneuropea has allied with Rome and made friendly gestures toward the Ottoman Empire, and possesses the single largest army in Europe. To the other European powers, this is a shocking disruption to the balance of power. It is unlikely that they will allow Paneuropea to stand for much longer. Military inventions such as the machine gun, barbed wire, and repeating rifle have revolutionized warfare, and conscription has caused armies to grow into the millions. Like Europe's cities, war has been industrialized, as the great powers will soon discover.
Edit: changed "billions" to "millions".
Further industrialization after the revolutions (1880)
Factory symbols indicate a major industrial area.
The Paneuropean Revolution was a critical moment in the history of Europe, and arguably an inevitable result of the failure of the French Revolution. At the Congress of Vienna in 1814, Napoleon I was deposed and his son Napoleon II was enthroned in his place as Emperor of the French. He was constantly under the supervision of Friedrich von Gentz, until Gentz's death in 1832. Napoleon II died soon after, in 1836, but not before supporting the Polish rebels in their war of independence from personal union with Russia and conquering Egypt from the Ottomans. Aside from the independence of the Polish Commonwealth and Kingdom of Greece, the Congress of Europe remained fairly constant between 1814 and 1851. However, in 1851, nearly half a century of peasant and workers' frustrations toward the Bonaparte-Habsburg order erupted and swept away the Viennese system. A Parliament of Paneuropea convened at Munich on May 5 and declared a Paneuropean Republic. Popular revolts and mutinies among liberal segments of the military forced the Austrian emperor to abdicate, and von Wessenburg to resign as chancellor. After a relatively bloodless year of civil unrest, depositions, and abdications, central Europe was united as a federal republic modeled after the United States. In the south, a similar process happened in Italy, and revolutionaries drove the Pope and the Italian president, Maximilian von Habsburg, off their thrones. Aurelius Saffi of the Action Party proclaimed the restoration of the Roman Republic on March 20, 1853. In a panic, France, Spain, Britain, Russia and the Netherlands formed an alliance to contain the new Paneuropean Republic for fear that it may try to attack them or annex Rome or Greater Serbia. However, despite a standoff between 1853 and 1855, no war came. In 1880 though, war seems to be an increasingly likely possibility. Paneuropea has allied with Rome and made friendly gestures toward the Ottoman Empire, and possesses the single largest army in Europe. To the other European powers, this is a shocking disruption to the balance of power. It is unlikely that they will allow Paneuropea to stand for much longer. Military inventions such as the machine gun, barbed wire, and repeating rifle have revolutionized warfare, and conscription has caused armies to grow into the millions. Like Europe's cities, war has been industrialized, as the great powers will soon discover.
Edit: changed "billions" to "millions".
