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Fall of Britain
War the headlines screamed. Scotland had seceded from the United Kingdom. It was quickly followed by Northern Ireland. Together they decided to form the United British States. Wales teetered on the edge and eventually decided to join the UBS. The queen of England met with the new nation’s president Jack Damien. When asked why he removed his province from the UK he replied “this is tyranny, for which we won’t stand.” After the meeting between the two sides Ireland offered the UBS an alliance, which was accepted. Both signed non-aggression treaties with Spain, Finland, Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia, France, Russia, and Italy. To avoid war with those nations England signed non aggression treaties with the same countries, making them unofficially neutral. As soon as the alliance was made between Ireland and the United British States, Belgium offered an alliance to England on the terms that it would receive Gibraltar on the Mediterranean coast England accepted the terms reluctantly. The fleet however, would remain English property. However, they were placed under Belgium command. The fleet quickly sailed west into the Atlantic Ocean, and then north east towards England. In the fleet there were 2 aircraft carriers, 3 submarines, 1 cruiser, and 2 destroyers. Unfortunately for the English, they met an Irish squadron in the channel with only the ships before said, was quickly captured by the Irish fleet containing 4 carriers, 3 destroyers, and 5 submarines. The English lost there cruiser and 21 planes. The Irish were barley even scarred. The combined force quickly began to strictly enforce the blockade of England. There they were reinforced by 7 destroyers, 5 submarines, 3 cruisers and 2 battleships. Totaling 36 ships the blockade slowly began to strangle the English. A second squadron of 4 destroyers, 4 battleship, 4 nuclear submarines and 4 cruisers began to blockade the western English coast. The blockaders only sank warships allowing only people in and out, nothing else got to England by ship for the rest of the war.
Things started to get rough when UBS and Irish paratroopers landed on the English side of the border. Almost immediately they began to thrust south towards London. They did however meet fierce opposition and were fought to a stand still only 5 miles inland from there landing sight on the Irish Sea coast. Eventually both sides decided to dig in besides occasional bombings from both sides. But England wanted a quick end to the war and chose to use anew form of trench warfare; they dug tunnels under the enemy’s trenches, put bombs there and ran after setting them off. It caused a huge retreat by UBS/Irish troops to the coast. It worked at first and quickly forced the UBS to abandon most of its trenches and flee to the coast where they laid down new trenches with cement floorings to stop enemy troops from storming UBS trenches. The war had reached epic proportions quickly on the English front when the UBS made a massive strike towards London and laid siege to the city, forcing the English government to evacuate to Bristol. After the huge UBS victory at the Battle of London the Irish Republic joined the UBS as its 4th state. The UBS soon created the states of North England and Bristol, giving the UBS 6 states. By 2003 however, the English govermnet was considering surrender, and on June 27th, 2003, England surrendered to the UBS and was carved into South England and Britian, giving the UBS 8 states, this made England become