It seems the Monarchists got the Majority, now for the proposals: Who should become King of the Britons ?
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Otl King Leopold of Belgium might be a possible candidate if none of the remaining Hannovers are considered liberal.I don’t think he’s the king of anywhere in this timeline.I do believe he was considered liberal and his previous wife was popular with the public.
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Jacobitism was long dead in Ireland at this point and the Jacobite claimant already has his own duchy in Modena, Leopoldo O'Donnell for King of Ireland.
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According to OP,he doesn't have his own duchy in this timeline.
They might also want a king to get international support.A lot of newly independent states wanted a monarchy to get a relationship boost with other monarchies.
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Results are in: The General Assembly of Britain decided for a... Monarchy !
About Ireland, we couldn't decide democratically between our options since no one got the Majority, instead the vote will be given to the president of the Assembly (You guys can't decide about Ireland since we got a tie between A and C with a very close B)
About theTyrant Autocrat fucker with a bad beard previous King Ernest I Augusts, there was a quite large number of Radicals that demanded Justice, but cooler heads prevailed and we decided to let him go.
And about Monarchical Candidates... We decided for the German Prince Leopold George of the house of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He will be invited to London shortly and after official procedures (Converting to the Church of England for example) he shall be Crowned with the regnal name of his Choice. Thank you for your vote gentlemen, you are dismissed.
About Ireland, we couldn't decide democratically between our options since no one got the Majority, instead the vote will be given to the president of the Assembly (You guys can't decide about Ireland since we got a tie between A and C with a very close B)
About the
And about Monarchical Candidates... We decided for the German Prince Leopold George of the house of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He will be invited to London shortly and after official procedures (Converting to the Church of England for example) he shall be Crowned with the regnal name of his Choice. Thank you for your vote gentlemen, you are dismissed.
Name: Benedek Pap
Home: Budapest, Hungary, the Austrian Empure
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Culture: Hungarian
Politics: Liberal-nationalist
Background: Benedek Pap was born to a family of minor nobles who had fallen on relatively hard times (though they maintained a living standard akin to a modest middle class family) in Budapest, Hungary. As a young man, he was influenced by liberal ideas while travelling through Europe and saw how liberalism was suppressed in Hungary under Austrian rule when he returned home to Hungary. This influenced him to become a staunch Hungarian nationalist. In 1843, he, along with Lajos Kossuth and Lajos Batthayany, helped set up the underground "Hungarian National Party", a loose grouping of Hungarian nationalists united only by a desire for an independent Hungary but encompassing a broad tent of ideologies from conservatives to a small minority of Pelletists.
Name: Irene Boulanger
Home: Bordeaux, France
Age: 24 (she was born on May 4, 1821)
Gender: Female
Culture: French
Politics: Liberaux
Background: Irene Boulanger is the daughter of Albert Boulanger, one of the richest people in France and arguably the world. From a young age, she developed a great intelligence and an aptitude in mathematics and logic as a whole. She also was quite well-known for her beauty as well, being both charming and intelligent. She is highly interested in the scientific theories of the day as well with a deep interest for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, seeking to attempt to turn it into a reality as well. Finally, she's also quite good at literature with her first novel being ghostwritten under a male name in 1845. In the future, she would be recognized as one of the first writers of science fiction and an antecedent towards the computer.
Home: Budapest, Hungary, the Austrian Empure
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Culture: Hungarian
Politics: Liberal-nationalist
Background: Benedek Pap was born to a family of minor nobles who had fallen on relatively hard times (though they maintained a living standard akin to a modest middle class family) in Budapest, Hungary. As a young man, he was influenced by liberal ideas while travelling through Europe and saw how liberalism was suppressed in Hungary under Austrian rule when he returned home to Hungary. This influenced him to become a staunch Hungarian nationalist. In 1843, he, along with Lajos Kossuth and Lajos Batthayany, helped set up the underground "Hungarian National Party", a loose grouping of Hungarian nationalists united only by a desire for an independent Hungary but encompassing a broad tent of ideologies from conservatives to a small minority of Pelletists.
Name: Irene Boulanger
Home: Bordeaux, France
Age: 24 (she was born on May 4, 1821)
Gender: Female
Culture: French
Politics: Liberaux
Background: Irene Boulanger is the daughter of Albert Boulanger, one of the richest people in France and arguably the world. From a young age, she developed a great intelligence and an aptitude in mathematics and logic as a whole. She also was quite well-known for her beauty as well, being both charming and intelligent. She is highly interested in the scientific theories of the day as well with a deep interest for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, seeking to attempt to turn it into a reality as well. Finally, she's also quite good at literature with her first novel being ghostwritten under a male name in 1845. In the future, she would be recognized as one of the first writers of science fiction and an antecedent towards the computer.
Finally a Hungarian Nationalist ! This rebellion is going to be quite different from Real Life.
What about my latter character? I envisioned her being a mix of Ada Lovelace and gender-flipped!Jules Verne.
Here's another character:
Name: Antonin Lustenberger
Home: Munich, Bavaria
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Culture: German
Politics: Rationalist
Background: Antonin Lustenberger was born to a wealthy middle-class family and has pursued a career in academia but developed an attachment to politics as well. Over the past few years, Antonin Lustenberger has created a new ideology which he called "Rationalism" which is due for publishing in 1845. This ideology would combine the authoritarianism of the ancien regime with the meritocracy and egalitarianism which characterizes the revolutions of the past few decades and the utilitarianism promoted by many intellectuals, arguing for a "rule of experts" selected from a new elite which would be determined by merit, along with loyalty (he's agnostic on the whole "republic v.s monarchy" debate, seeing it as something to be ironed out after a Rationalist takeover but the book he wrote vaguely endorses monarchism to dodge censorship and for publication to go ahead) with Thomas Hobbes' ideal of the Leviathan being a major basis for said ideology. Economically, he calls for a mixed economy combining free-market capitalism on the local level with state capitalism on the national level. Regarding the "national question", Antonin Lustenberger argues that human unity is the end goal for such an ideology but pragmatically argues that uniting a single ethnic group can be considered an intermediary step in human unity.
Name: Antonin Lustenberger
Home: Munich, Bavaria
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Culture: German
Politics: Rationalist
Background: Antonin Lustenberger was born to a wealthy middle-class family and has pursued a career in academia but developed an attachment to politics as well. Over the past few years, Antonin Lustenberger has created a new ideology which he called "Rationalism" which is due for publishing in 1845. This ideology would combine the authoritarianism of the ancien regime with the meritocracy and egalitarianism which characterizes the revolutions of the past few decades and the utilitarianism promoted by many intellectuals, arguing for a "rule of experts" selected from a new elite which would be determined by merit, along with loyalty (he's agnostic on the whole "republic v.s monarchy" debate, seeing it as something to be ironed out after a Rationalist takeover but the book he wrote vaguely endorses monarchism to dodge censorship and for publication to go ahead) with Thomas Hobbes' ideal of the Leviathan being a major basis for said ideology. Economically, he calls for a mixed economy combining free-market capitalism on the local level with state capitalism on the national level. Regarding the "national question", Antonin Lustenberger argues that human unity is the end goal for such an ideology but pragmatically argues that uniting a single ethnic group can be considered an intermediary step in human unity.
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True, that's why I suggested Leopoldo O'Donnell for a king, he's a Spanish noble and the descendant of one of the main Irish clans to have fought against the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland. A Bonaparte or Bourbon could work too as a king of Ireland given the history of Irishmen fighting for France and Spain.
Ottoman Empire: 1813-1845
The once mighty Ottoman Empire was declining, the Serbian Rebellion was defeated in 1815 but it woke up the "Eastern Question" in the Balkans, the Ottomans ruled over a vast number of cultures and religions and nowhere was this more evident than the Balkan Peninsula.
((Ethnic map of the Ottoman Balkans in 1861))
The Second rebellion happened in 1821 when the Greeks declared independence from the Ottoman Empire, after a long War and intervention of the European Powers, the Ottomans were forced to surrender Attica, Naxos, and Pelloponesus to the new Greek Kingdom.
((The borders of the new Greek Kingdom, 1832))
But Grecce was nothing compared to the south. The Eylaet of Egypt was ruled by the Ambitious Mehmet Ali, the Governor of Egypt with Albanian descent dreamed on a independent Greater Egypt, and for that he modernized the Eylaet. He industrialized Egypt by incentivizing the Textile and Military industry, conducting a land reform and recruiting instructors from France. In 1812 the first test came when Egypt took Hedjaz from Arabia, in 1821 Sudan was Conquered, and in 1830 he turned against the Ottomans and by 1833 the Levant was transferred to Ali's Dominion, but he still remained a Nominal Vassal. Finally he declared independence in 1838, with the British at war in Canada and China, any proposal to intervene on Ottoman behalf fell on deaf ears to the Tories. Instead the French announced support for the Egyptians, looking to increase influence in the Mediterranean and build a future canal in the Suez. The war lasted another two years with the Ottomans invading Syria and successfully holding off Ali's army, Russia (now under Tsar Nicholas I) threatened intervention on Ottoman Behalf and putting the Holy Alliance next to another Napoleonic Army, the two sides agreed: Mehmet Ali would rule an independent Egypt, controlling Hedjaz, Sudan, and Levant would be split: Lebanon and all Land north of Damascus would be returned to the Ottomans, while the Palestine and Jordan would be under Egyptian Rule.
((Mehmet I Ali, Sultan of Egypt))
The loss of Egypt and the Holy cities of Mecca, Medinah, and Jerusalem was a serious blow to the Ottomans, the defeats against Egypt and Grecce forced the reform of the Empire, the young Sultan Abdulmejid I continued his Father's reforms: Creating the first Paper money notes, adoption of an National Anthem and Flag, adoption of the French civil Code as a basis for law, introduction of Conscription as part of a greater army reform, and a Financial system based on France. He faces great opposition from the Conservative Ulema religious and wasn't able to fully implement the reforms, but it was still a step into the Modernization of the Ottoman Empire.
((Sultan Abdulmejid I, Nicknamed "The Reformer", after the Ottoman defeat against Egypt he undertook a large Modernization process of the Empire))
((Ethnic map of the Ottoman Balkans in 1861))
((The borders of the new Greek Kingdom, 1832))
((Mehmet I Ali, Sultan of Egypt))
((Sultan Abdulmejid I, Nicknamed "The Reformer", after the Ottoman defeat against Egypt he undertook a large Modernization process of the Empire))
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Did the British change their flag to the British Republican Flag after the Revolution as a concession to the more radical factions?
Detective Game: The Death of Napoleon II
Who killed Napoleon Francis Bonaparte, the Second of his name, the Emperor of the French, during the second French Revolution ? Do you think the letter of Napoleon III stating that Soult would not March against the city (dubious considering what he did in Barcelona) was real or a forgery ?
- A member of the Emperor's bodyguard (whether he was acting alone or under the orders of a larger conspiracy, I'm not sure)
- A forgery.