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- | ====== Chapters ====== | + | ====== Chapters |
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+ | This lists all the chapters posted so far in the Story of a Party. Be warned, though; this page contains **heavy spoilers**, so read at your own risk. | ||
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+ | ==== Act 1 ==== | ||
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"//I think I am a Whig, but others say there are no Whigs//" | "//I think I am a Whig, but others say there are no Whigs//" | ||
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Chaos reigns in the United States. The nation is sharply divided over slavery, and in the frontier territory of Kansas, open civil war is breaking out between the settlers. At this point, an election is held, and its winner will change the course of history. | Chaos reigns in the United States. The nation is sharply divided over slavery, and in the frontier territory of Kansas, open civil war is breaking out between the settlers. At this point, an election is held, and its winner will change the course of history. | ||
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President Fremont has barely settled into his new office before the chaos begins. The new bill proposed by the Republicans in Congress threatens to start a war between the states, and a mysterious man arrives with a dangerous proposition... | President Fremont has barely settled into his new office before the chaos begins. The new bill proposed by the Republicans in Congress threatens to start a war between the states, and a mysterious man arrives with a dangerous proposition... | ||
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"//A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.//" | "//A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.//" | ||
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The South seethes with discontent over the reorganisation of the West into all free territories. The idea of secession gains more and more adherents by the day. New alliances are made, deals struck, speeches held, and ultimatums drawn up. In December of 1860, finally, a meeting is held in Montgomery, Alabama, and at this meeting, a momentous decision is made. | The South seethes with discontent over the reorganisation of the West into all free territories. The idea of secession gains more and more adherents by the day. New alliances are made, deals struck, speeches held, and ultimatums drawn up. In December of 1860, finally, a meeting is held in Montgomery, Alabama, and at this meeting, a momentous decision is made. | ||
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The Union has fallen. The war has begun, and as the two great armies meet in battle, no one knows how the day will end. Meanwhile, in Hannibal, Missouri, an adventurous young man signs up for naval service. | The Union has fallen. The war has begun, and as the two great armies meet in battle, no one knows how the day will end. Meanwhile, in Hannibal, Missouri, an adventurous young man signs up for naval service. | ||
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General Lee finally routs Beauregard' | General Lee finally routs Beauregard' | ||
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"//If ten times the enemy' | "//If ten times the enemy' | ||
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Lee marches through Georgia, McClellan heads for Montgomery, and Grant moves down the Mississippi to put an end to Confederate supply along the great river. | Lee marches through Georgia, McClellan heads for Montgomery, and Grant moves down the Mississippi to put an end to Confederate supply along the great river. | ||
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"//I breathe, and lo! the chattel is a man.//" | "//I breathe, and lo! the chattel is a man.//" | ||
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You can't shoot an idea with a gun, as someone once quipped. However, you can shoot a gun with an idea, and this is what the new Union commander realises. He recruits a ragtag group of free blacks, equipped only with guns and ideas, to spread those guns and those ideas among the slaves of Alabama. | You can't shoot an idea with a gun, as someone once quipped. However, you can shoot a gun with an idea, and this is what the new Union commander realises. He recruits a ragtag group of free blacks, equipped only with guns and ideas, to spread those guns and those ideas among the slaves of Alabama. | ||
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The Navy, which has been sidelined for much of the war, now gets its fifteen minutes of fame, as Pensacola is retaken by the Union, and the Confederate-friendly president of Nicaragua is toppled by a squadron of Union gunboats. | The Navy, which has been sidelined for much of the war, now gets its fifteen minutes of fame, as Pensacola is retaken by the Union, and the Confederate-friendly president of Nicaragua is toppled by a squadron of Union gunboats. | ||
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"//I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.//" | "//I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.//" | ||
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In Italy, the situation is at least as problematic as it is across the Atlantic. A war is breaking out between Sardinia, seeking to take Lombardy and Venetia for the purpose of uniting all Italians under a single nation, and Austria, who seek to keep the same lands for themselves. The French Emperor has sided with Sardinia, and any side looks poised to strike. Who will win? Let us find out... | In Italy, the situation is at least as problematic as it is across the Atlantic. A war is breaking out between Sardinia, seeking to take Lombardy and Venetia for the purpose of uniting all Italians under a single nation, and Austria, who seek to keep the same lands for themselves. The French Emperor has sided with Sardinia, and any side looks poised to strike. Who will win? Let us find out... | ||
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Sherman finally breaks through in Virginia, and his army is able to capture most of the Atlantic seaboard within short time. The Confederacy will soon fall, but one thing is preventing that... | Sherman finally breaks through in Virginia, and his army is able to capture most of the Atlantic seaboard within short time. The Confederacy will soon fall, but one thing is preventing that... | ||
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The Confederate President, after a long struggle with his own mind, dies, and the new President surrenders to the Union. However, the Secretary of State refuses to comply, and flees to Florida with most of the treasury before the Union troops around the capital can stop him. | The Confederate President, after a long struggle with his own mind, dies, and the new President surrenders to the Union. However, the Secretary of State refuses to comply, and flees to Florida with most of the treasury before the Union troops around the capital can stop him. | ||
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"//I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.//" | "//I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.//" | ||
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The Union is saved. The war is over. Now, the business of rebuilding the broken South can begin. This is done in many ways, the most prominent of which is amending the Constitution, | The Union is saved. The war is over. Now, the business of rebuilding the broken South can begin. This is done in many ways, the most prominent of which is amending the Constitution, | ||
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The South, after two and a half years of total war, is not a nice place. Armed bands of freedmen battle with armed bands of whites, radicalised by the fight against the "Black Republicans" | The South, after two and a half years of total war, is not a nice place. Armed bands of freedmen battle with armed bands of whites, radicalised by the fight against the "Black Republicans" | ||
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The new President sets out to provide a distraction from the inflamed situation in the South, as well as to promote his own goals of expansion, and an opportunity quickly comes along. Its name is the CSS // | The new President sets out to provide a distraction from the inflamed situation in the South, as well as to promote his own goals of expansion, and an opportunity quickly comes along. Its name is the CSS // | ||
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"//I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats; I tell them the truth, and they never believe me.//" | "//I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats; I tell them the truth, and they never believe me.//" | ||
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Though the Sardinians won their bout with the Austrian behemoth, the struggle to unify Italy is far from complete. Giuseppe Garibaldi, the charismatic wartime leader of the Sardinian mountain troops, sets out of Genoa one spring day in 1860, along with a thousand volunteers, aiming to overthrow the Bourbon kings of the Two Sicilies. | Though the Sardinians won their bout with the Austrian behemoth, the struggle to unify Italy is far from complete. Giuseppe Garibaldi, the charismatic wartime leader of the Sardinian mountain troops, sets out of Genoa one spring day in 1860, along with a thousand volunteers, aiming to overthrow the Bourbon kings of the Two Sicilies. | ||
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"//The constitution regulates our stewardship; | "//The constitution regulates our stewardship; | ||
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"//All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.//" | "//All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.//" | ||
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Bismarck comes to power in Prussia, and uses the Danish crisis to recover Schleswig and Holstein, as well as to create feelings of unity among the German states. However, when a Spanish succession crisis comes along, he may be in over his head... | Bismarck comes to power in Prussia, and uses the Danish crisis to recover Schleswig and Holstein, as well as to create feelings of unity among the German states. However, when a Spanish succession crisis comes along, he may be in over his head... | ||
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"//A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.//" | "//A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.//" | ||
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A great war breaks out. Battles are fought, treaties are made, backs stabbed, men killed. Now is the time to make history. | A great war breaks out. Battles are fought, treaties are made, backs stabbed, men killed. Now is the time to make history. | ||
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"//It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.//" | "//It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.//" | ||
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The French attack across the Hunsrück, aiming for Trier and the Mosel Valley. The Prussians are getting badly overextended, | The French attack across the Hunsrück, aiming for Trier and the Mosel Valley. The Prussians are getting badly overextended, | ||
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+ | "//The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.//" | ||
+ | - Otto von Bismarck | ||
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+ | The Prussians face a dire situation in Austria, and find a sorely-needed ally to their east. | ||
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+ | - Jefferson Davis | ||
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+ | The election of 1868 was one of the most contested and controversial in U.S. history. This important watershed in the Reconstruction era ended up as no one had expected. | ||
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+ | - Brigham Young | ||
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+ | This chapter is all about them. In one valley lives a rancher and patriot with dreams of statehood for his homeland, in another live an industrious people who, tired of bullying by the federal government, decide to look for greener pastures in a third... | ||
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+ | - Napoleon Bonaparte | ||
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+ | What goes up must inevitably come down. So too with the French war effort, which isn't exactly riding high anymore. | ||
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+ | "//We are in the chamberpot, about to he shat upon.//" | ||
+ | - Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot | ||
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+ | It's taps for the French Empire, as Napoleon III is dethroned and the Prussians lay siege to Paris. For once, the chapter' | ||
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+ | "//Let us lift Germany, so to speak, into the saddle. It will certainly be able to ride.//" | ||
+ | - Otto von Bismarck | ||
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+ | "//The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability.//" | ||
+ | - Simon Bolivar | ||
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+ | The nation of Argentina, if it can be said to be one at this point, is facing some difficulty, as the city and province of Buenos Aires get fed up with the federal nature of the government and promptly leave. Also, Paraguay gets in well over its head. | ||
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+ | "//Let us not be deceived. Those who talk about peace in sixty days are shallow statesmen. The war will not end until the government shall more fully recognize the magnitude of the crisis; until they have discovered that this is an internecine war in which one party or the other must be reduced to hopeless feebleness and the power of further effort shall be utterly annihilated.//" | ||
+ | - Thaddeus Stevens | ||
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+ | In the States, President Curtin leads the nation out of Reconstruction, | ||
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+ | "//As is evidenced a great many times across history, man's indomitable will for freedom is an unstoppable force.//" | ||
+ | - Samuel Porter | ||
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+ | The new president, James Birdseye McPherson, is a modest man for a modest age, and though the economy has some rough times, the country fares fairly well through his term overall. | ||
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+ | - Attributed to Sitting Bull | ||
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+ | An Indian nation fares surprisingly well in war against the United States, striking railroad workers less so, and the Unionist party coalesces into something fairly coherent. Oh, and the Republicans win another election. | ||
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+ | "//Si vis pacem, para bellum.//" | ||
+ | - Vegetius, De Re Militari | ||
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+ | The Balkans erupt in rebellion against the authority of the Ottoman Empire. After a while, Russia intervenes, and the revolts turn into the final (or perhaps not?) showdown between the rulers of the Third Rome and the Second Rome. | ||
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+ | "//I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.//" | ||
+ | - Benjamin Disraeli | ||
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+ | As the Balkan war rages on, it appears to be turning into an uphill battle. The question everyone is asking is: for whom? | ||
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+ | - Emilio Castelar | ||
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+ | Spain is in chaos as 1873 dawns; the new king has fled the country two years after his election, no one can agree on how the new republican government is to be structured, and discontent simmers in the countryside as the anarchist movement grows in strength. To top it all off, the Carlist standard has been raised in Navarre, and there may be more crises coming down the road. President Prim certainly seems to have his work cut out for him. | ||
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