"Bloody September, revolt and mutiny against the Bonapartes!"
The year is 1821. Napoleon has succeeded in securing France from his invaders, but by a very slim margin. Britain was barely beat by a suicide invasion that destroyed London and Plymouth, which ended up with the Royal Family dead and the Parliament completely taking over. The Austrians were invaded by the Ottomans, who were trained by contracted Germans/French/Spaniards/Britons/Italians. Their Army occupied Hungary, which gave Napoleon safe room to operate in Germany. Joachim Murat successfully beat the Austrian incursion in the Battle of Tolentino, where Joachim, who was inspired by this success, proclaimed himself King of Italy. Napoleon, though angry at this, noticed how popular he was due to his reformations in Naples and how well received they would be in the North, and recognized it. This granted him the annexation of Piedmont once more as his step son (Eugene) was crowned Archduke of the Po Valley, a new title designated to those who ruled Piedmont. Napoleons army, the one sent to combat the British and Prussians in Belgium, was nothing but a militia. Even the Old Guard was a shell of its former self, due to broken morale from previous campaigns and their officers surrendering during the Bourbon. The only true Old Guard unit that was capable was the "Elba Battalion", the men who went with Napoleon to Elba and the ones who "brought him back". But Napoleon was ambitious. His army was substantially larger than as it was in history, due to the Russian Campaign being relatively short (Napoleon did not wait till winter to leave Russia). But he still suffered horrendous losses. In Iberia during the previous years, the campaign was relatively short. Spain took Brazil from Portugal during their historic union in the 1600's, so when Napoleon invaded they had only British supplies (also their African colonies), and were unable to properly resist. This lead to a issue in the south as Britain went under siege in Gibraltar, which they lost with drastic losses. Of course, in 1813, that would change as Britain would be able to spark a relatively large rebellion in the North West of Spain and Portugal, which caused the spread French, who were retreating to deal with coalition forces in Germany, to collapse. Napoleon abdicated in 1814 and history resumes its traditional stand point, except Napoleons Army is able to reunite with Grouchy and cause Wellingtons center to collapse, and in time for Napoleon to reorganize and repel the Prussian attack. After that, a bitter defensive war began, Napoleon eventually doing his suicidal London Campaign where half his army would be killed, a quarter captured, and the rest able to make it back. It was enough to cause Scotland, incited by the French, to mutiny and declare themselves free. Ireland soon followed. England was all that was left, and due to the Royal Family being executed, they became a republic. The USA, now rather expansionist, took hold of the issues in Europe and annexed most of Canada. They then went to help Spain (in order to gain the west coast and Texas, along with support in fighting the British) and suppress the Mexican and Central American revolts (also, in this time period the Monroe Document never was made and the US was rather supportive of the West, if it meant their gain). By 1820, Napoleon had beaten back every army, and with the Ottomans (with support of a huge Polish rebellion against Russia and Prussia, being VERY successful) invading the defenseless Austrians, then turning to Russia and barely beating them, the Coalition was finally exhausted and Europe practically destroyed. The Congress of Frankfurt began, and Europe was redrawn. France maintained Belgium, Catalonia, Piedmont, and some of her Rhine territories. Naples claimed most of Lombardy and annexed the Papal States, becoming the Kingdom of Italy. Austria gained Venice but lost the Salzburg to Bavaria (who also gained Wurttemberg, which sparked the Southern War, where France and Bavaria won, gaining Bavarias allegiance and support), allowed France to annex Saxony and Hanover (via implementing his family back in new positions) and form a Confederation of Germany (a unified nation with elections and etc, though German states maintain some sort of autonomy), destroying any chance of Austrian supremacy in Germany via another HRE like system. England entered union with the Netherlands to save themselves from being beaten (which caused a Boer State to be formed) Prussia lost Posnan but gained huge cessions in the North West. Bernadotte anxiously supported Napoleon, gaining part of Finland back, also part of Courland. They got Mecklenburg and Pomerania in Germany. Russia was battered due to the wars and lost a good bit for the treaty that France will pay them 900,000,000 Francs and allow the Russians access to the Bosporus (this being military access). The Ottomans also had to pay them the equivalent of 600,000,000 Francs. In the Treaty of Quebec, the Canadian government which was 'loyal to the Royal Family' negotiated them being annexed for statehood. It was approved. New Labrador is the only territory, besides parts of the barren north, that stayed with Britain. After Spain was able to suppress the Mexican-Central American rebellions, they allowed most of South America (other than Argentina and Chile) free. Argentina and Chile currently are fighting for their freedom though they are losing. Brazil is the largest latino nation in the world now and their Economy is rather powerful.
Also, in the East, Japan is at a deadly war with China started by the Shogun. 3 years ago, the Shogun was removed by popular rebellion, and the Emperor instated as the highest power. Utilizing the conflicts in the West, Japan annexed a good bit of Pacific Islands and overran the Spanish Philippines. With the Emperor in charge, he has began to form a modernized Western Army, the Samurai forming the brunt of the force. The Clans are very suspicious but realize that this step is needed to beat China, who has occupied the northern Islands.
Now, in 1821, the French people have rebelled after unrest built up due to the dying French economy and Napoleon's death, leading to his son of the age of 10 ruling. The older Marshals have formed his regency council rather than the government, causing them to believe that the future will be lead by another Militaristic Napoleon, something they did not want. So, 120,000 republicans in the Northwest took up arms in protest. Soon Bourbon Catholic Royalists took up arms in Brittany. Italian Rebels in Savoia number to 60,000. Germans in Alsace-Lorraine form the Duchy of Lorraine which is headed by a Habsburg, causing tension with France and Austria. Catalonians also begun to rebel. In the Ottoman Empire, the Hungarian rebellion has quelled down but it is beginning to become popular again due to the Battle of Debrecen destroying the occupying Ottoman Army of 20,000. Greece has also rebelled, and due to this the Egyptians, under Muhammad Ali, have began to move their modernized Army, the strongest in the Ottoman Empire, to fight them. England, in turn, has dispatched 40,000 men (including a legion of 10,000 Russians) to take Constantinople. They have landed on the East side, and prepare to cross. Poland seems to favor supporting the Hungarians due to them possibly being able to be able to have a Polish noble be the Hungarian kind, but it is not confirmed. Europe, destroyed, is efficiently killing itself. What will you do in this chaos?
Welcome one and all to my roleplay, Bloody September. I have tried many Napoleonic-like roleplays before, all failing due to my own ignorance and inactivity. However, I have came back with plentiful knowledge and I aim to have a rather realistic roleplay on a 'what if' scenario where several factors, such as Brazil being annexed by Spain in the 1600's, or the Ottomans modernizing their army in a short period, change the course of the war(s). if you have any questions, do ask, as I am very anxious to put this out and I want to ease anyones suspicion of this. Firstly, the French are weak and economically destroyed, therefore do not expect a god like France like it has been in my other ones. The major super power really is Prussia, America, and Italy. Poland, Sweden, Denmark, and the German Confederation are even doing better than the major powers such as Austria, England, France, and Russia! Everything is practically on a equal plane and I look forward to see the future of this RP!
Credits to Plessur, for which I copied from him, heh.
Rules:
- No godmodding or metagaming
- Good quality IC posts, at least two significant paragraphs
- Standard English with proper grammar on IC posts
- This is an AH; therefore, make your nation interesting but not eccentric. Your history must be realistic
- Custom nations only allowed in the White, habitable land (So no nations inside the Sahara)
- My word, along with Co-OP's word, is law.
- 2-5 Paragraphs per IC post, each paragraph having four sentences minimum.
