The world history

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The History before 1899.


Europe
Coming into the eighteenth century, Europe bore some resemblance to its historical self. There were the French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russians,
Swedes, Danes, etc.

Main Difference is Normandy. Seperate from France in all politics and
civil things ,and  subtily backed by others, it did do the colonisation of  North America in a race with with France.
This colonisation spree was halted by Rohan and the Eastern Kingdom, Modern lands with a strong central gouvernement at the North Amercian continent.
France and Normandy had a long time slow simmering hatred to each other, but to go to war wasn't a good idea; The Spanish and the Habsburgs were lurking behind the corner, and the Dutch weren't averse to some landgrabbing either.

Around 1780 just before the French Revolution, Normandy and France went to war once more. During the early stages of this war, a democratic movement, the idea's sparked by the Swiss of old did ,started the  French
revolution in 1782.
The new French gouvernement  elected to go on with the war started by
the former  leaders.
But with another warcry "Free our oppressed brothers from the tyranny of nobility".

Rather than trying to conquer the colonies in North America, France took
the strategic defensive there. Her main effort was against Normandy itself. A ferocious land war ensued, and Normandy was amalgamated into France after a couple years of brutal fighting. The nobility of Normandy, seeking the shelter, ran to the supporters in the UKN and the  American colonies.

It took the French almost twenty years to recover from its conquest of Normandy, for casualties had been high and guerilla warfare had continued for several years after the war had "ended". Luckely enough, domestic troubles for every state in Europe kept France from being overrun.

By this time, the Americas were divided, having had a civil war about how to fill the vacuum left by the disappearance of the Norman government itself. This spawned the CSA in the south, and the Royalists connected to the UKN in the north.

In 1805, France began re-asserting itself. After a somewhat questionable "discovery" that the Swiss government was supporting an anti French movement within Normandy, the French armies,under the succesfull general Napoleon invaded the mountain republic.
An insurrection in Normandy was harshly suppressed, and refugees fled Europe, eventually winding up in what became known as New Switzerland.

France's neighbours eventually reacted to this activity with a mutual defence pact between the Netherlands, Spain, and the Hapsburgs.
This deterred continued French adventurism, though it did bully Portugal into selling Brazil in 1832.

With France now busily developing into the New World, and engaging itself in a long series of colonial conflicts, Spain and the Hapburgs went to war over the fate of the Italian states. Each wanted them, but neither could hold them, and Italian nationalists finally persuaded the exhausted combatants to accept an independent and then-neutral Italia.
The formation of a united Italian kingdom inspired German nationalists in Prussia to attempt a similar feat. Beginning with a brief and successful war with the Habsburgs, the Prussians then extorted some territory from Denmark.
But the pivotal point in the process was to be a glorious victory against France. Here the Prussians were surprised at the resilience of the French, who continued to fight after the fall of Paris. As regiment after regiment poured into France from the colonies, the tables turned, and Prussia found itself on the defensive.
France weary of the European non participants in this war didn't push the Germans to the end and annexing them like the Swiss.
Unfortunatly, this inconclusive end of the first Franco-German war did spawn a second Germanic-French war.
The second Franco-German war ended in disaster for Prussia - its political elite exiled to its far off colonies in the Pacific, its western territories annexed by France, even its gains from the war with the Habsburgs were lost, the price paid to keep that empire from actively taking sides with France. German nationalism was dead, with the largest state outside Prussia - Bavaria - reduced to little more than French puppet.

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The Baltic Confederacy did rise after these wars.
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The Americas.

Legend speaks of wars between the Rohirrim and their southern neighbours many centuries ago that left much of the western Americas a sparsely populated wilderness. Whatever the truth, the Rohirrim and the Anahuac remain at odds with each other to this day, with a hatred that belittles even that of the French and Prussian rivalry.
For many decades, the Rohirrim were generally content to keep within their own realm, though an effort to reclaim other civilized lands led to the founding of its colony in New Bleireland. This continued to trigger skirmishes with the Anahuac, and many a brave soldier lost his life in the dense jungles of central America.

The arrival of the Chinese was something of a shock to the Rohirrim, who had little conception of what lay across the ocean to the west. Chinese immigrants seeking a less crowded life with more freedom began making the long voyage across the Pacific, founding what became known as the Eastern Kingdom on Rohan's northern border. Relations were generally cool but peaceful, neither side being particularly eager to interact with the other.

The 1790s saw Norman America experience a bloody schism as it tried to establish itself in the wake of its mother nation's destruction by France. Some wanted monarchy, some wanted democracy, and in the end, nobody won. The United Kingdom was established in the north, and the Confederated States of America in the south. It did not take ong for the two young nations to begin a race to the west.

The CSA encountered the Anahuac and began to have trouble with that nation, though it did have the benefit of leading to good relations with Rohan.

In the north the UKA skirted around French territories and fought a series of wars with native tribes in the centre of the continent. Rohan and the CSA would finally intervene, and the three nations eventually agreed to leave a large expanse of land as a reserve for the natives who remained.

In South America, expansion proceeded peacefully - from the European perspective - for a time. Spain and France divided the continent up for themselves, and for decades, South America was quiet.
The Italian War, however, weakened Spain's position in South America, and the colonies began to break away in a violent series of guerillawars.

A gold discovery on the previously unclaimed California coast led to a diplomatic situation finally resolved by Rohirrim and CSA's joint creation of the independent nation of California in 1867. The more adventurous elements from both nations, along with thrill-seekers from a half-dozen other countries began pouring in, seeking a fortune in gold and a minimum of government that would tax it.

New Switzerland's expansion phase brought it to the Americas, too. It pushed aside Chinese settlers to take a foothold in Alaska, and began eyeing California with interest. Although some useful agreements were concluded with the local government, Californians were distrustful of New Swiss intentions, having seen their trade missions in China turn into colonies.

Asia
Asia is a land of old empires - the Mughals, Persians, Ottomans - that have clashed with each other since history has been recorded. There is no love lost between them.
But the threat of imperialism by nations such as France - as seen in that country's growth into southern India in the 1830s - has kept them from each other's throats of late.

China reached its zenith in the sixteenth century, dominating the region around it. Explorers went out in all directions, founding settlements in Australia and Maoria, long since lost. Others sailed further and reached North America. The emperors of China were uneasy with the wanderlust some of its population had, but in the end allowed these people to emmigrate. In the end, it made it easier for the rulers to withdraw from global happenings, for those who would have most opposed it were now exploring the wilds of northwestern North America.

The Europeans arrived in Asia in the early part of the century. Many of the islands were claimed, by Prussia, the Netherlands, France, or half a dozen other nations. Even the mainland experienced the rush of colonialism, with France seizing southern India and New Switzerland occupying key cities in China.

France did not enjoy a dominant position in Asia.
After large clashes with the manpower dominated Chinees armies on the Indochina borders France halted it's colonial expansion in Asia completely.  Indirectly these borderwars gave the New Swiss the opportunity to seize some Chinese costal cities and area.

These Indochina border wars were  the leading factor to the French aliance with Russia -The power of the Chinese armies.
Lingering concerns over German nationalism being another. While Russia has proven itself to be a worthy partner in this alliance, events of 1898 have not been as kind with France.

Political infighting, populistic politicians and a " my wellfare first
attitude of the French people" let the Empire of France decay slowely.

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The history of France after 1899.


Premier Jardan, in his second term as Premier of France, did start the 20th century with great national programs. The Great Canal in central America and the defensive Ligne  Decreme as main examples.
But also the Statue of Liberty in New Orleans and the Great Bavarian Railroad is a prime example of French enginering and willingness to spend lots of resources to create goodwill.
The protection and support of the great Caliphate of Caïro expidition of conquest towards Australia was an attempt to create a North African Bavaria, a client state.

Unfortunatly, this arrogance also led to the creation of El Dorado, a modern city in the middle of the Amazone jungle. With the sole purpose to shelter the surving royalty, priests and warriors of the despised Anuhuac.

Due these great projects, the revenue of a great empire was swallowed, swindled and spend without any direct or real return. A stalemate in all things important was the result.

1902 was the start of the downfall of the French influence in South America. The Anuhuac, getting settled in El Dorado, wished to expand, with or without the French consent.
Aided by the new Fremier premier, Palpaté,also head of the French securité and a secret member of the Anuhuac priesthood the Anuhuac launched a series of slavery raids and started financing rebel groups in French Brazil.
Only intervence from growing Gran Colombia, with Papal approval from Avignon stopped the Anuhuac plans.  After 2 years , Brazil and the neighboring United States of South America was in such an unrest, that Habsburg and DKB invasion forces could take lands without any official resistance.

Further international issues brought France into the Communist revolt in Portugal.
That revolt was crushed by UKN and French warships and the Portugese king, weak of health as he was, reinstated.
This situation brought the world the horror of chemical warfare. Fortress Bugio is burned into the minds of the people who have witnessed the gruesome scenes after the attack.

The faithfull year 1905, the year of political earthquakes.

Minister of defense, Paixhans, and minister of Foreign Affairs Capet ousted the absent Premier Palpaté, and reshuffled the complete political landscape. Not at the least because the arch criminal Agrival Mars had killed the top of the opposition in 1 fell stroke.

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The Collapse of the Caliphate of Cairo

Excerpted from The ACM and Caliphate Collapses of 1900-1901 by Erika König, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Neue Danzig, 1939

The fall of the Caliphate of Cairo surprised many at the time. Nobody had ever imagined that what had previously seemed to be two of the strongest countries on the globe could totally and utterly implode within nine months of each other. However as the dust settled and investigations were made, it became clear that the first collapse had guaranteed the second.

In 1863, a young and foolish Caliph found himself short of the necessary funds to complete his latest palace. The ambassador of the Associacao Comercial du Mundo, through his myriad connections in the human cesspool that was, and is, Cairo, became aware of this fact, and approached the Caliph with an offer of a "generous" loan. Despite his advisors warning of the predatory tactics practised by the ACM, the Caliph gratefully accepted the money - and the hook was set.

Over the next forty years, the Caliphate found itself falling deeper and deeper into debt to the ACM. Offering "bargain" loans for everything from the finest French wines to the mightiest ships-of-the-line, interest rates soared. The Caliph, realising his mistake, attempted to stop the practice - only to realise that doing so would utterly wreck Cairo's economy.


By the 1890s, things had deteriorated to the point where the Caliphate was only able to keep one ACM director from defaulting on Caliphate credit was by accepting a loan from another one. This proved to be both a cause and a symptom of the rot that had set into the Associacao. This also set up the events of 1900-1901; the Caliphate unwittingly helped to destroy the ACM, and the fall of the ACM was the straw that broke the Caliphate's back.

One of the plans to get from under the ACM loans is to acquire more wealth by conquest. The issues in Australia, and diplomatic overtures towards France gave the Caliph a road to conquest. The Colony of Firenj was born, but with a generations spanning mortgage as well diplomatic as material.
Unfortunately, history had other plans.

When the Australian dispute threatened to escalate and Caliphate military forces were deployed on a war footing, the increased expenditures strained the economy to the breaking point. Although it was not realised at the time, the collapse of the ACM had, ironically, prevented war between the Caliphate of Cairo and the Triple Alliance, as the Caliph suddenly found his only reliable source of cash abruptly terminated.

When the Caliphate's budget for 1901 was brought before the Caliph, it carried shocking news. The Caliphate was not only bankrupt, but without Associacao loans it was bankrupt twice over - and that was before military expenditures were considered. The realisation that a moment of youthful folly had caused the inevitable ruin of his country was too much for the elderly Caliph, who collapsed of a heart attack, dying the next day.

The Caliphate was now thrown into chaos. The Caliph, continually beset by tidings of financial woe, had never designated any of his many sons as his successor. Realising that if word of this got out other countries would likely descend upon the country like hungry vultures, the Caliph's advisers immediately closed off virtually all contact with the outside world.

The independence of Firenj.

Somehow, the Caliphate managed to squeak through the first three months of 1901. However in April, even as the Middle Kingdom and New Switzerland went at each others' throats, the coffers ran dry. The Caliphate's troops in Firanj had been, essentially, doing nothing for nearly a year and a half, and had become bored. A bored soldier is a dangerous thing. A bored, unpaid soldier is a lethal one. When their paymasters refused to disburse April's pay - they couldn't, there was no money to give - a rebellion ensued.

A cavalry corps was the first to raise the black flag of mutiny. Storming the government offices in Firenj, they found the Governor and his staff preparing to flee - loading what was later, likely exaggerated, described as "twelve trunks overflowing with gold coins" into a wagon. Enraged, they cut down every one of the "Government's thieves".

They were the lucky ones. Word of the discovery quickly spread throughout the city. The citizens of Firanj had long resented their taxes, which had started out higher than the rest of the Caliphate and had been raised twice since the current crisis had begun. Upon learning the news that the Governor had been keeping the money for his own profit, both they, and the rest of the soldiers in the province, exploded.

Violence quickly spread, and several Caliphate officials were dragged from their homes and literally torn apart by angry mobs. It is possible that the entire city would have been destroyed had not Admiral al-Thrawn, commander of the Caliphate naval force in the colony, trained the guns of his battleships upon the town and declared that, as senior military officer in the colony, the troops would break up the riots "or Firanj will suffer the fate of Shanghai".

It is said that the mutiny did not end until al-Thrawn had fired a salvo into the officers' barracks near the city centre, at which point things quickly became very quiet in Firanj. While this has never been proven, it is known that evening he came ashore and, following an all-night conference with the surviving senior officers of the Army units present, announced that the colony was now the "Empire of Firenj", and that he, as "Emperor Thrawn", was now the supreme ruler of the area.