Concert of Europe

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Prelude

Anno Domini 1815: after a long and devastating serial of wars, campaigns and battles Napoleon is defeated. The victorious sovereigns meet to restore order at the Conference of Vienna.

The Austrian capital hosts assignees of about 200 European states, corporations and cities. Among them are all leading countries with the exception of the Ottoman Empire. These great powers play the dominant roles:

Russia, LORD WINTER
Great Britain KING KURT,
Austria, WARMAN
Prussia ICHIGO and
the restored French monarchy.Tiberius of the Drake
Sardia (Piemont and Genoa): King Jan III Sobieski

Warluster is 1st in line!!

The countries soon agree that the new order shall be built on the fundament of five principles:

1) Legitimacy - Old dynasties have to be restored
2) Restoration – The political and social conditions of the pre-revolutionary era have to be restored. This principle shall also be the barrier against any revolutionary threat, liberal or nationalistic.
3) Monarchy – order can only base and be guaranteed by the God send authority of the true monarch.
4) Solidarity – the power of the monarchs will be completed by the solidarity between the monarchs.
5) System of European Equilibrium – no country shall be able to dominate Europe, again. All future conflicts shall be solved by a peaceful agreement of the five great powers, the Concert of Europe.

As interests of the participants still collide it soon becomes evident, that implementing the last principle is the most difficult task.
The goal of Austrian Foreign Minister Metternich is an Austrian dominated Central Europe, forming a counterbalance to the powers in the east and the west, Russia and France.
Main goal of Russia is to gain main part of Poland. The czar tinkers with the idea to build a constitutional state there.
The English deputy, on the other hand, similar to Metternich, aspires to a conservative Europe and wants to avoid further increase of the Russian power.
France fights the desire of a German unification to protect her own position as a great power.
Prussia, however, wants to increase her power by a stronger German union, though this would be against the interests of the small German countries as well as Austria.

Differences are strong and for a moment a new war seems to be more likely than a lasting peace agreement.

Then, however, Napoleon is back. He landed at the French shores and is seizing power again. He, who had forced his will upon the European counties so many times before, manages to unite the disputing congress. The assignees agree on forming a new coalition army of about 700,000 men. Immediately, a Prussian army of 117,000 under the command of Blücher marches against France, while the English send Wellington along with 100,000 soldiers from England, Hannover, the Netherlands and Belgium.

If you would like to join the CONCERT OF EUROPE, just select one of the great powers.

I'll take Prussia

YAY!!!!!!!!!


I want to take Austria Please :yes::clown:


Ichio, Prussia, Bad Ichi :yes: :clown:

England for me please!!

En Francais!

Mother Russia!

So we have the 5 main parties! Great! Welcome, Gentlemen!
The show will start as soon as possible!

Excellet! I can not wait :yes:

Franc - are you going to post a first chapter or do we need to anything now?

Chapter 1 – June 1815

Hurray! Napoleon is defeated!

At Belle Alliance, a place close Brussels, the allied armies of Blücher and Wellington overwhelmed the troops of the Corsican usurper. Currently, the Prussian army is marching southwards to occupy Paris and to reinstall order once more.

At Vienna, the assignees finally finished the congress and agreed to a new order. These two events mark the end of a long and tragic phase that started with the French revolution.

The Austrian Empire abdicates her claims on the Netherlands and her former possession at the Upper Rhine. She gets back Galicia, while Krakau becomes the Republic of Krakow. Illyria comes to Austria, as well as Salzburg. Habsburg also rules over the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, the Toscana and Parma and has now a stronger position at Northern Italy than before.

Prussia gains new territories at the Rhine. However, it only receives one province from Saxony. She also receives new territories the east – Posen and the city of Danzig – but has to give up Polish territories. The shift to the west brings Prussia into direct contact with France. The splintering of its territory makes it inalienable to find an agreement with the small German countries.

The Russian czar received the biggest part of Poland and his claims on Finland and Bessarabia were confirmed.

France lost the territories that she had conquered during the Napoleonic Wars, but Talleyrand could avoid further losses. His greatest success is that France is now recognized as equal great power.

The English acquisitions – Malta, Helgoland and the Ionic Islands – were confirmed.

The Kingdom of Bavaria lost Tyrol, but received Franconia and the Palatinate. The Kingdom of Württemberg and the Grand Duchy of Baden could keep their territories. The Kingdom of Hannover – in personal union with the UK - Braunschweig, Oldenburg, Hessen-Kassel and the city states of Hamburg, Lübeck, Bremen and Frankfurt became sovereign states. The Kingdom of Saxony, however, lost two third of her territory. The number of independent territories is now much smaller than before the Napoleonic wars.

Denmark lost Norway to Sweden.

Hence, all territorial issues are solved. The five great powers committed to deal new problems in agreement. However, during the negotiations, there has been a rapprochement of Prussia and Russia on one side and of England, Austria and France on the other side.

The new order is decided and the aftermath of the revolution and the Napoleonic era are overcome. The disease is restored, but the pathogens are still there – fatuous and dangerous ideas of Liberalism and Nationalism. The great powers will have to be alert to contain them.

After the message of the final defeat of the Imperial French army, people celebrated all over Europe. Soon afterwards, unhappiness spreads in some areas.
In Germany, those who fought in the “Freikorps” for a united and liberal Germany find themselves betrayed.

Also Italian and Polish nationalists are not satisfied with the results of the congress.
Another event that causes trouble happened at London. The English government had financed the war with government bonds. Bankers as well as private patriots from the middle and upper class bought them and enabled the campaigns against Napoleon. A banker called Rothschild, who had bought a big number of bonds, had its own messengers at Wellington’s staff. He received the message of the victory even before the crown. He sold his bonds immediately and this caused a panic on the market, because people thought that Rothschild had received bad news from the front: everyone tried to sell his bonds and the price fell. When it reached the bottom, Rothschild bought all bonds he could get. Then the message of Wellington’s victory came and Rothschild made a fortune.

Now that the congress is over, work begins. The 19th - the long century - has still a lot of challanges for you!

TASKS (for the period between June 1815 and June 1816)

ALL:
A) Constitution: Now that the Napoleonic War is over, it is time to check (and maybe change or introduce) the constitution.
B) Military: You all have huge armies. Now it is time to decide about the size and organization of your army and navy in times of peace.
C) The war against Napoleon did not only take blood; most of all, it took money. Your finances are shattered. You do you want to balance the budget?
D) You confirmed to fight any revolutionary stream. What is your position regarding censorship and freedom of speech?

Austria:
1) Another decision of the congress was to form a German union; please start negotiations with the other German countries about this issue.
2) There was also the proposal to renew the Holy Alliance, a military co-operation to intervene against any revolutionary activities. Although the focus is the observation of the always somehow fanatic French, the pact could be effective sources of trouble as well. Start negotiations!
3) You have to decide about your long-term strategy: will you put the focus on Germany and try to reinstall the German Empire under the leadership of Habsburg or will you put the focus on the Balkans?
4) How do you deal with national minorities – like Hungarians or Italians? Do they get special rights in the constitution?

Prussia:
1) Another decision of the congress was to form a German union; please start negotiations with the other German countries about this issue.
2) There was also the proposal to renew the Holy Alliance, a military co-operation to intervene against any revolutionary activities. Although the focus is the observation of the always somehow fanatic French, the pact could be effective sources of trouble as well. Start negotiations!
3) How do you integrate the new territories? How do you deal with minorities?

Russia:
1) There was the proposal to renew the Holy Alliance, a military co-operation to intervene against any revolutionary activities. Although the focus is the observation of the always somehow fanatic French, the pact could be effective sources of trouble as well. Start negotiations!
2) What do you want to do with your new Polish territories – give them an independent status and a liberal constitution or do integrate them into the Russian Empire?
3) If you look at the efforts of the Russians during the war, it seems that the reward is far too small. Try to find a diplomatic arrangement that offers you the option to increase your influence at Europe.

France:
You surely have the hardest part of all. The land is broken and there is hardly anyone you can trust!
1) The allies will occupy Paris and this will allow you to return into the capitol. How do you plan your return?
2) You do not have an army or an administration. How do you want to recruit them?
3) The constitution: will you decide or propose, will you make a public decision? What will be the role of the parliament?
4) There are many emigrants which are following you. They expect to get their old privileges and back. Make a regulation!
5) There are many generals and officers which had betrayed you when Napoleon returned, for ex. Ney. What do you intend to do with them?
6) What will happen to those which committed crimes during the revolution?
7) Do you intend to enter the Holy Alliance?

England:
1) There was the proposal to renew the Holy Alliance, a military co-operation to intervene against any revolutionary activities. Although the focus is the observation of the always somehow fanatic French, the pact could be effective sources of trouble as well. Start negotiations!
2) Now that war is over, the superior English industry could dominate the European market – in case the trade barriers fall. Start negotiations about this.
3) The loss of your American colonies still hurts. You should think about a new strategy and the role of the government / army in this strategy.

P.S. Could someone post a map?

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Originally Posted by Franconicus

[B]Chapter 1 – June 1815
P.S. Could someone post a map?

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I was just about to ask that :yes: :laugh4:!



http://www.libarts.ucok.edu/history/...PS/eur1815.htm

http://www.bartleby.com/67/wester01.html


maybe these would work?

One more though, how about adding Sweden to the Game for the Heck of it :clown:?

There could be more factions - five is the minimum!

Comment:
The constitution: during the war, you were forced to make some. Find out, which rights you gave. Now that the war is over, you may want to change this. Have an eye on the role of the parliament, the right of free speech and write. Who is allowed to vote. What about minorities.

Timing: Take your time. No need to hury in the first period!

I believe the right to free speech should be allowed, but to a extent. If we allow to much freedom, we will be back at where we started. Censorship should be slighty loosed for the people's enjoyment, but not a whole lot.


What is the views of my Foregien Counter Parts?




Francis II

This is my best guess:



Russia,
Annual State Budget: 30 million talers
Army size: 500,000 soldier
cost: 60 taler per year for a regular soldier
Depth: 200 million talers

Great Britain:
Annual State Budget: 25 million talers
Army size: 35,000 (foreign regiments already released)
Cost for army: 120 talers per year for a regular soldier
Depth: 120 million talers (in national bonds)

Austria:
Annual State Budget: 25 million talers
Army size: 400,000 soldiers (volunteers already released)
Cost for army: 90 talers per year for a regular soldier
Depth: 100 million talers; (Austria was bankrupt in 1811; this reduced the depth, but she will not get money from the finance markets!)

Prussia:
Annual State Budget: 20 million talers
Army size: 230,000 soldiers plus 120,000 Landwehr (volunteers already released)
Cost for army: 100 talers per year for a regular soldier, Landwehr less
Depth: 150 million talers plus 15 million to Denmark

France
Annual State Budget: none
Army size: none
Cost for army: 100 talers per year for a regular soldier
Depth: 150 million talers; additionally, she has to pay 700 million to the allied countries due to the Treaty of Paris

Comments:
Please note that
 the recruitment and equipment of new regiments costs more money
 war increases the costs
 France is still occupied and the foreign troops will not leave before the money is paid. However, how to distribute the 700 million is still an issue of negotiations!
Don`t have anything about the navies (size and cost) but I guess Kurt can help!

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Originally Posted by Franconicus

France
Depth: 150 million talers; additionally, she has to pay 700 million to the allied countries due to the Treaty of Paris

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Originally Posted by {BHC}AntiWarmanCake88

I believe the right to free speech should be allowed, but to a extent. If we allow to much freedom, we will be back at where we started. Censorship should be slighty loosed for the people's enjoyment, but not a whole lot.


What is the views of my Foregien Counter Parts?




Francis II

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The Tsar is willing to allow gentlemen like debate in Russia. However any vulger cries for sedition will be dealt with harshly.

Forgot to mention: About 60 % of your income is spend for administration

Franc, When are orders due?

What about end of the week?

Friday Sounds Good Fran? :clown::egypt:

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Originally Posted by Franconicus

What about end of the week?

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:2thumbsup:

http://www.euratlas.com/history_euro..._map_1800.html


15 years sooner, but with some editing, it should work out. More Detailed then the other maps I think :yes:

The Kingdoms and Granddutchies of Baden, Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt suffered most from the insane ambitions of Napoleon. The insist on a compensation of 100 million talers.


The Kingdom of Bavaria and the the Dranddutchy of Württemberg demand 100 million talers from the French!

We Of Austrian Empire Refused the French's reducded Payment. We Demand the full 100 million talers to pay off our debts from the wars. France will go bankurput you say? Well how can you be sure that France can pay off 400 millon talers or so, Louis XVIII?


Francis II

I send my orders in Friday or Saturday,Franconius, that ok :yes:?

Franc - I am looking into the navy situation and hope to have something soon, but I am very busy at the moment.

The general situation is that England rules the waves with the biggest navy by far. A lot of the ships were laid off after the defeat of Napoleon, even in the Royal Navy, so costs have fallen drastically. What I might come up with is a simple formula or something like that for the participants - is that OK?

The USA are important from the naval point of view and, of course, England has just finished a war with them - where we burnt a lot of Washington amongst other things!! The war was mainly naval with small land operations. It might be worth thinking of another player for them in the future.

Hope to get my move in early next week.

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Originally Posted by King Kurt

The USA are important from the naval point of view and, of course, England has just finished a war with them - where we burnt a lot of Washington amongst other things!! The war was mainly naval with small land operations. It might be worth thinking of another player for them in the future.

Hope to get my move in early next week.

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Yeah... England still lost though against us :laugh4::yes:

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Originally Posted by {BHC}AntiWarmanCake88

Yeah... England still lost though against us :laugh4::yes:

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Oh - I must have missed the bit where the Americans landed near London and burnt our capital down. The White house is so called as it had to be whitewashed to hide the burn marks.....and it has been the home of many a good whitewash ever since:laugh4:

Won the battle, but lost the war :yes:


England lost to us once, then twice, I thought you guys were suppose to be the best nation in the world at that time? :laugh4:


Anyhow, On Topic:

I get my decsions in today Mr.Franconius. :yes:

When is the chapter going to be up?

It'll still be a few days, Warman, organizing a government from scratch isn't super simple.

:yes:Of Course :yes:

But I haven't been getting responces about what to do with your payments to us, German Union and the Holy Allaince, so I presume everyone must want to do their own thing?

What exactly does administrative cost cover? Is that everything except for diplomatics/millitary or more sepficly what else besides millitary do we have to cover with our non dedicated budget.

The Tsar must ask for at least 150 million from France. After all it was Russia who broke the power of that mad French men with the blood of her people.

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Originally Posted by Lord Winter

What exactly does administrative cost cover? Is that everything except for diplomatics/millitary or more sepficly what else besides millitary do we have to cover with our non dedicated budget.

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All the rest: cost for the King, the police and administration, street building, etc.

Spain and the Netherlands do not have any claims against their French neighbors. These two countries also urge the other nations to reduce their demands to a reasonable value!

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Originally Posted by Lord Winter

The Tsar must ask for at least 150 million from France. After all it was Russia who broke the power of that mad French men with the blood of her people.

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Argeed, Tsar. However, We, Austrian Empire, took the blunt of the fighting before they made their way to Moscow. We lost Vienna before you had to burn your Captial Down. I do not mean to sound harsh, since all suffered losses, just saying.

We Demand at least 100 million. We will not go below this. 20,000 Austrians will go to France and stay there until payment is made.

An Announcement from Lord Liverpool,

Sirs,

His Majesty's government has some fine points of diplomacy to resolve before we annouce to the public the position of our government. However we state this, our aim is a lasting peace and a move to harmony amongst European nations. We must establish rule across Europe which is benevolent and not oppresssive. We must learn the lessons of the last 20 years and not sow the seeds of a potential conflict - both internal and external. Nation's aspirations must be recognised and the aspirations of the people of those nations. We stand on an era of unprecidented scientific advance and a century of unparalled opportunity.

But to maximise our potential there must be change. The status quo is not an option.

As an aside, I have noticed some ramblings from eastern Europe on the role of certain nations in the down fall of the tyrant Bonoaparte. A particuarly narrow view, I feel. It would be oportune for these people to remember that it was an alliance of nations which brought the tyrant down, that England was the only nation to stand consistantly against the tyrant and that in fact during the course of the war several of the victors were, at times, allies of the tyrant.

In fact ,some may say, that the pigheaded approach of our Austrian ally plunged Europe into war in the 1790's, that the consistent failure of the Austrian army with its string of defeats to the tyrant created the situation for his rise and Empire and that their shattered forces played a minor part in his downfall and no part what so ever in the crushing of his recent return. However, as a gentleman, I could not possible say such a thing. However, I do say this, those who contibuted the greatest to the meal have the biggest say in its division.

God save the King

Lord Liverpool

Fine Points there Lord Liverpool. I believe you are rights on some of the issues, including our deafets. However, I believe that those who suffered the most and did the most should get the rightful share of Money. We and the Prussians,unlike your goverment with no offense, had to fight the French Early on, before any other goverments decided to intervere. Yes, Our losses did not help the cause, however, We wore down Napolean's army, so that the British/Russian forces and other nations could fight him better.

I believe That France should pay the full amount or a slighty less amount it owns to the allies. It would not be fair to tell a country that your former leader just ravange that you will pay 50 million talers, but let that country pay the other 50-150 million talers it still has in debt.

It's one thing if France pays 80 or 90 million Talers to us, out of 100, but we will not let them pay 25 or 50 and expect us to foot the rest of the bill.



Joint Statement from Francis II and Metternich :clown:

Two are still missing - the Western countries, of course. Always get up late!

Sorry guys - pressure of work - I have all my diplomacy in and hope to sort out my move by tomorrow
- but be fair - I have been capturing the upstart Carpetian pretender and reinstating the Carolginian Empire so I have been busy!!

Letter from Karl Philipp zu Schwerzenberg, Feldmarschall of the Empirial Army of Austria to the Emperor Franz:

Sire,

I fought many battle against the French in my duty for the German nation. All of them were hard fights. However, my hardest hour was, when I had to learn that my supreme commander did not respect my services. Therefore I send You my command and my orders.
To the Earl of Liverpool: English, it is easy to challange the Great Napoleon, if there is an oceans between. I know very well the part England played in this game. Maybe I may remember that I was at Leipzig, the greatest battle in history, the one, were allnations of Euroipe fought side by side against the French eagle. The only ones I did not see there were the English. And who fought the Battle of Waterloo, that makes you so proud? Prussian soldiers as well as soldiers of Hannover.
I realize the importance of your support, however, I do not see which English cities were burned by the French Emperor, which fields devasted. What for do you need compensation?

Hm, My Feldmarschall is leaving?

The discrete footmen placed the decanters of port on the crisp linen of the dinning table of the private dining room of White’s, London's most select gentleman's club. The Prince Regent looked across the smoked filled room and spoke with a slight slur in his voice.
"So, Liverpool, what's all this fuss about some Austrian general fellow?"
Lord Liverpool took a large swig from his glass of Port and smiled
"Well your majesty, as you will know the sole criteria for rising in the ranks of the Austrian Army is age and defeats - the older you are and the more defeats you have the higher rank you get!! As a consequence, they have the largest number of high ranking generals in any army in Europe."
A roar of laughter rumbled round the table and Lord Liverpool, warming to his task, continued
"Of course, the other consequence of senility as a rank of office is that the eyesight and the memory goes. This Generalissimo "What's his name" says that he was at Leipzig and saw no English men. Well sir, in defence of the Royal Horse Artillery who were there, I say this - perhaps he was so far from the action that he did not see them. As for Waterloo, what knows he of matters there. As usual the Austrians were somewhere else, probably eating coffee and cake, while the Iron Duke showed Boney a thing or two. At least our Prussian Allies could be depended on to do something - I mean old Blucher managed to turn up at the end and help chase the French from the field. If left to the devices of old Generalissimo we would all be talking French, eh Wellesley!!" The tall simply dressed, slightly haughty fellow dinner to Liverpool's left grunted agreement. " The Generalissimo would do to consult his history books - we were at war consistently with the little tyrant - all they managed to do was set things in motion, blunder around a bit then loose disastrously to Boney. Then they would give up some far flung province or 2, make peace then sit around until we came along with another Coalition to face the French.
Liverpool turned to the table as a whole, by now partially obscured by the cigar smoke. His fellow dinners were in good mood and their rosy cheeks bore witness to the amount of Claret and Port already consumed as well as the roaring fire in the massive fireplace.
"Some people may say that the only reason the Austrian army wears white coats is that it makes it easier to make flags of surrender, but I am too much of a gentleman to suggest such a thing"
With that he sat down amid gales of laughter, laughter which was to carry on long into the night.

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Originally Posted by King Kurt

The discrete footmen placed the decanters of port on the crisp linen of the dinning table of the private dining room of White’s, London's most select gentleman's club. The Prince Regent looked across the smoked filled room and spoke with a slight slur in his voice.
"So, Liverpool, what's all this fuss about some Austrian general fellow?"
Lord Liverpool took a large swig from his glass of Port and smiled
"Well your majesty, as you will know the sole criteria for rising in the ranks of the Austrian Army is age and defeats - the older you are and the more defeats you have the higher rank you get!! As a consequence, they have the largest number of high ranking generals in any army in Europe."
A roar of laughter rumbled round the table and Lord Liverpool, warming to his task, continued
"Of course, the other consequence of senility as a rank of office is that the eyesight and the memory goes. This Generalissimo "What's his name" says that he was at Leipzig and saw no English men. Well sir, in defence of the Royal Horse Artillery who were there, I say this - perhaps he was so far from the action that he did not see them. As for Waterloo, what knows he of matters there. As usual the Austrians were somewhere else, probably eating coffee and cake, while the Iron Duke showed Boney a thing or two. At least our Prussian Allies could be depended on to do something - I mean old Blucher managed to turn up at the end and help chase the French from the field. If left to the devices of old Generalissimo we would all be talking French, eh Wellesley!!" The tall simply dressed, slightly haughty fellow dinner to Liverpool's left grunted agreement. " The Generalissimo would do to consult his history books - we were at war consistently with the little tyrant - all they managed to do was set things in motion, blunder around a bit then loose disastrously to Boney. Then they would give up some far flung province or 2, make peace then sit around until we came along with another Coalition to face the French.
Liverpool turned to the table as a whole, by now partially obscured by the cigar smoke. His fellow dinners were in good mood and their rosy cheeks bore witness to the amount of Claret and Port already consumed as well as the roaring fire in the massive fireplace.
"Some people may say that the only reason the Austrian army wears white coats is that it makes it easier to make flags of surrender, but I am too much of a gentleman to suggest such a thing"
With that he sat down amid gales of laughter, laughter which was to carry on long into the night.

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A young man raised from his armchair. He wore no uniform, but from the way he moved everyone saw that he was an officer. He went to the door, but when he passed Liverpool, he stopped. With a smile on his face he said with a low voice: "Thrue, very true! They really lost many battles against Napoleon, those Austrians."
Everybody was quiet, all eyes watched this strange officer, as he went to the door. There he stopped again, turned around.
"Though, if my memory serves, ... " he hesitated, as if he was thinking intensly about something; "I have never heard an Austrian officer cry for the night or the arrival of the Prussians."
With these words he left the room.
"Who is this baboon?" cried Liverpool.
Someone on his side replied: "His name is Clausewicz, I guess. He came with the Prussian ambassador. I think he was in the staff of Blücher."
Liverpool shook his head: "These Krauts will never undertand the fine arts of war!"~;)

:sweatdrop:

Emperor Franz is Walking by Himself, when two of his Divison Commanders walks up to him and bow.

"Hello Warman and Eugene! My Two new Commanders!" (Warman, is a divison commander in my Army, leads 20,000 men, no one knows his real name :yes:)

"Good Afternoon Emperor. How are you?"

"Good thank you, and yourself?

"Fine your Majesty".


"I hear Schwerzenberg is leaving?" Saids Warman.

"It is true, but I am trying to have him stay."

"You hurt him with your words Emperor, with all due respect" replies Eugene.

"I did, but they were taked out of context. Many people say that to get off from things, but mine truly were."

All 3 men take a seat and discuss the Payment to the Austrians from France, the Trade deal with the Swiss, and other things.

"Your Majesty, Those British are so Arrogant" saids Warman.
"Indeed" Eugene Saids.

"Last time I checked, they could not beat the Americans. Farmers they were! Not once, but twice they could not reclaim the American Colonies back!" Laughs Eugene. All three men chuckle.

"Indeed. They talk tough, and they win one war, and lose 2 others. Nevertheless, they help us win this War. But They did not suffer their towns being burn down from French" Saids the Emperor.


The 3 men contiuned to talk into the Night....

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Chapter 2 – June 1816

A year without summer

France:
The first year after Napoleon is also the year of the (second) return of the Bourbon King Louis XVIII. With a couple of confidants and a personal guard of some hundred grenadiers he moves into the Palace of Versailles. He does not enter the capitol, though, to demonstrate that he does not take power as long as foreign armies control the country.
Nevertheless, Versailles becomes the center of the European diplomacy, again. Ambassadors of all regions meet there. One very frequent and welcome guest is the heir apparent of the Ottoman Empire.
Negotiations between the French King and the Allies are intense and tough, but in the end Louis manages to get agreements on the reparations with England, Russia, Prussia, Spain and the Netherlands. Only Austria and the minor German countries refuse to make concessions.
Besides solving the financial problems, the King is working on the constitutional fundament of the new government. The new constitution includes some of the achievements of the French Revolution, like abolition of slavery, free speech, parliament with representatives of the provinces, but it does not go as far as the ideals of the revolution. The rights to vote are limited to those which own land and the parliament can only suggest laws. Another different is that the new constitution will not be authorized by plebiscite, but by the sovereignty of the King.
All former followers of Napoleon get pardon, with the exception of former Royal officers, which betrayed their King. General Ney was sentenced to death. His execution takes place at the Jardin du Luxembourg at December 7th.

During winter, the allies begin to reduce their forces at France, only Austria increases her expedition corps to 20,000 men. During winter it comes to a crisis. There is no supply or payment from Austria and so the Austrian commander, General Warman8, demands food and money for his soldiers. The local French authorities are not able or willing to fulfill his wishes and so the Austrian General orders his men to foray the city of Lyon. Then he retreats into his garrisons. There, however, he and his men are contained by some ten thousands of furious French peasants. Warmaster8 hesitates to order his men to fire. He hopes to receive orders from Vienna before he runs out of food.

Germany:
At Germany, the political development does not meet the expectations. A German Federation has not been formed. Instead, Austria and Prussia agree on an alliance to abolish all trade barriers including customs. They invite the other German countries to join, but the resonance is not positive. Instead, all the small territories form a so called “Kleindeutscher Bund”, which abolishes internal customs, too, but raises the tariffs at the outer borders. Additionally this Bund, based in Frankfurt, also includes a cooperation of the political police organizations, a mutual assistance pact as well as the introduction of constitutions at all members. The Bund also has a trade agreement with the Netherlands. Bayern and Württemberg are still aside as well as Hannover, which is governed by the English King.

Nationalists become angry about the political situation. Several student organizations and veterans of the wars of liberation call for a demonstration next year. They will meet at the Wartburg to celebrate the anniversary of Luther’s theses and of the Battle of Leipzig.

Prussia:
King Friedrich Wilhelm III reduces the strength of his army to 115,000. He also reforms the constitution – even though some may say that he retracts the reforms he had promised during wartime. He founds regional parliaments, which have to collect the concerns of the population. The members of these parliaments are elected and every man has the same vote and the right to be elected. The most courageous step of the King is, however, that he gives the right of free speech, or at least almost.

The reforms caused a series of diverse reactions. A group of forty eastern aristocrats protested against the introduction of the new regional parliaments. They reminded the monarch, that they and their families were loyal servants of the sovereigns of Prussia for many centuries. They used to be the representatives of their regions and the King can hardly expect them to accept any new representatives that will be elected by peons, criminals, Jews and Poles. They insist on their old rights and demand an electoral law based on the tax payment of the citizens. Blücher, the celebrated hero of Waterloo, declared that he will fire any laborer that dares to candidate for the new parliament.

The bishops of the Lutheran church confess that every men has the same right given by the Lord, but they emphasize that a common right to vote was never the intention of God. Why, they ask, should a man, who owns nothing, who does not contribute to the wealth of the nation, why should he have the same vote as another man, who pays taxes.
Liberals at Berlin wrote a letter to the King to remind him to the promises he made during war. They ask him for a national parliament with the right to pass laws and budgets.
Insiders wonder for how long the King will allow these public discussions.
Different groups prepare themselves to participate at the coming elections. At Berlin, there is a party that wants to have liberal reforms, while at the Polish territories several nationalistic parties were found. A newspaper with the name “Poland!” circulates in the eastern border districts.

Austria:
After the congress, Kaiser Franz I travels around his lands to visit his subjects, especially those of Italian and Hungarian nationality. The population welcomes him. They all hope that Franz will bring peace and wealth also for them. The Italians ask him to foster the sea trade in the Mediterranean, which suffered during the war and which may now be dominated by the English fleet. They urge Franz to set up an Austrian fleet of warships, which can support the trade interests against England, France and the Ottoman Empire.
Austria makes a trade treaty with Switzerland.
Unlike the other countries, Austria does not reduce the strength of her armies at the end of war. Franz I has still 400,000 soldiers. They are distributed all over the land and at France. Rumors tell that the Austria is recruiting new soldiers from the Polish departments – canvassers even work on the Russian and Prussian side of the border.
Austria does not change the constitution, although the censorship is not as tight as it used to be.
Negotiations with France regarding the reparations do not come to an end.
Due to the military expanses and the missing payments from Paris, Austria runs out of cash during November. After the national insolvency just a couple of year ago, no bank wants to give money. Metternich does the best he can to cut expenses and to get money, but from December on the crown is no longer able to pay their soldiers and officers. Around Christmas many soldiers just leave their units to go home. At Venice, the local commander sells the cannons to get money for food. At the border in the east, whole companies leave to sell their services to either the Serbs or the Turks.
Franz I admits to the English Foreign Minister that the results of the Austrian Army during the war against Napoleon was very poor. This increases the distrust within the army.

Russia:
The Russian Czar disbands 150,000 soldiers and finds an agreement with France for reparations. This enables him to reduce his deficit. He gives more freedom to the peasants and increases the freedom of press. However, he does not seem to plan any real liberal reforms.
At Poland he introduces a 15% tax to pay the cost of the Russian occupation forces.
The conference of the Polish aristocrats welcomes him as the new monarch. They tell him that they are willing to serve him under some conditions. First of all, he has to accept the rights of the Polish noblemen. Additionally, they are willing to pay for soldiers, but the army they pay for ahs to be Polish.

England:
The English Crown works hard to bring business into a peace time mode. The size of the army and the navy is reduced significantly, an agreement with France ends finally ends this dispute and the government tries to support trade.
With the treaty of Caen, England gets all French possessions outside of Europe as well as a trade base on Corsica. The tow countries agree to combine their sea trade by forming a new trade company.
With these steps the English government hopes to support the trade and the whole economy, too. This is necessary, because the war left some issues. There are still about 300,000 veterans of the war looking for a way to make a living. Further more, heavy industry, mining and casting, suffers from the end of the war, as there is no more demand for cannons.

Rest of the world:
With some delay there is news from the Ottoman Empire. The Serbs tries another riot and after defeats in some small combats, the Sultan was wiling to negotiate. Although negotiations are still going on it looks like the Sublime Porte will accept the Serbian autonomy as long as Serbia will formally remain part of the Empire.
The Sultan also continued with his reforms. Taxes in the European part of the Empire were reduced and the rights of the subjects there were increased. The army and navy modernization proceeds. In November, a riot of the Janissaries at Istanbul was the reaction to these reforms. Loyal troops overwhelmed the rebels; the units of the Janissaries are disbanded now.
There are also rumors about a Turkish campaign on the Arabian Peninsula.

At South America, the war of independency is going on. In December, royal troops seize the town of Cartagena, in May they conquer Bogota and gain control of Bolivia. June 1816, Argentina declares itself independent from the Spanish motherland.

An American war-ship cruises at the coast of Morocco. It brings an US delegation that negotiates a commercial agreement.


In 1815, there is a lot of news and it is spread by the newspapers, so that many citizens follow the political business with interest and sometimes with passion. In the beginning of 1816 the headlines of the papers change, though. Another issue attracted the attention of the readers – the weather. Weather is cold this year, with lot of snow. And the winter is long. March is filled with snow and so is April. Although it snows in May at Switzerland as well as in Austria and Bavaria, it is getting warmer and there is a disastrous flood all along the river Rhine. At June, however, people began to realize that this year, spring might not come. Temperatures drop; there is a cold wave along the Alps with loads of snow. But the cold weather is not limited to that region. Even at Northeast America there is frost at night.
People do not have much hope for the future. Even if it is getting warmer in July, most of the harvest will be spoiled and they just don’t know what to do without food. Especially the people at Austria are desperate; they suffer from snow and do not have enough wood to keep their cabins warm. Administration fails to help and only some aristocrats get engaged and help the best they can.

Facts and numbers:
Austria: Income* 10 Million; Army size: 400,000; Debt: 100 Mio + unpaid earnings of 26 Million
Prussia: Income* 8 Million; Army size: 115,000; Debt: 116 Mio
Russia: Income* 12 Million; Army size: 350,000; Debt: 194 Mio
France: Income* 2 Million; Army size: 500; Debt: 155 Mio
England: Income* 12 Million; Army size: 35,000; Debt: 119 Mio

(Income*= Income – cost of administration)


TASKS (for the period between July 1816 and June 1817)

ALL:
You all have political police and intelligence. Any special orders?

Austria:
1) Deficit:
How do you want to balance your budget?
2) France:
How do you deal with France? There is still the issue about the payment. Another issue is the garrison you have there.
3) Weather:
How do you avoid dearth?
4) Military:
Any plans for military operations?
5) The fleet:
Parts of the Italian coast belong to you know, along with some of the richest sea trading towns. How do you want to support the trade in the Med.?
6) Serbia:
Probably Serbia is going to be independent. The Serbs are looking for good relationship with Austria, but they do not want to loose their independency. The independency of Serbia could encourage others, like Hungarians or Poles and cause new wars. Maybe it is time for the five Grand Nations to prevent this.


Prussia:
1) France:
Now that you have the agreement with Louis, do you want your army to leave France? How do you want to deploy your army?
2) How do you deal with the “never-ending winter”?
3) Serbia:
Probably Serbia is going to be independent. The independency of Serbia could encourage others, like Poles and cause new wars. Maybe it is time for the five Grand Nations to prevent this.
4) Economy:
Though your budget is balanced, do you have plans to develop your economy?

Russia:
1) You offered more rights to your peasants, but they wish full freedom and independency from the aristocrats.
2) Poland: The Polish Aristocrats want to accept you as Polish King, but they want the Russian troops to leave and they insist on their traditional rights. What is your reply?
3) Serbia: Probably Serbia is going to be independent. The independency of Serbia could encourage others, like Poles and cause new wars. Maybe it is time for the five Grand Nations to prevent this.
4) Ottoman Empire: The Turks are reforming their army. Maybe now they are weaker than ever. Do you want to use this?
5) Army: How do you want to deploy your army? Do you want your army to leave France?
6) How do you deal with the “never-ending winter”?

France:
1) How do you build up your administration and army?
2) How do you deal with the “never-ending winter”?
3) Do you intervene in the “Serbian affair”? Although Serbia may not be your biggest problem, it might be the chance to demonstrate that you are an equal partner again!
4) You lost all your colonies. Many of your subjects, especially the dealers, ask for new ones!
5) Spain asks for your help against the rebels at South America!
6) There are several ten thousands of French people, most of them noble men, which had to leave the country during revolution and Imperial era. They all were loyal to the monarchy during all the time. Now they are back and have to find that their old possessions now belong to someone else. They appeal to you to get their old rights back!

England:
1) Do you support your heavy industry; do you support the unemployed veterans?
2) Do you intervene in the “Serbian affair”?
3) How do you want to deploy your navy?
4) The East India Company asks for military help? The West Indian suggests taking advantage of the weakness of the Spaniards to get a foothold in South America.
5) How do you deal with the “never-ending winter”?
6) Do you want your army to leave France?
7) An expedition of your Mediterranean Squadron along the coasts of Northeastern Africa shows that Algeria is controlled by some raptorial tribes, though it still belongs to the Ottoman Empire, and that Morocco is controlled by the natives. It looks as if France sold you something that did not belong to them. How do you deal with your new colonies?

Eh, Damn those French Peasents.... How dare they defy General Warman8....


EDIT: I think you should add 1 last Faction in game to make it a Even Number. Add The Ottoman Empire, then have another Major Faction the. Just a Thought :yes:

Emperor Franz is Pleased with the Deal that has been reached with my Empire and the French regarding this debt :yes:!


Louis, I am asking you though, to call off your peasants. I will withdraw my force afterwards. If my army is not harm, we will not harm your people. However, if they are harm, General Warman8 will have no problem opening fire on your people to get to saftey.


I also like to ask my Counter Parts what they think of the Serbian Issue?



Emperor Franz II

If there is a spot created or free, I can take it.

Caius is going to play as Ottoman! Welcome and good luck! ~:cheers:

Regarding navies;

There are ship-of-the-lines and frigates. A new sotl costs 5,000,000, a new frigate 2,000,000 talers. For the ones you have already you have to pay 100,000 per year for the sotl and 50,000 for frigates.

Current strength:
AUSTRIA 2f
PRUSSIA none
RUSSIA 15 sotl/30 fri
ENGLAND 30 sotl/60fri
FRANCE 10 fri
Ottoman unknown

Oh Boy, should be Fun now :yes: :clown:

Real Quiet here I think :yes:

When will the deadline be Fran, because I won't be back on until Wednesday.

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Real Quiet here I think

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What about Friday?

Sounds good. I found the map.

Friday is good for me :clown:

I'll get my decsions it on Friday :yes:

Emperor Franz The Backstabber.

We know your intentions, we have been informed that you are willing to sell ammunition and gunpower to let Egypt rebel from our Empire. How can you promote revolution? We did nothing against you. This is SHAMEFUL . Your claims of being good are as false as a sand sun. This will lead to actions against your nation, and beware!

How can a nation that is fighting against rebelion promotes it? They write with their hands what they erase with their elbows...

Your nation doesn't deserve to exist anymore. You are annoying the rest of the world, and therefore, you must be erased in order to keep the peace. Peace that you don't want to last longer.

The Sultan

I'll have my orders in tonight.

I get my orders in tomarrow morning :yes:

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Emperor Franz The Backstabber.

We know your intentions, we have been informed that you are willing to sell ammunition and gunpower to let Egypt rebel from our Empire. How can you promote revolution? We did nothing against you. This is SHAMEFUL . Your claims of being good are as false as a sand sun. This will lead to actions against your nation, and beware!

How can a nation that is fighting against rebelion promotes it? They write with their hands what they erase with their elbows...

Your nation doesn't deserve to exist anymore. You are annoying the rest of the world, and therefore, you must be erased in order to keep the peace. Peace that you don't want to last longer.

The Sultan

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It is funny how you requested my Nation to Attack The Russian Empire in return for Grains. Is your Nation to weak to do the job yourself, infidel?



Emperor Franz I

To all:

War gives you a couple of options:

1) You can lead your army by yourself! This has some obvious pros and cons. Winning, it boosts your reputaton, loosing - well, might even cost your life. Plus, you cannot rule in your capitol.

2) You chose a gifted general. I want to try something new - although it may fail. You can chose any member of the Guild as commander of your troops. Of course he was to be willing and ready. Time is an issue!! Then he will do all he detail planning and commanding!

3) Just play AI. I will do the rest!

Intersting Indeed! I get my decsions in the next 1-2 hours Franconius :clown: :yes:

Decsions sent, I be back Tuesday.

The Tsar must condemn both sides of the Austrian Ottomen exhange. Have we not seen enough carnage and destruction to understand the danger of revoloutions. Let us instead learn from our past mistakes and not let the world slide into the abyess of war again.

Tsar Alexander I

France is still missing!

Nooooooooooo! Come on maki! :yes::wall:

My apologies, everyone. I'll try to get a decent round of orders in within the next couple days. After that, I'm going to have to withdraw from this game. Sorry for the inconveniences caused.

That's ok Sei, hope you be ok :sweatdrop::yes:

Can I be France, then? :beam:

are there any minor spots for a small country open?

Maybe Fran could add a small nation like the Swiss or Sardina or a small German State for Tiberius :yes:

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Can I be France, then?

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Sure! Maybe you can get a briefing from your presuccessor! :coffeenews:

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What about Sardinia/Piemont?

I would also like to join, but if theres no room just put me next in line if anyone else drops out.

Put The Swiss in :clown:

If you want the Swiss in, why not the Leictensteiners, hmmm??? :no::no::no:

Can I be the Kingdom of Hannover? I know I would be in personal union with the United Kingdom, but im really only looking for a small country right now.

Chapter 3 – June 1817

It is cold – incredible cold. People in many provinces do not have enough to eat. Livestock has to be reduced, due to the lack of forage. Corn price goes up fifty percent, at least. In Northern Austria, Bavaria, Württemberg and parts of France the corn rate is five times as high as last year. And still there is not enough to buy. Some governments try to ease the burdens for their subjects, but in the end their action are little effective.
Many poor do not have any other option than to pray to God. In June 1817, these prayers are answered and the sun returns, even in the Alpine countries snow is melting. The Rhine and the Danube is swelling and the residents are beleaguered by another natural disaster.

England suffers little from the cold spell, though. There is enough to eat, but prices go up, nevertheless. Some big farmers make good profit this year; others suffer from the high rates.

The King’s government is confronted with demonstrations of unsatisfied from Ireland. They blame the crown that it treats Ireland as if it was a colony. They demand equal rights for Catholics, an independent Irish parliament with the same rights as the one in England, control over the taxes and budgets as well as Irish judges, officers in navy, army and administration, and an equal number of Irish ministers in the government.

The English economy manages to change from wartime to peacetime mode. Orders from the navy as well as new trade routes to the continent boost the heavy industry and the textile industry. Tax revenue increases as well.

The crown recruits new soldiers for oversea activities: England increases her military presence in America and India.

The English navy executes operations against the Barbary pirates and slave traders, based on the coasts of Morocco and Algeria, which attacked ships and coastal settlements in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic and captured and traded slaves from Europe and sub-Saharan Africa.

A first expedition under the command of Admiral David Milne heads for Tangier. Milne finds the entrance of the harbor blocked by three US frigates. He orders the American sailors to leave the area, but the American commander points at the American-Moroccan treaty of friendship and refuses to leave the waters. Admiral Milne does not dare to precipitate a crisis with the United States. He decides to return to England and to ask for orders for the new situation.

Admiral Lord Exmouth gathers a second squadron of five ships of the line, one 50-gun ship and four frigates at Gibraltar. HMS Queen Charlotte, 100 guns, is the flagship of this expedition force with destination Algiers. This squadron is considered by many to be an insufficient force, but Exmouth has already surveyed the defenses of Algiers unobtrusively, he is very familiar with the town and is aware of a weakness in the field of fire of the defensive batteries. More large ships would merely interfere with each other without being able to bring much more fire to bear. In addition to the main fleet, there are some transports to carry infantry and to transport the rescued slaves.

The English forces approach Algiers at noon. At the beginning neither Exmouth nor the Dey of Algiers wants to command to fire the first shot. The Dey's plan is to allow the fleet to anchor and then to sortie from the harbor and board the ships with large numbers of men in small boats. However, Algerian discipline is less effective and one Algerian gun shot fires at 3.15 pm. Exmouth immediately begins the bombardment. The Algerian flotilla makes an attempt to board but thirty three of their boats are sunk. After an hour, the cannons on the mole are effectively silenced and Exmouth turns his attention to the shipping in the harbor which is destroyed by 7.30 pm. Although the fleet also bombards the city, there is comparatively little damage as the construction of the houses means that cannon balls pass through the walls leaving a neat hole without destroying them. At 8.00 pm, Milne asks that the bomb vessel Vesuvius be used against the battery that is mauling his ship. The commander of the bomb makes an error of navigation and she explodes ineffectively beside the wrong battery.

Despite this, the Algerian batteries are no longer able to maintain fire and by 10.15 pm, Exmouth gives the order for the fleet to weigh anchor and sail out of range, leaving HMS Minden to keep firing to suppress any further resistance. By 1.30 am, the fleet is anchored out of range and the wounded are treated and the crew clears the damage caused by the Algerian guns. Casualties on the British side were 16 percent killed or wounded.
Although the Algerian fleet and batteries are destroyed, Exmouth hesitates to order the landing of the infantry, as the fleet has already fired all of its ammunition. The following day at noon, Exmouth sends a peace offer. He warns that if the terms are not accepted that he would continue the action. The Dey accepts the terms, not realizing that they are a bluff.

The treaty is signed on September 24, 1816. 1083 Christian slaves and the British Consul are freed and the ransom money repaid. Exmouth’s squadron returns to England to repair the ships and to replace casualties. One week before the return of Exmouth`s squadron the Royal African Trading Company is formed at London.

The English King sends notes to support the fight of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire. He even offers them weapons, but hasn`t found a way to send them to Serbia.

France is all on edge. Although King Louis managed to appease the financial demands of the alliance and therewith freed the country from occupation forces, he still has not gained sovereignty over his own kingdom. Oppressive financial burdens, failed harvests, the return of the emigrants and the lack of official authorities make France a tinderbox – one spark and the situation will escalate.

At November, the Austrian occupation forces under the command of General warman gather west of Lyon to decamp. The marching columns are accompanied by ten thousands of French peasants, which celebrate the withdrawal of the hated intruders as victory. The King sends deputies to mediate between the crowd and the Austrian forces. However, the mob snowballs. More and more people join, many of them waving muskets angrily. The crowd sings songs of dispraise and finally they sing the Marseillaise, the anthem of the revolution, and call for the Emperor. The royal deputies return hastily to Paris and the Austrian divisions betake themselves to flight. Warman leads his men back to Vienna; without casualties, but the divisions appear more a defeated than a victorious army.

After the flight of the Austrians, the mob proclaims a free republic. Other provinces join and together they form the new Republic of Aquitania, while the northern part of France keeps loyal to the King.

Austria is hit hard by the cold spell. Although the Kaiser manages to increase corn imports from Egypt and Russia, the food price still goes up. Together with the national deficit and hundred thousands of unemployed, former members of the Imperial Army, this makes a critical situation. Thousands of peasants starve to death this year and hundred thousands leave their home, looking for a better way of life in the New World.

At Hungary there are protests against the Kaiser. Especially the lower aristocracy suffers from the cold spell and from the taxes. They demand more rights for themselves and for Hungary.

The Austrian government does a lot to increase trade, especially with Bavaria and the Italian small countries. The new trade lines extend the Mediterranean and end at Egypt. Especially corn trade adds wealth to the Austrian cities in northern Italy.

The Austrian monarchy also tries to decrease the deficit by reducing bureaucracy and selling works of art. However, in the middle of dearth, he gets little for these pieces.

The Imperial Army is also reduced significantly due to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. To third of the soldiers return home. However, new dark clouds appear at the borders of Austria, this time in the east. The Serbian War of Independence is still raging and this also stresses the relation between the Austrian and the Ottoman Empire. The Turks accuse Austria to disturb the peace in their provinces while Vienna accuses Istanbul for preparing war against Russia. In February the situation seems to relax, as the Serbs sign a treaty with the Sultan, which guarantees them a maximum of independence from the Empire. However, during May and June information about deployment of the Ottoman army along the borders reaches the Danube. Emperor Franz orders his army to be on alert and sends Feldmarschall Fürst Schwarzenberg to prepare the defense.

Prussia is almost spared from the direct effects of the dearth, the big farms in the east even benefit from the raising rates for corn. Trade increases too, imports from England fill the market with cheap goods. This puts pressure on many local artisans, that find it hard to compete with the prices of the English goods and creates a trade deficit.
At May there are elections to the regional parliaments. Election campaigns are though and sometimes even violent. They are heated by a media campaigns lime never seen before. In the end, most deputies come from the lines of the old aristocracy. Only in the Polish provinces some Poles managed to come into the new parliament. This, however, leads to massive protests of the German population and clashes between the nationalities. About a dozen dies in this affrays and the police arrests several hundreds. With the support of the gentry, the German prisoners are freed soon afterwards.
The Polish propaganda is growing in the occupied areas. Polish newspapers spread nationalistic ideas and there are several secret societies, which try to organize the nationalists and procure guns. The Prussian King increases the stregth of His army in Poland.

Germany:

On October 18, 1817 about 450 students, members of the newly founded German Burschenschaften ("fraternities"), came together at the castle Wartburg to celebrate the German victory over Napoleon two years before and condemn conservatism and call for German unity. Speakers at the event included Heinrich Hermann Riemann, a veteran of the Lützow Free Corps, the philosophy student Ludwig Rödiger, and Hans Ferdinand Massmann. With the permission of the absent chaplain Friedrich Ludwig Jahn), the Code Napoléon and other books were burned 'in effigy': instead of the costly volumes, scraps of parchment with the titles of conservative books (including those of August von Kotzebue) were placed on the bonfire.

The Kleindeutscher Bund introduces higher tariffs for goods from England. In December, Württemberg joins the Bund.

Russia benefits from corn exports to the German countries. However, these exports increase the price in Russia, too. Csar Alexander is trying to appease the Polish nobles by withdrawing the Russian soliders from Poland. Furthermore he is negotiating about their socalled traditional rights. He wants to free the serfs, which will surely meet the resistance of the nobles.
While being liberal against the Polish serfs, Alexander does not support the Serbian wish for freedom. He condemns their rebellion and does not recognize their claim to rule their own country. Yet he increases the strength of His army along the border to the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman Empire goes on with reforms of the military and administration. The war at Arabia comes to an end, as the last rebels are defeated by Mohamed Ali Pasha.
The Porte is signing a compromise with the Serbs. Serbia remains a part of ther Empire, there will be a small Turkish garrison at Belgrad and Serbia will have to pay a symbolic tax, but that cannot hide the fact, that Serbia is independant, now. However, the Sultan is gathering a big army at the Balkans and new war is likely.

Spain goes on recruiting new regiments for the new world. There are several victories and it looks as if the royalists are getting upper hand. In Europe, the Spanish King returns to pure absolutism.


Facts and numbers:
Austria: Income* 10 Million; Army size: 130,000; Debt: 78
Prussia: Income* 8.5 Million; Army size: 115,000; Debt: 119 Mio
Russia: Income* 12 Million; Army size: 350,000; Debt: 190 Mio
France: Income* 2 Million; Army size: 500; Debt: 220 Mio
England: Income* 12 Million; Army size: 35,000; Debt: 116 Mio
Ottoman: Income* 10 Million; Army size: 200,000; Debt: 200 Mio
(Income*= Income – cost of administration)

Sorry for the length :bow:
Tasks are coming :stupido: