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==Origins== | ==Origins== | ||
==Divergence== | ==Divergence== | ||
− | Greater Austrasia is the overall name of the French Empire as of 1890 in the Earth/Arth/Urth/Uearth Shadow that houses the Ganras Gallery. The major historical divergence occurred in 1805 | + | Greater Austrasia is the overall name of the French Empire as of 1890 in the Earth/Arth/Urth/Uearth Shadow that houses the Ganras Gallery. The major historical divergence occurred in 1805 wafter the signing of the Peace Treaty of Pressburg between France and Austria Britain and Russia backed away from alliances with Sweden. From Swedish Pomerania Napoleon went north. The Dano-Norwegian Kingdom allied for and was acepted, into the French Empire. Napoleon personally executed King Gustov IV Adolf and added Sweden and Finland to his empire. |
− | Russia, in fear of the great empire | + | Russia, in fear of the great empire . Norway applied for alliance to France who instead consumed the nation and granted its king at the time. |
− | + | With a full shift to a northern strategy and the rotation of troops into colder climes French and scandi troops were able to invade Russia through Finland. | |
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− | = | + | <span style=color:darkgreen>Napoleon demolished Europe by 1805. Ignoring Russia he sent armies and embassies to take Scandinavia just to get people used to the cold. After this every soldier in his army learned to deal with cold weather and eventually were able to invade Russia, from Finland, if you can believe it, and conquer Russia in 1812. |
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− | = | + | <span style=color:darkgreen>This meant that by 1815 everything in Europe from the Orkneys and Ireland to Italy and the Low Countries, Russia to Spain and Portugal was now France. Not subject nations, they were provinces of the France Empire with new, or at least, renamed aristocracy. England, as a subject of the Empire, has never been comfortable. A new aristocracy was laid on top of the old english one in the way the Normans were dropped on top of the British. London and York are hotbeds of rebellious activities in their world and it almost seems like thats by design. Every 4 or 5 years the opposition suffers a few deaths and a lot of setbacks. |
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− | + | <span style=color:darkgreen>Africa was never very organized anyway so all it took was some missionaries, some assassinations, and a judicious use of patronage and military might to take Africa from Cairo to the Cape of Good Hope. An impressive act of barbarism paired with the acquisition of an impressive Grand Duke made short work of Africa. Napoleon met a young Shaka Zulu in 1807. Soon the young man was a colonel of the French Army, fighting in Algiers and Egypt. In 1816 when Shaka's father died he went to take control of the Zulu nation. He took along about 20,000 seasoned French/Algerian instructors and enough weaponry to destroy any stone age people that reared their ugly heads. Within 15 years the Zulu, loyal French citizens everyone, had conquered Africa and Shaka Zulu was not only a Marshal of France but a Prince of the Empire. | |
− | + | <span style=color:darkgreen>With Europe, Africa, and Russia to draw troops, China, southeast Asia, and Australia had little hope. The Edo shogunate in the early 1800s had been dealing with the intrusions into this waters by American and Russian whalers and when the French conquered Russia began discussions of alliances. Feudal Japan began trading directly with French merchant shipping and gained western military equipment and supplies. Japan had roundly trounced most of China, Southeast Asia, and had nearly exterminated the Australian aborigines by the time Russia/French/Zulu troops had conquered the Indian subcontinent. | |
− | = | + | <span style=color:darkgreen>By 1830 three distinct spheres of influence existed on this world. French, American, and Japanese. American influence in the southern hemisphere was unorganized and ineffective. |
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− | + | <span style=color:darkgreen>By 1830 dissident movements had been squashed, transportation issues dealt with and the standard of living in Europe, Africa and Asia was uniform and high. | |
− | + | <span style=color:darkgreen>From 1806 French spies had been fomenting disunion in the United States and with French support the Confederate Army rose in 1842. This death blow to the United States meant that Canada, Mexico, and the United States were divided into 8 separate regions and were completely subjugated by 1849. | |
− | = | + | <span style=color:darkgreen>South America fell piecemeal throughout the 1830s. Moving troops around and visiting all the new provinces there took Napoleon 2 years between mid 1837-1839. It was in Panama, July 4, 1839, after laying out the plans and digging the first shovel full of dirt on a future canal, that he caught malaria and died. |
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− | + | <span style=color:darkgreen>It didn't matter. He had a son ready, a grandson in uniform, and a great-grandson in diapers. | |
− | ==Imperial Ranks | + | <span style=color:darkgreen>It especially didn't matter that he died because he didn't. He merely rejoined Benedict's General Staff. The fix was in from the start. |
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+ | <span style=color:darkgreen>Polynesia is still a hold out but so little government lives there than it is not worth mentioning. Besides, they need some place to send troops for practical experience. | ||
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Entry in the Diners of Amber. | Entry in the Diners of Amber. | ||
==='''Ganras Galleries, Vies'''=== | ==='''Ganras Galleries, Vies'''=== |