The Zenith of Power: Gameplay Thread

[BGBC]

Speech by His Majesty the King to the People of Louisiana
Delivered in Baton Rouge

Some have questioned the purpose of this war. Let me clear: this is a war of British Aggression, begun when Britain refused my ambassadors and smacked away the hand of friendship without a moment’s hesitation. We have learned, through the repeated refusal of the British Butcher in London to even arrive at the table of peace, that the British seek nothing but war and death and destruction of the free people of North America. A single Briton on the Continent is a threat to the North American people everywhere - white, Black, Francophone, Anglophone, or Spaniard. It does not matter to them. It is even more clear now that our final goal is firmly in sight: the extension of freedom from Pacific to Atlantic, and the vanquishing of the Bloody British from North America forever!

The bolded quote was printed en masse in major British publications, and distributed to the population as anti-Francophone propaganda, to be torn apart and to show to the general public the brutality of the war enemies and the need to fight onwards.

[KaiserDave]

Second Treaty of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

The United Provinces of New Holland and the Russian Republic agree to

• New Holland will provide a favorable loan to the Russian Government
• Russia will show preference to New Hollander investments in Russian natural resource deposits in east Asia

X, Alexsey Suvorin, President of the Russian Republic

[Lumine]

A PROCLAMATION

Citoyens! Citoyens!

As His Majesty made clear on his Queensbury Address, and even after our recent and stunning victories in the field, the Kingdom of Québec and the mighty North American alliance remained willing to bring an end to the war and discuss peace with London.

It was our hope that the English Monarch would be, if not committed, at the very least open to end the suffering of his armies and citizens, and not unnecessarily prolong the struggle. Terms were once offered by the Allies and they were rejected. When asked for his own, the English King made it clear HE would NOT OFFER ANY TERMS, whatsoever, nor any gesture of any basic goodwill.

It is his apparent intent to continue the war regardless of the consequences for his country, subjects and citizens, and it is his apparent determination to humiliate the entire continent and its peoples, dismissing already lenient settlements as "ridiculous". It the apparent intent of this man to send thousands of men to die and civilians to starve for the sake of his pride and ambition, to force the American peoples to suffer, to force the Irish and other peoples to fight a war that isn't theirs, and to reject any notions of diplomacy in favor of the sword.

In other words, the English King, perhaps deluded as to the state of the war, appears to want the Americans to beg for peace and mercy.

His Majesty, King Henry II, remains committed to a peaceful, realistic and diplomatic solution if one can be found. But he will not allow his nation and his peoples, his Allies, and those who were recently or still are subjects of the English Crown to be starved and humiliated for the sake of one man's pride.

Were it not for that stubborn, reckless pride, this war would be over. Every day it continues, aside from the sufferings inflicted on this continent, the nations of Europe are also denied access to American goods and resources, the very same goods and resources that could alleviate the lives of millions and ease the strain of war and famine in the European continent.

Let Almighty God be our witness: until the English Monarch sees sense, Québec will fight to win the peace.

Vive le Québec!

PROPAGANDA

Distributed across Québec and British America (in English and French)

[DKrol]

The North American Treaty (1871), as Amended by the Montreal Accord (1875)
A Treaty between the United Kingdom of Louisiana, the Kingdom of Mexico, the Kingdom of Quebec, and the Confederation of New England

1.) The signatories, which share a common heritage, history, and aspirations towards the future, reiterate their belief in mutual cooperation as the best means to secure stability and prosperity across the North American continent. Therefore, they commit to the following:

2.) Full recognition of their borders and sovereign territory.

3.) A defensive alliance pact, binding the four powers to war against any foreign aggressor, or to intervene against any powers seeking to undermine the stability of any of the signatories, upon the written request from the power under threat.

4.) A long-term commitment to building a large-scale railway across the North American continent, linking the signatories together.

4 (a): The North American Rail Commission is hereby established to oversee this project and the subsequent network. Each signatory shall appoint one member of the Commission to represent their Nation and their interests. The Commission shall develop and implement a plan to connect the four capital capital cities, and each major center of population or industry, by 1880. Each signatory shall contribute 1/4 the cost of the project, raised through whatever means each signatory shall determine proper.

5.) The establishment of a single, tariff-free, North American marketplace for goods, raw and processed, traded, sold, and exchanged at an agreed upon rate in the native currency of each signatory.

6.) The establishment of the North American College of Science to promote a greater shared understanding of scientific advances between the signatories. To this effect, each signatory shall designate a Chief Scientific Envoy to each other signatory to serve as their liaison for all scientific or technological matters.

7.) A long-term commitment to the electrification of the North American Continent. To this effect, each signatory shall develop a plan for an inter-connected network of electric generation stations and power relays across the continent.

Signed with my hand and seal this day,
x Henry-Philippe de Bourbon-Orleans, King of the United Kingdom of Louisiana

[Lumine]

The North American Treaty (1871), as Amended by the Montreal Accord (1875)
A Treaty between the United Kingdom of Louisiana, the Kingdom of Mexico, the Kingdom of Quebec, and the Confederation of New England

1.) The signatories, which share a common heritage, history, and aspirations towards the future, reiterate their belief in mutual cooperation as the best means to secure stability and prosperity across the North American continent. Therefore, they commit to the following:

2.) Full recognition of their borders and sovereign territory.

3.) A defensive alliance pact, binding the four powers to war against any foreign aggressor, or to intervene against any powers seeking to undermine the stability of any of the signatories, upon the written request from the power under threat.

4.) A long-term commitment to building a large-scale railway across the North American continent, linking the signatories together.

4 (a): The North American Rail Commission is hereby established to oversee this project and the subsequent network. Each signatory shall appoint one member of the Commission to represent their Nation and their interests. The Commission shall develop and implement a plan to connect the four capital capital cities, and each major center of population or industry, by 1880. Each signatory shall contribute 1/4 the cost of the project, raised through whatever means each signatory shall determine proper.

5.) The establishment of a single, tariff-free, North American marketplace for goods, raw and processed, traded, sold, and exchanged at an agreed upon rate in the native currency of each signatory.

6.) The establishment of the North American College of Science to promote a greater shared understanding of scientific advances between the signatories. To this effect, each signatory shall designate a Chief Scientific Envoy to each other signatory to serve as their liaison for all scientific or technological matters.

7.) A long-term commitment to the electrification of the North American Continent. To this effect, each signatory shall develop a plan for an inter-connected network of electric generation stations and power relays across the continent.

Signed with my hand and seal this day,
x Henry-Philippe de Bourbon-Orleans, King of the United Kingdom of Louisiana

x Henry II, King of Quebec

[OBD]

The North American Treaty (1871), as Amended by the Montreal Accord (1875)
A Treaty between the United Kingdom of Louisiana, the Kingdom of Mexico, the Kingdom of Quebec, and the Confederation of New England

1.) The signatories, which share a common heritage, history, and aspirations towards the future, reiterate their belief in mutual cooperation as the best means to secure stability and prosperity across the North American continent. Therefore, they commit to the following:

2.) Full recognition of their borders and sovereign territory.

3.) A defensive alliance pact, binding the four powers to war against any foreign aggressor, or to intervene against any powers seeking to undermine the stability of any of the signatories, upon the written request from the power under threat.

4.) A long-term commitment to building a large-scale railway across the North American continent, linking the signatories together.

4 (a): The North American Rail Commission is hereby established to oversee this project and the subsequent network. Each signatory shall appoint one member of the Commission to represent their Nation and their interests. The Commission shall develop and implement a plan to connect the four capital capital cities, and each major center of population or industry, by 1880. Each signatory shall contribute 1/4 the cost of the project, raised through whatever means each signatory shall determine proper.

5.) The establishment of a single, tariff-free, North American marketplace for goods, raw and processed, traded, sold, and exchanged at an agreed upon rate in the native currency of each signatory.

6.) The establishment of the North American College of Science to promote a greater shared understanding of scientific advances between the signatories. To this effect, each signatory shall designate a Chief Scientific Envoy to each other signatory to serve as their liaison for all scientific or technological matters.

7.) A long-term commitment to the electrification of the North American Continent. To this effect, each signatory shall develop a plan for an inter-connected network of electric generation stations and power relays across the continent.

Signed with my hand and seal this day,
x Henry-Philippe de Bourbon-Orleans, King of the United Kingdom of Louisiana

x Henry II, King of Quebec

x Chairman Henry Wilson, New England Confederation

[GoTfan]

The Kingdom of Naples applauds the nations of North America on their historic agreement, and extends its support for the Montreal Accord.

[YPestis25]

Shanghai Declaration

The Habsburg Monarchy, Kingdom of Scandinavia and Russian Republic, hereafter referred to as the signatories, agree to the following:

I . The signatories reaffirm the integrity and inviolability of European interests and concessions in China.
II . In the event of an attack on any one signatory’s concession in China, the other signatories agree to come to the aid of the attacked signatory.

xCatherine II, Queen of Scandinavia

[KaiserDave]

Shanghai Declaration

The Habsburg Monarchy, Kingdom of Scandinavia and Russian Republic, hereafter referred to as the signatories, agree to the following:

I . The signatories reaffirm the integrity and inviolability of European interests and concessions in China.
II . In the event of an attack on any one signatory’s concession in China, the other signatories agree to come to the aid of the attacked signatory.

xCatherine II, Queen of Scandinavia

x Alexsey Suvorin, President of the Russian Republic

[Dereich]

Shanghai Declaration

The Habsburg Monarchy, Kingdom of Scandinavia and Russian Republic, hereafter referred to as the signatories, agree to the following:

I . The signatories reaffirm the integrity and inviolability of European interests and concessions in China.
II . In the event of an attack on any one signatory’s concession in China, the other signatories agree to come to the aid of the attacked signatory.

xCatherine II, Queen of Scandinavia

x Alexsey Suvorin, President of the Russian Republic

x Charles von Hapsburg

[YPestis25]

The Statsminister Speaks

Source: Wikimedia Commons

This morning the Scandinavian ambassador in Berlin handed the Prussian government a final note stating that unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from the Netherlands, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Prussia.

You can imagine what a bitter blow it is to me that all my long struggle to win peace has failed. Yet I cannot believe that there is anything more, or anything different, that I could have done and that would have been more successful. Up to the very last it would have been quite possible to have arranged a peaceful and honorable settlement between Prussia and the Netherlands. But King Frederick would not have it. He had evidently made up his mind to continue the attack on the Dutch whatever happened, and although he now says he put forward reasonable proposals which were rejected by the Dutch, that is not a true statement. The proposals were never shown to the Dutch, nor to us, and though they were announced in the Prussian newspapers on Thursday night, King Frederick did not wait to hear comments on them, but ordered his troops to attack the Dutch lines the next morning.

His action shows convincingly that there is no chance of expecting that this man will ever give up his practice of using force to gain his will. He can only be stopped by force.

We and Austria are to-day, in fulfillment of our obligations, going to the aid of the Netherlands, who is so bravely resisting this wicked and unprovoked attack upon her people. We have a clear conscience. We have done all that any country could do to establish peace. But the situation in which no word given by Prussia’s ruler could be trusted, and no people or country could feel itself safe, had become intolerable. And now that we have resolved to finish it, I know that you will all play your part with calmness and courage.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN

[Spamage]

1875 Midturn Update

The Great War!
Prussia Dragged into European Conflict

(Source: Made by Me)

   It was no surprise, given Prussian nominal aid to the Netherlands, that Scandinavia and the Habsburg Monarchy would lash out against a resurgent Berlin. Indeed, when the secretly planned “Operation Gustav Adolphus” was launched against the Kingdom of Prussia at the beginning of the year, Berlin had likewise already been mobilizing, likely for its own surprise attack on the Scandinavian-Austrian alliance (though the government used war with the Ottomans as its primary excuse).
   Attacks commenced on all sides. Prussia remembered how its men had been encircled in the west during the First Great Eastern War and was not fooled by Dutch probing attacks ahead of news of a rapid assault down the Elbe. Leaving behind a small rearguard to be overwhelmed by the Dutch forces, most of the Prussian “volunteers” made a dash back towards Hanover with all due haste. Much of Groningen was retaken by the Dutch, the entrenched war once again turning mobile in almost an instant. Instead, the Prussian “volunteers”, soon rechristened the Army of Oldenburg, attacked the Scandinavian forces that had been aiming to engage the Army of Hanover. They proved unsuccessful in reversing the advance, only in slowing it. The Army of Hanover, meanwhile, had already fled the region to defend the largely undermanned Berlin at the start of the fight. Though they would slow the Scandinavian assault, much of the old Kingdom of Hanover was occupied by the invaders.
   The main Scandinavian assault was directed down the Elbe, aiming to cut Prussia in half and allow for both the Armies of Hanover and the Dutch volunteers to be surrounded in the east. Hamburg held out in a state of siege, the Scandinavians bypassing that city in their dash south. It was on the Elbe the horrors of the Americas entered the European conflict, Queen Charlotte’s men or the Hohenzollerns of Quebec having given Berlin knowledge of chemical weapons. At the Battle of Magdeburg mustard gas caught the Scandinavians off-guard and forced them into a temporary retreat amid heavy casualties. Still, by midyear, Scandinavia seems poised to complete its division of Prussia with a summer campaign down the Elbe seeming inevitable. Most agree that the Prussian Army of Oldenburg has at least been confined to the west, even if the Army of Hanover was moved to defend the capitol.
   Although it has not been publicly stated, it was clear from events in the south that Prussia had already been planning an assault on the Habsburg Monarchy in Silesia, having massed 43 divisions along that front. At the first news of the Scandinavian assault, the Prussian generals ordered an immediate commencement of operations, dubbing the campaign “Operation Friedrich der Groβ” in a deliberate mockery of the Scandinavians. It is obvious that supplies had already been allocated, the Habsburg defenders being overwhelmed by a Prussian push into Silesia. The Habsburgs were routed at the Battle of Glogau, which left the flat region open to Prussian assault. Silesia, that rich province, had been Prussian for roughly a century between the War of the Austrian Succession to the Great Eastern War. It was partially back in Berlin’s hands once more. While some locals praised the return of Prussian rule, many lamented that yet again they were caught up in the power politics of Berlin and Vienna. Still, with Breslau falling to the Prussian assault, the Habsburgs lost a key city to their north as the frontline in that area became vulnerable.
   Smaller engagements would occur elsewhere. As fighting commenced, the Prussian fleet in the Baltic Sea was swept into port by aggressive Scandinavian naval maneuvering. Pomerania fell to Prussian occupation, having been left largely undefended by Stockholm. Further afield, the Prussian Cape Colony immediately seized all Scandinavian and Austrian ships at port, the Prussian African fleet bringing trade to both Berlin and Stockholm to a complete halt and leaving their colonies extremely vulnerable.
   Fighting has been brutal and nasty. Both the Scandinavians and Prussians have destroyed infrastructure, the Prussians aiming to halt the march down the Elbe. In Schleswig-Holstein, the Scandinavian supply depots have been damaged by German and pro-Prussian saboteurs. The Prussian civilian population, meanwhile, shows definite signs it has been indoctrinated after 30 years under the autocratic Frederick IV, many of the young men fanatically loyal to the King and his military regime, willing to sacrifice themselves in his name. The fact that Stockholm can be painted to have conducted the attack "unprovoked", as Frederick IV stated in an emergency speech to the nation, has only emboldened the morale of the defenders. Suicide bombers have killed several low-ranking Scandinavian officers. The Dutch have found parts of Groningen either spoiled or booby trapped by the retreating Prussians.
   Saxony, which had seriously considered intervention on the side of the Austrian alliance was terrified by the rapid Prussian gains in Silesia and instead reaffirmed its neutrality in this new war. King Albert of Saxony declared that no foreign soldiers would be welcome on Saxon soil and that he would only intervene if attacked. This undercut Scandinavian hopes of completely encircling the Prussians, Saxony now a barrier preventing the linking of Habsburg and Scandinavian soldiers.
   When Scandinavian soldiers crossed into Prussia in late February, the French War of the Regency expanded into a broader Great War. White France, Prussia, and Naples stand against Blue France, the Habsburg Monarchy, Scandinavia, and the Netherlands. Some have made broader links between Britain and Scandinavia, Naples and the Francophone powers, and the Ottoman assault on Prussia/Naples to argue that all of these various conflicts are in fact linked in one massive war on a scale never before seen. Regardless, fighting erupted almost immediately and would spread throughout the globe, Berlin not taking kindly to the aggressive actions of Stockholm.

Triumph of the Catholic Cause
Liberal Government in Spain Collapses, Civil War Finally At an End

(Source: Wikimedia Commons)

   By 1875 the situation of the Liberals in Spain was increasingly dire. Save for Cartagena, most major cities in Iberia were under the control of Nouvilas and his Catholic Republican backers. Still, Francisco Serrano and his men were determined to fight on. 20 Liberal divisions (11 Spanish and 9 Austrian) stood against a combined 51 divisions (13 Spanish, 25 Brazilian, and 13 Portuguese). Despite their devotion to the cause, the Liberals were increasingly doomed by sheer numbers. As the situation worsened, so too did desertions from Serrano’s forces. A March offensive by Nouvilas saw Jaen fall by March 12th, Granada by March 20th, and Chincilla by April 1st. Serrano and the Liberals were simply unable to fill all the holes that had been poked in the front. With Murcia and Cartagena itself under threat, morale in the Liberal forces collapsed, Serrano’s army deteriorating, only the Habsburg soldiers remaining in defense of his cause.
   The Austrians had limits too though, many soldiers openly grumbling about being left to die in a foreign land. Serrano, recognizing the situation as hopeless, had the Austrians evacuate to Gibraltar. A proud Spaniard, he announced he would never leave the country for exile and would share the fate of his followers. Still, many of his ministers and loyalists would join the flight of the Austrians from Cartagena to Gibraltar, the Catholic Republicans only too happy to see these poles of opposition preemptively removed. Murcia fell on April 10th, leaving Cartagena as the sole remaining outpost of the Liberal republic that had been declared 6 years prior.
   There was not even an attempt to defend the city, the region collapsing into anarchy as Nouvilas personally oversaw the final offensive on April 21st. In the chaos much of the town was damaged. Serrano, rather than face execution, shot himself in his office, his body being found by his own men. What little fighting that took place was over within 48 hours. The remnants of Serrano’s general staff were largely rounded up over the next few days as the dust settled, as were those in his regime that had stayed until the end. After 4 wretched years of fighting, the Spanish Civil War at last seems to have concluded. Now, the Catholic Republican cause victorious, the realm must be rebuilt, order restored, and (no doubt) a new ideology imposed upon the Spanish nation.
   In victory Nouvilas has shown no desire to compromise or moderate himself. Those officials loyal to the old regime were condemned by him in his victory speech as traitors and executed shortly thereafter. Still, given his military supremacy, foreign backing, and the conflagration in the rest of Europe, the world can only watch as Spain enters a new era. In less than a decade much of the lands of the old Spanish Empire (Spain proper, Peru, Chile) have been utterly conquered by the Catholic Republican cause and for the first time since just after the First Great Eastern War a Catholic Republican state sits unchallenged in Europe proper.

[Lumine]

Statement from Montréal

His Majesty, King Henry II, formally disavows any rumor or suggestion that any European nation whatsoever may have been given technical knowledge of weaponry from the Kingdom of Québec. His Majesty, while concerned about some of the political and military developments taking place in the old world, does not have any additional comments to offer on the European situation at this stage.

[KaiserDave]

OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION OF STATE

I have compelled the foreign office to make clear to all of our European partners that the Russian intervention into the Balkans should under no circumstances be considered part of a larger European War. The Russian Republic is entirely neutral in the current European general conflict, and we will take no sides. We urge a negotiated settlement for peace in Europe.

xAlexsey Suvorin, President of the Russian Republic

[Kuumo]

(Source: u/S-I-B-E-R-I-A-N on r/vexillology)

Official Statement from the Office of the Archbishop-President

I congratulate our Spanish, Brazilian, and Portuguese comrades for their great valor and loyalty to the cause of Christian justice and equality in Spain. I have the utmost confidence that Ramón Nouvilas will prove a much more capable leader of Spain than Ferdinand VII. The Holy Republic of Colombia looks forward to establishing an embassy in the Spanish capital when the situation in neighboring France stabilizes.

-Archbishop-President Vicente Arbeláez Gómez

(Source: u/S-I-B-E-R-I-A-N on r/vexillology)

Official Proclamation from the State Department

The Holy Republic of Colombia recognizes Queen Regent Charlotte von Hohenzollern as the rightful regent of the Kingdom of France until King Louis XX comes of age. Formal diplomatic relations with France will be established upon the defeat of the pretender Prince Xavier in the War of the Regency.

-José María Rojas Garrido, Secretary of State

[Orwell]

Second Treaty of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

The United Provinces of New Holland and the Russian Republic agree to

• New Holland will provide a favorable loan to the Russian Government
• Russia will show preference to New Hollander investments in Russian natural resource deposits in east Asia

X, Alexsey Suvorin, President of the Russian Republic

xStadtholder Piter Mijer

[KaiserDave]

OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION OF STATE

The Republic calls the proud steppe peoples to arms. The Mongol, Buryat, and Manchu people have a proud warrior tradition, unparalleled in the history of Eurasia. Russia asks them to take up the sword in the Army to conquer their historical subjects, the Koreans, and achieve glory for our nation. The Republic asks the Mongol peoples within Mongolia and Inner Mongolia to sign up for the fighting forces with renewed vigor, the Buryat peoples of Mongolia and elsewhere, and the Manchus as well. The Republic reaffirms our promise for toleration and respect for traditional Buddhist and Shamanistic practices, and we promise spoils and victory for all those who join up. I promise the Manchu people that the division of their homeland will end. I, Suvorin, have ordered the commissioning of the First All-Mongol Regiment of Cavalry, to be led by Mongol and Buryat officers, responsible to Russian officers commanding the overall forces. The First All-Mongol Regiment of Cavalry will remind Joseon of the days of yore, when Mongol horsemen ran over their Kingdom and blew it away like leaves in the wind. I, Suvorin, have also ordered the commissioning of the First All-Manchu Regiment of Cavalry, commanded by Manchu officers, in concert with and responsible to the overall command of Stoletov in the area. Further regiments will be established, with 60,000 men being called to arms. Together we fraternal peoples will conquer all Manchuria!

Long live the Russian Republic! Long live Mongolia-strong and free together within Russia!

xAlexsey Suvorin, President of the Russian Republic

[windjammer]

1875 Midturn Update

The Great War!
Prussia Dragged into European Conflict

OOC this is a very beautiful map Spamage

[windjammer]

Statement from the King of Romania
The Kingdom of Romania will be forever grateful for the queen mother's help in securing the Kingdom of Romania's independence under the leadership of Bourbon Aquitaine.

Long live the queen mother Charlotte Hohenzollern, long live the King of France Louis XX and king of Padania Luigi II!

[GoTfan]

A Royal Decree of the Kingdom of Naples

The Monarchy is not separate from the people.

With decree, I declare that the Royal Family of Naples will undergo the same rationing and privations as everyone else in the Kingdom. We are all together in this.

-Charles VIII of Naples

[YPestis25]

Scandinavian-New Dutch Commercial Agreement of 1875

The Kingdom of Scandinavia and the Union of New Holland, hereafter referred to as the signatories, agree to the following:

I . The Union of New Holland will float a substantial loan with a favorable interest rate to the Kingdom of Scandinavia.
II . The Union of New Holland will be granted favored status in Scandinavian concessions and ports in China and East Africa.
III . The Kingdom of Scandinavia will provide the Union of New Holland with naval advisors.

xCatherine II, Queen of Scandinavia

[Orwell]

Scandinavian-New Dutch Commercial Agreement of 1875

The Kingdom of Scandinavia and the Union of New Holland, hereafter referred to as the signatories, agree to the following:

I . The Union of New Holland will float a substantial loan with a favorable interest rate to the Kingdom of Scandinavia.
II . The Union of New Holland will be granted favored status in Scandinavian concessions and ports in China and East Africa.
III . The Kingdom of Scandinavia will provide the Union of New Holland with naval advisors.

xCatherine II, Queen of Scandinavia

X Stadtholder Piter Mijer

[YPestis25]

Proclamations from Gothenburg

(Source: Alternate History Weekly Update)

New Government Announce

   Her Majesty Catherine II, on the advice of the leader of the Lantmannpartiet Frederick Stang, is pleased to announce the following national government between the Lantmannpartiet and the Nationalliberalt Parti. The Honorable Krisjanis Valdemars, leading the Arbetarpartiet, will lead the Honorable Opposition.

Statsminister: Frederick Stang (L)
Utrikesstatsminister: Carl Lewenhaupt (L)
Finansminister: Louis Gerhard de Geer (N)
Justitiestasminister: Hans Peter Ingerslev (L)
Krigsminister:  Alexander Jarnefelt (L)
Marinminister: Fredrik Von Otter (N)

War Measures Announced

   Owing to the state of war which now exists between the Kingdom of Scandinavia and the Frederickist State of Prussia, the Riksdag has passed and the Queen has assented to the following measures:

I . Prussian investments and property in Scandinavia are hereby nationalized and placed into government hands.

II . War bonds shall be issued by the government. These “Baltic Bonds” will be sold to Scandinavians and foreign investors as a means to fund the war effort. These bonds will be repaid after the war. Bond drives will be announced and take place in all constituent parts of the Kingdom.

III . General Mobilization is hereby ordered. Mobilization shall be extended to all constituent parts of Scandinavia.

IV . A pension fund shall be established for veterans of this conflict, and will begin dispersing payments to veterans on their 55th birthday.

Excerpts from the Queen's Speech to the Riksdag Declaring a Great Patriotic War

It is essential that our people, the Scandinavian people, should appreciate the full immensity of the danger that threatens our country and give up all complacency, casualness and the mentality of peaceful constructive work that was so natural before the war, but which is fatal to-day, when war has radically changed the whole situation. The enemy is cruel and implacable. He is out to seize our lands watered by the sweat of our brows, to seize our grain and iron secured by the labour of our hands. He is out to restore the rule of the Hohenzollerns, to restore Prussianism, to destroy the national culture and the national existence of the Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Lithuanians, Latvians, Esthonians, Finns, Icelanders and Germans to Prussianize them, to turn them into the slaves of Prussian princes and barons. Thus the issue is one of life and death for the Scandinavian State, of life and death for the peoples of the north; the issue is whether the peoples of Scandinavia shall be free or fall into slavery. The Scandinavian people must realize this and abandon all complacency; they must mobilize themselves and reorganize all their work on a new, war-time footing, where there can be no mercy to the enemy.

...

The war with Frederickist Prussia cannot be considered an ordinary war. It is not only a war between two armies, it is also a great war of the entire Scandinavian people against the Prussian-Frederikite armies. The aim of this national patriotic war in defense of our country against the Frederikist oppressors is not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our country, but also to aid all the European peoples groaning under the yoke of Prussian Frederikism. In this war of liberation we shall not be alone. In this great war we shall have true allies in the peoples of Europe, including the German people which is enslaved by the Fredrickite misrulers. Our war for the freedom of our country will merge with the struggle of the peoples of Europe for their independence, for liberties. It will be a united front of the peoples standing for freedom and against enslavement and threats of enslavement by Frederick’s armies.

...

In order to ensure the rapid mobilization of all the forces of the peoples of Scandinavia and to repulse the enemy who has treacherously attacked our country, a State Committee of Defense has been formed. The State Committee of Defense has entered on the performance of its functions and calls upon all our people to rally around the government and Crown so as to render self sacrificing support to the Army and Navy, to defeat the enemy and secure victory.

...

Forward to victory!

To be distributed in all Scandinavian newspapers and publications, and published in major town squares and thoroughfares.

[Lumine]

The Vanuatu Arrangement (1875)
An Arrangement between the Kingdom of Quebec and the United Provinces of New Holland,

1.) The Kingdom of Quebec will immediately evacuate the occupied Vanuatu archipelago, and transfer it to New Hollander control.

2.) The Kingdom of Quebec will recognize New Hollander sovereignty over the Vanuatu archipelago.

3.) The United Provinces of New Holland, in return for the territorial transfer, will immediately pay a financial settlement (US $10 million in OTL 1867) to the Kingdom of Quebec.

[Orwell]

The Vanuatu Arrangement (1875)
An Arrangement between the Kingdom of Quebec and the United Provinces of New Holland,

1.) The Kingdom of Quebec will immediately evacuate the occupied Vanuatu archipelago, and transfer it to New Hollander control.

2.) The Kingdom of Quebec will recognize New Hollander sovereignty over the Vanuatu archipelago.

3.) The United Provinces of New Holland, in return for the territorial transfer, will immediately pay a financial settlement (US $10 million in OTL 1867) to the Kingdom of Quebec.

x Stadtholder Piter Mijer