The Zenith of Power: Gameplay Thread

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The Treaty of Southampton (1873)
A Treaty between the Holy Republic of Colombia and the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Americas

I. The signatories hereby confirm their desire for a peaceful and economically productive relationship, and hereby commit to the following:

II. Respective diplomatic embassies will be opened in London and Bogotá.

III. The British tariffs on Colombian wheat, sugar, and cotton shall be lowered by 33%.

IV. The Colombian tariffs on British steel shall be lowered by 25%.

V. The tariffs for trade of all other commodities between the two nations shall be lowered by 10%.

VI. The tariff rates in Article V of this treaty will remain in effect for six years, after which they will expire and be subject for renewal by the mutual agreement of the signatories. The tariff rates in Articles III and IV will remain in effect for two years, after which they will be raised to levels in line with the commodities in Article V. If the British Union is still engaged in war with the Kingdom of Quebec or the Kingdom of Louisiana after two years, the tariff rates in Articles III and IV will be subject for renewal by the mutual agreement of the signatories.

VII. The Samoan, Tongan, Fijian, and Ellice islands will be purchased by the Holy Republic of Colombia for £1,000,000.

VIII. The British citizens residing in the Samoan, Tongan, Fijian, and Ellice islands will be financially compensated and free to move to other locations under the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Americas.

IX. The Holy Republic of Colombia pledges to remain neutral for the duration of the North American War.

X. The United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Americas formally recognizes Colombian sovereignty over Ecuador and Peru.

XI. The Holy Republic of Colombia formally recognizes British sovereignty over Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, and the British claims in Africa.

x Archbishop-President Vicente Arbeláez Gómez

x King Henry X

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By the King,
A  P R O C L A M A T I O N
FOR REPELLING INVASION AND MOBILIZING BRITISH MEN

HENRY X.

Whereas the situation in America has greatly escalated, our kindred has been violently attacked by the Francophone aggressors surrounding it and such act has been committed without the slightest provocation of our countrymen in America or elsewhere, and in order to preserve the integrity of British sovereign soil, we therefore have thought fit to publish this royal proclamation, and do hereby order the transport of the Army of Ireland to the Americas for the reinforcement of New York and Tennesseean defenses, as well as the conscription of able-bodied men of age to the defense of ourselves, our soil and our posterity. Unemployed citizens are of great priority in this endeavor.
Whereas our enemies have expected us to simply surrender our soil to them without retaliation and abandon our fellow countrymen across the Atlantic by lifting the blockade our brave members of the Royal Navy have imposed upon them, we find it fit to not only sustain this blockade but strengthen it with naval barrages along their shores as we fight perilously against the unmasked aggression of these most treacherous nations. Their nation must and will continue to bear the wrath and might of the British people so long as it imposes war against our union.
Whereas the war in the Americas has imposed a heavy toll on our soldiers, we shall expand war rationing across the Atlantic, using food which requires the use of wheat, sugar and cotton, especially to those who are under siege in Albany. We cannot mince words when we state that our countrymen of all origins throughout our great union are under attack by a violent American coalition hellbent on imposing their own ungodly rule on our free people. We call upon the best and the brightest of society to unite around the will of our King in the defense of our fellow countrymen who, though live in the America, hold English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh and other origins within our great union.

Given at Our Court in the year of our Lord one-thousand eighteen-hundred seventy-three.
GOD save the King.

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Anglo-Scandinavian Alliance

The Kingdom of Scandinavia and the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland and the Americas, hereafter referred to as “The Signatories” agree to the following terms:

I . A mutual defensive pact to come into effect in 1875 which will bind each signatory to come to the defense of the other in the case of offensive action taken by a third state not presently involved in hostilities against either signatory. (this means Scandinavia is not bound to intervene in either the North American or Australian war)
II . Scandinavian arms manufacturers will prioritize shipments to the Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland and the Americas.
III . The signatories agree to a 25% reduction in tariffs between their two states in the interests of restoring international trade, commerce, and prosperity in the North Sea.

xCatherine II, Queen of Scandinavia

x King Henry X

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Parliament Passes the Publications Act

In the year of 1874, the British Parliament became growingly concerned with the actions of Irish news publications subverting the war effort by instigating Irishmen against the King and spreading libel against the King's proclamations. The body, therefore, sought to authorize wartime censorship measures that would prohibit publications from writing "in such a way which slanders or libels the King and the war effort", which included "by implication or otherwise, asserting that the King is malicious for the defense proclamation, that the American subjects are not of British and Irish kin, or that the war effort is not defensive." These provisions, as MPs reasoned, were precise in scope and practice towards the type of lies that have been circulating in specific papers. The law also prohibited the publication of letters from foreigners, be they nationals or civilians.
Though these restrictions were specific to the kind that have been published by newspaper editors during the course of the war, the law also broadly issued restrictions on the printing of papers which included "false reports with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the Royal Armed Forces, promotion of the success of national enemies, and obstruction towards the recruiting or enlistment service" so as to prevent loopholes and workarounds to the aforementioned restrictions.
The law also established the National Press Bureau, which would be responsible for executing all prescriptions of the act. The Bureau is enumerated with the power to issue censorship notices to publications to inform them of their violation of British law. From there, offenders could be prosecuted under various regulations of the Publications Act and brought to court if they do not comply with the notice. The Bureau is also compelled to accept any articles from editors who seek to avoid problems with the law.
The Publications Act is set to expire in five years if not renewed or repealed by Parliament.

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Armistice of Sydney

The Confederation of New Holland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland and the Americas, hereafter referred to as the "Parties", agree to the following terms:
I. A complete ceasefire and cessation of all hostilities is declared on July 1, 1874. The Parties shall not trespass either nation's current occupational borders.
II. All economic and transport connections in the region shall be unblocked, ensured by both Parties forces.
III. The Parties shall release prisoners of war, hostages and other detained persons to the other, including dead bodies.
IV. Negotiations to end the conflict shall ensue upon the Parties both signing onto this armistice.

x King Henry X

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Anglo-Hapsburg Alliance

The Holy Roman Emperor and the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the Americas, in the interests of prosperity and mutual harmony agree to the following terms:

I . A mutual defensive pact to come into effect in 1875 which will bind each signatory to come to the defense of the other in the case of offensive action taken by a third state not presently involved in hostilities against either signatory.
II . The signatories agree that the United Kingdom will commit to a 25% reduction in tariffs on agricultural products while the Hapsburg Empire will agree to a commensurate reduction on the tariffs for silk and flax. Both signatories agree to treat each other as most favored nations as trading partners.

X Charles von Hapsburg-Lothringen

x King Henry X

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STATEMENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
FROM THE BRITISH CROWN

On the French Civil War:
The United Kingdom does not seek to involve itself in the chaos occurring in France. Our interests lie currently in the colonial powers that have struck at the heart and soul of the British people with their vagrantly offensive attacks on our people and our soil. Once an end to the crisis across the Channel has emerged and a single leader of France has solidified themself, the Crown shall surely seek out a cordial and friendly relationship with whmever that person may be.

On the Bombardment of Boston:
To hell with those who have propagated and conducted the shelling of British towns and cities! The Crown shall surely not apologize for the brave members of the Royal Navy who have begun to assault the cities of our enemies, where they have manufactured their ability to wage war on our civilians. The Francophone aggressors are right to fear the capability of our navy, and we shall surely not hesitate in using it to obstruct their ability to viciously attack our people in the Americas.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

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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.

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The Treaty of Manchester (1875)
A Treaty between the Republic of Russia and the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Americas

I. The signatories hereby confirm their desire for a peaceful and economically productive relationship, and hereby commit to the following:

II. Respective diplomatic embassies will be opened in London and Moscow.

III. The British tariffs on Russian grain shall be lowered by 33%.

IV. The Russian tariffs on British silk and flax shall be lowered by 25%.

V. The tariffs for trade of all other commodities between the two nations shall be lowered by 15%. Both signatories agree to treat each other as most favored nations as trading partners.

x King Henry X

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'A SINGLE BRITON'
King HENRY X Delivers Special Address to the British Public

Excerpt

Nearly half a decade ago, our kindred was viciously attacked by a coalition of rogue, savage colonial nations hell-bent on imposing their own ideals on our free people who, though live hundreds of miles apart from us, share our customs, traditions and values. Despite our diplomacy, despite our noble attempts to prevent the great conflict that has emerged, and indeed despite our commitment to the standards of conventional warfare, we have been betrayed.

The time of the Crown has been wasted by silly propositions delivered to us asking us to make absurd concessions. They have conjured a flimsy tale to their people that we have rejected it out of spite for the French people and not for their flagrant trespasses upon the norms of armed conflict. They have told fables of a Britain unrivaled in it's bloodthirst and aggression with no such evidence to suffice such a preposterous claim. Need we remind them that they were the ones who initiated the war they are currently embroiled in? So desperate they are to convince their civilians that they have not initiated an aggressive conflict against a peaceful neighbor they have fabricated obvious lies that can only be cemented as truths through state censorship.

The prolonged war that the Francophone kingdoms have embarked on has left thousands across the continent dead. It has wrought devastation for both the Anglo man and the French man. It has defied the conventions of warfare in ways unbeknownst to the world and showed in plain view for all the leaders of each and every nation the savage ambitions of the colonial kingdoms. All in the name of some vain 'freedom' our free people already enjoy. In all my time serving here and abroad, I have never been met by such a perplexing and contradicting set of circumstances; a freedom that is achieved only by the mass murder of free people.

Indeed, it need not be stated that we were shocked by their endeavor, shocked by their blatant brutality and disdain for honest diplomacy. And so our nation has been slow to mobilize against such an unexpectedly hostile threat, so hostile that they are willing to declare utterly unnecessary wars and unleash horrors of mass destruction on free people to get their way. Their motives for such sheer aggression were once unclear, but no longer.

'A single Briton on the continent is a threat.' These famed words were delivered directly by the Francophone King of Louisiana himself. Each and every one of us: a single Briton. It is so savage it is hard to imagine such a foe, and yet we have been presented one. The horrors that we have witnessed in this war will surely pale to those after if those who see every single Briton as a threat to their survival and continued expansion have their way. We cannot allow that to pass. Indeed, a peace that cedes even a single Briton to the territory of a King that declares him a threat is no peace at all.

Britons! I call you to arms. I call you to brotherhood, to serve your kin across the Atlantic. The might of Britain shall be unleashed on our foe, or surely she shall fall. We cannot hold back now, for this war has now struck at the heart and soul of our nation. We must remember that a king who is not hesitant to declare a single Briton on the North American continent a threat is neither hesitant declare every Briton everywhere a threat for his own bloodthirsty ambitions.

Though the past years of conflict in the Americas has showed to us the brutality of the colonial nations, these words have revealed to us why it is imperative that we fight them and why we defeat them. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. But I tell you victory is possible: victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be. Today, let this be the collective endeavor of every single Briton.

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TREATY OF ALBANY (1876):
A Treaty between the Francophone party and the British Union,
under Russian mediation,
putting an immediate end to the American War

GENERAL:
• A ten-year non-aggression pact between the Francophone signatories and the British Union. Complete cessation of all hostilities upon the agreement of all parties.
• Demilitarization of the borders in North America between all signatories to deter further conflict.
• An end to trade barriers in the Mississippi River preventing British commerce and navigation.
• An end to the Atlantic blockade on the Francophone party.
• All other economic and transport connections otherwise blocked due to the war shall be removed.
• The release of all prisoners of war, hostages, and other detained persons to their respective party, including dead bodies.
• A pledge from each party to not intervene in the domestic and internal affairs of each respective party.
• Arrangement of an accord in 1876 to regulate or greatly limit the use of chemical weapons in warfare.
• The inclusion of the British Union in a special version of the North American Treaty, excluding Article 3 and the defensive alliance requirement between the Allies and the British Union.
• The British Union, Louisiana, Québec and New England subscribe to a non-discrimination provision, binding them to provide equal treatment under the law to white Anglophones and white Francophones of equal stature and behavior.

TERRITORIAL:
• The British Union shall cede:
•   New Cornwall and the upper half of the Illinois territory to Quebec.
•   The bulk of New York territory east of the Hudson to New England (excluding counties Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk and the whole city of New York) and half of the New York territory west of the Hudson.
•   Belize, Barbados, and Guadaloupe to Mexico.
•   Jamaica, Bermuda, half of occupied Tennessee, and a part of Kentucky (all territory west of Lake Barkley) to Louisiana.
• Louisiana shall cede North Carolina to the British Union.
• Apart from the cessations aforementioned, the pre-hostilities border shall be retained. Each party shall withdraw military presence from areas no longer in their occupation.

x Philip I, King of Québec

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

x King Henry X of Hanover

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King HENRY X Proclaims
'A NEW DAY FOR BRITAIN'
to the British Public after Peace in Albany

Excerpt

"232 days ago, I delivered to you, the British people, an address about the state of the war in North America. 232 days ago, I reported to you that our kin across the Atlantic had been pushed to the brink; our enemies were certain they would destroy our presence there and push Britain back across the Atlantic. It followed a gradual but consistent trend the Britons had been forced to watch unravel over the past half-century: the erasure of English culture and language from the world at the hands of our enemies.

Unequivocally, I tell you, this war was one that would determine the survival of our culture and our people. It was a war that, had we lost, would have cemented a legacy of British defeat in this century. It was a war that would mark a turning point for Britain and the continuity of our institutions and union. I could not merely stand by as our subjects in the Americas were once again forced to retreat from a larger foe; would we expect them to merely stand idly by as Britain proper faced invasion from France or Prussia? No, I tell you this war determined whether future generations of Britons would remember us only for our infirmity and incapacity to muster even the slightest resistance against our colonial foe, and so I called unto all the fury and might of the British army and people to battle against this foe, and, indeed, Britain went to battle.

Since I last addressed our people, the British army quickly overwhelmed the Louisianans on the southern front and swept like a door into our former territories of South Carolina and Georgia, capturing in months the same amount of land our enemies took years to conquer. Our counter-offensive in the North swiftly crushed Quebecois resistance and the rightfully-British city of New York laid just at the cusp of our frontlines. On the seas, our Royal Navy decisively crushed the fleets of Louisiana and Mexico and experienced only minor losses against Quebec and New England despite a unified attempt to squeeze our blockade. Our war effort had begun to take a massive toll on the continued ability of our enemies to wage war against us, as revolts and resistance movements sprung endlessly in their various territories.

Across the whole of the earth, the nations of the world heard it too: Britain roared. And a mighty roar, it was.

The victories our nation won in such a small amount of time utterly shellacked our enemies into beginning negotiations on British terms, and from there a peace was promptly struck which forced them to make significant concessions that returned almost entirely the land which is rightfully ours as well as other territories we had conceded to them in previous wars. Our territory in the Americas has been solidified, our victory indisputable, and any fears we once held over post-war atrocities against innocent Britons have been averted, as a central tenet of the Albany agreement binds the Francophone powers to provide even the Anglos in Montreal and New Orleans with equal treatment under the law just as they would a Frenchman. Let it be our greatest proclamation that a single act of persecution against a Briton in the territories of the Francophone kingdoms will be treated with as much fervor and anger as a direct declaration of war against the British Union and her people.

Gentleman, it is a new day for Britain, won only by the blood and iron of her people to a common cause. We have proven ourselves firm against a surprise attack by a strong enemy; we have won an acceptable peace far sooner than expected. As we speak, New Yorkers cheer in the streets over the liberation of their city and the transfer of their occupation to our control. As we speak, subjects across the continent become jubilated over the return of their land to our righteous rule. We now honor the lives of those who died in this honorable struggle for our nation; only them we have to thank for this great turning point in our nation's history. We make certain today that Britain shall never fall among the list of empires that once were. Even when the world stands against us, Britannia shall prevail.

The Crown would also like to provide recognition to Russia's mediation in diplomatic negotiations. Their presence was indispensable and critical in reaching the agreement in Albany. We further recognize the governments of Quebec and Louisiana for their willingness to engage in open dialogue following the capture of Atlanta and other British military victories. I hope to see Parliament and the Court work in union to incorporate the new territories and see greater economic cooperation with our subjects in America.

Britons! We must not fail to capitalize on our noble triumph. Britain's day has dawned, and we must begin to play a significantly larger role in international affairs to assert the primacy of British interests and commerce. That requires British industry to prevail above the rest. Upon the return of Britain's finest to the isles and the subsequent parading of their victory, some people must return to factories, to business, to fields, so that we may win not only in the battlefield but also in the marketplace. Others will be asked to continue their service to defend Britain and her glory against a world of enemies, because with triumph comes new enemies, new challenges, new ideals that require us to be vigilant in the defense of our sovereignty.

Even as we speak, new foes emerge. New wars will take place. New sacrifices will have to be made. But never again shall this discourage us, never again shall Britain and her people retreat, even in the face of overwhelming odds. History shall note of this victory as the one which marked the resurgence of Great Britain as a world power. "

The speech was documented and printed to the masses immediately after it was delivered. Newspapers especially highlighted the overwhelming theme of the speech: a 'new day for Britain.' It was a critical point of the speech designed to raise post-war British morale for what could still be a rather bloody decade. Newspapers, as well, highlighted the unique nature of a direct address from the British Crown, which was generally only done in times of emergency for the nation.

(Since this is my first attempt at a history game at this forum and also my first full war in one, I want to thank everyone who's helped me so far introducing me to it, esp KaiserDave and YPestis25. This was previously a very foreign concept to me and I appreciate everyone who helped me get into it.)