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1814 — 1834

The Shattered Congress (1814–present)

1834
War

Peace Signed with the Marathas, but gains were meager

News has reached London that, after years of hard and costly campaigning, Britain has triumphed against the Maratha Confederacy in India. The Honorable East India Company and the Maratha chiefs have settled on land concessions in favor of Britain, but officials describe the gains as "considerably m…

1831
Diplomacy

GUYANA RECOGNIZED AS TEXAN IN TREATY OF HAVANA

The governments of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Republic of Texas, the Kingdom of France, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands have all announced recently that a treaty resolving the Texan occupation of Guyana has been signed. The Treaty of Havana recognizes Texan sovereignty …

1816
Diplomacy

Treaty of Munich

In the name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity.

1815
Politics

Protests as War Stalemates

As the year draws to a close, there is little cheer to be found among His Majesty's subjects regarding the war in Europe. Dispatches from the Rhine and Poland describe armies mired in mud and frost, dug in against each other without being able to make significant gains. What was supposed to be a sw…

Diplomacy

Denmark enters the war to reclaim what is ours

His Majesty King Frederick VI has announced the formal entry of Denmark into the Seventh Coalition, with the stated goal of preventing Sweden from continuously engorging itself at the expense of her neighbors.

Society

The Emperor in New York!

In a shocking turn of events, one of the packet ships that made port in the city yesterday carried none other than Napoleon Bonaparte, former Emperor of the French, accompanied by his brother Joseph and a small party of loyal companions.

Diplomacy

Excerpt from a Secret Diary

News has reached Italy that Bernadotte has entered the war on the side of Russia and Prussia. I do not pretend to understand whatever madness was put forward to compel his entry into the war. Perhaps some promise of land, as he seemed rather concerned about Pomerania at the Congress. Regardless of …

War

Prussian-Swedish Triumphs in the North

The joint Prussian-Swedish forces have achieved a series of encouraging victories across North and East Germany this month, driving back the British-Hanoverian forces under Wellington. These gains have completely secured Prussia's flanks and opened the prospect of advances toward the Hanoverian hea…

Politics

Traitor in the Polish Front Rooted Out!

The St. Petersburg Gazette has obtained exclusive information that His Imperial Majesty has personally uncovered a traitor at the highest levels of our war effort in Poland. Major-General Andrey Savvich Glebov, who was until recently in charge of the southern front, was found to have been cooperati…

War

Coalition Evicts Prussians from the Rhine!

The Prussian army has been delivered a series of humiliating defeats at Zweibrücken, Kaiserslautern, and Morbach by the combined might of France and Britain! Though an alliance across the Channel is certainly unusual, it is proving effective in restoring French honor and protecting the Germanics fr…

1814
Politics

The Treachery of Vienna

Only a few days ago, His Majesty King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, and the rest of the Prussian delegation, departed Vienna following the collapse of the so-called peace congress. In an emergency address before an assembly of German princes convened in Berlin, His Majesty declared that Austria had chosen …

War

CONGRESS BREAKS DOWN, FRANCE MOBILIZES FOR WAR

Paris, November 8th, 1814 · The Shattered Congress

Le Journal des Débats

Installed King Louis XVIII Throws in with English, Austrian Patrons

Calls for 300,000 Frenchmen in new Invasion of Russia

With the departure of Tsar Alexander I and the child-King Friedrich Wilhelm IV the "peace conference" of Vienna has been declared dead. The ostensible reason for this total breakdown in diplomacy is the fate of Poland and Saxony, with the Russians and Prussians moving to annex their neighbors and Austria and Britain forming a coalition to oppose them. It is a regrettable state of affairs that after only a few short months of peace, Europe is coming to war again.

Reports from Vienna detail several heated exchanges of insults at the highest level, begging the question of how much of the upcoming war is driven by personal vendetta. The preferences of the people of Poland and Saxony, meanwhile, have not been consulted.

"In long weeks of discussion the Tsar of Russia has shown no interest in peace", chief diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord has reported, "and in hindsight the conflict we now face may have been a foregone conclusion." He has advised the King to begin preparations for a new and expansive war - perhaps wars? - on behalf of France's former occupiers, the English and Hapsburg Empires.

Louis XVIII Bourbon, handpicked by the allies to restore the French monarchy, has called for a muster of 300,000 men to support the coalition of France's former enemies. It is still uncertain where the inexperienced new King pulled this number from, as this would be near the number of Frenchmen who fought alongside Napoleon at the height of the Empire. Nor is it clear where in the wider war effort these soldiers will be stationed, or what exactly France stands to gain from a long march to Warsaw and beyond.

A number of veterans of the 1812 Russian campaign agreed to speak with us. Of the 400,000 Frenchmen who served in Napoleon's fateful campaign, it's estimated that less than 20,000 still live. To a man, none we spoke with believed that their brethren would lay down their lives so for the Bourbon King.

Former Armée Capitaine Jean-Luc, who asked his full name be excluded for concerns of reprisal, held his head in his hands in visible exasperation as he was read excerpts from King Louis' address. "The King is a fool and so is anyone advising him. If this truly comes to pass, all that will be left to defend France will be old men and boys."

A new slate of war taxes is expected to be announced within days, though rumors of British financial assistance may mitigate that. Prices of food and clothing have already risen, as speculators and price-gaugers anticipate the shortages to come. As our brave men march to fates uncertain, those they leave behind do not expect much better.

Diplomacy

The Failure of the Congress

The Congress of Vienna was convened for a noble purpose: that a group of wise and intelligent men might bandage the wounds Napoleon wrought upon Europe with peace and justice. Had circumstances been otherwise, I believe that goal could have been accomplished. But sadly, the circumstances being what…

War

Shots Fired in Krakow!

The Wiener Zeitung has confirmed a limited skirmish in the city of Krakow between Austrian soldiers and the Russian occupiers.

Politics

Tsar Alexander Crowned King of Poland

The St. Petersburg Gazette is proud to report that, by unanimous consent of the Congress of Vienna, Tsar Alexander I has been lawfully crowned the King of Poland! Sources say that this outcome was the obvious solution for the betterment of both Russia and Poland as well as preserving the peace in E…

Diplomacy

Prussians, Russians Fortify Occupied Land

Concerning news from the Continent reached London today, with Prussian and Russian soldiers reportedly fortifying their positions in Saxony and Poland, respectively, despite protests by Austria and Great Britain.