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Great Power (#1)
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Assigned
Prestige
2,339
Diplomacy Player Submission
1866

Our Melian Moment; Or, why Portugal must Fight

The recent publication of the Treaty of Copenhagen, along with the minutes of the farcical Palmero Summit, has resulted in an eruption of fear, disgust and rage in Lisbon. The President of the Ministers, in an address to Parliament, explained his position in a speech published later that day.

Western Europe
Economy Player Submission
January 1862

Anjuman-e Damdārān-e Bukhārā Established in Bukhārā

Following rapid economic reforms over the past ten years, the Emīr has begrudgingly embraced the new economy and permitted the formation of the Emīrate's first corporation: the Anjuman-e Damdārān-e Bukhārā.

Middle East, Central Asia & South Asia
Politics & Society Player Submission
January 16th, 1856

The Great Savannah Hunt

A hunting competition event held in the Cape Colony near the town of Durban to facilitate economic investment and to draw talent from around the globe to the Cape to further grow the colony.

Western EuropeCentral & Northern EuropeEastern Europe & BalkansNorth AmericaSouth AmericaSubsaharan AfricaIndochina, Indonesia & OceaniaEast Asia
Politics & Society Player Submission
January 4th, 1856

The English Yolk

A scathing review of Minister Courtenay's response to the Boer movement and the Cape's supposed support for all ethnicities as well as it's hands-tied attitude in serving Queen Victoria from newspaper magnate Wessel Bernardus Ollewagen of the Cape Times.

Subsaharan Africa
War Player Submission
1856

The Siamese King Pinklao Chakri is furious with the bankruptcy and the open acts of piracy of the sultans of Perak and Selangor.

The King Pinklao Chalkri is visibly angry with the bankruptcy and the open acts of piracy of the sultans of Perak and Selangor and has threatened war over the issue of repayments and piracy.

Indochina, Indonesia & Oceania
Politics & Society Player Submission
December 25th, 1855

Boer Nationalism and Their Place In The Savannah

Alfred Courtenay had an interview with a reporter from the Cape Town Express, expressing the Boer Cultural movement to be a small minor group of radicals. The majority Boers work and live side-by-side alongside their Afrikaan and English fellow citizens.

Subsaharan Africa
Politics & Society Player Submission
June 1855

"Utilitarios Neuvos"

A new school of thought evolves in Mexico's East Coast universities.

North America
Diplomacy
1846

The Oregon Treaty

A settlement on the permanent division of the Oregon Country between the United States and her Brittanic Majesty.

North America
Politics & Society Player Submission
1846

A Khalsa Raj divided against itself cannot stand.

This is a completely detailed reporting of the inner politics and factions of the Khalsa Raj government and opposition.

Middle East, Central Asia & South Asia
Politics & Society Player Submission
February 1845

El Universidad de Bentham opens its doors

The city of Merida, Yucatan celebrates the opening of the Universidad de Jeremy Bentham por Ley y Filosofía. The law, philosophy and liberal-arts college was founded in direct partnership with London University, and will specialize in the classics of English and Scottish Enlightenment thought.

North America
War Player Submission
May 15th, 1841

The 5th Anglo-Maratha War

This article consists of a compilation of events and battles of the British war against the Marathas.

Middle East, Central Asia & South Asia
Major War Player Submission
January 1841

The Bukaran War 1840-1842

After the execution of Kenesary Khan and his attempted uprising, the Russian Tsardom pushed to project power down south into Turkestan. What the Tsar believed to be a quick incursion into Central Asia was met with logistic issues and intervention from the Ottoman Empire and the British.

Middle East, Central Asia & South Asia
Major Diplomacy
April 19th, 1839

Belgium Foreign Minister - A Fool

Belgium's Foreign Minister, Felix Blomme, has been called a fool and a petulant baby by Metternich in private correspondence. The former has stalled and jeopardized the London Conference on the issue of Belgium's sovereignty.

Western EuropeCentral & Northern Europe
War Player Submission
1838

The Frontier Wars

From 1838 to 1843, the Cape Colony of the British Commonwealth engaged in a series of military conflicts with the native tribes and the Boer Rebellion of the Natal Coast region. First with the Anglo-Basuto War, then with the Pacification of the Boer Rebellion and lastly the Anglo-Zulu War.

Subsaharan Africa
Diplomacy Player Submission
January 21st, 1836

A King-Consort (and Economic Salvation) for Portugal

In a shocking diplomatic coup, the Passos government has announced Britain's intent to pay off the entirety of Portugal's debt and, furthermore, the King of Greece's impending wedding to Queen Maria II. Is this the start of a return of Portugal's fortunes?

Western EuropeEastern Europe & Balkans
Politics & Society Player Submission
January 8th, 1836

Palaeontologist Bone Measuring Contest

The opening of an exhibit in Riga of fossils found during the Great Polish Uprising attracts British Palaeontologists, who are promptly arrested for political reasons.

Eastern Europe & Balkans
War Player Submission
1836

The Coastal Frontier Wars - The Colonial Guard Mobilizes!

Sir Benjamin D'Urban alongside General Watkin McMurdo begin mobilizing the Colonial Guard to prepare for the pacification of the Zulu tribe near the Natal coast.

Subsaharan Africa
Politics & Society Player Submission
1836

A Conversation on Race and Equality: Who Are Your Neighbors?

Minister John Fairburn, a prominent journalist and free speech advocate in the Cape Colony, has released an article from a state-approved newspaper agency, the Cape Express, where he challenged the status quo of English Afrikaner immigrants from the homeland.

Subsaharan Africa
Diplomacy Player Submission
1836

Insight Unto the Inner Circle: The British Embargo

The Tsar hears of the News that Britain wants Prussia and Russia dead. With the news of the British embargo coming from seemingly nowhere. The Tsar decides to fight back and embargo them in turn. The Tsar had hoped that tensions had cooled, but instead they heat up

Western EuropeCentral & Northern EuropeEastern Europe & Balkans
Diplomacy Player Submission
November 29th, 1835

Speech of Karl Friedrich Tscharner

Karl Friedrich Tscharner, President of the Tagsatzung argues that the failings of the Congress of Vienna, and the tensions that arose as a result of the Treaty of Munich necessitates an active involvement of Switzerland in the creation and prolonging of peace on the continent.

Politics & Society Player Submission
1835

Missionaries expelled from the Merina Kingdom

Missionaries and foreigners alike have been expelled by the queen of the Merina Kingdom Ranavalona

Western EuropeSubsaharan Africa
Major War
July 1st, 1834

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…

Middle East, Central Asia & South Asia
Diplomacy Player Submission
1834

The Napier Affair

Lord Napier has retreated from Canton with his tail between his legs after an exchange of fire with the Qing. Though joyous for the people of the Qing, the failure to strike better deals and solve issues does not bode well for anyone.

East Asia
Diplomacy Player Submission
May 1833

Convention of Kütahya signed

After Egypt's decisive defeat of the Ottoman Empire's Army on the outskirts of Constantinople, the Ottomans sign a military alliance with Russia. Worried that this would severely disrupt the balance of power to have Russia have significant influence in the area, the British and French force a peace.

North Africa & Horn of AfricaMiddle East, Central Asia & South Asia
War Player Submission
September 23rd, 1832

Restorative Plan Fails at Last

Tragic news from Omoa, Honduras, where mayor Guzmán was captured by liberal forces and executed. The Restorative Plan thus ends in failure, though healthy seeds have been sown.

North America
Major Diplomacy
October 1831

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 …

North AmericaSouth America
Diplomacy
1829

Treaty of Shiraz

Treaty of Commerce, Amity, and Military Assistance between His Britannic Majesty and His Majesty the Shah of Persia - Concluded at Shiraz, 25 April 1829 - 21 Shawwāl 1244 A.H.

Middle East, Central Asia & South Asia
War
1828

Tribal Raids and Revolt Shake Persia

Persia is weakened by the ruler of Herat and his organisation of the tribes of the region

Middle East, Central Asia & South Asia
Major Diplomacy
February 1816

Treaty of Munich

In the name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity, these are the terms by which peace returns to Europe.

Western EuropeCentral & Northern EuropeEastern Europe & Balkans
Politics & Society
December 12th, 1815

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…

Western Europe
Diplomacy
September 14th, 1815

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.

Central & Northern Europe
War
June 18th, 1815

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…

Western EuropeCentral & Northern Europe
War
May 30th, 1815

Confidential Dispatch to London, Vienna, and Paris

To the attention of His Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by copy to the respective Allied Courts of the Seventh Coalition.

Western EuropeNorth America
War
February 2nd, 1815

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…

Western Europe
Diplomacy Player Submission
1815

British Mission to Ethiopia

British attempts to create diplomatic and trade ties to Ethiopia.

North Africa & Horn of AfricaSubsaharan Africa
War
November 8th, 1814

CONGRESS BREAKS DOWN, FRANCE MOBILIZES FOR WAR

Installed King Louis XVIII Throws in with English, Austrian Patrons

Western Europe
Major Diplomacy
November 4th, 1814

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…

Western EuropeCentral & Northern EuropeEastern Europe & Balkans
Diplomacy
October 24th, 1814

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.

Central & Northern EuropeEastern Europe & Balkans