Wait, I think I counted someone's post twice. Does anyone know if China posted? It should be yellow and not orange. The update is being held up on that. If you find it, just quote it for me in another post. Never mind, I found them. I remembered that they posted in Prussian by accident.
The First Consulate of France
With the fate of Europe resting on his hands, First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Republic to glory or death. Faced with warfare Napoleon begins amass a huge army of over half a million troops to add to his glorious army. Napoleon also adds several squadrons to the navy too. Not enough to rival the British, but it is a start. Napoleon moves 160,000 men into Italy. Napoleon sets forth with fixing the economy. With a raise in troops comes a raise in taxes. The old indirect taxes are put into place again to compensate for the war. The public do not seem to mind, as they are too proud of their country to care. Napoleon's popularity does not hurt either in keeping the people from rebelling. The French navy sets out to hamper any British efforts in the channel.
The United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland
The King sends the Prime Minister, Henry Adding-ton to deal with the French. The British mount an army of about 80,000 men to invade France. Most of the navy has centralized for such a momentous occasion. The British government is under much duress as those loans taken out for the French and Indian Wars are still there. They have become even worse for the British after both the revolution and the war of the first coalition. The Prime Minister holds a meeting with the brightest minds of the country that will one day be famous as the Shrews-bury meeting. In it many different tactical ideas were thought of. In the end it was decided that troops would land and take key areas around forts and lay sieges of around 15000 each. Then once the forts have fallen, they will meet up into one massive army and march on Paris. (Just as a notice, if you fail, you will not be able to do this again due to massive debt. After Austria and you fall, peace will need to be settled and the economy fixed. Peace will obviously on French terms)
Russian Empire
Many of the Russian nobles are emancipating the serfs. Instead, the nobles own land on which the people living there work for pay. They can now own their own homes. Still, mostly everyone keeps their serfs bound and subservience, and the people who "free" them keep the in economic slavery. The emperor increases the size of the navy to about forty ships, doubling it from the very weak twenty, and putting a small fleet of ten in the east.
The Austrian Empire
Austria calls its citizenry to join the army! The most evil man in Europe, Napoleon Bonaparte, is coming to slaughter everyone in Austria and take their women and children.
Propaganda like that was common in Austria as the Emperor called every able bodied citizen to arms. a half million men joined up to fight against Napoleon's army. An army of 140,000 marched into Italy to fight the first battle of the Italian campaign and hopefully end the war.
The Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire focuses on building a navy to help combat the French. They build 10 more ships to make 30. They send out merchants to trade with the Austrians and Russians. In order to help combat the stagnation of their empire, they attempt to become allies with neighboring Islamic nations. Most do not join an alliance, but they do agree not to fight for fear that doing so will allow the Christians to invade. (3)
The Kingdom of Prussia
The Prussian army awaits the coming war with pride and nationalism. In order to protect against the French threat, they start to draft the citizenry into their army. The Prussians also start investing in better uniforms, unlike their eastern counterparts with the same name minus a P, who don't even have socks for their soldiers. (they added them in 2012 irl)
The United States of America
The US President has sent a message of demands to the British, asking about several matters such as the forts in Ohio. Not all issues were pressed upon, such as the issue of impressment of american ships to the British Navy, but the Americans asked for smaller measures. Surprisingly, Britain pulled out troops from the Ohio forts ceded to the US in the treaty of Paris. This allowed US troops to occupy the forts. Ten out of every British soldier were sent home to help with the war effort. This alleviated international pressure on the American government to focus on internal matters. The president passes laws encouraging the building of ships and lumber. It does not really do much but streamline the process of getting the paperwork to chop down trees. Merchants complain about the fact that the British are taking their ships in order to help with their war effort. This makes many Americans join party of war-hawks, who seek to war with Britain. If the war-hawks gain a majority in congress, war is guaranteed. The president, Thomas Jefferson, appears to agree with these war-hawks, and starts the construction of a decently sized navy. Not even close to be able to match the power of Britain, but almost a the French's level before they expanded their navy.
The Shogunate of Japan
The shogunate requests the import of Russian Matchlock guns. The Russians do them one better and send them modern flintlock muskets for their use. The Samurai are outraged! They press the country to limit the amount of fire arms brought into the country, as it destroys any and all skill in favor of dishonorable mass volleys. So, will you be dishonorable, provoking revolution and destroying the Samurai's way of life, or will you stop the importation of western fire arms?
The Kingdom of Spain
Spain is at this time, under the thumb of Napoleon Bonaparte. The current political occupier is Charles IV. The Spanish King attempts to enact colonial reforms, giving the people in Mexico and South America more political power. The Spanish begin to raise an army to threaten Portugal with. Portugal is ripe for conquest, but will need to be warred with to take down. Spain is at war with everyone Napoleon is at war with. Spain attempts to make relations better with it's liege lord and promote trade between the two. (I did some research on the topic and found that the french took Spain in the first coalition and Spain is at war with everyone else except the US. Spain is still Bourbon though.)
The Celestial Empire of China
China's Glorious Heavenly Celestial Empire decides to send out diplomats to the neighboring countries. They have yet to have any response (Players doing diplomacy between themselves through player messaging seems to be popular.)
The Glorious Emperor decides to increase the number of merchants and send them out with trade goods to learn about the western civilizations.
Major Battles
The French army and the Austrian army meet for the first time in Italy. The French have 160,000 men in their army led by Napoleon himself. The Austrians have 140,000 men lead by Peter Karl Ott von Batorkez. The Italian states have only recently been liberated, so no men join the Austrians in the battle.
The battles of this time were not huge yet, and only 40,000 (4) of Napoleons troops took the field against Austria's 50,000 (5).
The battle was fought in the Lowlands of Lombardy (1)
The Austrians moved first on the French. (6)
Napoleon's troops were completely surprised and began to rout. (1)
The retreat was turned into a crushing victory when 40,000 reinforcements arrived and rallied the retreating troops. (5)
The Austrians held their own against the massive army, but slowly retreated back to Austrian soil. (3)
In the North the British launch their fleet in the channel. The French scramble to intercept them. The British have 60 ships and the French have 30. The French are defeated soundly. It is because the British have too good of a navy to be beaten. They take heavy losses of 6 ships. (4)
The British navy begins to invade the mainland under Arthur Wellesley with several armies of 15,000 to combine to 80,000, but the invasion slows to a crawl, as French coastal forts take longer than planned to capture. (1)
This allows the French to mass a large army of 40,000 men to mop up the small armies of the British.
They get to defeat most of the armies and the British are knocked out of the war militarily. (5)
Surprise! The French Mediterranean fleet of ten ships is being attacked by Privateers! They are forced to retreat immediately and sail into port with minimal losses. I wonder who sent them? If you guess it right on the first two tries I will tell you.
Prussia
If you post a more detailed post, I will edit it into your turn. It may not be something international, it must be an internal action. I noticed you posted while I wrote up the turn, so that is why I say this.
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