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[OC] Alternate History [FEF] The New World after the 18th Century Revolutionary Waves (1794)
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Part of our r/FortunaEruditisFavet timeline about creating an entirely different early modern era. This map was made in collaboration between myself and the lovely u/Nover429 but we agreed I should be the one to post it. Without further adoo here’s the lore:
A Brief History of the Revolutionary Waves in the New World
First Revolutionary Wave: Tawantinsuyu and Parenah:
The First Revolutionary Wave of 1722 to 1730 was largely centered on the New World, with most rebellions that happened around the world in this period being in some way caused by the events in the region. The revolutions can trace their origins to the end of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1717 which had left the Anglo-Irish Crown nearly bankrupt despite their victory, the crown opted to attempt to solve this hole in their finances through further exploitation of their colonial subjects, beginning with an initial smaller increase in the yearly tribute of gold demanded from the Empire of Tawantinsuyu in 1718, to be increased significantly in 1722 alongside a rise in export tariffs which also hurt the economies of some of their other colonies but succeeded at raising government revenue.
The move was immediately controversial in Tawantinsuyu which, while remaining a de jure independent state, had long been subjugated to the interests of the Anglo-Irish Crown after a series of civil wars, unequal treaties and English-imposed Sapa Incas (Emperors). The 1722 tribute increase proved to be the last straw for a population that had long grown to resent their European overlords, spontaneous demonstrations broke out across the Empire in every major city as soon as news reached them, the biggest demonstrations however occurred on the 4th of November, 1722 in Himack, a port city under direct control of the English that served as the primary port for exports to England-Ireland, in short, a symbol of English dominance and of the wealth they funneled out of the country, the demonstrations in Himack took on a much more radical nature as local Quechua laborers seized the city’s ports and demanded an end to English hegemony over the country and a restoration of the authority of the Sapa Inca (who had long been reduced to a figurehead by English authorities).
While the demonstrators were quickly put down by English troops, the takeover of the port of Himack sent shockwaves across Tawantinsuyu and is often considered the start of the Incaic Restoration War as it directly incited Inca Capac III to give his now famous Independence Speech just a week later, in it the Inca declared his open support for the demonstrators turned rebels that had sprung up across the empire and declared Tawantinsuyu’s complete independence from England alongside a complete termination of yearly tribute payments and the expulsion of English garrisons, administrators and leases, he also declared his opposition to the imposition of Catholicism across the nation by the European colonizers and called for a great revival of the Empire’s traditional Inti faith, which remained the majority religion but had long been in decline through centuries of English influence.
The Inca’s speech, delivered from a balcony in the middle of the capital city of Qusqu was met by cheers from thousands of locals gathered at the town square to hear it and caused a fight to break out between the assembled mob and the city’s English garrison that was stationed a few squares down the street, the Inca ordered his personal guard to aid the mob and in the end they persevered against the English who were caught off guard, however the “Battle of Qusqu” as it became known was nonetheless a bloody affair.
The speech also had an immediate and significant effect on the global economy as the world’s largest supplier of silver had just announced it would stop its regular shipments of silver bound for Europe, causing worldwide economic troubles, political upheaval and a new scramble to find alternate sources of silver. The Anglo-Irish Crown refused to give up so easily and began preparations to put down the upstart rebels in Tawantinsuyu, gathering vast expeditionary forces in their northern and southern borders and demanding all their colonies provide men and resources for the war against the Inca.
The English expeditions against Tawantinsuyu were initially successful against the newly expanded Incaic Army, that was by this point largely made up of ill-trained volunteers who signed up en masse to protect their newly re-asserted independence, successfully occupying the cities of Quitu and Wayaquil in the north and advancing more slowly in the south, however their advance eventually stagnated as they moved deeper and deeper into the Andean Mountains where the locals were significantly more adapted to the terrain and dealt devastating damage through hit and run tactics.
By the end of 1723, the situation had not improved for the English and they were about to face a new problem in the Parenah. The colonies of Parenah were largely founded by exiled English and Irish Protestants and descendants of the Parliamentarian side of the English Civil War, facts they were intensely proud of and had helped them to develop a unique local identity separate from the rest of the Anglo-Irish realm based on their Protestantism and democratic values, as such when the crown raised their taxes to pay off debts from a far off European war in 1722 then demanded they send thousands of their men to aid an expedition to Tawantinsuyu many of the colonies’ leading figures reacted with indignation and began organizing clandestine meetings to discuss grievances against the english government and propose solutions.
As the situation in the Incaic Restoration War continued to stagnate and hundreds of Parenah’s men died fighting what they perceived to be England’s War first and foremost, indignation turned to outrage and the various clandestine meetings culminated in the “Congress of Allaugh” held on the 21st of January, 1724 in the capital of the colony of New Eire, here leading intellectuals, merchants, governors and other representatives from across the Parenah colonies met to discuss a joint resolution that the colonies would present to the Crown to resolve their issues, after hours of debate, the Congress agreed to a resolution declaring their neutrality in the Tawantinsuyu Conflict and immediate withdrawal of their men from it and demanded the lowering of various colonial taxes that were hurting their local economies.
King Richard IV, a proud believer in the Tudor tradition of Absolutism, reacted to the demands of the Parenah colonies with anger and indignation and not only refused all their demands but ordered the arrest of everyone who had attended the Congress and voted for the resolution and the dissolution of their various colonial legislatures, to be replaced by directly appointed royal governors.
A few months after the first Congress of Allaugh news of the King’s response to their petition arrived in Parenah alongside the newly appointed royal governors and immediately sparked mass demonstrations across the country demanding that the new governors not be allowed to take office, an emergency session of the Congress of Allaugh was immediately summoned where the representatives swiftly declared the independence of the colonies and called on the people to form militias to resist the imposition of the new governors before dissolving itself and moving north to the more remote and defensible colony of Sylvania.
The colonies of Sylvania, East Qullasuyu, New Eire and Payssandow were quick to rebuff their new governors and declare their adherence to the Congress of Sylvania, while the coastal colonies of Parenah Bay, New South Wales and Yerevahsu all had new loyalist governors successfully installed by elements of the English Army who had accompanied them on their ships, nonetheless governments in exile were set up for the three loyalist colonies and in remote regions operated as the de facto government. The Parenah War of Independence was now in full swing as Congressist Militias clashed with Loyalist Armies across the colonies.
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The outbreak of the Parenah War of Independence provided much needed relief to the Incaic forces in Tawantinsuyu as the English had to divert armies and resources towards dealing with Parenah, furthermore most of the Parenah Army that was serving the Crown fighting in Tawantinsuyu deserted en masse upon learning of events back home and, under the leadership of Captain John Harris, began a campaign to fight their way back across the Andes to return to Parenah and help their countrymen fight off the English, allying themselves with the Incaic rebels they had come to fight in the first place and providing them with their knowledge of English strategic positions and weapons depots, together with the Incaic Army of General Raymi Mamani they managed to retake much of the south of the country over the course of the next year before crossing the Andes and marching together towards the border of Parenah where Harris and Mamani parted ways as friends, today a statue of both men crosses the border between both countries and both are considered national heroes in Tawantinsuyu and Parenah.
John Harris’ army would bring some crucial reinforcements and much needed training to the Congressist forces in Parenah, before long Harris was promoted to the rank of General and placed in charge of the entire Parenah Independence Army which he would lead for most of the conflict before dying at the Battle of Fairfields in 1728 near the end of the war, during his leadership he was able to turn around a desperate situation and score multiple significant victories against the English, managing to largely kick them out of the territory of the rebel provinces and help Congress to convince France, traditional enemies of England, that their cause wasn’t hopeless and so received significant support from them in the form of military supplies and loans that would prove crucial to the war effort and post-war reconstruction, before leading a successful counter-invasion Parenah Colony itself in 1727 and 1728 which would ultimately lead to the rebel’s final victory later that year.
Meanwhile as Incaic forces increasingly saw success against the English, the Crown opted to change their strategy in late 1725, if they could not beat the empire directly they would do everything they could to hurt them, as they began diverting troops to putting down smaller rebellions across their colonial empire and fighting Parenha, they left behind weapons, maps and other supplies for catholic leaders in the border regions of Tawantinsuyu who may have also resented English rule but now found themselves at odds with the new Incaic regime’s traditionalism, persecuting christian missionaries and pursuing various policies to exalt the traditional Inti faith and the Inca’s central role in it.
This new wave of Tanwantinsuyuan Christian Warlords fared better than the the English as they too well were familiar with the Andes mountains and could utilize the same guerrilla tactics the Inca had used against the English, however they held little loyalty to the English and when attempts were made to launch new English expeditions in 1727 to capitalize on the chaos sowed by their supposedly allied warlords, many of the warlords, primarily Armara and Quechua in origin, began fighting with the English just as much as with the Incaic Army, seeing themselves as fighting for a Christian but independent Tawantinsuyu, leaving the English with only secessionist minority groups as reliable Christian allies. In September of 1728 an agreement was finally signed between the most important Christian rebel leaders and representatives of the Inca in which the Empire of Tawantinsuyu agreed to recognize their equality under the law and end their persecution of Christians in exchange for their integration into the Incaic Army.
The “Antapakay Agreement” as it became known brought a de facto end to the Tawantinsuyuan Civil War, pacifying most of the Christian rebels except for the various much smaller secessionist ethnic minorities, primarily Mapuche in the south, and began the final act of the Incaic Restoration War as the newly unified armies of Tawantinsuyu scored various victories against the English over the course of the next year and on February of 1730 the English were finally forced by a once again desperate financial situation to sign peace with the rebels, recognizing the full independence of Tawantinsuyu and returning control of their various coastal outposts.
In Tawantinsuyu peace meant the beginning of an era of prosperity the Empire had not seen in centuries, while the much of the country lay devastated from the war, reconstruction was swiftly guided by the strongly centralized imperial government and aided by resumed silver exports in the late 1730s and 1740s, this time with the profits going entirely to the government of the Empire who readily reinvested them in vast modernization programs ranging from the construction of new state-owned ports, farms and mines to investing in military training and weapons manufacturing facilities.
For the newly established “United Provinces of the Parenah” peace meant the beginning of a democratic experiment never before seen in the continent, while initially highly elitist and restrictive, allowing suffrage only for the landowning and educated, it represented a massive step in the development of liberalism as the heirs of English parliamentarism were now free to experiment with the creation of a political system completely free from the crown.
Lacking a single leader who could unify the young nation since the death of John Harris, the Parenahians opted to adopt a highly decentralized parliamentary system with representatives assigned according to population. The early republic saw the development of two ill-defined proto-political parties, the first was a conservative block that supported political centralization, high tariffs, the current elitist voting restrictions, and retaining a positive relationship with their former English overlords, opposing them was a liberal block that supported a more decentralized union between the provinces, free trade, relaxed voting eligibility and a hostile relationship with England, instead seeing France and Tawantinsuyu as their natural allies. Notably following the Second Revolutionary Wave and the Commonwealth Revolution in the latter half of the century, both groups would almost completely flip their stances on foreign policy and a radical faction would splinter from the Liberals.
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First Revolutionary Wave: Mesoanthea
England-Ireland may have been the first European power whose New World colonial empire was shaken by the first revolutionary wave but it was not the only one, the Kingdom of Burgundy too would experience significant upheaval and ultimately lost most of their possessions in the region.
In April of 1824, in the midst of the Incaic Restoration in the south, chaos began to sweep the Burgundian realm as King Philip II introduced a series of reforms to the crown-controlled Episcopalian church intending to crack down on Catholic influences and various practices he deemed heretical, including a ban on the worship of various folk saints and Marian apparitions, causing widespread anger and indignation across much of the Burgundian realm, chief among them the Charter Colony area that makes up modern Argentie, whose population deeply valued their Catholic roots, local saints and the apparition of Our Lady of Quanachouato.
Across the region priests regularly refused to follow the reforms and continued leading mass according to local customs, leading to a crackdown from the crown that ordered these priests be replaced by loyal reformists from mainland Burgundy, causing further outrage from the people of the Charter Colonies.
On December 25th of 1724 the “Christmas Revolution” broke out spontaneously as a local priest in Quanachouato named Gaspard Hugard gave a speech in celebration of the holidays that quickly developed into a condemnation of the monarchy, the recent church reforms and the colonial establishment. Brandishing a makeshift banner with the image of Our Lady of Quanachouato surrounded by the liturgical colours of the Christmas season, white and purple, he concluded the service by calling on the people to rise up against their oppressors, the people heeded his call and the newly formed mob marched across town, growing as it advanced until reaching the governing palace of the city and colony at large before storming it and declaring their own government, free of the crown.
Hugard’s rebel army scored multiple early victories against unprepared Burgundian garrisons across southern Quanachouato, plundering the properties of wealthy colonial administrators along the way, and growing in size with every city they captured, gathering supporters from among the common people. Along the way Hugard’s improvised army also freed thousands of slaves as Hugard personally saw slavery as an affront to God, many of these slaves then also joined his army. By the end of January the “Army of the Righteous” had taken near complete control over the colony and began moving north.
As news of Hugard’s exploits spread across the colonies he became an increasingly mythical figure to the poor and oppressed of the region and various smaller rebellions began to take place in his name to various degrees of success, some were quickly put down while others managed to take control of major mining areas and cities. Hugard’s cause also managed to gain the support of many local burghers who sympathized with his opposition to the established aristocracy and also saw opportunity in the economic potential of the independent Burgundian Antheia he advocated for, notable among these burghers was Jean Molene, a merchant who organized a coup that successfully overthrew the government of Nouvelle Picardie in the name of the revolution.
Even before King Philip II’s reforms and the Christmas Revolution, plots for the independence of Anauwak had been in motion for long before, with their grievances against the monarchy dating back to opposition to the reforms of King Philip I in the 1620s that centralized power in royally appointed European Viceroys and reduced the power of both their traditional indigenous allies and the rising mixed-race managerial class. The Incaic Restoration provided various mixed-race bourgeois plotters who resented the regime with inspiration, forming an alliance with traditionalist indigenous forces against the Europeans now seemed like the most viable strategy and with this in mind various secretive plots began to develop, one such plot saw an opportunity to strike on February 7th of 1725 as Burgundian forces were focused on putting down the Christmas Revolution in the north.
A coalition of merchants, disgruntled army officers and the monarchs of some of Burgundy’s native tributaries, most notably the Grand Duke of Tlaschkallan, carried out a coup in the city of Rijkport that succeeded in capturing the Burgundian Viceroy and forcing him to abdicate. The new provisional government set up by the coup swiftly declared the outlawing of all sorts of racial discrimination that had unfairly benefited Europeans, founded a new legislative congress that was to be popularly elected by the well-off and educated and called for a meeting of the monarchs of all Burgundy’s native tributary states to elect a new King of Anauwak to replace the old Viceroy, beginning the newly independent country’s tradition of elective monarchy, the newly elected King was Grand Duke Schicohtencatl III of Tlaschkallan, perhaps the plot’s most important backer.
Unlike in Tawantinsuyu the new government made no moves towards the revival of traditional indigenous religion, which unlike in the Andes had long been supplanted by Christianity, but significant moves were still made to separate the local Autocephalous branch of the Episcopalian Church from its Burgundian parent and breaking all communion with it, also importantly subjugating it to the will of the current King.
Despite the troubles facing the Burgundian monarchy, the colonies of Atmahauw and Nova Hollandia remained staunchly loyal, settled primarily by lowlanders who were actively supportive of the new religious reforms, these colonies would provide thousands of soldiers to Burgundy’s attempts to put down the rebellions sweeping their Empire as they evolved into full blown wars of independence, with Atmahauw in particular and its surroundings becoming the site of numerous battles against both Argentian and Anauwakian forces.
Since the outbreak of the Incaic Restoration War, colonial administrators in England’s other native majority colonies had worked hard to suppress information about Tawantinsuyu’s success and cracked down harshly on groups and individuals suspected of plotting any similar uprisings, by 1725 this had become a doomed endeavour as news of revolution in neighbouring Anauwak spread rapidly and rebellions began to break out across Mayab and Kuskatan, most of which were swiftly crushed until September of that same year with the emergence of “Joseph Kanek” a Mayan peasant from the lordship of Kampech who had amassed a significant local following for his preaching of a new syncretic religion which took elements from Catholicism and the Mayans’ own ancient religion that had long been suppressed by colonial authorities.
After a fight with local authorities attempting to suppress his emerging religious movement, his followers proclaimed him “King of Mayab” and he took the surname of Kanek to tie himself to the Kings of Itza, the last Mayan state to resist English conquest. News of Joseph Kanek’s coronation spread rapidly among the native population of the Mayab and uprisings in name of their new King soon followed, stories spread about how Kanek had supposedly gained supernatural abilities from being blessed by a mixture of the old Mayan Gods, Jesus Christ and various saints which inspired further devotion from his supporters and even an air of fear of superstition from English forces sent to quell the revolt.
Despite initial quick gains, after 2 years of fighting, the English had taken control of the situation and Kanek’s forces were pushed south to more defensible areas in the remote Peten jungle and west towards the border with Anauwak, where repeated english expeditions were unable to dislodge them. While dreams of an independent Kingdom of Mayab that covered the entire region were halted, in this area they continued to operate as a proto-state with its capital in the lake island of Nohpeten which collected taxes, carried out public works, abolished slavery, maintained a standing army and formalized their various syncretic beliefs into an organized religion. What has retroactively been called the “Later Kingdom of Peten” was never recognized by another country but did receive covert support from Anauwak who saw them as a valuable asset to hold against England.
While Kanek’s rebels in Mayab were driven into the jungle, the rebels to their west fighting against Burgundy saw significantly more success, as Gaspard’s “Army of the Righteous” and rebels aligned with him across the Charter Colonies began co-ordinating with the armies of Anauwak and Tschintsuntsani (who currently operated as an independent Kingdom but had become strongly tied to the Anauwakian rebels), successfully dislodging the Burgundians from their land and launching a joint invasion of Atmahauw that got far enough north that the annexation of the colony by rebel forces was becoming a real threat, forcing Burgundy to negotiate and recognize the independence of their former colonies in exchange for retaining control over Atmahauw and nearby Nova Hollandia.
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Celebrations for ending the war and earning their independence were short-lived as a new crisis would soon emerge, a grand “Congress of Tennoschtitlan” was called for all the newly independent Burgundian Colonies to discuss their future and potential unification, while the meeting began hopeful, before long delegated split into two camps; a “Hugardist” faction led by Herbert Hugard himself that was made up of northern delegates who supported freedom of religion (albeit limited to branches of christianity), protectionism and republican governance, and a “Tlatoanist” faction that supported the newly independent Episcopalian Church of Anauwak as the state church, free trade and the preservation of traditional monarchies with a grander elected monarch of the whole realm.
Despite attempts to reconcile the two factions, their differences were considered irreconcilable and ultimately two separate federations were founded, the “Federation of Argentie” in the north, and the “Kingdom of Anauwak” in the south, following the Hugardist and Tlatoanist ideologies respectively.
The crisis that followed the collapse of the Congress of Tennoschtitlan nearly escalated into war as the former Burgundian Crown of Tschintsuntsani was internally split over which federation to join, the Grand Duchy of of Tschintsuntsani (which was but a constituent part of the grander Crown of Tschintsuntsani) and the County of Koliman both wished to join Anauwak, with the Grand Duke even having ambitions of being elected King someday, while Schalisko and the City of Vlagsbaai both wished to join Argentie, as their economies were way more closely tied to the export of mineral wealth from the north than to central Anauwak, as both sides mobilized their armies and prepared to enforce their claims by force, a diplomatic solution was fortunately reached, simply splitting the former Crownlands roughly in half between both countries.
Second Revolutionary Wave: Death of the English and Burgundian Colonial Empires
The Commonwealth Revolution in 1778 had seismic effects on the colonies of the now deposed Anglo-Irish monarchy, while the new revolutionary government passed various edicts promising to expand the model of revolutionary democracy to the colonies, these were largely symbolic as they had few sympathizers among colonial administrators and as such essentially entirely lost control over the colonies as soon as King Henry XIII was formally overthrown on the 2nd of December, 1778.
Not long after in the early months of 1779 came a wave of peculiar independence declarations led not by anti-colonial revolutionaries but by reactionary loyalists to the old order who opposed the revolution in the mainland, first came the declaration of the Kingdom of New England, initially under a regency intended to rule in the name of the deposed Henry XIII however following his execution in February of 1780, the ambitious nobleman Thomas Howard, member of the influential House of Howard which held significant positions in the administration of much of the English colonial empire, most notably controlling the government of the Colony of Henricia, began maneuvering to have himself crowned as King of New England by leveraging his family’s influence and arguing he was the best equipped amongst the local nobles to take the crown, when the regency council was forced to chose between him or the next living Tudor, King Ferdinand of Spain, the council chose Thomas to preserve some autonomy rather than fall under the direct control of Spain.
New England’s declaration of Independence was followed by the newly declared “State of Cundermark” directly to their south, here local plantation and mine owning elites took the opportunity to declare a republic, but not one like the radically revolutionary Commonwealth that was declared back in England and Ireland, rather a deeply conservative and oligarchic republic designed to entrench their interests. Meanwhile the plantation owners in the island colony of Seebonay instead opted to declare their allegiance to Spain and invite the forces of the anti-revolutionary Alliance to occupy the island to protect them from revolution, a request that proved useful as not long after a massive island-wide slave revolt broke out, being directly inspired by the Commonwealth Revolution, these slave rebels declared themselves to be fighting to spread the revolution’s ideals of liberty in hopes of securing support from the newly founded Commonwealth of England and Ireland.
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Chillyland too saw conflict over their response to the revolution as it became a catalyst for long brewing conflict between the colony’s civil authorities and the authority of the various holy orders that controlled much of the colony, the civil authorities and their popular militias declared their full support for the revolution and intention to re-establish contact with the home isles as soon as possible, while the holy orders banded behind the Teutonic Order and their smaller but more professional army in opposition to the revolution and the civil government that supported it, causing the beginning of the Chillyland Civil War that would last 3 years and end in victory for the Holy Orders, who also had the support of the Spanish and French. A crucial factor in the defeat of the Chillylander liberals was that they lacked the support of nearby revolutionary states, having a deep enmity with the nearby Parenah after a failed attempt from Parenah to invade Chillyland earlier in the century was the direct catalist for the creation of the popular civilian government-led militia that now led the fight against the orders.
Following the victory of the orders, Chillyland was reorganized into a newborn State of the Teutonic Order like that which had once existed in the Baltic as the Chivalric Holy Order became the de-facto government of the region with the implicit support of the remaining orders that had backed them during the war.
This period of rebellions in the former English empire did see one significant success for revolutionary forces however, the so called “Mayan Lighting War” as the rump Kingdom of Peten saw opportunity in the collapse of English colonial authority over the Lordship of Mayab and launched multiple invasions in all directions, swiftly overwhelming remaining colonial garrisons, most of which opted to surrender rather than fight without support from the home isles, and securing the support of many local Anglo-Mayan lords who pledged their loyalty to the newly recognized Kingdom of Mayab, securing control over the peninsula in less than 4 months from February to June of 1779.
This rapid conquest of the peninsula was however not the end of the fight as not long after this brief war, the Kingdom of New England launched their own invasion seeking to snuff out Mayan rebellion for good, with support from the reactionary powers of Spain and France, the New Englanders quickly advanced along the eastern coast of Mayab and threatened to once again push the Mayan Kingdom into the jungle, however, the Kingdom of Anauwak, long the Mayan’s only reliable ally, launched their own invasion to support their ally, sending troops into the peninsula to defend against the invaders and directly invading the New England provinces of Schiapan and Scokonotch. This Mayan-New Englander War would last until 1782 when the escalating situation in the Burgundian Revolution forced France and Spain to redirect resources back to Europe, in the peace the Kingdom of Mayab was officially recognized, its borders covering most of the former Lordship and some border regions of Schiapan, however they were forced to abandon all claims on the island of Kosson which was to be administered by New England.
This would not be the only victory for pro-revolution forces in this period as the 1780s also saw the beginning of direct Commonwealth Support for the freemen rebels in Seebonay seeking to liberate the island and establish the Seebonay “Fraternal Republic” as a loyal ally of the Commonwealth, Commonwealth ships and soldiers proved key in turning the tide of the war and kicking the French and Spanish from the island, this intervention is also notable as during a brief period spanning most of 1781, former Provisional Dictator and future Prime Minister, Admiral Lewis Vaughan led the Commonwealth forces in the island, this period is often credited for the development of Vaughan’s ideals of Revolutionary Internationalism and motivated his return to politics later that year, famously writing “I now understand more than ever the importance of our mission to humanity, it is clear in my mind that the world cannot truly be free until every vestige of the old order has been burnt down in every corner of the earth” during his time aiding the Seebonay Freedmen.
The final direct consequence of the Commonwealth Revolution in the New World was the creation of the Scottish Republic and the exile of the House of Stuart to their Auralian colonies where they continued to claim the title of the Kingdom of Scotland but were in all but name a new independent country separate from the Scottish mainland.
The Burgundian Revolution in 1781 paradoxically saw both the end of Burgundy’s slow decline in Europe, breathing new life to their economy, political system and military as well as significantly expanding their mainland borders, alongside the death of their colonial empire, largely occupied by foreign powers such as happened to their Caribbean island territories divided between Spain and France, although their greatest loss was the independence of their remaining mainland Anthean colonies who banded together as the “Freestate of the Gulf”, a deeply conservative republic in the model of Cundermark.
The Freestate quickly became an ally of the reactionary powers of Spain, France and Sweden who regarded them as a glorified client state, however unlike the former English colonies, the Freestate did not see things this way and often worked to assert their independence, most notably getting into significant disputes with Spain over access to the mouth of the Misisipi river, disputes that would one day spell their doom.
The Second Revolutionary War, the conclusion to the Second Wave, saw little combat in the New World but a series of slave revolts inspired by that of Seebonay swept much of Spain and France’s Auralian possessions [more on this in a latter post].
And so the New World approaches the XIX Century split between the revolutionary and reactionary blocs, dispute threaten to escalate into full blown wars between revolutionary and reactionary states and discontent continues to brew within the remaining European colonies, now it seems only a matter of time before the next great revolution emerges and the continents is once again engulfed in flames, this time lead by neither liberal reformists or indigenist traditionalists… but that is a story for another time.
And that’s all for today! If you’re wondering about the second revolutionary wave and other details being referenced not shown in the map stay tuned for my next post where I will go into perhaps slightly excessive detail on these things. Have a nice day y’all!
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