France faces significant economic and social problems, with widespread poverty, food shortages, and political unrest. The people of Paris, frustrated with the oppressive rule of King
@PSV, direct their anger towards the Bastille, the symbol of royal authority and despotism.
A large crowd gathers outside the Bastille and demand the release of political prisoners and the seizure of weapons stored inside the fortress. The governor of the Bastille, Marquis de Launay, refuses to surrender. Negotiations between the crowd and the governor continue for several hours, but tensions grow increasingly tense.
As the negotiations stall, the crowd become more agitated and eventually decide to forcefully enter the fortress. They began to attack the Bastille, using improvised weapons such as pickaxes and crowbars. The defenders of the Bastille, consisting of a small garrison of soldiers, initially repell the attackers and open fire on the crowd, causing casualties. The revolutionaries persist, manage to breach the outer defenses and storm the fortress.
The Bastille has fallen.
The revolution is here.
Long live Consul PSV.
Revolutionary fervour sweeps France and Consul PSV fights to extinguish the Royalist uprisings.
Meanwhile, in the Americas, there is growing discontent amongst the colonists and whispers of insurrection. I don't think we can blame nimic-Simbo for this one..
In north America, ex-maniak colony Florida has now formed the United States of America..
.. while
@nimic -
@Simbo and PSV plot to destroy Great
@Shakesy's colonial empire, by pledging to support Newfoundland independence. Newfoundland is Great Shakesy's 3rd strongest of his 5 colonies.
Back in northern Europe, shortly after his colonial defeat,
@maniak declared war on the released Novgorod and seized more land.
And finally, the clash of two empires.
You might recall
@Salt Bailly many years ago tried to try stall
@altodevil's advance into India by allying Gujarat. It was semi-successful in diverting the Ottomans around the Indian kingdom.
Well, altodevil decided to finally call Salt Bailly's bluff and declare war on Gujarat. Salt Bailly honoured their call to arms.
It would be a difficult war for the Portuguese to fight. The war goal in Gujarat was too far away to defend, allowing the Ottomans to accrue a ticking warscore. In south Africa, they were set upon by the various Ottoman allies and quickly overwhelmed and had to divert precious resources there to stop a collapse on the southern front. Eventually they managed to stabilise south Africa and the borders stabilised.
The Portuguese advance into north Africa from Morrocco was brutally repulsed multiple times.
Eventually, the Ottomans broke through in north Africa and with Gujarat sieged down, the allies sued for peace.
It was a particularly bloody attritional war for the Ottomans. While a loss for the Portuguese, I think it could have been much worse if altodevil decided to moveh is horde from India to north Africa.
In other news:
- Utrecht formed the Netherlands
- nimic-Simbo allied Westphalia
- maniak allied Crackers
- Salt Bailly is guaranteeing The Cat independence
- Great Shakesy and Salt Bailly are carving up Africa