The First Celtic Revolt

"The Triskelion" As it's known by the people of the Revolution

Throughout the years after the Second English Civil War, Anglo-Celtic relations had been quite sour, only worsening after George I had died in 1742. George II was on a rampage against the Celtics and used the Celtic nations as a scape-goat as to why they had lost seeing as 60% of the British military had been of Celtic regional origins. This took the form of George II acting more and more strictly on the regions by implementing harsher taxes and removing freedoms.

As a result of the start of the Anglo-American War of 1748 England decided it was to tax not only its colonies at a higher rate but the lower kingdoms of Ire, Scotland, and Wales as well. George II with his hatred the Celts, believed that this was the perfect opportunity to purge himself of the Celts and he did this by comprising 90% of the British military as Celts, sending them off on suicide missions to try and defeat the Americans. Surprisingly, this succeeded, and although the Celts themselves had made some successes on the battlefield, they were not trained to fight the American army with its unique tactics and many casualties were had. Regardless of whether George II thought he would win or not, they lost the war. Giving George II the ultimate reason and scape-goat to unite the people of England; the Celtic Incompetencies.

Upon the end of the war, George II charged a fair amount of returning soldiers with treason and started getting trigger happy with his new group of 'Georgian Reformers' basically a police force dedicated to finding the most minor of infractions performed by anyone of Celtic origin and putting them to the noose. 

The Principality of Ire officially declared independence on May 17th, 1752, under the lead of James Grattan. This came as a surprise to many in the English lands, for they had not heard of even James Grattan, who pre-Revolt was a MP in Ireland. The 'Princes' of Ire (somewhat equivalent to the Founding Fathers) prepared their whole revolt in secret, coordinating with those Irish still in the military, as well as the townspeople from Ulster to Connacht, to make sure nothing was heard of this to-be insurrection. Making sure that those trying to escape with this information would be silenced, and letters abroad would be checked just in case they were to be reporting the upcoming insurrection.

On May 20th in 1752, the formalizing of the Civilian militias was complete. Ire was ready for defense. On June 2nd of the same year, George II personally disembarked with an army of 30,000 off of the coast of Wexford. Expecting the fight to be simple and swift. They were welcomed into Wexford with open arms, and it became the point from which they'd launch their campaign. They marched north to Dublin, beating back the Prince of Connacht and the Prince of Leinster in the Battle of Arklow, which devastatingly lost the Militias of both Princes around 2,000 each to being captured by the British. George II maintained around 29,000 after the battle. It seemed as though the Militias couldn't lay a hand on the British army.

George's advisors settled on going in an unconventional zig-zag formation of a route would be ideal in order to confuse any future attackers as to their destination. Not more than a week later, while the British army was camped just south of Greenan, they were bombarded by relatively light artillery. While this didn't do much damage, the attackers fleed north before George could organize his army. The army marched up north to Glendalough, where a small Irish militia headed by the Prince of Ulster, James Grattan, fired potshots then headed into the mountain range. Although his advisors warned him against it, George decided to take a detachment of the only Englishmen in the Army, about 7,000 men's worth and head through the mountain ranges to capture the leader of the resistance. There they found themselves ambushed at Glendalough Pass, where all of the Irish Princes had gathered and had been waiting for this moment. 

As George tried to flee, the Ambush at Glendalough Pass had lost him 6,174 of his men. He managed to flee, and went back to the camp he had left from, yet no one was there, and no equipment was left. He tried to flee back south, but without any sort of directional assistance, they started heading towards South-Central Ireland, following the Rossard River, down. This led him into a forest, where he and the rest of his army decided it was safe to camp.  On the 28th of June, the rest of his army, showed up, with all their equipment. To George's loss, they had shown up to present their true Celtic colors. They killed every last soldier and left George to die in the forest.

News of the official defeat of the King's Army, and the King himself started getting around. The King's regency was now called, George II's only child had been a Daughter with a Prostitute, and they were required by law of George I to crown her Queen. The age of Queen Alexandra has begun.

Recent Inactivity

Recent Inactivity

 As of writing this our blog is down to one writer, me. I will try and reboot, try and get us back up to date. I apologize for the recent inactivity, school has been demanding.

Piracy in the Alternate 18th Century

Piracy in the 18th Century

Piracy did not manage to get mostly wiped out by 1730 like it did in the modern day. This was due to the fact that many wars sparked in the early 1700s and mainly in Europe/North Africa. Since most people weren't focusing on trade, most pirates were left untouched.

By the 1750s as this started changing, where there was now another power TUPA which could help patrol the Atlantic, which was in relatively fewer wars then the European powers.

This sparked a sort of idea, a sort of state-funded piracy, or a government based on piracy, one which could protect pirates but let them do whatever they want.

In the year 1758, a Republic was formed, called the Piratical Republic of Imani, or Republique Piraterie de Imani.

This newly formed nation was based on that idea. The government, which was run by the people of the country, guaranteed protection and some funding of the pirates under two requirements. Those were, that the pirates agreed to take an oath of the military, in which they were required to obey commands by the piratical council if summoned, and they would pay a percentage of their earnings to the government.

This turned out to be very effective, the state didn't establish a specified capital to prevent the nation from being broken easily.

By the year 1783, they took over the northeastern edge of South America, including much of the Guyanas region. They signed a treaty with multiple nations (TUPA, Morocco, Ottomans, Louisiana, and some much smaller coastal nations) promising not to attack them or their ships in exchange for a tribute.

The Fall of the Edo {Short Event/Bio}

The Fall of the Edo Empire

By 1740 the Tokugawa Shogunate had managed to conquer much of Japan, and on 1746 they have proclaimed the Edo Empire. This powerful nation had managed to take over all the smaller bickering Japanese states and united the island(s) under one banner.

But by 1780, after the death of their previous emperor, infighting started over the throne of the emperor, and it caused a devastating civil war. On 1783, the Shogunate of Hokkaido, the last remaining clan not united under the Edo banner attacked the weakening Edo Empire. Although they did not make it far, they devasted much of the enemy forces and caused the Edo Empire to collapse.

Many states formed in replacement, in fact, many more than were previously incorporated, with Hokkaido splitting in two itself not long after. These events reduced Japan back to nothing more than a bunch of bickering states.

The Islamic Union of The Balkans

The Islamic Union of The Balkans was an attempt at uniting the Balkans after a rebellion which occurred in the Ottoman occupied region of the Balkans.

In 1779, Mustafa Gurund of the region of Albania started a rebellion, which was followed by many others, including the Greek rebellion under Konstantinos Bildine in 1783, the Serb rebellions under many different people from 1780-1785, and the Moldavian rebellion in 1786.

After Mustafa's rebellion was successful, he established the Republic of Albania, but then he saw the rebellion around his newly formed nation failing, so he provided military support. This gave mass support to incorporate these new nations/movements into a union. Although Mustafa gave it the name the Islamic Union, it was a majority orthodox and had very good religious tolerance.

The French Revolt: The Early Days

France was a key player in the politics of Europe and had been since the middle ages. With an overseas empire that had, at one time, consisted of large parts of Canada, America, the Caribbean as well as territory in Africa and Asia, France had substantial sway over what occurred in most continents. France had joined the TUPA Independence War on the side of the TUPA to take the sword to their old enemies, the British. France, a monarchy with a large landed aristocracy, found itself supporting a strongly Republican and radical (some would say anti-monarchist) nation. Years later, with the advent of the Great Spanish Civil War, France intervened to support their allies in the failing Spanish monarchy but took heavy losses by doing so. The Spanish monarchy was perhaps the most traditional monarchy in the whole of Europe with church and state having a strong relationship and the king wielding absolute power. France’s alliances with two completely different ideologies, combined with a series of military defeats and mounting maintenance costs from overseas colonies, left the French population heavily divided with many strongly supporting the monarchy with an almost fanatical love for their king and others in favor of overthrowing the royal family and creating a new French republic.

Such differences in views spelled disaster for France as royalists openly clashed with Republicans in the streets. The French military was sent in on multiple occasions to break up huge mob battles between groups of royalists and revolutionaries. Some counties of France had populations which almost completely supported the monarchy. Counties like Brittany and Normandy. However, the king had fallen out of favor in more urban regions with the majority of Parisians against the hereditary rule. Finding himself surrounded by enemies, King Louis XV chose to relocate his palace from Paris to Rennes in Brittany for his own safety, ordering new fortifications to be constructed.

The military too was divided with many veterans from the campaigns in Spain supporting the idea of a French republic. Newer and fresher regiments, however, remained strongly supportive of King Louis XV’s rule over France. In some cases, regiments found that their officers had views that differed to those of their men which led to several accounts of officers being shot ‘accidentally’ by their own troops.

As widespread rebellion began to take place, Republican sympathizers in the French armed forces split off, forming their own regiments flying the new French tricolor. King Louis XV found himself left with the fanatical though untested newer regiments of the French military as Republican troops and rebels marched to besiege the fortress city of Rennes…

The Independence of Southern Algiers {Event/Short Bio}

  I would like to inform you before I start that this is going to be an event and a short bio, the whole Algerian region will be covered in a later date, when there is an actual Algerian (As in covers most, or part of modern Algeria, or unifies most of Algeria) nation.

  Now let us start with geography, YAY!! Well Southern Algeria is mainly Sahara, the Sahara which you might find pictured in movies. With that new information, I should introduce the conflict, some of the nobles and high ranking families of the old government were forced to migrate following the toppling of the old government in 1529 by "Red Beard" or Hayreddin Barbarossa.

  A quick event to keep in mind in the alternate history timeline, is that in 1728 a bustling city arose from a few large villages, and they named it Southern Algiers. By this time, Southern Algiers was the only piece of independent land in the Area, the northern half being controlled by the Regency of Algeria, the Western portion of Southern Algeria being controlled by Morocco, and the southeastern half being two Kingdoms.

  In 1734 the Eyalet of Algeria held a festival commemorating the 206th anniversary of the toppling of the old kingdom. This, as expected, got the descendants, and also revolutionaries, stirred. A big massacre occurred halfway through the festival, after a group of revolutionaries and descendants to previous nobles/high ranking officials gathered in protest against the festival (protest in the terms of 18th century fits into the terms of riot nowadays), in which 700 people died.

   This enraged Southern Algiers and the newly formed city-state decided to declare war on the Eyalet of Algeria, therefore also declaring war on the Ottomans.

  Southern Algiers managed to gain quite a  bit of land, although lost ultimately. Then in 1738 the Ottomans, along with the two Kingdoms to the southeast tried to attack Southern Algiers, Southern Algiers managed to defeat them, since they had better knowledge of the land, before launching an offensive and toppling the two kingdoms within a month of the beginning of the war.

  Shortly after, Southern Algiers wrote a constitution, and proclaimed itself a Emirate, henceforth The Emirate of Southern Algiers was born.