Royaume de France
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Re: Royaume de France
by TLS Wed Mar 03, 2021 11:26 pm
La victoire en chantant
Winter-Spring, 1804
Though the French campaign in North Africa is seen widely as a success, particularly thanks to Lafayette's skillful use of his train of journalists and academics to promote an aura of oriental splendor to his victories, Philippe and his ministers spend 1803 increasingly concerned by reports coming out of the heart of darkest Germania. The concordat between the Prussians and Austrians that has effectively bifurcated the Teutonic Race into two federations that share a loathing of France is enough to put a halt to the French campaign in Africa.
Throughout 1803, the French army in Africa was withdrawn in favor of garrisons departing for the coastal enclaves of the former Barbary Coast. Lafayette is recalled to Paris for the fetes and salon-visits he has earned for his conquest, but his army is sent to Italy in late 1803 to join Napoleone Buonaparte's nucleus of an Italian army. This is viewed primarily as a precaution, as the nascent puppet Italian army is still finalizing its own organization, but proves to be a particularly prescient move.
In early 1804, the Germans make their intentions clear. While the French believed they had at least a few years in which to try and play off the rival Germans against one another, the obscenely bellicose German demands of yielding the entire land up to the Meuse and all of Italy to the Barbarian yoke is clearly designed to goad France into war. The French, of course, instantly reject the demands. While they come from Vienna, the French see that the true hand behind these insane ramblings are in Berlin, and the French army prepares for war on both fronts.
By March 1804, war is declared, but the wheels are put in motion almost as soon as the Austrian ultimatum is received. The French colossus, having extricated itself from the African theater at a good moment, is still not exactly on war footing when the declaration of war is made. Though France has a Field Army and a Grand Army mobilized on the frontiers (precisely for this sort of reason), over half of its army remains in garrison. French overseers soon put the screws to the financial houses in her puppets and extract the money necessary to bring France into position to fight her newest war.
The French people, by and large, greet the war as another opportunity for victory. It has been over a half-decade since the outbreak of peace, and France's experience in the last war against the Prussians and Austrians was a series of victories with few setbacks. France's officer corps is full of eager mid-level officers who tasted glory in the War of the First Coalition, but it ended before they could truly rise through the ranks, and thus they are thrilled at the prospect of returning to victory. While the revolutionary fervor that allowed France to rapidly balloon its army in the 1790s has mostly receded, France is far richer, more secure and experienced as it faces the twin Alemmanic threat.
The astute observers, however, note with concern that France is not quite in the perfect situation to fight a war. France has shockingly few allies; the Dutch, with whom France has a technical defense pact, are full of wily lawyers looking to avoid any and all obligations. The Spanish, who Philippe has especially tried to keep on side, are distracted by the prospect of war with England -- and the English, who bankrolled and even assisted in the war against Prussia, are likewise not interested in another European enmeshment. The Ottomans, meanwhile, would barely be able to hold their own in a defensive war against Austria without the looming threat of Russian involvement. On the international stage, therefore, France is truly limited to its assembly of "fraternal kingdoms and republics" -- a few small armies, at best, and access to cheap credit. Not nothing, but hardly an assembly of great powers.
Within France itself, the unity of the post-Revolutionary years is holding but is not impregnable. All but the most strident reactionaries have become reconciled to the new Kingdom, which has largely avoided the threatened excesses of anti-clerical action threatened by the Jacobins. Though the diehard Bourbon loyalists, almost all in exile in Vienna, have begun to flock to the Austrian banner (including the deposed King's brothers -- though he remains in the Swan River Colony, for now), there is little popular clamoring for a mass royalist uprising. The seeds of one still remain, however, and the regime's agents remain keenly attuned to that threat.
In the cities generally and Paris in particular, meanwhile, the radical leftists are, for now, motivated primarily by the same anti-Bourbon and fiercely nationalistic rhetoric that propelled them in the first wave of the Revolution. However, many of the leading lights of the movement are still deeply opposed to all forms of monarchy and the betrayal by both Philippe and Lafayette. Few are unsophisticated enough to greet the war with open opposition -- they know the streets and their constituency -- but they are clearly planning to take advantage of any potential reverses during the war that may arise. After all, they note, France is, at best, equal in numbers to the German invaders, and the prospect of Tsarist goons flooding French lines is not impossible, either.
Finally, the attitude of the Rhinelanders and Italians is difficult to judge on the eve of the war being fought for their ostensible conquest. The Italians chafed for centuries under German domination, and the amalgamation of France's puppets into a wider state has touched off something of a surge in patriotic feeling, but the fact that the Pope so clearly favors the Austrians has complicated the situation. Along the Left-Bank of the Rhine, meanwhile, the German attempts to play up nationalistic feelings will likely have more success. The concept of national identity, however, is not quite as developed as Berlin and Vienna (or Paris, for that matter) might hope, though; locals had long lamented the outsized role played by distant lords of different faiths, and the local dialects are more intelligible with those of French Lorraine than Prussian Brandenburg. For now, the French government believes it can thread the needle between viewing the Rhinelanders as a hostile population under occupation and viewing them as loyal Frenchmen -- though clearly examples of both extremes are organizing with gusto in the disputed territories.
In sum, France meets the new war with something more than a grim determination but less than a jingoistic fervor. The French are, for their part, mostly happy with the state of their nation and the fruits of their "revolution," but this is a peace and happiness bought with victory and the wealth extracted through conquest. Though Philippe and his ministers have good reason to believe France can score a decisive victory over the Germans in the coming war, it is by no means guaranteed -- and if the French begin to once again taste the bitterness of defeat, the specter of another, truer, revolution could rear its ugly head.
Winter-Spring, 1804
Though the French campaign in North Africa is seen widely as a success, particularly thanks to Lafayette's skillful use of his train of journalists and academics to promote an aura of oriental splendor to his victories, Philippe and his ministers spend 1803 increasingly concerned by reports coming out of the heart of darkest Germania. The concordat between the Prussians and Austrians that has effectively bifurcated the Teutonic Race into two federations that share a loathing of France is enough to put a halt to the French campaign in Africa.
Throughout 1803, the French army in Africa was withdrawn in favor of garrisons departing for the coastal enclaves of the former Barbary Coast. Lafayette is recalled to Paris for the fetes and salon-visits he has earned for his conquest, but his army is sent to Italy in late 1803 to join Napoleone Buonaparte's nucleus of an Italian army. This is viewed primarily as a precaution, as the nascent puppet Italian army is still finalizing its own organization, but proves to be a particularly prescient move.
In early 1804, the Germans make their intentions clear. While the French believed they had at least a few years in which to try and play off the rival Germans against one another, the obscenely bellicose German demands of yielding the entire land up to the Meuse and all of Italy to the Barbarian yoke is clearly designed to goad France into war. The French, of course, instantly reject the demands. While they come from Vienna, the French see that the true hand behind these insane ramblings are in Berlin, and the French army prepares for war on both fronts.
By March 1804, war is declared, but the wheels are put in motion almost as soon as the Austrian ultimatum is received. The French colossus, having extricated itself from the African theater at a good moment, is still not exactly on war footing when the declaration of war is made. Though France has a Field Army and a Grand Army mobilized on the frontiers (precisely for this sort of reason), over half of its army remains in garrison. French overseers soon put the screws to the financial houses in her puppets and extract the money necessary to bring France into position to fight her newest war.
The French people, by and large, greet the war as another opportunity for victory. It has been over a half-decade since the outbreak of peace, and France's experience in the last war against the Prussians and Austrians was a series of victories with few setbacks. France's officer corps is full of eager mid-level officers who tasted glory in the War of the First Coalition, but it ended before they could truly rise through the ranks, and thus they are thrilled at the prospect of returning to victory. While the revolutionary fervor that allowed France to rapidly balloon its army in the 1790s has mostly receded, France is far richer, more secure and experienced as it faces the twin Alemmanic threat.
The astute observers, however, note with concern that France is not quite in the perfect situation to fight a war. France has shockingly few allies; the Dutch, with whom France has a technical defense pact, are full of wily lawyers looking to avoid any and all obligations. The Spanish, who Philippe has especially tried to keep on side, are distracted by the prospect of war with England -- and the English, who bankrolled and even assisted in the war against Prussia, are likewise not interested in another European enmeshment. The Ottomans, meanwhile, would barely be able to hold their own in a defensive war against Austria without the looming threat of Russian involvement. On the international stage, therefore, France is truly limited to its assembly of "fraternal kingdoms and republics" -- a few small armies, at best, and access to cheap credit. Not nothing, but hardly an assembly of great powers.
Within France itself, the unity of the post-Revolutionary years is holding but is not impregnable. All but the most strident reactionaries have become reconciled to the new Kingdom, which has largely avoided the threatened excesses of anti-clerical action threatened by the Jacobins. Though the diehard Bourbon loyalists, almost all in exile in Vienna, have begun to flock to the Austrian banner (including the deposed King's brothers -- though he remains in the Swan River Colony, for now), there is little popular clamoring for a mass royalist uprising. The seeds of one still remain, however, and the regime's agents remain keenly attuned to that threat.
In the cities generally and Paris in particular, meanwhile, the radical leftists are, for now, motivated primarily by the same anti-Bourbon and fiercely nationalistic rhetoric that propelled them in the first wave of the Revolution. However, many of the leading lights of the movement are still deeply opposed to all forms of monarchy and the betrayal by both Philippe and Lafayette. Few are unsophisticated enough to greet the war with open opposition -- they know the streets and their constituency -- but they are clearly planning to take advantage of any potential reverses during the war that may arise. After all, they note, France is, at best, equal in numbers to the German invaders, and the prospect of Tsarist goons flooding French lines is not impossible, either.
Finally, the attitude of the Rhinelanders and Italians is difficult to judge on the eve of the war being fought for their ostensible conquest. The Italians chafed for centuries under German domination, and the amalgamation of France's puppets into a wider state has touched off something of a surge in patriotic feeling, but the fact that the Pope so clearly favors the Austrians has complicated the situation. Along the Left-Bank of the Rhine, meanwhile, the German attempts to play up nationalistic feelings will likely have more success. The concept of national identity, however, is not quite as developed as Berlin and Vienna (or Paris, for that matter) might hope, though; locals had long lamented the outsized role played by distant lords of different faiths, and the local dialects are more intelligible with those of French Lorraine than Prussian Brandenburg. For now, the French government believes it can thread the needle between viewing the Rhinelanders as a hostile population under occupation and viewing them as loyal Frenchmen -- though clearly examples of both extremes are organizing with gusto in the disputed territories.
In sum, France meets the new war with something more than a grim determination but less than a jingoistic fervor. The French are, for their part, mostly happy with the state of their nation and the fruits of their "revolution," but this is a peace and happiness bought with victory and the wealth extracted through conquest. Though Philippe and his ministers have good reason to believe France can score a decisive victory over the Germans in the coming war, it is by no means guaranteed -- and if the French begin to once again taste the bitterness of defeat, the specter of another, truer, revolution could rear its ugly head.
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Re: Royaume de France
by TLS Wed Mar 17, 2021 7:52 pm
France 1805
Income
Taxes: 9
Ports: 11 (Nice, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Brest, Le Havre, Toulon, La Rochelle, Calais, Ostend, Algiers, Tunis)
FC: 1 (Paris)
Production Center: 15 (Brussels, Lille, Saarbrucken)
Craft Centers: 14 (Paris, Metz, 3x Marseilles, Toulon, Bordeaux, Nantes, Nancy, Lyon, Strasbourg, Antwerp, Koln, Tunis)
Resources: 14 (Paris, Bordeaux, Reims, Marseilles, Toulouse, Nancy, Lyon, Strasbourg, Nantes, Vichy, Corsica, Aachen, Algiers)
Commercial Fleets: 15.5 (31 fleets)
Income From West Indies: 8.9
Income From East Indies: 8.9
Income from Clients: 37
Aid from the Netherlands: 6.8
Dutch Loan: 133 (20 years, 5% interest)
Total Income: 274.1
Maintenance:
-3 Naval Yards: 1.2
-3 BB1s: 1.2
-36 BB2s: 7.2
-53 FF1s: 8.5
-21 Brigs: 1.7
-10 Fortresses: 2
-16 Infantry Divisions: 12.8
-21 Infantry Brigade: 4.2
-3 Cavalry Divisions: 2.4
-7 Cavalry Brigades: 1.4
-7 Artillery Brigades: 11.2
-21 Artillery Battalions: 4.2
-7 Supply Columns: 1.5
-15 Garrison Divisions: 3
-15 Garrison Brigades: 1.2
Total: 63.7
Expenditures:
-Revolutionary Loan (100 points over 40 years at 5% interest): 5 [Principle 0, Interest 5, Principle stays at 67.9, Year 13/40]
-Ligurian Loan (80 points over 40 years at 2% interest): 1.6 [Principle 0, Interest 1.6 principle stays at 68.4, Year 11/40
-Swiss Loan, 1804 (51 points over 20 years at 2% interest): 1.05 [Principle 0, Interest 1.05, principle stays at 51, Year 1/20]
-Build 8 BB2s: 4 points [Year 5/6]
-Upgrade 20 Infantry Brigades to Divisions: 32
-Upgrade 7 Cavalry Brigades to Divisions: 16.8
-Raise Field Army (Paris): 60
-Raise Field Army (Antwerp): 60
-Upgrade 7 Infantry Divisions to Rifle Divisions: 28
-Upgrade 1 Infantry Brigade to Rifle Division: 5.6
-10 Depots (Aachen, Cologne, Saarbrucken, Strasbourg, Antwerp, Brussels, Venice, Milan, Turin, Verona): 8
Total: 210.4
Total Spent: 274.1
Total Remaining: 0
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French West Indies, 1805
Income
Taxes: 0
Ports: 2 (Martinique, Guadeloupe)
Resources: 5 (Martinique 2, Guadeloupe 2, French Guiana 1)
Commercial Fleets: 3 (6 fleets)
Total Income: 10
Maintenance:
-1 Forts: .1
-2 Fortresses: .4
-2 Infantry Brigades: .4
-2 Infantry Regiments: .2
Total: 1.1
Expenditures:
-Transfer to France: 8.9
Total: 8.9
Total Spent: 10
----------------------------------------------------------
French East India Company, 1805
Income
Taxes: 0
Ports: 2 (Pondicherry, Saint Louis [Mauritius])
Resources: 5 (Trade with Indian Clients 4, Reunion)
Trading Post: .5 (Saint-Louis [Senegal], Dakar)
Commercial Fleet: 3 (6)
Total Income: 10.5
Maintenance:
-4 Forts: .35
-1 Fortress: .2
-13 Garrison Brigades: 1.05
Total: 1.6
Expenditures:
-Transfer to France: 8.9
Total: 8.9
Total Spent: 10.5
Income
Taxes: 9
Ports: 11 (Nice, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Brest, Le Havre, Toulon, La Rochelle, Calais, Ostend, Algiers, Tunis)
FC: 1 (Paris)
Production Center: 15 (Brussels, Lille, Saarbrucken)
Craft Centers: 14 (Paris, Metz, 3x Marseilles, Toulon, Bordeaux, Nantes, Nancy, Lyon, Strasbourg, Antwerp, Koln, Tunis)
Resources: 14 (Paris, Bordeaux, Reims, Marseilles, Toulouse, Nancy, Lyon, Strasbourg, Nantes, Vichy, Corsica, Aachen, Algiers)
Commercial Fleets: 15.5 (31 fleets)
Income From West Indies: 8.9
Income From East Indies: 8.9
Income from Clients: 37
Aid from the Netherlands: 6.8
Dutch Loan: 133 (20 years, 5% interest)
Total Income: 274.1
Maintenance:
-3 Naval Yards: 1.2
-3 BB1s: 1.2
-36 BB2s: 7.2
-53 FF1s: 8.5
-21 Brigs: 1.7
-10 Fortresses: 2
-16 Infantry Divisions: 12.8
-21 Infantry Brigade: 4.2
-3 Cavalry Divisions: 2.4
-7 Cavalry Brigades: 1.4
-7 Artillery Brigades: 11.2
-21 Artillery Battalions: 4.2
-7 Supply Columns: 1.5
-15 Garrison Divisions: 3
-15 Garrison Brigades: 1.2
Total: 63.7
Expenditures:
-Revolutionary Loan (100 points over 40 years at 5% interest): 5 [Principle 0, Interest 5, Principle stays at 67.9, Year 13/40]
-Ligurian Loan (80 points over 40 years at 2% interest): 1.6 [Principle 0, Interest 1.6 principle stays at 68.4, Year 11/40
-Swiss Loan, 1804 (51 points over 20 years at 2% interest): 1.05 [Principle 0, Interest 1.05, principle stays at 51, Year 1/20]
-Build 8 BB2s: 4 points [Year 5/6]
-Upgrade 20 Infantry Brigades to Divisions: 32
-Upgrade 7 Cavalry Brigades to Divisions: 16.8
-Raise Field Army (Paris): 60
-Raise Field Army (Antwerp): 60
-Upgrade 7 Infantry Divisions to Rifle Divisions: 28
-Upgrade 1 Infantry Brigade to Rifle Division: 5.6
-10 Depots (Aachen, Cologne, Saarbrucken, Strasbourg, Antwerp, Brussels, Venice, Milan, Turin, Verona): 8
Total: 210.4
Total Spent: 274.1
Total Remaining: 0
----------------------------------------------------------
French West Indies, 1805
Income
Taxes: 0
Ports: 2 (Martinique, Guadeloupe)
Resources: 5 (Martinique 2, Guadeloupe 2, French Guiana 1)
Commercial Fleets: 3 (6 fleets)
Total Income: 10
Maintenance:
-1 Forts: .1
-2 Fortresses: .4
-2 Infantry Brigades: .4
-2 Infantry Regiments: .2
Total: 1.1
Expenditures:
-Transfer to France: 8.9
Total: 8.9
Total Spent: 10
----------------------------------------------------------
French East India Company, 1805
Income
Taxes: 0
Ports: 2 (Pondicherry, Saint Louis [Mauritius])
Resources: 5 (Trade with Indian Clients 4, Reunion)
Trading Post: .5 (Saint-Louis [Senegal], Dakar)
Commercial Fleet: 3 (6)
Total Income: 10.5
Maintenance:
-4 Forts: .35
-1 Fortress: .2
-13 Garrison Brigades: 1.05
Total: 1.6
Expenditures:
-Transfer to France: 8.9
Total: 8.9
Total Spent: 10.5
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