Nevertheless the King flees to Brazil to avoid capture.ġ810: French diplomatic maneuvering results in Russia switching sides and she begins an attack on Sweden with French acquiescence. Fighting overseas lasts almost two decades.ġ809: Portugal receives British help and is able to resist the French armies at the Lines of Torres Vedras. The Spanish colonies use the opportunity to declare independence. The word 'guerilla' is coined to describe this brutal asymmetric warfare. The Spanish King quickly flees to Britain and the fight is taken up by the Spanish populace. Liberal reformers in Parliament ban the transportation of slaves on British ships.ġ808: Emperor Napoléon invades Spain to place his elder brother Joseph-Napoléon on the throne. The ancient Holy Roman Empire is dissolved.ġ807: Emperor Napoléon conquers Prussia and Poland, creating the Duchy of Warsaw under Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, later elevated to King of Poland in 1813. Emperor Napoléon invades and places his brother Louis on the throne as King of Holland.ġ806: Emperor Napoléon conquers much of Germany and creates the Kingdom of Westphalia as a constitutional monarchy under his youngest brother, Jérôme-Napoléon. In response, the Austrian Empire is declared by Francis II of the Holy Roman Empire, creating a formal state out of the disparate Habsburg realms held in union.ġ805: Monarchists in the Netherlands, with British aid, overthrow the Batavian Republic. France recognises the Kingdom of Louisiana.ġ802: Britain declares war on France for intervening in Swiss politics.ġ804: Napoléon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of the French. Britain and Louisiana recognise the French Republic. Napoléon Bonaparte wins much of the credit.ġ801: Europe comes to the negotiating table in the brief Peace of Amiens. The crown passes peacefully to Alexander I Hamilton.ġ800: French armies inflict decisive defeats upon the British, Austrian and Prussian armies. A brief constitutional crisis grips America as King George I Washington dies without issue. A French military coup removes the Directory and replaces it with a three man Consulate, with Napoléon Bonaparte amongst their number. Napoléon Bonaparte leads a French invasion of Egypt, establishing a foothold.ġ799: Napoléon Bonaparte returns to France. The Fenian Brotherhood, with aid from French and American Jacobins, manages to throw off British rule and create an Irish Republic. Monarchist rebels in Brittany are quickly suppressed and a brutal campaign against the Breton minority is waged.ġ797: French general Napoléon Bonaparte conquers Austrian Italy.ġ798: Outbreak of the Irish Revolution. A five man Directory assumes executive power.ġ796: The War in the Vendée. The sans-culottes are dispersed by the National Guard. Widely considered to be the end of the American Revolution.ġ794: The Thermidorian Reaction brings an end to the French Terror. The Constitutional Convention agrees on the creation of a constitutional monarchy under King George I Washington to preserve stability amongst the several states. Europe will be gripped by war for the next 30 years.ġ793: Defeated in battle by general George Washington, the American Jacobins lay down arms and the leaders are executed. Austrian and Prussian armies begin invading France, but are repulsed by nationalistic fervour.
Start of the Revolutionary Terror under Jacobin leader Robespierre.
Their sacrifice allows the King to flee to Louisiana. The other monarchies of Europe are horrified at this threat to their legitimacy and begin amassing troops.ġ790: Belgians attempt to throw off Austrian rule but are quickly suppressed.ġ791: The sans-culottes slaughter the French Swiss Guard to the last man at the Tuileries palace. The French King, Louis XVI, widely hated as an out-of-touch tyrant, accepts demands from the moderate liberals and cedes some power to the legislative body, the National Assembly, creating a constitutional monarchy on British lines. The Shaysites initially dominate the American countryside but are steadily rooted out.ġ789: Outbreak of the French Revolution. Merchants and landowners are angered at the implementation of more effective taxes to replace the widely ignored tariffs.ġ781: American independence recognised by Britain.ġ786: A trivial demand from veterans and soldiers over unpaid wages escalates into political demands when Jacobin agitators arrive from France. Labrador and Rupert's Land to France, Michigan and Ohio to Britain.ġ775: Outbreak of the American Revolution.
France and Britain come to an agreement on colonial borders in North America. Red - Jacobin, nationalist and socialist rebellionsġ764: The Seven Years War ends with no clear winner. Purple - monarchist rebellions and installations
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