A Destiny Made Manifest - Part 19: The Second Commune

Published: 2017-02-23, edited: 1970-01-01

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As the Red Vanguard establishes control over... well, basically just Maryland, they officially overthrow the Second Republic and declare the People's Republic of America is reborn. Establishing control over the rest of the continent is the hard part.
Aww, son of a BITCH

Seriously New Minutemen can you go away?!?
The Election of 1896 in the Confederacy yields a surprising result. The Brothers of the Revolution - a radical socialist party - have claimed victory, with Russell Farnsworth assuming the presidency in Richmond. Due to our similar policies, Kasprzak petitions the Confederate president to hand over Benjamin Harrison and the Second Republic's government in exile.
Ohhh boy. The debts owed by the American government proves to be too much, and Kasprzak and the Committee declares total bankruptcy. China, Britain, Switzerland, and Belgium, the holders of most of this debt, are *not very happy* with the Chairman.
WORK LIKE NEVER BEFORE, RATS
Once again, Victoria 2, I think the more important issue is that ALL SUFFRAGE is no longer happening.
The State of the Commune, May 10th 1897. The troops that were invading Deseret are still fighting in Utah. My justification for why those armies are loyal to me is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0
>nowhere is the exchange of ideas freer than in The People's Republic of America

This event is hilarious.
The Committee passes a law to change the penal system policy of the Commune. While the extent of the territory under control is small, the Commune will now rehabilitate all criminals.

Other than bourgie scum, they die
FULLY

AUTOMATED

no it's a welfare state, lower your memes
Just months into the establishment of the Second Commune, the Free States issues an official declaration of war. President Pattison, in a speech to the people of Philadelphia, declares that the FSA will reconquer Maryland and the District of Columbia.

Kasprzak, knowing that the capital was indefensible, flees through the CSA with his government and relocates to Denver.
We have no boats, but once we do get boats? Ohhh man we're gonna be good at those.
Immediately, an army is sent to secure Delaware.
The FSA, drafting a huge army, marches south and quickly takes many towns in Maryland, including the city of Baltimore. Sadly, the people begin to treat these soldiers as liberators.
In a humiliating show of weakness, the Republic of Colombia seizes the Panama Canal for itself. While Kasprzak denounces the move as illegal and unjust, there's not much he can do to stop the nation.
Given the almost unopposed advance of the Free States, the Democrat-led government in Philadelphia declares its intention to annex New Jersey as well.
While we are seemingly powerless to raise an army, the Free States, just a few years old, musters a force of almost 200,000.
Colombia sends us peace terms. While Kasprzak declares publicly in speeches that the war with Colombia will not end until the Panama Canal is back in American hands, he privately ensures a truce with the nation.
I took me awhile to figure out what colonies the game thought I had, but then I realized I have the Guano Islands. Which are minuscule. There's not enough going on there, game!
As it become clear that the Commune will have to retreat to the West and rebuild, railroad technology is studied by the scientists of the nation in order to better connect the Pacific coast to the middle states.
In Indianapolis, Cyrus Porter finds an army loyal to the old Second Republic, commanded by Adam Fry. While the troops offer surrender, claiming to be unaffiliated with the Communists, General Cyrus Porter does not take the chance.
The last remnants of the Second Republic are burned away in Indianapolis.
On November 30th, 1897, the Second Commune petitions for a peace. In exchange for the cessation of war, the Free States will claim New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, and D.C. The Commune loses its Atlantic ports.

In a grand ceremony, President Pattison declares that the Free States are the Union officially reborn. In his now famous Third Republic Address, he outlines his vision for a restored 48 states under the FSA's banner.
The nation who controls Washington, of course, is the true successor to the Union. As the Second Commune fades into irrelevancy in the West, the Third Republic rises in the East.
Robert Pattison, an ambitious man, is prepared and willing to bleed his people dry in order to accomplish his goals.
Thanks for clicking! Join me next time as I assume control of the Free States and begin the long and bloody march to reunifying the Union!

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