The Dutch had never accepted the loss of Belgium in 1830, and sought a powerful ally to restore their southern provinces.the Kingdom of Prussia. News from the north proved quite interesting. After expanding education and bureaucratic needs, the state has been pouring money into encouraging more young men to a military career. Our military expanded to 10 regiments, and in the years 1836-1842 has since ballooned all the way to 17, with His Majesty's goal of an even 20 regiments rapidly approaching. Well, as the whole world knows, we spent the majority of this period in significant debt that is only now mostly paid off.the cost of the upscaling of the military His Majesty ordered. In a brutal 18 month war, the United States stepped in vs Mexico and secured the independence of the Republic of Texas, which promptly joined the Union.īut enough of those stories, you wish to hear of events in Europe, and events in Bavaria.

The Ottomans finished off Tripoli and reclaimed Adana from Muhammad Ali Pasha's Egypt, spelling the end of Muhammad Ali's dream of taking Constantinople and putting his Levantine territory in jeopardy. Within two weeks the Bukkharans realized they stood no chance and withdrew. In Central Asia, in one of the briefest wars ever, Afghanistan retook the province of Balkh from the Bukkharan khanate. Brazil then promptly invaded Paraguay and seized half of that country, but today, in 1842, Brazil's military is so drained that it can barely sustain a three-regiment army, which is still somehow the largest military south of Mexico. Countless South Americans died in this conflict and it might have repercussions for decades. Though Bolivia lost the former war, losing its Amazonian holdings to Brazil and its coastline to Chile, it defeated Argentina, pushing its southern border further down. Between them they lasted almost the entire last few years and left all of South America a depopulated hellscape. The Bolivian wars, I'm sure you remember, pitted Bolivia and Peru against Brazil and Chile, and later Bolivia and Peru vs Argentina.

The last six years have been quite busy, have they not? While our army was reforming its numbers in 1836, our diplomats watched as a number of global hotspots broke into all-out war.

Part 2: Chapter II: The Reunited Kingdom of the Netherlands: 1836-1842 Chapter II: The Reunited Kingdom of the Netherlands: 1836-1842

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