Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-32210074-20180426194846/@comment-35480037-20180507135933

Government:

- On 1 March, King Willem I resigns as King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. and that same day his son is inaugurated as King Willem II of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands despite earlier plans he still becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg. Willem Alexander Paul Frederik Louis the husband of Queen Victoria becomes Crown Prince of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

- on 4 September Willem Eduard Hendrik Johannes is born, he is first in line with the succession for the English throne and second in the line of succession for the Dutch and Luxembourgish throne.



Science:

- Start by developing and designing a steam battleship with few cannons, but they are bigger and stronger than those used on ships now.



Military:

<p class="Standaard" style="margin-left:106.2pt;text-indent:-106.2pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%; mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">                                     -First Dutch use of machine guns on small scale

<p class="Standaard" style="margin-left:106.2pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%;mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">- 5000 troops are sent to the kingdom of Serbia and Montenegro and given to them to command during the war   and half the navy is sent to the Adriatic Sea to start a blockade of Austria.

<p class="Standaard" style="margin-left:70.8pt;text-indent:35.4pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%; mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">- 1500 troops are sent to Alaska to expand the colony.

<p class="Standaard" style="margin-left:106.2pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%;mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">- 2000 troops are sent to the coast of Cameroon, Nigeria, and Equatorial Guinea to colonize it.

<p class="Standaard" style="margin-left:106.2pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%;mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">-The other half of the navy does a naval attack on France on three places with 1500 men each and another 2500 men start pushing toward Paris as quick as possilble

<p class="Standaard" style="margin-left:106.2pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%;mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">- The first two new first-rate ships of the line will be launched under the names:

<p class="Standaard" style="margin-left:106.2pt"> Z.M. Rotterdam and Z.M. Amsterdam

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<p class="Standaard"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:106%;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Wars/Conflicts:

<p class="Standaard" style="margin-left:106.2pt;text-indent:.3pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%; mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">-Will support the kingdom of Serbia and Montenegro in their war against Austria.

<p class="Standaard" style="margin-left:106.2pt;text-indent:.3pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%; mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">-Declares War on France

<p class="Standaard" style="margin-left:106.2pt;text-indent:.3pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%; mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">

<p class="Standaard"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:106%;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Economy:

<p class="Standaard" style="margin-left:106.2pt;text-indent:.3pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%; mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">- To get into more and better coal mines to trade in forages and for personal use.

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<p class="Standaard"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:106%;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Demographics:

<p class="Standaard" style="margin-left:106.2pt;text-indent:.3pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%; mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">- Freedom of religion comes within the country and for unemployed people there are government projects such as building railways, building bridges, and building the new Dutch waterline.

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<p class="Standaard"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:106%;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Diplomacy:

<p class="Standaard" style="margin-left:106.2pt;text-indent:.3pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%; mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">- The United Kingdom of the Netherlands leaves the The Rotterdam Alliance and joins Russia.

<p class="Standaard" style="margin-left:106.2pt;text-indent:.3pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%; mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">-The tsar of Russia is invited for a state visit to the Netherlands and buys Alaska from Russia.

<p class="Standaard" style="margin-left:106.2pt;text-indent:.3pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%; mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">-Two Previously Belgian provinces are taken over from France after a deal.

<p class="Standaard" style="margin-left:106.2pt;text-indent:.3pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">-Proposal to the United Kingdom to work together in the development of military technologies and the cooperation in world-wide trade.