Britain was really ruthless this time, and for Augustus, the rise of the Prussians seriously threatened Britain's position as the world's number one power.
And looking at the current situation of the Prussians, it is no longer as simple as a threat, the Prussians are already on the path of challenging British authority.
"Ordered the Royal Navy to immediately begin martial law on all shipping routes, to impose punitive taxes on Prussian merchant ships, and to put troops on the European Highway on heightened alert, so that civilians could be immediately and compulsorily conscripted if necessary.
On the government side Immediately protest to the Prussian government and tell the Germanic barbarians in Brandenburg that if they continue to dare to encroach on the territory of the Holy Kingdom of Great Britain, then they will get war!
” Although Fawkes later expressed concern about whether Augustus would further provoke the Prussians, Augustus was noncommittal about this.
"Didn't the Prussians, when they acted against us, fear that they would provoke us?
Why should I be jealous of them now?
” After Augustus said this, Fawkes had no choice but to keep his mouth shut.
On October 19, the Prussian army and Dayton annihilated the main force of the Continental Army, after which the Continental Army collapsed, but at the same time, the Prussian side did not have any scruples, and the Prussian Army on the Western Front led by Scharnhorst marched all the way west according to the previous route of the Continental Army.
On October 23, Columbus surrendered, and then the towns in Ohio were almost subsequently surrendered, October 30.
The Prussian army approached Wheeling and intimidated Pittsburgh.
And just as the Prussian army was pressing.
Whartonhall led the British army to confront the 4th Division of the Prussian Colonies led by Albery on the front line in Richmond, the capital of Virginia.
Originally, after Whartonhall learned the news that the Prussian Fourth Division was heading north, he was ready to lead the army to quickly move south to block the Prussian army on the line of Greensboro, the capital of North Carolina, but who knows, on the way, Whartonhall got the news of the loss of Greensboro.
In this situation, Wharton had no choice but to change his original plan and lead the army back to Richmond.
While Wharton Hall was holding Richmond, the British Viceroyalty of North America and Canada also urgently dispatched 3,500 British soldiers to Richmond by ship at Whartonhall's request, and the West Indies also mobilized the defenders to raise 6,000 reinforcements to North America.
In this way, it was only possible to ensure that Richmond could survive the Prussian offensive for ten days in his own hands.
Then the two support armies would be able to set foot on the North American continent.
At that time, the number of troops under his command would exceed 20,000, and in this way he would be able to surpass the Prussian Fourth Colonial Division in terms of strength.
With the 4th Division out of threat, Wharton was able to mobilize his forces to fight the offensive of the main Prussian forces on the Western Front.
For Whartonhall, this is the only way to go.
The Prussians knew Whartonhauer's thoughts, but at the moment Albery could not do anything.
Richmond was a very important city in the hands of the British.
For this city, the British also put a lot of effort into it, and it will be very expensive to take it, not to mention that the British army guarding Richmond is no less than the Prussian army.
Although the Fourth Colonial Division was a newly formed division, it benefited from the Prussian policy of shadow divisions, so its combat effectiveness was not bad.
At present, however, the 4th Division has less than 8,000 troops.
On the other hand, the British army in Richmond exceeded 10,000 men, and Alberry even thought that if he had not played the banner of all the divisions to confuse the enemy, the British would definitely take the initiative to send troops to fight him in a decisive battle.
Albery's request for help was also sent to Atlanta, and this was the case.
Brunecke had already anticipated this, so the 2nd Colonial Division, which Prussia had been stationed on the westernmost front, had moved its main forces eastward two months earlier.
It has now arrived in North Carolina.
Therefore, in Alberry's view, the safest thing at the moment was to let the British troops in Richmond not act rashly, and the Fourth Division was not yet capable of taking Richmond.
November 2, 1794 While the British in Richmond were wondering if the Prussian army had not launched an offensive against Richmond, Wharton Hall received a piece of information.
"Are you saying that the Prussian army outside the city is not full, only more than 7,000 men?"
"That's right, Your Excellency, the Prussians' banner is deceptive, and according to the information we have received, the 4th Division of the Prussian colony has never been full, so their strength is not more than 12,000 men we expected, but only 7,000 men!"
A British officer stood in front of Whartonhall and said.
During these two days, the British scouts approached the 4th Colonial Division to reconnoitre, but they were not able to succeed because of the harassment of the Prussian cavalry.
But luck struck the British, and a group of British scouts undoubtedly caught a low-ranking Prussian officer who had left the camp without permission, and then learned of this important information from the mouth of this officer.
"Damn, we've all been lied to!"
Wharton roared, the anger on his face palpable.
Previously, the 4th Division of the Prussian colonies had always been under the banner of full strength, and not only that, according to secret information from British spies, the 4th Division was an integrated division with a strength of 12,000 troops.
It was this intelligence that led Wharton Hall to adopt a more passive defensive strategy.
What Wharton didn't know was that in the archives of the Prussian colonial government, the Fourth Division was indeed a full division, mainly because after the Georg case, Brüneke suddenly thought that he could confuse the British spies in the dark, so Brüneke did not order the re-verification of the soldiers of the Fourth Division.
In this way, the actual soldier files of the 4th Division, together with those previously concealed by Georg, together form the information of the 4th Division in the Prussian colony.
On top of this information, the strength of the Fourth Colonial Division was 11,600 men.
Thinking of himself these days anxious about the possible offensive of the Prussian army outside the city.
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Wharton's anger grew even stronger.
"Order the army to stop the offensive, and rest early today, and officially send troops to attack the Prussian army tomorrow!"
Wharton made the decision.
Early in the morning of November 3, the British army in Richmond began to assemble under the city of Richmond.
Albery, who was shocked by the British movement, immediately called a small military meeting, and immediately after learning that the British army was likely to attack, Albery immediately ordered the Prussian army to form a line on a small high ground near the camp.
Of the 7,000-strong troops of the 4th Colonial Division, 2,000 were cavalry units.
Although the Fourth Division was not yet in a state of formation, it was only the infantry regiment that was not in a state of dissatisfaction, and the cavalry regiment and artillery regiment were all in a state of full strength.
After Albery's order was given, the 4,900-strong infantry began to move towards the high ground, while at the same time, two cavalry regiments were deployed on the flanks, and the artillery was immediately deployed in the center above the high ground.
The infantry was in the center and the artillery was in the rear.
On both flanks of the cavalry division, Arbéry spread out a very conservative battle line.
At nine o'clock in the morning, a neat line of British troops appeared in Albery's telescope.
"The 1st Division attacked from the front, and the 2nd Division attacked from the right flank to the enemy's flank, ordering the cavalry units, and the 2nd Division should be intercepted by the enemy cavalry.
They must hold back the enemy cavalry!
” Whartonhall's order was given, and the entire ranks of the British army were shaken up. .........................................
"Your Majesty, that North is here again, this time with a British outcry and a threat of war!"
Horn said next to William.
Hearing that North had brought the threat of war from the British, William's otherwise calm heart stirred.
"Although I had long expected this day to come.
But I didn't expect this day to come so soon, go for it.
Let Locks go to North instead of me, and tell Locks that Prussia has no way back, go and get Mehad for me!"
” At this time, William no longer wanted to compromise with the British.
Within a few months, the Prussian army had recovered from the last war, at least the master regiments had returned to full strength, and not only that, but the three Imperial divisions under Prussian control had also been reorganized.
This meant that Prussia had 28 divisions with a total strength of more than 320,000 men.
"Lord North, on behalf of the King of Prussia, the Prussian royal steward Horn refused our invitation, and Horn also said that we should go to His Excellency Locks if we have anything!"
Outside the Brandenburg Palace, an English attendant hurried to a carriage outside the palace gate and said to the people inside.
Hearing that the Prussian king did not intend to receive him, the expression on North's face was complicated.
As an Englishman, North naturally had a patriotic heart in his heart, but for North, he did not want to see Prussia and Britain go further and further on the road of war.
The more he learned about Prussia, the more Awe North became of the country.
Unlike the strong atmosphere of capital in Britain, in Prussia it can be said that the whole country was fanatical and warmongering, and with Prussia's victory in foreign wars again and again, the national pride of the Germanic nation rose to a new height.
It seems that all the Prussians were willing to fight under that black eagle flag with a gold background.
And it is undeniable that if Prussia is the first in the civilized world in terms of army strength alone, Prussia has more than 300,000 troops, and North shuddered just thinking of this number.
What the hell did London think, were they going to give up the territories that had been taken at the cost of the lives of countless British soldiers!
North thought to himself.
November 20, 1794 When the government in London received news that the North American colonies had been invaded by Prussian troops.
The government of London, England, has ordered a national state of emergency, and all young and strong people of legal age must accept the state's conscription order without compensation.
At the same time, all British arms workshops received large orders from the British government.
The Royal Navy had imposed martial law on the Atlantic and North Seas, as well as the English Channel, and all Prussian ships were subject to mandatory inspections by the British Navy.
Just after the British government began to mobilize.
On 26 November, the Prussian government declared the country mobilized for war, and all front-line combatants were removed from vacation.
At the same time, William, in his capacity as Holy Roman Emperor, declared that all the princes of the Holy Roman Empire had the obligation to fight for the Emperor, and according to the strength of the princes, William ordered these princes to provide troops of varying numbers to fight for the Emperor!
At the same time, the Prussian government also sent a request to the Swedish government to include the navy in the Prussian naval battle sequence.
With regard to the Swedish Navy, it had already been decided by the Prussian leadership to take advantage of the revival of the Continental Parliament to expand Prussia's colonies in North America.
Considering the possibility of an Anglo-Prussian war, the Prussian government made this request to Sweden.
Finally, after more than a month of negotiations, Prussia agreed to the Prussian request in exchange for Sweden's establishment of a pan-Baltic kingdom in addition to Prussian territory in the Baltic cities, and after providing Sweden with two million gold marks in the name of Wilhelminny's dowry.
Of course, in addition to this, the Swedish Navy also proposed.
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In the event that the situation is tilted towards the possibility of total defeat, the Swedish navy has the right to withdraw early.
In the end, Prussia agreed to the demands of the Swedes.
Thus, on November 27, the day after the Prussian government declared a state of mobilization for war, nearly 100 warships were assembled in the waters of Jutland.
And the Prussian Admiral Mehard personally served as the commander of this combined fleet.
There is a great possibility of war between Britain and Prussia, and at this time.
The rest of the continent also began to wait and see, and after the declaration of a state of war by the British and Prussia, it was France that responded first.
Louis XVI of Paris ordered the mobilization of the army in the name of guarding against the possibility of an Anglo-Prussian war affecting France, and the 20,000 troops controlled by the Bourbon crown plus the 20,000 troops brought by Napoleon from the south of France, a total of 40,000 troops, were deployed by Louis XVI to the northern part of France.
Countries such as Spain, the Italian city-states, and Russia were far from areas that might be affected by the Anglo-Prussian war.
Therefore, it is still waiting to see.
Obviously, however, the Netherlands is not included in these countries.
The increasingly serious situation made the hair of the ruling Wilhelm III of the Netherlands pale, and the geographical location of the Netherlands was doomed.
Once the Anglo-Prussian War began, the Netherlands would be at the center of the war.
In other words, no matter which side the Netherlands turns, the Netherlands will definitely be attacked by the enemy as soon as the war begins.
In the Netherlands, there were also different opinions, and a considerable number of ministers suggested that Wilhelm III should adopt a neutral attitude.
However, it is clear that for Wilhelm III, even if he declared the neutrality of the Netherlands, the security of the Netherlands would not be guaranteed.
In the end, Wilhelm III decided to lean on the side of Prussia, considering that the Dutch mainland was after all a European continent, and that England would not be able to withstand the offensive frenzy of the Prussian army on the continent anyway.
Within the Holy Roman Empire, most of the imperial princes did not dare to raise objections after receiving William's mobilization order, and could only immediately begin to mobilize their standing army to prepare for Frankfurt.
In half a year, the situation in Hungary had changed dramatically, and Alexander was finally defeated by Ferdinand, who began to establish his own authority in Hungary by defeating Alexander's might.
Frightened by countless heads, the various princes of Hungary finally chose to obey Ferdinand.
However, Ferdinand's rise in power was obviously not in the interests of Austrian Karl, so after Ferdinand unified Hungary, Karl not only immediately transferred back the Austrian army that had helped Ferdinand attack Alexander, but also transferred troops from China to station on the Hungarian border to form a deterrent.
When William's orders reached Karl and Ferdinand, their attitudes were diametrically opposed.
In Karl's opinion, Wilhelm's order made him simply miserable, and the standing army in Austria was now only more than 50,000 people, and Wilhelm's order to Karl was that Karl must personally lead 5,000 Austrian troops to join the emperor's banner.
Although 5,000 men is only one-tenth of the total strength of Austria at present, it is obvious that for Karl, what makes him bitter is the word "personal" in Wilhelm's order!
Karl still remembers the days when he was coerced after the last trip to Frankfurt to accept William's canonization, and for a person in power like Karl, it was enough to experience this kind of day once, and he really didn't want to go through it a second time.
However, Karl also knew that he simply did not have the strength to refuse William's call at the moment.
Although the Prussians had entered a state of war, after all, the army had not yet officially begun to mobilize to declare war on Britain, so if Karl dared to take the lead, Ferdinand stationed in Stuttgart and Blucher stationed in Brno would lead his army to march to Vienna immediately.
And in Karl's view, William's conscription of the imperial princes this time was actually a temptation for the princes.
The British had less than 20,000 troops on the European continent, not to mention the whole of Prussia, and even the Dessau Army currently stationed in Dortmund was able to drive all the British ** teams on the European continent into the sea to feed the fish.
Moreover, Karl did not believe that the British Army could defeat the Prussian army, so it was clear that William's request for the princes to lead the army to Frankfurt on such a large scale within the empire was not only for the purpose of war.