Making Peru Great Again in Victoria 2
Apr 24, 2016 15:26:08 GMT
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Post by General William T. Sherman on Apr 24, 2016 15:26:08 GMT
In Victoria 2, I have transformed Peru from the junior partner in the Peru-Bolivian Confederation to becoming a World Power which won't be messed with.
(Please note that all backstory is not entirely historically accurate, so don't take my story as fact. If you want fact, check out the South American History Lecture)
Peru at the beginning of the game, I am the Northern, Red Peru.
In January of 1836, the Peru-Bolivian Confederation is established. You'll notice that is not one single, centralized state in the game, but is instead split in three. Those three regions are:
Bolivia: They are the head of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation and led by Marshal Andres de Santa Cruz. Currently, they are trying to centralize the Confederation in order to assert their claim over the two junior partners of the Confederation.
South Peru: They are one of the junior partners of the Confederation. Unlike the North, they are loyal to Santa Cruz and are willing to be absorbed for the 'greater good'.
North Peru: The second junior partner of the Confederation. Unlike the loyal South, the North is rebellious and wishes to reunite all of Peru under our own flag and not by the Bolivian one. Led by Santa Cruz's puppet government led by General Orbegoso, General Augustin Gamarra is attempting to seize power over the country.
Before Santa Cruz has the chance to unite all the regions under the PBC, the Chileans and Argentines attack the Confederation in order to both end the Confederation and to gain claimed land. After two weeks, Santa Cruz's forces are being crushed by the combined Chilean and Argentine forces led by Bulnes and Rosas respectively. Seeing his chance, General Gamarra overthrows Orbegoso's puppet government and gathers together an army composed of the former North-Peruvian soldiers in the Confederate army and of regular Peruvian citizens who decided to volunteer. His government then signed an alliance with the Colombian government and Colombia declared war on Santa Cruz in order to aid Gamarra.
Seeing that he couldn't win against Argentina, Chile, the Northern Peruvians and Colombia, Santa Cruz signed an armistice with first Argentina and then Chile. The Peruvian-Colombian Force then dealt the first blow to Santa Cruz at Ica in South Peru and then at La Paz in Bolivia proper. Gamarra's forces marched into La Paz and executed Santa Cruz in his presidential palace. With the strongman Santa Cruz being executed, the confederation was officially dissolved. Gamarra was able to place a leader whom he supported as leader of Bolivia.
South Peru was integrated into the Greater Peruvian nation by Gamarra, destroying all trace of the former Confederation.
Peru and Chile were now the major powers in the Southern Andes, but Chile wished to expand northward to take the rest of the Atacama coastline. In 1838, shortly after reunification of Peru had occurred, Chile invaded the country. The Peruvian Navy was able to blockade Chile's coastline and starved them into submission, however, causing for a white peace to be signed. During this time, Gamarra also allied with Venezuela, Bolivia and the Argentine Confederation. Gamarra died of disease in 1839, however, causing for a new president to assume control.
Post-Gamarra Era:
Following Gamarra's death, Manuel Menendez seized power in a bloodless coup d'etat. Menendez has visions of a reunification of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, only including most of the Southern Andes, including Chile, the sworn enemy of Peru and Bolivia. He also envisioned a great Peruvian Empire, spanning the globe and being a major International Power which could protect South America from foreign intervention and stand up to the other Great Powers of the world. In order to do this, he knew he would need to be diplomatically cunning and militarily powerful.
The first order of business for Menendez was of political rights. Peru had been a totalitarian presidential dictatorship since Gamarra, but now Peruvian citizens were demanding a say in the government and for changes in law. During the 1840's and 1850's, Menendez made multiple political concessions such as Freedom of Religion and Culture, the banning of slavery, and free press.
Melendez wanted to begin the unification of multiple Andean states immediately, however, and his first step was to secure the North. Peru's Northern Border was mostly secured, with the exception of the Ecuadorian Border. Ecuador and Peru hated each other since conception due to disputes over the Pastaza region in the Western Amazon. Menendez decided to use force to settle this issue instead of diplomacy, and declared war on Ecuador in 1840. With the aid of his allies, the country was quickly overrun and Pastaza was ceded to Peru.
Next, Menendez began rapid industrialization of the country, beginning the steady transformation of Peru from an agrarian society to an industrial one.
Peru also began moving abroad during this time. The Peruvian Government was able to sign treaties with the Nigerian states of Oyo, Warri and Aro which gave Peru a protectorate over these nations. When the Peruvians moved into the area to assert their claim, the states resisted, beginning the Nigerian War. The war ended by 1844 with Peru establishing itself over all these nations.
Chile kept declaring war in order to gain more Northern Territory, but due to the Peruvian Navy and our allied support, the Chileans were always beaten back.
In 1850, Peru had been growing and was nearly a world power. In the same year, a revolution in Ecuador succeeded which replaced the Ecuador Dictator with a self proclaimed Monarch named King Lopez Roberto. The new king declared that Ecuador would regain territory lost to Peru and gain even more land from them. While Menendez thought the threats by themselves were nothing to be worried about, he was worried of Ecuador possibly gaining aid from Brazil. Due to this fear, Menendez mobilized the military and prepared to invade Ecuador (which he planned to do anyhow). Peru and her allies overwhelmed Ecuador and they were annexed into Peru by 1851. The first step to uniting the Southern Andes was complete.
By 1852, Peru, under Menendez, became recognized as a Great Power. Now that Peru was this powerful, Menendez saw that he could use his influence to:
A. Absorb Bolivia into Peru through diplomacy.
B. Attack Chile and absorb them through war.
C. Secure the Northern Border with Colombia
D. Secure a friendship with Brazil
The first step was to secure an alliance with Brazil. Diplomatic ties between Brazil and Peru were severed during the wars between Chile and Peru (As Brazil aided Chile in the war), but Menendez reopened diplomatic relations in order to deal with Chile later. It took some coercing, but eventually an alliance between the two nations was signed in 1853.
The second step was securing the Northern border. While there was an alliance between the two nations, Menendez needed to be more secure and thus Peruvian influence centered on Colombia to make sure no one could ever get aid from Colombia to attack Peru from the North. They also wanted to build the Panama Canal.
The third step was the War of Hegemony. In 1855, Peru and her allies invaded Chile in order to make them their puppet. By 1856, the Chilean Atacama Coastline was ceded to Bolivia and Chile was made a puppet of Peru.
The fourth and final step was to gain Bolivian support for the unification. Before the War of Hegemony, the Bolivian government denied any support for a recreation of the Confederation. Menendez decided to win over the Bolivians by ceding the Atacama Coast to them. In 1857, the Bolivian government agreed to a reunification of the Confederation. The Peru-Bolivian Confederation was reformed, now including Ecuador and Chile as with Peru and Bolivia.
In 1860, Menendez was forced to agree to a democratic constitution for the country, giving voting rights to the rich and allowing for political parties to be established. The constitution also gave full rights to the Ecuadorians and Chileans in the country, as Peruvians and Bolivians were previously given more rights than the Ecuadorians or Chileans. Following the drafting of the constitution, the country changed from the Peru-Bolivian Confederation to the Andine Federation.
(Please note that all backstory is not entirely historically accurate, so don't take my story as fact. If you want fact, check out the South American History Lecture)
Peru at the beginning of the game, I am the Northern, Red Peru.
In January of 1836, the Peru-Bolivian Confederation is established. You'll notice that is not one single, centralized state in the game, but is instead split in three. Those three regions are:
Bolivia: They are the head of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation and led by Marshal Andres de Santa Cruz. Currently, they are trying to centralize the Confederation in order to assert their claim over the two junior partners of the Confederation.
South Peru: They are one of the junior partners of the Confederation. Unlike the North, they are loyal to Santa Cruz and are willing to be absorbed for the 'greater good'.
North Peru: The second junior partner of the Confederation. Unlike the loyal South, the North is rebellious and wishes to reunite all of Peru under our own flag and not by the Bolivian one. Led by Santa Cruz's puppet government led by General Orbegoso, General Augustin Gamarra is attempting to seize power over the country.
Before Santa Cruz has the chance to unite all the regions under the PBC, the Chileans and Argentines attack the Confederation in order to both end the Confederation and to gain claimed land. After two weeks, Santa Cruz's forces are being crushed by the combined Chilean and Argentine forces led by Bulnes and Rosas respectively. Seeing his chance, General Gamarra overthrows Orbegoso's puppet government and gathers together an army composed of the former North-Peruvian soldiers in the Confederate army and of regular Peruvian citizens who decided to volunteer. His government then signed an alliance with the Colombian government and Colombia declared war on Santa Cruz in order to aid Gamarra.
Seeing that he couldn't win against Argentina, Chile, the Northern Peruvians and Colombia, Santa Cruz signed an armistice with first Argentina and then Chile. The Peruvian-Colombian Force then dealt the first blow to Santa Cruz at Ica in South Peru and then at La Paz in Bolivia proper. Gamarra's forces marched into La Paz and executed Santa Cruz in his presidential palace. With the strongman Santa Cruz being executed, the confederation was officially dissolved. Gamarra was able to place a leader whom he supported as leader of Bolivia.
South Peru was integrated into the Greater Peruvian nation by Gamarra, destroying all trace of the former Confederation.
Peru and Chile were now the major powers in the Southern Andes, but Chile wished to expand northward to take the rest of the Atacama coastline. In 1838, shortly after reunification of Peru had occurred, Chile invaded the country. The Peruvian Navy was able to blockade Chile's coastline and starved them into submission, however, causing for a white peace to be signed. During this time, Gamarra also allied with Venezuela, Bolivia and the Argentine Confederation. Gamarra died of disease in 1839, however, causing for a new president to assume control.
Post-Gamarra Era:
Following Gamarra's death, Manuel Menendez seized power in a bloodless coup d'etat. Menendez has visions of a reunification of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, only including most of the Southern Andes, including Chile, the sworn enemy of Peru and Bolivia. He also envisioned a great Peruvian Empire, spanning the globe and being a major International Power which could protect South America from foreign intervention and stand up to the other Great Powers of the world. In order to do this, he knew he would need to be diplomatically cunning and militarily powerful.
The first order of business for Menendez was of political rights. Peru had been a totalitarian presidential dictatorship since Gamarra, but now Peruvian citizens were demanding a say in the government and for changes in law. During the 1840's and 1850's, Menendez made multiple political concessions such as Freedom of Religion and Culture, the banning of slavery, and free press.
Melendez wanted to begin the unification of multiple Andean states immediately, however, and his first step was to secure the North. Peru's Northern Border was mostly secured, with the exception of the Ecuadorian Border. Ecuador and Peru hated each other since conception due to disputes over the Pastaza region in the Western Amazon. Menendez decided to use force to settle this issue instead of diplomacy, and declared war on Ecuador in 1840. With the aid of his allies, the country was quickly overrun and Pastaza was ceded to Peru.
Next, Menendez began rapid industrialization of the country, beginning the steady transformation of Peru from an agrarian society to an industrial one.
Peru also began moving abroad during this time. The Peruvian Government was able to sign treaties with the Nigerian states of Oyo, Warri and Aro which gave Peru a protectorate over these nations. When the Peruvians moved into the area to assert their claim, the states resisted, beginning the Nigerian War. The war ended by 1844 with Peru establishing itself over all these nations.
Chile kept declaring war in order to gain more Northern Territory, but due to the Peruvian Navy and our allied support, the Chileans were always beaten back.
In 1850, Peru had been growing and was nearly a world power. In the same year, a revolution in Ecuador succeeded which replaced the Ecuador Dictator with a self proclaimed Monarch named King Lopez Roberto. The new king declared that Ecuador would regain territory lost to Peru and gain even more land from them. While Menendez thought the threats by themselves were nothing to be worried about, he was worried of Ecuador possibly gaining aid from Brazil. Due to this fear, Menendez mobilized the military and prepared to invade Ecuador (which he planned to do anyhow). Peru and her allies overwhelmed Ecuador and they were annexed into Peru by 1851. The first step to uniting the Southern Andes was complete.
By 1852, Peru, under Menendez, became recognized as a Great Power. Now that Peru was this powerful, Menendez saw that he could use his influence to:
A. Absorb Bolivia into Peru through diplomacy.
B. Attack Chile and absorb them through war.
C. Secure the Northern Border with Colombia
D. Secure a friendship with Brazil
The first step was to secure an alliance with Brazil. Diplomatic ties between Brazil and Peru were severed during the wars between Chile and Peru (As Brazil aided Chile in the war), but Menendez reopened diplomatic relations in order to deal with Chile later. It took some coercing, but eventually an alliance between the two nations was signed in 1853.
The second step was securing the Northern border. While there was an alliance between the two nations, Menendez needed to be more secure and thus Peruvian influence centered on Colombia to make sure no one could ever get aid from Colombia to attack Peru from the North. They also wanted to build the Panama Canal.
The third step was the War of Hegemony. In 1855, Peru and her allies invaded Chile in order to make them their puppet. By 1856, the Chilean Atacama Coastline was ceded to Bolivia and Chile was made a puppet of Peru.
The fourth and final step was to gain Bolivian support for the unification. Before the War of Hegemony, the Bolivian government denied any support for a recreation of the Confederation. Menendez decided to win over the Bolivians by ceding the Atacama Coast to them. In 1857, the Bolivian government agreed to a reunification of the Confederation. The Peru-Bolivian Confederation was reformed, now including Ecuador and Chile as with Peru and Bolivia.
In 1860, Menendez was forced to agree to a democratic constitution for the country, giving voting rights to the rich and allowing for political parties to be established. The constitution also gave full rights to the Ecuadorians and Chileans in the country, as Peruvians and Bolivians were previously given more rights than the Ecuadorians or Chileans. Following the drafting of the constitution, the country changed from the Peru-Bolivian Confederation to the Andine Federation.
