Victoria 2 HPM: Britannia rules the waves!

Now, let the campaign begin!

I start off at war with the S. African nation of Xhosa. I defeat them and annex some of their territory. I then take over Aden in Yemen, annex the Sikh Empire which consists of Punjab and Kashmir, and take Hong Kong from the Chinese.

Meanwhile, the Canadians had the GALL to rebel. We crushed the rebellion and enforced our rule over the beavers. We later signed two treaties with the Americans where we gave several border regions to the United States in order to ensure that the jingoists in America dont beat the drums of Manifest Destiny in order to try and take over our Canadian territories.

We also began expanding into our arch-nemesis: France. We took over Normandy from France.

Meanwhile, in India, we continued to expand our influence on the continent. We made the states of Sindh, Kalat and Makran Princely states, and negotiated with the Afghans about the border between the Panjabi frontier and their country. We gained several provinces from them. We also began annexing multiple princely states. The Doctrine of Lapse was a policy used by the British East India Company to annex these princely states. Basically, if a ruler of a princely state died either without an heir or if that heir was not deemed fit to rule, the country's independence would be declared to be null and void and would be annexed into the British Empire. Later, the Indians would get so disgruntled with British rule that they rebelled in the Sepoy Rebellion. This resulted in harsher and more direct rule over India.

We also aided Prussia in a war against France. In this war, we took Brittany and Picardy. We also annexed Oman which also gave us the Swahili Coast as well as expanded into Yemen. Following the Arrow Incident with China, we went to war with them yet again and took the port of Weihaiwei from them. We also fought the Flagstaff War with the Maori which resulted in, again, more direct rule over New Zealand. We also took over most of Malaysia and expanded into South Africa, resulting in the annexation of the Boer Republic of Transvaal. Finally, we took more coastal regions of Burma and are currently at war with Afghanistan. History is now in the writing.