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               |  | Murder Was The Case: The Plot To Kill King Henry VIII   By Chris Oakley Part 5       From Chapter 7 of Winters Of Our Discontent: 
  The Act of Union was a bitter blow to the British 
  Social Republic, already stinging from its failure to crush the 
  American-Canadian insurgency in the North American War of Liberation. Having 
  the two rebel nations interfere in its expansionist plans for the New World 
  individually was enough trouble for the Republic to cope with, but now that 
  America and Canada had combined to form a unified bloc against Britain the 
  Locksleyites’ efforts to extend their power into previously uncolonized 
  territories in the Americas would be rendered more difficult than ever. Worse yet, for the first time since Oliver 
  Cromwell’s ill-fated attempt to conquer the German-speaking territories of the 
  Austro-Bavarian Union, the Republic faced an adversary capable of mounting a 
  serious threat to its position in continental Europe. The leaders of the newly 
  established United Kingdom of America and Canada made it abundantly clear that 
  they would not stand idly by and let the heirs of Nathaniel Locksley keep 
  imposing their brutal, soul-destroying ideology on the rest of the world...   From Chapter 3 of the book A More Perfect 
Union: The Birth Of The Modern UKAC by Lady Celine Dion, copyright 2001 
Quebec Royal Book Publishers Ltd.: 
  October 9th, 1807 marked the beginning 
  of a new era in Western political and diplomatic history. That day, 
  representatives of the Kingdom of America and the Principality of Canada 
  gathered in Montreal to sign the Act of Union which would officially unify the 
  two realms as the United Kingdom of America and Canada; the days of the 
  British Social Republic as undisputed master of the Atlantic were, if not 
  over, certainly dwindling...   From a plaque displayed at the entrance to a civic 
museum in Munich, Austro-Bavarian Union: 
  IN 
  THIS BUILDING ON JULY 16th, 1810 THE FIRST DIPLOMATIC AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE AUSTRO-BAVARIAN UNION AND 
  THE UNITED KINGDOM OF AMERICA & CANADA WAS CONCLUDED   From Chapter 8 of Winters Of Our Discontent: 
  The diplomatic treaty establishing formal relations between the UKAC and the 
  ABU was a major step forward for the new nation...for the first time it had 
  been officially recognized as a sovereign state by a foreign government. In 
  the wake of this pact, UKAC diplomats next turned their energies to forging 
  ties with the Russian Empire...   From the book We Do Not Agree: The 180-Year 
Feud Between The Russo- UKAC Alliance And The British Social Republic by 
Lt. Colonel(retired) Vladimir Putin, copyright 2001 Muscovy State Defence 
College:   
  From the time the Russian Empire and the United 
  Kingdom of America & Canada first established formal diplomatic relations in 
  1818, the two powers shared a highly dangerous common enemy: the British 
  Social Republic, which was obsessed with avenging its defeat in the North 
  American War of Liberation and achieving world domination...   From Chapter 8 of Winters Of Our Discontent: 
  In forging an alliance with the Russian Empire 
  the UKAC hoped above all else to deter the British Social Republic from 
  attempting to retake control of its former North American 
  territories....Russia was well-known for being the only European power other 
  than the Austro-Bavarian Union that could meet the BSR on equal terms on the 
  battlefield. In one or two aspects, the Russians even had a slight edge on the 
  Social Republic....   From Chapter 13 of A Monarchy Shattered: 
  Despite what the apologists for the murderous 
  UKAC oligarchy and their Russian co-conspirators would have you believe, the 
  alliance forged between the Canadian-American kingdom and the Russian Empire 
  in the early 19th century was nothing less than the first step in a 
  sinister anti-British plan whose ultimate goal was the destruction of the 
  Social Republic and the establishment of UKAC global domination...   From a course syllabus at the European history 
department of San Francisco Royal University, California: 
  RUS 312--19th Century Wars Between The 
  Russian Empire And The British Social Republic In this course students will analyze and discuss 
  the causes, events, and consequences of the numerous military conflicts fought 
  by the British Social Republic and the Russian Empire between 1819 and 1922. 
  We will also look at the UKAC’s role in these conflicts, with special 
  attention to UKAC diplomatic and political support of Russia during the 
  so-called Dardanelles War of the 1840s....   From We Do Not Agree: 
  One of the Dardanelles War’s main causes was the 
  Social Republic’s desire to monopolize access to the great ports of the 
  Mediterranean Sea. This did not sit well with the leadership of the Russian 
  Empire, who resolved to thwart these monopoly efforts by any means 
  necessary....   From an exhibit at the Muscovy State Defence 
College Museum, Muscovy, Russian Confederacy: 
  This is a replica of the uniform worn by Field Marshal Mikhail Vorontsov when 
  he first took command of the Imperial Army in the first days of the 
  Dardanelles War...   From Chapter 8 of Winters Of Our Discontent: 
  From the day the British and Russian fleets first 
  clashed with one another back in 1819, it was apparent to any reasonably 
  astute observer that the Russian Empire and the British Social Republic would 
  go to war with alarming frequency-- in fact, many of the bloodiest armed 
  conflicts of the 19th century would directly pit Britain and Russia 
  against one another....   From an inscription at the base of the Tomb of the 
Unknown Martyr of the Dardanelles War, Petrograd, Russian Confederacy: 
  In this tomb rests a man whose name is known only 
  to God, who perished in the defense of this nation...   From We Do Not Agree: 
  The primary causes of the Dardanelles War were as 
  much economic as they were political; the British Social Republic was at the 
  time in a period of economic decline and saw the resource-laden territories of 
  the Russian Empire as its greatest hope for reversing that decline....   From Winters Of Our Discontent: 
  While the 
  Imperial Russian Navy had the numerical advantage going into its first major 
  engagement with the British Republican Navy, the British navy enjoyed the 
  technical edge and superior crew training, and this would prove crucial once 
  the cannons began firing in earnest....   From a course syllabus at the Royal American 
Military College: 
  EUR 201B--Causes Of The Anglo-Russian Wars This course analyzes the primary social, 
  political, and ideological causes of the numerous wars fought between the 
  British Social Republic and the Russian Empire during the late 19th 
  and early 20th centuries....   From a chapter about 19th century Europe 
in a Canadian school history textbook: 
  The British Social Republic’s first major step 
  along its path to war with the Russian Empire was the so-called Lisbon 
  Conference of 1814, when the London-backed puppet governments of Spain, 
  France, and Portugal signed a mutual defense pact with Britain pledging each 
  of the signatory governments to come to the aid of the others in the event of 
  what the treaty’s main provision described as "hostile intervention from 
  outside powers"....   From A More Perfect Union: 
  While the UKAC had not yet fought a war with any 
  Lisbon Conference power other than Britain, it was surely one of the 
  Conference’s staunchest foes outside continental Europe. The political 
  leadership in Franklin City had already made it clear on more than one 
  occasion that their sympathies in any future war between Britain and other 
  major European powers would rest with Britain’s enemies, and the UKAC’s 
  primary weapons-makers were cutting deals with potential military foes of the 
  Social Republic to furnish said foes with guns and munitions for any future 
  conflict they might be involved in with the British...   From the documentary Ties That Bind: The Act 
Of Union 200 Years Later, copyright 2007 by the Royal American Public 
Broadcasting Network: 
  The Act of Union had been in effect for more than 
  three and a half decades, and the United Kingdom of America & Canada allied 
  with the Russian Empire for nearly a quarter-century, when UKAC undercover 
  agents inside Britain began to pick up ominous hints that the British Social 
  Republic was in the first stages of preparing to make its long-anticipated 
  attempt to seize control of the Dardanelles Strait....   To Be Continued   
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