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For the past few decades, the population of Alsace had been rapidly growing, leading to starvation, poor working conditions, and plain lack of work available. While many Alsatians would move to places like Russia, Austria, and the United States, the situation for those who stays continued to get worse. This was combined with the ethnic tension in Alsace Germans, culminating in a powder keg, waiting for a match to explode. When Revolution again struck France, ending the monarchy that was instilled since 1815, the local German Alsatians in Haguenau would use the opportunity to rise up and declare the Alsace Commune in February 1848. In many ways, the revolution went uncontested as there were bigger worries in Paris. But as more and more revolutionaries in surrounding towns joined, it became a problem.
By July, the Populist Revolutionaries would go on to control territory from Saverne to Lauterbourg, with the siege of Strasbourg being well underway. Smaller Pro-German revolts had begun to pop up in neighboring Bas De Rhin with the Mulhausen Commune and goal of both revolutionary groups was to connect the regions. However, negotiations with Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria for support had all miserably failed (though sympathies were felt, especially in the Bavarian Palatinate).
By the end of August the German revolts in Bas De Rhin had either been crushed or had surrendered and in early September, the French Army broke through the basic defenses set up in the Battle of Molsheim. The biggest battle of the revolt would come when the French flooded into the city of Strasbourg during the siege, and in the following Battle of Strasbourg a large portion of the Alsatian Militia had either died or been captured. Within the following month, Haguenau had been freed and the following day, Alsace surrendered and the Commune ended. The rebels were largely imprisoned, with many of the higher level revolutionaries being exiled into nearby Baden or overseas, immigrating to countries like Mexico, the United States, and Brazil.
The Pod for this whole scenario is an earlier rise of the League of the Just, and in turn, the Communist Manifesto.
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Description

For the past few decades, the population of Alsace had been rapidly growing, leading to starvation, poor working conditions, and plain lack of work available. While many Alsatians would move to places like Russia, Austria, and the United States, the situation for those who stays continued to get worse. This was combined with the ethnic tension in Alsace Germans, culminating in a powder keg, waiting for a match to explode. When Revolution again struck France, ending the monarchy that was instilled since 1815, the local German Alsatians in Haguenau would use the opportunity to rise up and declare the Alsace Commune in February 1848. In many ways, the revolution went uncontested as there were bigger worries in Paris. But as more and more revolutionaries in surrounding towns joined, it became a problem.
By July, the Populist Revolutionaries would go on to control territory from Saverne to Lauterbourg, with the siege of Strasbourg being well underway. Smaller Pro-German revolts had begun to pop up in neighboring Bas De Rhin with the Mulhausen Commune and goal of both revolutionary groups was to connect the regions. However, negotiations with Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria for support had all miserably failed (though sympathies were felt, especially in the Bavarian Palatinate).
By the end of August the German revolts in Bas De Rhin had either been crushed or had surrendered and in early September, the French Army broke through the basic defenses set up in the Battle of Molsheim. The biggest battle of the revolt would come when the French flooded into the city of Strasbourg during the siege, and in the following Battle of Strasbourg a large portion of the Alsatian Militia had either died or been captured. Within the following month, Haguenau had been freed and the following day, Alsace surrendered and the Commune ended. The rebels were largely imprisoned, with many of the higher level revolutionaries being exiled into nearby Baden or overseas, immigrating to countries like Mexico, the United States, and Brazil.
The Pod for this whole scenario is an earlier rise of the League of the Just, and in turn, the Communist Manifesto.
discord.gg/epp3fkFj4J