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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Holland
Regnum Unitum Britanniae et Belgio
Timeline: Venice-Italian Supremacy

OTL equivalent: Great Britain, Ireland, Netherlands and Belgium
Flag Coat of Arms
Flag Coat of Arms
Location of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Holland
Location of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Holland
Motto
Pax quaeritur bello
("Peace is sought through war")
Anthem "God save the King"
Capital London
Largest city Edinburgh
Other cities Dublin
Language
  official
 
Latin/English
  others Scottish, Irish, Welsh
Religion
  main
 
Anglicanism
  others Roman Catholic, Protestantism
Demonym British
Government Bicameral Parliamentary Monarchy
  Legislature House of the Lords

House of the Commons

King of England George IX
  Royal house: Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Governor-General James Grunge
Established 1815
Currency Union Pound
Organizations Italian League for Peace

The United Kingdom of England and Holland is a state established after the English step away of the Napoleonic War, winning Holland in exchange. The flag has thirteen stripes representing the thirteen provinces of Great Britain and Ireland. Holland was no province, and is not considered one province.

The Union Formation[]

After the start of the Napoleonic wars, the English soon started helping their old ally, Austria. Napoleon first tried to settle an alliance with Italy to assure a fully victory possibility. The Italian state was declining, and that was it chance of glory recover. Italy had one of the greatest fleets in the world, and the most advanced naval military technology, giving it and great advance. Napoleon's weakness was the sea. He had an amazing army, in measure and tactics, but he hadn't a strong navy. By with Italian help, Napoleon was able to conquer Europe and England, in exchange to get out of the Napoleonic Wars, won Holland.

Inside Country Autonomy[]

The first act of the new country as to establish an autonomy to the nations inside Europe (England, Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands and Belgium). Each one was a kingdom united by the same king, the English King. Anglicanism wasn't any longer the official religion, since it became the minority inside the territories.

Colonies[]

At the start, the English had conquer from France, Canada and started a protectorate in India. In the start of the Great World War, they lose Canada to Italy and India to France. They supported the Polish rebellion in Russia and Germany thinking that they could easily became a protectorate, but they were wrong.

The Great World War Participation[]

The English started in the Latin Alliance, but they sent almost no soldiers to the front. The war lasted from 1913 to 1920. The few soldiers regiments that England sent, were positioned in Germany colonies, not invading Germany's homeland. By that England as punished by the Versailles Treaty to give India to France and to liberate Canada.

English Reaction to the Versailles Treaty[]

The most of the population considered unfair the treaty because the English didn't had anything with the war. Why lose for nothing? There was a lot of protests inside the Island, but in Holland everybody was happy to be free from the Germanic Governor. The Italian League for Peace threatened England with invasion if they were unable to halt the protests; the English government so repress violently, the protests and were greatly criticized by the lack of public opinion. The Italian army, so entered the English land and were soon greatly attacked by protestants against the Versailles Treaty. By that the Italian government said to the whole world that if the English weren't able to hold the citizens opinion, they would.

English-Italian War[]

The English government refused to accept the Italians exigences and so arrested the major part of the Italian troops in England. The Italian government declared war and so by their absolute control in the Italian League for Peace they forced every member to enter in the war.

The French-Russian-Austrian combined fleet stopped any ship and allowed the Italian troops to invade England. The troops reached London in some days and forced the Parliament to renounce. A dictator named by Italy was called to put an order in the country. Harrison Garnet, the dictator, declared a State of Emergency and threatened the Declaration of Martial Law. The country was in chaos, the middle England became an Anarchy land; Scotland and Ireland were receiving separatist movements; and in Wales were declared Martial Law by the governor. Since the chaos were free in England, the major part of the world army entered in England to try create order from the ashes.

The Repression[]

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Some of the Italian troops in England

At the start, the army was sent to Scotland and Ireland to stop the separatist movements. Italian troops tried to reconquer Central England, while Wales received re-inforcements from London. The anarchist lands weren't going to let the government conquer the lands again.

The Scottish and Irish rebels made a deal with Harrison Garnet: He would be the Governor-General by some new years, make new elections for the parliament, and they would drop arms. By that the English army were all focused in the Central England. The country received Italian financial and military help, by the end of 1930, the Central England were all reunited.

The Recovery[]

Right after the re-union of the English nations the country was destroyed, economically and militarily. The country asked help from the Italian League, but the League wasn't smiling to England. Their only help was the ascending Polish estate. They requested Polish financial help and gave their independence recognition. By that England was re-building, creating series of railroads and repairing the English-Italian War damages. The League sent a letter to the England Governor-General, Harrison Garnet, requesting England help against the constant Polish attacks to Germany and Russia. England refused.

English-Polish Alliance[]

England were isolated since their support to the Polish, so they resolved to officialize the pact. The League wasn't happy. The English Parliament should have annulled the alliance and stay neutral in the Polish conflict, but they refused to follow the League orders. The League so made several sanctions against the England islands, like trade embargo. The ascending England economy started to fall and the new Governor-General were forced to freeze the food prices and nationalize major companies of metallurgy and tissues. Some protests were starting again, and the Parliament remembered the English-Italian war times. By that, England sent a letter to Italy and started a trade embargo with Poland, finishing the alliance. As soon as that was heard, the Italians stopped the trade embargo with England.

Netherlands and Belgium frontier with Germany[]

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English soldiers in Dutch-Germanic frontier

The German Empire was an old enemy of England and Poland, with their alliance Germany pracitically declared war. Since then the frontier was always heavily armed.

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