The beginning of Feburary opens with word of Lord Palmerston throwing a brick through the window of his residence as he receives word that Prussia has begun agitating in Holstein and Sachsen in support of German unification. He is thought to have muttered "It's almost as if they want the Danes to cook their wursts again." under his breath as he downed his sixth glass of scotch of the morning.
Meanwhile, nearby the Prime Minister has been leafing through the extensive documentation of 'How to run a nation in PoN':
And decided that it would probably be a good idea to stop the British economy from following the Ottoman Empire into terminal velocity.
So, fresh out of ideas, we looked to the American newspapers for inspiration:
Well then...there's only one thing for it...
In Portsmouth factories begin churning out the latest weapon in the British arsenal:
Meanwhile, the larder in Buckingham Palace has run out of German grade sausages, so a diplomat is dispatched to Hannover to fetch some more.
The British fleets slowly move their way into position, hampered only by the fact that they are made of wood and the sea is made of iron. The Mediterrainean fleet passes a French fleet looking very suspicious off the coast of Spain.
What the Mediterranean fleet will probably look like by the time it reaches Portsmouth.
Random effects were thrown at the colonies, noticing France's 'Merchant spam' a similar tactic was thrown at South Africa in the hope that it will do
something (probably provoke an uprising).