The French Chronicles: 100 Years War
Year: 1339
A Crusade was called upon to take Jerusalem. Egypt, having lost the holy lands once already braced for a mass invasion.
A coalition of Christendom Vs Islamic & Orthodox was formed. A British, French, and Holy Roman Empire force invaded the holy lands, and suffered immense casualties as wave after wave of suicidal Muslims bombarded the Crusaders.
After a 7 year holy war, Jerusalem, and half of the Islamic territories were taken, and a mass genocide occurred. Mass rebellions and extermination of the populace was a common occurrence in the holy lands. The news was not very well received in the homelands of northern Europe. Mass rebellions of heretics plagued the northern European countries.
As if it couldn’t get any worse, a pandemic now stalked the land, killing 30-60% of Europe’s population. The Holy Roman Empire, now weak, and barely populated, needed new lands if the Imperial forces were to be maintained, and its lands eaten up by rebels. The only way for expansion was French held staufen.
The Holy Roman Empire sent diplomats to Prince Marc de Lyon. He utterly rejected the proposal. The next in line was Gilmont de Lyon, Marc’s brother. He accepted the proposal, but lacked the power to give staufen to the Holy Roman Empire. In order to get Gilmont to the throne, a mass assanination attempt was taken into place against the French Nobility. The King foiled the assassin, but Prince Marc was not so lucky.
On 1348, Prince Marc was killed, and the Holy Roman Empire was held responsible, as the assassin that tried to kill the king revealed the plan to investigators. A land that is on the verge of collapsing now has a common enemy, which united France’s weak territories. A coalition was made, was made of Frances allies who supported the call to arms, which were: Spain, Portugal, Milan, Naples, & Scottish Vs the Holy Roman Empire, Byzantines, Danes, English, & Russia. The coalitions made the moves, the papacy had no power, and it was now the Coalitions. Battle after Battle occurred on the fronts.
The battle of winter Valley sealed the fate of staufen. 6,844 French & Spanish men met the 7,223 Holy Roman Empire & English men. The armies clashed in the valley of the northern Swiss alps. After fighting an extraordinary battle, an unexpected occurrence happened. A 2,000 man army lead by the Byzantines arrived, completely overpowering the already exhausted French Forces. After a nearly 2 : 1 ratio of killing, the French had to withdraw, or else the last hopes of defending the French Empire were lost. The Holy Roman Empire now had is desired staufen, but the war had caused more casualties than they predicted. They lost as many men as staufen had as its population. Imperial Forces then marched on Paris.
King Louis de Lyon and his personal army held the walls as the reminisce of imperial forces besieged Paris. After a firework of arrows and explosions, the imperial forces climbed the walls. They were beaten back by French knights and pike men. After a devastating cavalry charge, the Imperial army was in full retreat, and the King was victorious. Paris was left in shambles, as the catapults leveled the cathedral, mayor’s palace, and theatre.
With little left to defend their territories, the Holy Roman Empire fell into dismay. Rebellions took settlements, and the Empire slowly was reducing their borders. A Rush of patriotism flowed through the French lands. An Army of 3,814 was bolstered, and reclaimed former French territories. Meanwhile, the Scottish was invading York and Dublin, weakening the English, The Spanish & Sicilians invaded the Byzantines, & the Danish were invading Scotland, while the Portuguese were attacking Norway. The war continued into such a wide placed occurrence that there were mounds upon mounds of casualties from Oslo to Constantinople.
After 10 years of repairs and reconstruction, the French armies invaded staufen, and fought what was left of a formerly proud nation. It was 1432, as in ancient Jericho, the walls of Staufen fell, marking once and for all, the end of the Holy Roman Empire. Forces immediately occupied the undefended towns of Frankfurt, Noumenburg, and Innsbruck. The enemy coalition was then engaged with the members of the French coalition, and for once in nearly 100 years French legions were not engaged in combat.
With French dominance over Europe secured, all factions that helped in the Great War were offered vassalage, which everyone accepted, and enemy factions were exterminated by mass genocide. The bloodied face of Europe, once plagued by a 100 year war, now finally saw peace under a single sovereign, which was ironically the descendant of Gilmont de Lyon, Augustus de Lyon.
Now Europe, now united has new challenges, the wilderness of America, the steeps of Mongolia, and much more.; but the people of Europe do it together thanks to a war that caused the lives of estimated 600,000-1,000,000 through extermination, battles & revolts
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Is this a mod? You mentioned Norway and assassinations of your own family members. And just out of curiosity, how'd you arrive at those casualty figures? 
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just kidding, make sure you post it in the right section so people can view your story 
Originally Posted by Espadas:Benson
