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La Chanson de la Victoire (The Song of Victory): La Petite Arpenteuse (Non, SV, you are a General of France in the Napoleonic War!)
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This is also why we still need Robespierre to get into power, otherwise no Constitution of 1793! Or I guess if someone else of the Mountain takes his place. Seeing a Committee of Public Safety headed by Marat would be hilarious as well.
Though the true Galaxy Tier here would be Babeuf's proto-communism. Support the Conspiracy of Equals against the reactionary Directoire!
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The Best option, because no matter what, we'll be remembered.
God Emperor Brain: Countess Thérèse Auclair of Valmy, Marshel of France (ret.), Leader of the french Populous Party, Hero of France, Widow of Napoleon Bonaparte, Mother of Ten children, including his Imperial Majesty, Napoleon the Second.
Marat as head of the Committee of Public safety... I shudder at the thought.
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Well, both of them are shorter than Therese... But most people would be, so.
I always imagined Adalene as looking somewhat mousy, with either dark brown or black hair and olive eyes. She has a braided ponytail that goes down to her shoulders, and she's slightly taller than the average height for women at the time. She's slim, but by no means unhealthily so. If she isn't in riding gear, she's in midde-class clothing. If possible, you should also draw her with her faithful steed Cramoise, a Camargue pony. Camargue ponies are gray (Non-horse people would call it white). Cramoise's riding gear is a bit redder than usual riding gear.
Renee is a bit taller than Adalene, but not by much. She has long, somewhat messy dark-blondish hair and blue-green eyes. She is a mix of 'conventionally attractive' and 'amazonian beauty sans the height', with a bust that's slightly larger than the average of the time, though she usually binds it to make it less obvious, since otherwise men tend to hit on her, and she is Not Interested In Men. Her face seems set in a slight scowl. She likes brawling and is good at it. If she isn't in army fatigues, she's dressed in commoner's clothes that make it impossible to tell her gender just from the appearance. As an alternate drawing, you could draw her in her civilian clothes in a bar fight, using an empty bottle as a weapon and having the time of her life.
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You know, committee of public safety sounds like it make sure kids don't run on the street when there's traffic, or putting up look before you cross signs, not exactly something that could arrest and execute thousands of people.
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The power of the name man, the power of the name.
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"That's the thing about organization names. It's to keep the public safe... from themselves, of course." --Robespierre, 1793, probably
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Robespierre- Citizens of France, I have come to save you all.
French Citizens- Hooray, its the committee of public safety, we're saved!
Robespierre- FROM YOURSELVES!!
French Citizens- Oh fuck, its the committee of public safety.
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Someone do a hellsing ultimate/ abridged omake now! I need it!
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2.1 - Q1 1793 News
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Le Nouvel État – 1793 1st Quarter (Jan - March)
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The blade fell. The king followed.
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Napoleon Roll: 1D100 => 95 (Roll Passed, Paoli receives a nasty surprise)
Paoli's End: 1D100 => 88 (Almost every ship has been saved with only minor damage on them.)
Aghast at the execution of the previous king, Pasquale Paoli, governor of Corsica, has thrown his support behind the royalist party. He tried to hide this fact, sending his nephew to lead the Republican expedition into Sardinia with instructions to cause the attack to fail.
Unfortunately for Paoli, he sent Colonel Napoleon, who led the Corsican guard earlier in the year onto the same excursion. Suspicious at reports of growing garrison that the Sardinians had right where the Republic targeted, Napoleon took command of the French forces before the assault on La Maddalena could commence in early February. Furious at the insubordination, Paoli's nephew was questioned by the captain, eventually explaining his and Paoli's involvement in feeding information to the Sardinians and the British.
Napoleon and his family appealed to the National Convention, and arrest warrants were sent out for Paoli's associates and family. After canceling the assault on Sardinia, Napoleon had led the fresh invasion force in a nearly bloodless occupation of Ajaccio together with the rest of the Bonapartes' support. Paoli was arrested and confessed guilty to treason the next day. His family was stripped of their wealth and status.
Pasquale Paoli, once a Corsican nationalist just like Napoleon, took the route of a traitor. He was executed for crimes against the government and people of France.
Republican government on the island started to sweep for royalists, and would continue for numerous months as royalist supporters were flushed out and arrested by Napoleon and local regiments. Royalist and counterrevolutionaries are now tense at this news, and must now be vigilant to keep their positions.
Governer Paoli of Corsica has been found to be guilty of collusion with the enemy and betraying France and its people. Napoleon is heading to Toulon in the following months.
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Generals Roll: 1D100 => 46
No news on the whereabouts of Kellermann or on the Army of the North, though they were last reported to be near the Belgium-Prussian border.
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Disaster Roll: 1D100 => 88 (Roll Passed)
Uprising Strength: 1D100 => 72
Vendee Roll: 1D100 => 98
Thousands of loyalists to the monarchist cause wave the martyrdom of the king—no, Citizen Louis Capet and his wife Marie Antoinette—as their symbolic flag of protest and rebellion. The Bourbon flag is hung and carried by numerous nobles still clutching onto their last footholds of power. Scared at what the destruction of the monarchy would mean for them, they have started to mobilize in a last ditch effort for survival.
The tensions stewing in Vendée have come to a flashpoint. Rebellion and civil strife have spread throughout the region as local leaders have riled up and rallied the civilians to arms against the Republic. Those loyal to the enemies of the republic, those loyal to the old ways, those simply caught in the most unfortunate circumstances, are now coming to a head in the Republic.
The children of France are at war among themselves.
The leaders of the Vendée (western) region, along with nearly a hundred thousand more enemy troops are rallying against the government.
Charles Dumouriez will not change sides to the royalists, as his hope in the French people was renewed due to one woman: Thérèse Auclair.
No huge disaster yet, but violence in Vendée will be inevitable without any outside intervention.
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Prussia Roll: 1D100 => 47
It appears that the enemy is building up their forces, however, their composition, training and equipment status is unknown.
The Prussians are building forces up at the borders. No news on incursions yet.
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Great Britain Roll: 1D100 => 57
Great Britain is reported to have a budget surplus, and three new Ships of the Line are added to the royal navy. This will make them a greater threat in any naval conflict. +1 GB Navy.
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The Netherlands Roll: 1D100 => 45
Rumors circulate of plans to retake the Netherlands from the Orangist government alongside the exiled Dutch republican forces.
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America Roll: 1D100 => 95
American President Washington has been working on the still newly-established United States. Two of his staff members, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, have shown that there is a split in how the nation should be run.
Hamilton supported stronger national government, while Jefferson opposed the national bank, navy, and federal taxes. Washington believes in the unity of America as a whole, though while he too shared views that Hamilton held, the Father of America decided that there was to be reconciliation between these two sides before any rifts form. He took points from both sides, successfully, somehow, and convinced the two ministers to settle their issues with a neutral stance.
Federalist and Republican parties are not formed, for now. Hamilton and Jefferson are mediated, and the leaders of the new nation are compromising for the benefit of the American people.
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Haiti Roll: 1D100 => 99
Sparks of revolution ignited the powder keg in the colony known as Saint-Dominigue (Haiti).
The National Convention, to remedy the situation on the island, sent Civil Commissioners Léger-Félicité Sonthonax and Étienne Polveral to the island with an army 7000 strong and orders to restore order on the island colony, with military force if needed.
Preempting the revolt, the two had granted equal civil and political rights to freed les gens de couleur in an attempt to stabilize the island, but that had not stopped the slaves, led by charismatic leaders, from rising up.
Toussaint L'Ouverture and numerous other people of color were inspired by the ideals of freedom and equality, led thousands of slaves in revolt. They took over the northern third of the colony in a tide of revolutionary fervor. Driven by hatred and desires for vengeance upon their former masters, the former slaves slaughtered whomever they identified as being related to their oppressors. Thousands of plantation owners and their families were slaughtered in their homes despite what preparations they made; their plantations turned to ashes as the rebels lashed out, unleashing the fury of countless generations of oppression.
The conflict threatened to boil over as royalists on the island saw this as an opportunity to reach out for British and Spanish help, their navies potentially turning the tides of this insurgency back.
Sonthonax, reading the situation, sent messengers to negotiate with L'Ouverture and the other leaders of the rebellion. They discussed the dangers royalists posed to both sides, and the abolition of slavery, as free people of color were given rights, while the enslaved population toiled in desperate hope for freedom.
It worked, though not as expected. As the Commission and the leaders of the insurrection met numerous times to negotiate a new deal, Sonthonax declared freedom for all the slaves in the colony. He argued for the rights of man that the Revolution symbolized, and supported emancipation. This caused heavy backlash from the already freed peoples, who preferred maintaining the status quo and were scared of potential retribution. Royalist sympathizers began denouncing the Republic as France declared war on Britain.
Polveral made sure enforcement of the emancipation was carried out, having radical whites of the island exiled by the Commission to never return. This further widened the rift between the Revolutionary Commission and those opposed to emancipation.
A new governor arrived in Le Cap in the north, but was quickly arrested after inciting a revolt of his own, wanting to preserve the slave system. A brief clash between the governor's followers and Polveral's troops, supplemented by some of LOuverture's forces, ended with a fifth of the city damaged and the instigators arrested by the Commission.
Sonthonax, in a stroke of brilliance, had managed to convince L'Ouverture and his associates to turn their guns onto the monarchists, and resist a return to the Ancien Régime which traded people like commodities. Royalist sympathizers were quickly rounded up by combined efforts. The process was brutal but efficient, and numerous dissidents in the northern parts of the colony were found, locked up, or dead by spring.
Slaves, led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, are unofficially emancipated by the Republic of France, and the colony remains with France.
Léger-Félicité Sonthonax and the Revolutionary Commission are working with the freed slaves to eliminate royalist forces in the colony and protect against possible British and Spanish incursions.
The Revolutionary Commission in the colony is working on receiving official confirmation on emancipation of the slaves in France's colonies, as the Coalition grows ever larger.
Conflict with Britain and Spain is inevitable for the island.
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Russia Roll: 1D100 => 27
It seems Russia is in another brief time of troubles, with a few thousand peasants dying last winter from starvation, and a few thousand more clawing at the last of their food reserves. Spring cannot come soon enough for Catherine II.
Russia is in a state of temporary famine, which will most likely be alleviated after the next growing season.
A/N: The next update with Thérèse will be up later today. Credits to @Magoose, since he helped greatly!
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The blade fell. The king followed.
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Napoleon Roll: 1D100 => 95 (Roll Passed, Paoli receives a nasty surprise)
Paoli's End: 1D100 => 88 (Almost every ship has been saved with only minor damage on them.)
Aghast at the execution of the previous king, Pasquale Paoli, governor of Corsica, has thrown his support behind the royalist party. He tried to hide this fact, sending his nephew to lead the Republican expedition into Sardinia with instructions to cause the attack to fail.
Unfortunately for Paoli, he sent Colonel Napoleon, who led the Corsican guard earlier in the year onto the same excursion. Suspicious at reports of growing garrison that the Sardinians had right where the Republic targeted, Napoleon took command of the French forces before the assault on La Maddalena could commence in early February. Furious at the insubordination, Paoli's nephew was questioned by the captain, eventually explaining his and Paoli's involvement in feeding information to the Sardinians and the British.
Napoleon and his family appealed to the National Convention, and arrest warrants were sent out for Paoli's associates and family. After canceling the assault on Sardinia, Napoleon had led the fresh invasion force in a nearly bloodless occupation of Ajaccio together with the rest of the Bonapartes' support. Paoli was arrested and confessed guilty to treason the next day. His family was stripped of their wealth and status.
Pasquale Paoli, once a Corsican nationalist just like Napoleon, took the route of a traitor. He was executed for crimes against the government and people of France.
Republican government on the island started to sweep for royalists, and would continue for numerous months as royalist supporters were flushed out and arrested by Napoleon and local regiments. Royalist and counterrevolutionaries are now tense at this news, and must now be vigilant to keep their positions.
Governer Paoli of Corsica has been found to be guilty of collusion with the enemy and betraying France and its people. Napoleon is heading to Toulon in the following months.
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Generals Roll: 1D100 => 46
No news on the whereabouts of Kellermann or on the Army of the North, though they were last reported to be near the Belgium-Prussian border.
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Disaster Roll: 1D100 => 88 (Roll Passed)
Uprising Strength: 1D100 => 72
Vendee Roll: 1D100 => 98
Thousands of loyalists to the monarchist cause wave the martyrdom of the king—no, Citizen Louis Capet and his wife Marie Antoinette—as their symbolic flag of protest and rebellion. The Bourbon flag is hung and carried by numerous nobles still clutching onto their last footholds of power. Scared at what the destruction of the monarchy would mean for them, they have started to mobilize in a last ditch effort for survival.
The tensions stewing in Vendée have come to a flashpoint. Rebellion and civil strife have spread throughout the region as local leaders have riled up and rallied the civilians to arms against the Republic. Those loyal to the enemies of the republic, those loyal to the old ways, those simply caught in the most unfortunate circumstances, are now coming to a head in the Republic.
The children of France are at war among themselves.
The leaders of the Vendée (western) region, along with nearly a hundred thousand more enemy troops are rallying against the government.
Charles Dumouriez will not change sides to the royalists, as his hope in the French people was renewed due to one woman: Thérèse Auclair.
No huge disaster yet, but violence in Vendée will be inevitable without any outside intervention.
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Prussia Roll: 1D100 => 47
It appears that the enemy is building up their forces, however, their composition, training and equipment status is unknown.
The Prussians are building forces up at the borders. No news on incursions yet.
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Great Britain Roll: 1D100 => 57
Great Britain is reported to have a budget surplus, and three new Ships of the Line are added to the royal navy. This will make them a greater threat in any naval conflict. +1 GB Navy.
<>
The Netherlands Roll: 1D100 => 45
Rumors circulate of plans to retake the Netherlands from the Orangist government alongside the exiled Dutch republican forces.
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America Roll: 1D100 => 95
American President Washington has been working on the still newly-established United States. Two of his staff members, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, have shown that there is a split in how the nation should be run.
Hamilton supported stronger national government, while Jefferson opposed the national bank, navy, and federal taxes. Washington believes in the unity of America as a whole, though while he too shared views that Hamilton held, the Father of America decided that there was to be reconciliation between these two sides before any rifts form. He took points from both sides, successfully, somehow, and convinced the two ministers to settle their issues with a neutral stance.
Federalist and Republican parties are not formed, for now. Hamilton and Jefferson are mediated, and the leaders of the new nation are compromising for the benefit of the American people.
<>
Haiti Roll: 1D100 => 99
Sparks of revolution ignited the powder keg in the colony known as Saint-Dominigue (Haiti).
The National Convention, to remedy the situation on the island, sent Civil Commissioners Léger-Félicité Sonthonax and Étienne Polveral to the island with an army 7000 strong and orders to restore order on the island colony, with military force if needed.
Preempting the revolt, the two had granted equal civil and political rights to freed les gens de couleur in an attempt to stabilize the island, but that had not stopped the slaves, led by charismatic leaders, from rising up.
Toussaint L'Ouverture and numerous other people of color were inspired by the ideals of freedom and equality, led thousands of slaves in revolt. They took over the northern third of the colony in a tide of revolutionary fervor. Driven by hatred and desires for vengeance upon their former masters, the former slaves slaughtered whomever they identified as being related to their oppressors. Thousands of plantation owners and their families were slaughtered in their homes despite what preparations they made; their plantations turned to ashes as the rebels lashed out, unleashing the fury of countless generations of oppression.
The conflict threatened to boil over as royalists on the island saw this as an opportunity to reach out for British and Spanish help, their navies potentially turning the tides of this insurgency back.
Sonthonax, reading the situation, sent messengers to negotiate with L'Ouverture and the other leaders of the rebellion. They discussed the dangers royalists posed to both sides, and the abolition of slavery, as free people of color were given rights, while the enslaved population toiled in desperate hope for freedom.
It worked, though not as expected. As the Commission and the leaders of the insurrection met numerous times to negotiate a new deal, Sonthonax declared freedom for all the slaves in the colony. He argued for the rights of man that the Revolution symbolized, and supported emancipation. This caused heavy backlash from the already freed peoples, who preferred maintaining the status quo and were scared of potential retribution. Royalist sympathizers began denouncing the Republic as France declared war on Britain.
Polveral made sure enforcement of the emancipation was carried out, having radical whites of the island exiled by the Commission to never return. This further widened the rift between the Revolutionary Commission and those opposed to emancipation.
A new governor arrived in Le Cap in the north, but was quickly arrested after inciting a revolt of his own, wanting to preserve the slave system. A brief clash between the governor's followers and Polveral's troops, supplemented by some of LOuverture's forces, ended with a fifth of the city damaged and the instigators arrested by the Commission.
Sonthonax, in a stroke of brilliance, had managed to convince L'Ouverture and his associates to turn their guns onto the monarchists, and resist a return to the Ancien Régime which traded people like commodities. Royalist sympathizers were quickly rounded up by combined efforts. The process was brutal but efficient, and numerous dissidents in the northern parts of the colony were found, locked up, or dead by spring.
Slaves, led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, are unofficially emancipated by the Republic of France, and the colony remains with France.
Léger-Félicité Sonthonax and the Revolutionary Commission are working with the freed slaves to eliminate royalist forces in the colony and protect against possible British and Spanish incursions.
The Revolutionary Commission in the colony is working on receiving official confirmation on emancipation of the slaves in France's colonies, as the Coalition grows ever larger.
Conflict with Britain and Spain is inevitable for the island.
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Russia Roll: 1D100 => 27
It seems Russia is in another brief time of troubles, with a few thousand peasants dying last winter from starvation, and a few thousand more clawing at the last of their food reserves. Spring cannot come soon enough for Catherine II.
Russia is in a state of temporary famine, which will most likely be alleviated after the next growing season.
A/N: The next update with Thérèse will be up later today. Credits to @Magoose, since he helped greatly!
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Macros
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... does he ONLY roll 90+?
Anyway, seems like w're officially leaving historical canon territory. No Corsica secession, and perhaps more importantly, no Tahiti rebellion (for now?). Hopefully we'll be able to convince Napoléon to not be a dick about this when the time comes.
The later the likes of Suvorov show up on our borders, the better.
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🤔 Surely, you mean Haiti, right?
Tahiti will be a long ways away from the OTL rebellion, considering it's still a largely un-colonized island in the Pacific ocean
Also, you know what they say about Napoleon and can(n)ons...
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Tahiti will be a long ways away from the OTL rebellion, considering it's still a largely un-colonized island in the Pacific ocean
Hey, once those butterflies start flying, who knows what random island will be of great historical importance in this new canon
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Kicker
A perfectionist with an inferiority complex.
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We need all the ships we can get.
That's one problem solved.
Holy shit, this is great. They could serve as a distraction for Britain and Spain.
Washington is on fire in this quest. Two rolls and both of them 90+.
Wait, I thought Napoleon is just about to go to Toulon? And Royalists are really getting lucky these few turns
Those Prussians are up to something...
Goddamit.
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Death to traitors!
This is why we need Terror to crush the reactionaries!
Huh, that's pretty big. It took Robespierre until 1794 to abolish slavery. Need to make sure Napoleon doesn't try his idiotic plan to reestablish slavery.
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whoops lemme just fix tha--What do you mean? Toulon is still up, no worries *sweats profusely*
You got more pressing matters, anyways.
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Napoleon is kinda the Shonen Protagonist of the story... so you tell me?
Nat 100's intensifies.
Well, for now it could be great. Who knows what may happen in a year or two.
That depends on his things for his success. Plus who is around him.
It's George Washington... He's always on fire. He was president of the united states for a reason.
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You say that, but the fact that both Jefferson and Hamilton are mollified and compromised is - among the many OTL deviations just here - the biggest deviation in my book. It meant that partisanship between the Feds and Dem-Reps didn't happen. It meant that parties might be formed under circumstances that aren't so opposed by one another and led by two very outspoken and opposing Founders...
...But it's a very big 'might'. The Jay Treaty next year in particular will be relevant to a) whether the parties are going to be formed and b) to the scope of the Quest itself. The division between those who want reconciliation with Britain and those who want to aid France is... substantial.
Substantial enough that should the situation progresses in France's favour, The War of 1812 might instead be the War of 1795.
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And oh boy if Washington and his boys slips up, bad things will happen to the US.
Which is debatably very bad for us, because guess what, What if they still choose to side with Britain.
So the upshot here is they stopped short of destroying the sugar fields? Good, here's hoping Haiti can form an economy this time around.
I mean technically speaking, that's what happened OTL. From my limited knowledge, none of the Founding Fathers is exactly opposed to helping out France. But some of them are in opinion that doing so right after the formation of the nation is ill-advised... but by the time the ducks are in order, Nappy ended up turning the Republic into an Empire, which sort of snuffed the desire to help out the 'fellow Republics' for US.
'Course, my knowledge is admittedly limited but unless things go even worse to the point of Jefferson and Hamilton getting a gun duel with both dying, I am assured the possibility of a limited aid from overseas.
(And of course, saying the above invokes the Murphy but I'll take my chances
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Not going to happen while the Force of nature that is George Washington still lives!!