Miss Fallow Deer and Miss Judge

The battle at St. Augustine Plantation was only a microcosm.

Great Britain's army launched large-scale landings along the coasts of Florida and Mississippi, using companies as units to begin a sweeping purge of the "rebels."

This could not be concealed from the Texans, who had countless informants in the Thirteen Colonies, nor even from intelligence agents of the European powers, such as the French.

Although French influence had long since withdrawn from Louisiana, it had once been their colony. The French immigrants living there had long ago passed news of the unrest in the North American Colonies to His Majesty the Emperor.

While taking delight in Great Britain's misfortune, the French immediately issued a diplomatic note demanding an explanation from the English.

Even though Great Britain's diplomats repeatedly assured them that the operation was solely intended to deal with the Texans, the French still declared that such a rash use of force might threaten France's interests.

They also dispatched the Sun King and a main fleet stationed in the homeland to Havana Port, a colony of the Kingdom of Spain.

Since France and Spain had established a personal union, the waning fortunes of the Kingdom of Spain, that Sunset Empire, had improved somewhat. At the very least, Spanish Cuba and Spanish Luzon remained in its hands, though it had no choice but to develop them jointly with the French.

It was called joint development, but the impoverished Spanish naturally could not stop the fabulously wealthy French from taking the lead.

Leaving aside the war of words in Europe between the two foremost powers that had been bitter enemies since the Hundred Years' War, the Texans' preparations and evacuation proceeded in an orderly fashion with ample livestock to help.

"What a pity. Such a beautiful Small Town. When we come back