Divine Troops Descend from Heaven

Segur solemnly declared once more, "Austria must bear full responsibility for any consequences that arise in Wallonia."

Amid the chatter of the Hesse nobility, Segur concluded his speech, left Marburg, and hurried toward Wurzburg.

On the very day he departed, newspapers throughout Upper Hesse published reports titled: <Vienna Tears Up the Demilitarized Zone Agreement; Walloon Chamber of Commerce Requests French Intervention>.

Before arriving in Upper Hesse, Segur had already traveled day and night across more than half the German States, delivering no fewer than twenty speeches. He made every nation understand that Austria had provoked this war without cause, and that France would resist to the bitter end.

The day after the French Government publicly announced that it had accepted Wallonia's request and would dispatch troops to Walloon, Austria formally declared war on France.

That same day, the United Kingdom declared war on France on the grounds that "France had maliciously disrupted the sugar market."

Soon afterward, Prussia, Hanover, the Netherlands, and other nations openly declared war on France as well.

Among them, Prussia and the Netherlands had alliance treaties with the United Kingdom and were obligated to send troops to assist it.

Thuringia, Lower Hesse, and Tuscany, meanwhile, joined the War against France at the request of Prussia and Austria.

Three days later, the diplomatic representatives of those nations signed an agreement in Pozztan, announcing the formation of the "Anti-French Alliance," which would "jointly safeguard the existing order of the European Continent."

France immediately struck back, declaring war on every member state of the Anti-French Alliance.

In an instant, all of Europe was plunged into the blazing flames of total war.

Wavre.

The cannon fire north of the city had not ceased since dawn. Only three days had passed since the Walloon Chamber of Commerce requested French intervention,