Imperial Crisis

By: James Philip

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The American Revolution failed; the Continental Army was destroyed at the Battle of Long Island in 1776 and ever since, New England has been the great engine and on occasions, arsenal of the British Empire. The question is: is the Empire on which, literally, the Sun never sets which rules rather more than a quarter of the globe and well over a billion people, beginning to creak at the seams? The Forces of the Triple Alliance led by the wily Felipe Santa Anna have conquered tens of thousands of square miles of the South West, and driven the supposedly invincible Royal Navy out of the Gulf of Spain and the Caribbean. There is blood in the water and the sharks are circling, within and without the colonies of the New World. In a world of Empires, other pretenders sense opportunities, weaknesses and the machinery of geopolitical realpolitik begins to turn faster. New England is stirring but will it unite behind the Crown or will other agendas, other tensions, other ancient fissures in the patina of Imperial power fracture first? And wither travels the destiny of the veteran Texan cavalryman George Nathaniel Washington, the one New Englander capable of peering into Santa Anna’s mind? This version uploaded 15 October 2021.