Axis & Allies - damowords

Republican Dawn
A vacuum forms where lived a lionʹs pride,
Long line of Louis, lords of France & Spain,
Prostrate beneath the coming regicide,
Beg Bourbon cousins, ʺPray restore our reign;ʺ
Thus Austrians
French liberty to foil,
March with friendly Prussians onto King Louisʹ soil.
One hundred thousand souls conjoin,
Gatherʹd neath Valmyʹs steeple
The Cockrelle cause the only coin,
This Army of the People
Draws steely barb from belted loin,
Storms up the hard, steep hill,
The spoils of victory soon theirs to wield,
The Prussian phalanx driven from the field.
The King is forced to meet his fate
With Marie Antoinette,
Minos awaits them at the gate
To answer for their debt
Good souls died for their greed of gold, the guillotine is set...
Paris
1793
March of Napoleon
Promotion upon noble promotion
Napoleonic fame on pinions rise,
Opinion, from doubt to devotion,
Purported in the populaceʹs eyes;
If heaven sent
Then Fate must surely steer,
From lowly Lieutenant to Genʹral Brigadeer.
The revolutionary call
Transformʹd to one of conquest,
Hapsburg Flanders & Holland fall
With all of the Rhine Bank West,
Then striking thro Cisalpine Gaul
France faced vital contest
At the battle of Tagliamento,
His genius, unbridled, runs the show.
As Austrian retreats increase
Vienna shrinks in fear,
Then sues for peace, the muskets cease,
His Aide‐de‐Camps appear,
Heralding their great champion, in victory austere.
Leoben
1797