[ WP ] Narrate a game of Civilization as though it were excerpted from a history textbook .

Chapter 12, War Comes to Great Britain. 
 
 Leading up to the Industrial Revolution, the British had expanded their empire almost across the globe. The first years of this grand expansion had witnessed the Ottoman Turks and Mongolians being crushed beneath the iron boot of Imperialism. When Turkish and Mongolian swordsmen met the might of the British army on land, when iron and steel met gunpowder, it was a foregone conclusion. This is not to say that the British easily defeated their enemies, with numerous battles raging over several years and land gained and lost, but eventually the last cities fell and peace was restored. With the advent of steam, long gone was the threat that pirates in their sailing ships had ever caused, as well as the odd American frigate that might try to test the British resolve. 
 
 Starting in 1860, a series of running skirmishes along the British American border further pointed to the tension between the two nations. The tension finally culminated with a pitched naval battle just off the coast of Washington where the British fleet of monitors faced off against three times their number of sailing frigates. Though outgunned, the American fleet soundly defeating the British, forcing a stalemate that would last another two years before a cease fire could be called. 
 
 It was during this cease fire that disaster struck. On Sunday morning at 9:51 GMT, December 11th, 1862, strange vehicles were seen in the skies. These vehicles, resembling like great birds to the British, slowly droned over London. Moments later, a great flash of light, brighter than the sun itself, blew across the city. When the dust had finally settled, little of the city still stood. This great flash, known later as `` The day of reckoning'', was the first step in his imperial eminence and protector of the weak, Emperor Ghandi's bid to finally punish the insolence of the upstart nation. Over the course of the next two weeks, strange submersible ships sank every last British ship, while great ships bristling with guns pounded the cities into rubble. The war was swift, and devastating, but it was not to be the end, as will be covered in the next chapter: Chapter 13, Britain and `` The Bomb.''
