Welcome & History of King's Bend
Welcome to King's Bend, my newest City Journal about a beautiful and historic British city, intersected by a great and wondrous river...
As always, you can expect stunning images, and I will also be paying extreme attention to detail, and making good use of the lot editor too. I am hoping to continue to push the bounds of SC4 in order to make a magical place that looks and feels real...a place for your imagination to run wild in...a place that feels alive. I also hope to update weekly as well!
Thank you, and enjoy!!
In 1801, during the ongoing
Great French War, Admiral John Jervis uttered the now famous words, "I do not say, my Lords, that the French will not come. I say only they will not come by sea."
Overshadowed throughout much of Britain's history by the Thames, the King's River was a tradeless route, devoid of settlement and concern. Yet,
King George III knew the river must still be protected, regardless of how unlikely it was that Napoleon would try and use the river to invade.
In 1803, the King sent a fleet to patrol the river, and they instituted a post along a rocky and cliff-strewn bend in the river. They named this point the King's Bend, or simply, King's Bend. Today, visitors can still stand where the fleet first docked and walked up the cliff into what is now known as King's Village, and the surrounding forest. The site is part of the
English Heritage registry, and some of the original naval village still remains intact.
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At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the post was abandoned. However, in 1817, rumours were spreading through London of a dissenting group of French expatriates that had traveled to the King's River in order to convene at the abandoned village and plot a French invasion. In order to dispel the rumours, and quell any possible dissent, King George III dispatched a small fleet back to the site. The supposed dissenters were never found, and there was never any evidence that they had been there. If they had, it has been lost to history, and will forever remain a mystery.
Still suspicious of the French, in one of his final acts before his death, King George III proclaimed that a permanent naval post be established at King's Bend. A watchtower was erected, which still stands today.
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The watchtower, however, was also abandoned upon King George III's death, likely because of the growing belief that the French dissent rumours had been nothing more than the result of the king's supposed mental illness. Yet, in 1825, his son and successor King George IV looked to establish a permanent towne at the site, and finally colonize the river.
Seeking new opportunities, hundreds of Londoners moved to the area, and began a new life and a new towne. Today, King's Bend is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2,143,532. The city is driven by commercial activity, tourism, an historic yet still active industrial center, and modern office and flat towers that line the banks of the bend.
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More to come...
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