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The End of the Monarchy, the Amalian Civil War (1650 - 1689)
1667 - Kingdom of Amali begins to pass reforms attempting to liberalize and pacify the public after La Rivolta di Ibania resulting in a two week campaign in the Iria state's capital and surrounding regions. Several thousands wounded on both sides.
1668 - Revolutionary government, lead by Governor Lucon Teba, is established in Ibania after the first wave of reformations only supporting the nobility's claims to representation. Reforms allocate for every thousand men below nobility, they count as one vote. Each noble's vote counts for one - male or female.
1669 - Monarchy attempts to establish itself as the de facto government. Sends in La Guardia de Sudiria to dislodge the Revolutionary government. Revolutionary government temporarily removed but rioters in the city force the guard back out due to constant engagements. La Guardia de Sudiria reforms in the southeast of Iria and receives substantial reinforcements. The Revolutionary Government sets up the House of Representatives to represent the will of the people.
Revolutionary government raises army of 10,000 men and women to defend Ibania from the Royalists. Due to a lack of available weaponry, only ten thousand soldiers are enlisted and begin basic training in firearms management. Several thousand more rioters take to the streets, preparing blockades and homemade traps to help against the Royalists. Thousands of militiamen and women flood the city with firearms, bringing the total to 22,000 combat-ready militia members.
La Guardia de Sudiria launches a campaign against the city, starting on the outskirts. They number 16,000 with several cannon batteries that open up on the city's outer defenses. The militia remain within the city and suffer several hundred in casualties. Due to the city's size, and the newness of these weapons, most of the interior of the city is safe and is used as the base of operations. The battle ensues for a few days as the city is ravaged by the conflict. The cannons are seized by the rebels when they enter the city; the city's streets are too small the further in they go to effectively use them on the offense. The cannons are incorporated to the city's defense and use makeshift canister shots of eating utensils, debris, and shrapnel bits.
La Guardia de Sudiria withdraws after a stalemate in the city, costing them a total of around 3,500 lives to the rebel's roughly 4,800. The rebels begin to swell in numbers after the de facto victory, having proven themselves in the first battle of many to come. Recruitment swells to over 35,000 active and trained personnel with factories producing standardized weapons and munitions for the rebels. Another 20,000-odd volunteers are also in training during this time. The Revolutionary Army sweeps through Idiria and prepares defenses along major roads and cities. By the last week of Foa, the state is in the hands of the Revolutionaries.
Several campaigns take place to try and take back the province but fail as the revolutionaries have dug in too deeply now. The Royalists begin to build up their own forces in an attempt to force the fledgling army to back down as the nation can field over several million in peace time, Idiria barely able to pass a million at maximum and with as few production issues as possible.
1670 - The Three Week Battle begins at the border city of Castilo. Castilo is important because it's one of the major cities that bridges the gap of the Riviera Ardella - it is also the last standing bridge that the Revolutionaries need to prevent the Kingdoms forces from entering the now in-revolt territory. To the rebels, it also pushes enemy forces out of their home territory and removes an enemy's headquarters. By this time the Republicans numbered close to 82,000 active and trained soldiers with the Monarchy's 93,000-odd soldiers.
Skirmishes break out across the other border towns as the Monarchy's forces attempt to retake them. A central garrisoning force rallies out from Castilo and begins to conquer small towns to the north of the town. The Amalian forces in the border towns hold out against the attacks but the small garrisons in the southern towns are overrun quickly. The 4th Esercito met the Monarchy's forces and fought them to a stalemate. The battle saw just over 3,000 combined dead but the Monarchy's forces were ill-equipped to continue such an advance. They withdrew to Castilo for resupplying as word of a second army group marching south to cut off their retreat was received. They pulled back to Castilo but were harassed along the way by militiamen who kept to the trees and the 4th Esercito who had issues keeping up with them and maintaining unit cohesion.
1671 - The House of Representatives convenes to discuss their demands for the Monarchy in exchange for not pursuing independence or true revolution. They are:
1. The dissolution of the "one-for-one thousand" system,
2. The dismantlement of the noble system,
3. Removal of military command from the monarchy,
4. Power of the state transferred to an elected official.
They notarized the letter by the end of the summer and sent it off to the King of Amali's palace with several prisoners of war who were allowed to leave, rather than sending their own diplomats. The King was reportedly laughing at the demands and tore up the letter but history showed he never actually read it, instead issuing that the leaders of the Revolutionaries were to be hung, drawn, and quartered with the eldest child of each revolutionary's family executed in front of the families.
The Monarchy's forces prepared to retake Castilo and the surrounding areas, launching the first of a three month long campaign in the border region known as the Three Month Campaign. The Monarchy deployed the Ejército de los Angeles Desierto, a demihuman army group to aid in the battle. They were instructed to commit as much damage as possible to weaken the area for continued occupation by the rebels. This is cited as the beginning of Amalian military doctrine - to fight wars brutally and effectively as to force the enemy to remember why the peace table existed in the first place. The campaign saw massive upheavals in population as refugees flooded the Republican-held and Monarchy-held territories alike to flee the battles. The area south of Castilo became a depopulated wasteland up until the last five years of the war.
The Three Month Campaign has been named Prueba de Sangre as it was the single most costly campaign throughout the course of the entire war. It also demonstrated the lengths the Republican and Monarchy forces were willing to go to seek victory. The campaign ended with the practical stalling of the entire civil war as a great many resources went into the region to keep it under one occupational force or the other. The Republican forces sought to draw out the conflict, which they succeed to some degree, while the Monarchy forces sought pitched, open battles to sunder the Republicans' military forces. Of the 77,517 men in the Republican army, a combined 17,357 men were killed, missing, or wounded. The Monarchy's deployed 94,448-strong army suffered a massive 20,334 killed, wounded, and missing. Over 100,000 civilians were displaced or killed by the ensuing combat.
The end of the campaign brought about many pains for both sides. For the Republicans, some elements of the House of Representatives were actively seeking an early end to the conflict, favorable to them in some degree, but an end nonetheless. The Republican forces were also running out of money as the levied taxes were proving to not be enough to fund such a massive war. This forced them to seek a way to replace long, drawn wars.
The Monarchy's noblemen were drawing increasingly worried due to unrest spreading throughout the Kingdom. With the success of the sustainability of the Republican revolutionaries, many of the cities loyal to the Monarchy noted large groups of people leaving to join the revolters. As well, demonstrations were beginning in states surrounding the revolutionaries which began to disrupt what was thought to be an easy and winnable war.
Due to the immense strain of the Three Month Campaign, both forces withdrew and recuperated for the remainder of the year. Battle tactics were shifted and the Republican forces drew up new plans to shoot for a better conclusion to the war.
1672 - Kingdom of Amali collapses into a civil war as the Republican forces declare themselves to be the true government of the People of Amali. The House of Representatives approved unanimously that the State of Idria is the first state of the Republic of Amali with the city of Ibania declared the capital of the new republic.
The Kingdom calls upon its reserves, executes possible traitors, and seizes their land. It deposits said land into the hands of generals to control and replenish their own forces.
1678 - Fighting continues, mercenaries begin to pour into the regional boundaries of Amali.
The Rise of the Republic (1689 - 1711)
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Wars of the East (1711 - 1720)
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The Amalian "Civil War" (1777 - 1785)
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The Gilded Age (1785 - 1830)
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Red Insurrections (1830 - 1852)
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The Staol Wars (1852 - 1900)
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