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{{Infobox military conflict
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|conflict    = First Great War
|date        = 1896-1902
|place       = [[Sarpedon]], [[Crona]], [[Urcea]]
|image       = Balkanskata voina Photobox.jpg
|caption     = Clockwise from top right: [[Aciria]]n forces retreating from Zilemia; [[the Cape|Capetian]] revolutionary soldiers in an ambush of [[Kiravia]]n colonial convoys; Aliança heads of state gathering in [[Alahuela]]; [[Caphiria]]n heavy artillery near Constanz
|result      = Concordiae Powers victory
|combatant1  = '''The Aliança'''
:{{flag|Aciria}}
:{{flag|Burgundie}}
:{{flag|Cartadania}}
:{{flag|Pelaxia}}
:{{flag|Veltorina}}
:{{flag|the Cape}} (1897)
:{{flag|Arcerion}} (1897-1898)
|combatant2  = '''Concordiae Powers'''
:{{flag|Caphiria}}
:{{flag|Kiravia}}
:{{flag|Alstin}}
:{{flag|Paulastra}} (1897-1898)
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The '''First Great War''', also called '''Saint Brendan's War''' in [[Kiravia]], was a global war that lasted from [[1896]] to [[1902]]. It also included a [[Red Interregnum|major civil war]] in [[Urcea]] which was partly related to the conflict. The war was primarily restrained to [[Occident]]al powers, and in many cases the conflict was the result of disputes, claims, and rivalries dating back more than a hundred years.

By the end of the war, [[Caphiria]] had largely succeeded in establishing hegemony in [[Sarpedon]]. It annexed [[Veltorina]] and forced [[Cartadania]] and [[Pelaxia]] into a humiliating peace. In [[Crona]], [[Alstin]] and [[Kiravia]] managed to make gains against [[Burgundie]] in the islands off of Crona and the last of it mainland Cronan holdings, but failed to severely damage the Burgoignesc global colonial empire elsewhere; In particular its major possessions in [[Vallos]]. Crona also saw brief fighting in the southeast that resulted in the establishment of [[the Cape]] as an independent state. [[Levantia]] was the sole theater in which Caphiria and its allies were largely defeated, as Aliança-aligned [[House de Weluta]] was restored to the Urcean throne against the Caphirian-supported regency of [[Gréagóir FitzRex]].

Although the war ended in favor of the Concordiae Powers, the resulting peace was far from conclusive. Caphiria had failed to obtain [[Lariana]] from Urcea, inaugurating a series of diplomatic and military schemes that coalesced into the [[Ten Year Plan (Caphiria)|Ten Year Plan]]. Cartadania and Pelaxia began to chafe under Caphirian hegemony, seeking Levantine allies in the future in the event of a future conflict. The various unresolved issues of the war, combined with the lack of any kind of [[League of Nations|international mediating organization]], set the groundwork for a [[Second Great War]] to be fought three decades after the end of the first.
==Background==
==Sarpedon Theater==
===Capelranco Campaign===
[[File:Magersfontein_Observation_Balloon.jpg|right|thumb|Burgoignesc observation balloon to direct coastal artillery.]]
The Capelranco Campaign from October 17, [[1897]] - June 25, [[1898]] was a series of naval battles, blockages, and amphibious landings undertaken by the [[Caphiria]]n and [[Kiravia]]n navies to contain the [[Navy of Burgundie]]'s western fleets in the [[Capelranco Archipelago]] and generally in [[Equatorial Ostiecia]]n waters. The joint [[Caphiria|Caphiro]]-[[Kiravia]]n strategy was to engage [[Burgoignesc Security Forces]] every few months in an effort to keep [[Burgundie]] on the defensive. The campaign was a success, with 60% of forces garrisoned in [[Equatorial Ostiecia]] remaining in the constituent country throughout the campaign, allowing [[Caphiria]] to largely fight a one-front war in [[Sarpedon]]. On June 25th, in the Battle of Catavis Cut, the [[Navy of Burgundie]] broke the back of the [[Caphiria|Caphiro]]-[[Kiravia]]n forces and ended the campaign.

==Global Theater==
===Emirati War===
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[[File:Burgoignesc Fusiliers Marine 1887.jpg|left|200px]] [[File:Burg_Colonial_Signal_Corps_1888.jpg|left|200px]]
Between [[Burgundie]], the [[Pursat|Emirate of Apfumhat.]] and eventually the [[Pursat|Sultanate of Pursat]]. [[1871]]-[[1887]].
1880s Observation balloons, the first recorded use of a lighter than air vehicle to drop a device for a military purpose. Dropped a fused grenade.
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===War of St. Brendan's Strait===
[[File:Burg_Colonial_Infantry_1888.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Burgoignesc South Levantine Trading Company (BSLTC) company infantry in Patron 1888 Overseas Engagement Uniforms]]
{{Main|War of St. Brendan's Strait}}
The culmination of the [[Kiro-Burgoignesc Wars]], the [[War of St. Brendan's Strait]] was a conflict between [[Burgundie]] and [[Kiravia]] to settle territorial disputes in the confluences of the [[Odoneru Ocean]], [[Tainean Sea]], and [[Polynesian Sea]], or as landlubbers would call it, the island chains between [[Crona]] and [[Sarpedon]]. The war lasted for a year and a half, from March of [[1895]] through August of [[1896]]. Due to the equatorial climate and the advancement of technology, it was fought year-round, one of the first wars to do so in the [[Occidental]] canon, and is considered, along with the [['97 Rising]] to mark the beginning of truly mechanized/modern warfare. It saw the first use of machine guns used by occidentals, against occidentals, solidified the preference for the pre-dreadnought over ironclads for naval ships of the line for "big gun navies" like [[Kiravia]] and [[Urcea]], and the development of {{wpl|Jeune École}} by the [[Navy of Burgundie]].
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===Capetian revolution===
==='97 Rising in Urcea===
{{Main|'97 Rising}}
===Washakara War===
==Results==
==Legacy==
===Second Great War===
{{Main|Second Great War}}
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