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In [[1775]], there was a slave revolt that killed 5,406 [[Occidental]]s, mostly women and children, and was brutally suppressed. 2,400 slaves being reported as killed during the revolt and the retributions thereafter. The event decimated an entire generation of the [[Occidental]]-class and in the coming years the lack of a young administrative class was felt and the men, many of whom were becoming more and more despondent, were unable or unwilling to effectively manage the mining operations. Alcoholism and violent became commonplace and in [[1778]] a second slave revolt occured and entire towns worth of people were killed because the men were too drunk to protect them. As the coastally based administration failed to understand the full scope of the problem, they were slow to react and by the summer of [[1779]] the slaves had full control of the mines and had fortified a number of mining towns. In a disastrous military campaign, the colonial administrators sent 500 troops to try to regain control of the region but over the next three months the troops were caught in a battle of attrition and the Colonel in charge refused to report the poor showing for fear he would be perceived as ridiculous. | In [[1775]], there was a slave revolt that killed 5,406 [[Occidental]]s, mostly women and children, and was brutally suppressed. 2,400 slaves being reported as killed during the revolt and the retributions thereafter. The event decimated an entire generation of the [[Occidental]]-class and in the coming years the lack of a young administrative class was felt and the men, many of whom were becoming more and more despondent, were unable or unwilling to effectively manage the mining operations. Alcoholism and violent became commonplace and in [[1778]] a second slave revolt occured and entire towns worth of people were killed because the men were too drunk to protect them. As the coastally based administration failed to understand the full scope of the problem, they were slow to react and by the summer of [[1779]] the slaves had full control of the mines and had fortified a number of mining towns. In a disastrous military campaign, the colonial administrators sent 500 troops to try to regain control of the region but over the next three months the troops were caught in a battle of attrition and the Colonel in charge refused to report the poor showing for fear he would be perceived as ridiculous. | ||
For the next 10 years the slaves and colonial troops fought over the territory of the silver mines with reinforcements being sent from the [[Duchy of Burgoundi]] and then from the [[Kandahari-Pukhtun colony]] but the slaves worked with local tribes and independentists to bolster their numbers. In [[1793]], the colonial administration was struck by a typhoid epidemic that crippled the colonial leadership and the [[Duchy of Burgoundi|Bourgoignesc crown]] took direct control, establishing a viceroyalty. The colony limped along for 3 more years but, devoid of the cash flow of the silver mines and a growing and violent independence movement, the colonists were repatriated back to the [[Duchy of Burgoundi]] at great expense to the Duke. This repatriation would become a sticking point as other slave revolts and crises forced the settler stock to abandon more and more [[Burgoignesc colonial empire|colonies]] through the early 19th century and their metropoles refused to take them back in. | |||
The newly abandoned lands formed a number of ethnically based tribal factions that were nominally united under the banners of the Emirate of Apfumhat on the north and the Sultanate of Pursat in the north. These states, surrounded by the [Istroya Oriental colony|Istroya Oriental]] and [[Kandahari-Pukhtun colony|Kandahari-Pukhtun colonies]] were largely cut off from the world, but they, particularly the Sultanate of Pursat, created a network of spies, agitators, and most importantly communicators that would incite and coordinate anti-colonial movements throughout that period. Pursat became a haven for runaway slaves from the [[Kandahari-Pukhtun colony]] and formed an army of these runaways to invade the colony in [[1803]] which exacerbated the existing issues of the colony. | |||
After the collapse of the [[Burgoignesc colonial empire]] in southern [[Daria]], Pursat and Apfumhat exercised broad control of the maritime trade routes and pushed their interests across the region for the remainder of the century. | |||
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