Algosh coup

The Algosh coup refers to an event that took place on 8 September 2009 during the War of the Northern Confederation, when military forces loyal to the Algosh people seized control of or otherwise laid claim to the remaining portions of the Northern Confederation. The coup was the primary event in the formation of Algoquona as an independent state.

Background

The Algosh, who had been a member of the Confederation, made up a disproportionate share of the Confederation's military. A people with a strong martial tradition, their influence within the Confederation's armed forces led to the Algosh accruing rising influence in the Confederation against a backdrop of significant internal discord within the Confederation. As of late summer 2009, a relatively late point in the War of the Northern Confederation, the Algosh remained the only major Confederation member still fighting. Algosh society's increasing martial culture had taken on significant nationalist elements, and beginning in the early 1990s some Algosh began to agitate for an ethnic Algosh nation-state. On 30 August 2009, the Algosh hierarchs - the political and social leaders of the Algosh - agreed to seize control of the remainder of the federation.

Overview

Many of the parts of the Northern Confederation that had not been occupied by or aligned with Urcea had been garrisoned by or were otherwise close to the position of Algosh forces. Accordingly, on the morning of 8 September 2009, Algosh garrisons throughout the Confederation seized control of government buildings, key infrastructure, media offices, and other strategic positions. Most of the Confederation's remaining members were caught off-guard and had no opportunity to resist, such as Pachaug. Other parts, such as the Honeoye, the Gowandis, the Canandaigua, and the Saranac peoples and the city of Housatonic, held out until late September or early October. As the military seizures occurred, the Algosh Hierarchs proclaimed a new Hierarchy of Algoquona, a state controlled by the Algosh people with other peoples and polities serving a subservient, dominated role relative to the Algosh. The new state claimed to be the legal successor of the Northern Confederation, and carried on the war against Urcea.

Legacy

The coup would be the defining event in Cusinaut for the first three decades of the 21st century. The establishment of Algosh dominion was never accepted by most of the newly subordinate peoples, and Algoquona would be rife with civil discord for the remainder of its almost decade and a half-long existence. Although the new state and its conquests were temporarily recognized by Urcea in the Treaty of Narasseta, the resistance posed by the locals would invite further Urceo-Occidental intervention and lead to a series of military interventions against Algoquona, beginning with Operation Mission Shield and culminating with the Final War of the Deluge. The establishment of the Algosh state in place of the Northern Confederation also lead to the establishment of novel confederations following Algoquona's collapse, most notably the Chenango Confederacy and Ashkenang. Following the Final War of the Deluge, the Algosh would remain a sovereign people with their own state - the Algosh Republic - constrained only to areas where they made up an ethnic majority.