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The Far East Colony was established by the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Ularien Trading Company]] in [[1638]] to put pressure on the northern flank of the [[Myanga Ayil Khanate]]. The original colonial effort was a series of military outposts in the lands of the various factions along the border of the [[Myanga Ayil Khanate]] from where they made incursions. Using their diplomatic prowess, the colonial administrators gained more and more land through protectorates, doctrine of lapse, buying titles and bribing officials as they worked their way inland. | The Far East Colony was established by the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Ularien Trading Company]] in [[1638]] to put pressure on the northern flank of the [[Myanga Ayil Khanate]]. The original colonial effort was a series of military outposts in the lands of the various factions along the border of the [[Myanga Ayil Khanate]] from where they made incursions. Using their diplomatic prowess, the colonial administrators gained more and more land through protectorates, doctrine of lapse, buying titles and bribing officials as they worked their way inland. | ||
In [[1817]], facing financial difficulties at home and a series of peasant rebellions that decimated the profitability of the spice trade in the colonies, the [[History_of_Dericania#Duchy_of_Marialanus|Duchy of Marialanus]] sold the [[Far East Colony]] back to Oyashima. | |||
===Late modern history=== | |||
*Republics period (bring this from talk and sanitize it) | |||
*[[Iles_Evangeline#Varshan_conquest|Island war with Varshan]] 1850s leading to a flight of the Oyashi people to avoid the slavers to mainland Oyashima | |||
*The [[First Great War|First]] and [[Second Great War]]s had little impact on Oyashima. | |||
[[File:Charette.png|right|200px|thumb|Joan-Charles Maronnet rallying troops at the Battle of Kydo, 1821]] | |||
[[File: 1807cantabros.jpg|174px|thumb|Marine infantry uniform used by the Burgoignesc Grand Crona Trading Company in support of the Soldier’s Republic of Harimoto, 1819-1825]] | |||
Following the abandonment of the [[Far East Colony]] in [[1817]] by the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Marialanii Ularien Trading Company]] the native Oyashi daimyos and ambitious Matsutori mainlanders formed various factions and started fighting to control the territory. The Matsutorine traditionalists wanted an empire similar to those of the Toshimochi dynasty with an ethnically and culturally Matsutorine dominated government of the whole of the Kita-Hanto. The Danehonger imperial traditionalists sought a resurgence of the Ai dynasty with a dominant Danehonger court to rule over the whole expanse of the [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] [[Far East Colony|colony]]. Oyashimi monarchists were looking to create an ethnically Oyashimi micro-state with a monarchy at its head, not inclusive of the Matsutorine or Danehonger lands or people. The Matsutorine modernists sought to maintain strong connections with [[Burgundie]] and to the [[Occidental world]]. They included 6 regiments of the army and a squadron of the navy with majority of the ships for the colony. | |||
Feeling that their role as arbitrator of state power was going to be taken advantage of by the ever changing claimants on sole power the modernists in the military broke from the “state” and fortified the colonial capital forming the Soldier’s Republic of Harimoto, in [[1818]]. They expelled the various other factions and set up check-points into the city. In March, [[1819]] the Siege of Harimoto was laid by the Matsutori traditionalist forces. Lacking firearms and mostly consisting of peasant levies the siege was broken in a few weeks as the long range guns from the ships were brought to the city’s walls and pounded the undisciplined levy camps. They scattered and the remaining core of trained samurai had no means of breaching the walls. They fell back 20 kilometers and hoped to draw the republicans into open battle. An emissary was sent to invite the “cowardly westerners” to the field of battle. They ignored the request and set about creating a foreign mission to garner support. | |||
Their republican sentiments fell on deaf ears strongly entrenched in monarchism, but they did return with some [[Burgoignesc Grand Crona Trading Company]] troops and canons who hoped to further disrupt the monopoly of the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company]] in [[Audonia]]. The troops were led by Joan-Charles Marronet, a [[Burgoignesc|Burgoignesc]] captain of the 3rd Colonial Artillery Battery of the 5th Grand Crona Artillery Regiment. Joan-Charles set about training the army in combined warfare with the effective use of cavalry, line infantry (mixed musketeers and halbrediers), artillery, logistics trains. The following June, [[1820]], he led an expedition of two infantry regiments, a squadron of horse archers, a squadron of lancers, and a battery of artillery. They stuck to the rivers as they were followed by a train of barges. They made 60 kilometers a day until they reached the end of the river system and then had to switch to pack horses. They travelled for another three weeks until they met the traditionalists at their capital of Kydo. The palisaded city was guarded by its garrison of 2,000 soldiers plus an additional force of 250 samurai and 8,000 levy troops. Marronet’s troops set up camp about 4 kilometers from the city along its main road. They built up a [[Latinic]] earthen fort and entrenched their canons. Over the next week the traditionalist forces probed Marronet’s camp and attempted to disrupt the supply chain. On [[May]] 5th, [[1821]] Marronet’s decided to attack. His cannons fired heated cannonballs through the palisades and set the wooden buildings on fire. Under cover of the cannon fire the horse archers swarmed the distracted levy troops. They scattered as predicted but caught against the flood of city residents streaming out of the burning city. The lancers, close on the heels of the archers, plunged deep into the panicked crowd. Stabbing and crushing hundreds of the levy troops and the city’s fleeing masses the cavalry turned the field into a slaughterhouse. | |||
As the cannons quieted, the infantry advanced over the broken ground. Their slow approach made them easy pickings for the wall archers who stalwartly stood in defense as the city burned behind them. Pushing forward nonetheless, the infantry, under the personal command of Marronet, reached the splintered walls and the musketeers opened fire on the remaining defenders. After the first volley the halberdiers charged through the holes. Many were spooked when they reached the far side of the walls and found themselves face to face with an inferno. Many tried to fall back but were blocked by those behind them. Seeing the infantry bunch up Marronet assumed the halberdiers had come in contact with defenders. He withdrew a large portion of the musketeers and sent them to support the cavalry mopping up the levies. Many of the halberdiers caught in the crush were burned alive and the remainder were unable to capture the city’s battlements. By days end the city was practically undefended but Marronet was not the victor. He withdrew his troops to their base and learned of his fatal decision at the walls. He and his commanders decided to wait until the city had burned out and then to attempt to make an entrance. After another week of waiting he proposed to the officers to make another attempt. His combined arms tactics had lost credibility with the men so the attack would be just the infantry, unsupported by artillery or cavalry. The troops marched out again across the broken ground. | |||
Having been given a week to reorganize the traditionalist forces sent a swarm of cavalry troops to attack the slow moving infantry column. The halberdiers made a valiant effort, forming a tight square around the musketeers but the sheer number of cavalry overwhelmed them. By the time Marronet, who was with the infantry in the field, was able to signal to release his own cavalry, it was too late. The infantry square was crushed and Maronnet was stabbed in the left arm and his right leg was crushed under a horse hoof. The traditionalist cavalry returned to the city celebrating their total victory. The surviving infantry men and the wounded were brought back to the republican’s fort. Maronnet suffered the amputation of his whole left arm and the right leg below the knee. After coming too from his shock-coma, he ordered, in the following order: Kiravian whisky, his saddle be retrofitted to address his new condition, and that a combined attack be made to secure the city while the traditionalists were celebrating their victory. After a liberal application of the whisky, he was carried up to the ramparts to watch as his forces worked together in perfect unison to flush the celebrating enemy from the city and to take the walls. | |||
Having crushed the main element of the traditionalist forces the Republic of Kydo was formed and joined with the Soldier’s Republic of Harimoto and the lands between them, creating the Republic of Matsumori. The elements of the [[Burgoignesc Grand Crona Trading Company]] returned with honors, but Maronnet resigned his post and elected to stay on as the Deputy Minister of War and Adjunct Assistant Foreign Minister. | |||
==== Republic of Matsumori==== | |||
The appeal of republicanism appealed to the fledgling middle class in the nascent and violent Empire of Kanto. In [[1822]], they appealed to now Lieutenant Colonel Joan-Charles Maronnet to lead a military takeover. Showing the letter to President Mitsimoto Hirambi, Maronnet proposed that he should led a force of government forces and incorporate Kanto into the republic. This was met with cautious support by the ministers, but the President and the Minister of War were very supportive and the measure passed. After a four year campaign the saw the total destruction of 15 cities and the loss of an estimated 280,000 Kanotonese lives, Marronet secured the whole of Kita-Hanto for the Republic. However, in so doing he was disgraced for his punishing methods. While he was given a variety of honors he was asked to retire from his ministerial posts. Being seen as a hero in [[Burgundie]] still, he returned and took a commission in the Great Prince’s army as an artillery colonel. | |||
Following the acquisition, the country underwent a series of censuses to best determine how to distribute the representation. Hawks supported under representation for the Kantonese and ultimately won the day. The 1826 Congress of Representatives featured representatives from 115 districts in Mutsutorine majority areas and only 94 from Danehonger majority areas, with a paltry 4 seats for Oyashimi areas. Conflicts resulted in a redraft of the districts in [[1849]] to 115 to 112 with an option to review in 20 years. | |||
For much of the next twenty years the underlying ethnic tension was quieted by slow but constant reform. In [[1868]], as the potential of a referendum became clear the Mutsutorine majority became fearful of losing control of the country. A spate of violence towards Danehongers living in the western part of the country was met with a backlash of Danehonger citizens against their politicians and the Mutsutorine in general. The Danehonger Revolution saw sectarian violence, government crackdowns, and eventually the reestablishment of the separate nation of the Kingdom of Danehong on November 19th, [[1869]]. | |||
The Republic limped along for another 5 years. Having lost half of its tax base and some of its most talented politicians the country focused inward and sought to find a new identity and unifying purpose. | |||
====Varshani invasion of the Shauku archipelago==== | |||
{{Further|Shauku Archipelago|Iles_Evangeline#Varshan_conquest}} | |||
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====Kingdoms reunited==== | |||
In [[1874]] the parliament invited the head of the house of Toshimochi to reestablish a monarchy. Matsushita Toshimochi, of Oyashimi-descent, took on the reigns and established a constitutional monarchy. In the early 20th century, he peaceably reunited Matsumori and Danehong under the banner of the Dual Monarchic State of Oyashima with enshrined co-dominance of the Oyashimi and Danehong cultures in its new constitution of [[1911]]. | |||
In [[1937]] King Matsushita died without male issue. The throne was given to his older brother-in law Tanegashima Tadakage (Toshimochi), a hardliner who minimized the standing of the Danehongers and elevated the status of his fellow ethnic Musutorines. King Tanegashima ruled with an iron fist suppressing Danehonger culture, but he was a globalist and a modernist. He reestablished strong ties with [[Burgundie]] and its mechanisms of trade, specifically the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company]]. He poured money into the sleepy fishing village of Rumioshiro turning it into a major shipping hub and by the end of the [[Second Great War]]s, the primary shipping terminal for the [[Merchant Marine of Burgundie ]] in northern [[Audonia]]. | |||
===Contemporary history=== | |||
After the [[Second Great War]] Oyashima | |||
==Politics== | ==Politics== | ||