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===Late modern era===

[[File:Charette.png|right|200px|thumb|Joan-Charles Maronnet rallying troops at the Battle of Kydo, 1821]]

Following the abandonment of the colony in [[1817]] by the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company]] the shoguns and daimyos 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 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.  

==== 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.

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]].