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Despite the near ubiquitous support for the regime among the higher ranking officers of the Regal Army, support for the regime was limited at best among the lower ranking officers and enlisted personnel. As of 1895, the vast majority of the enlisted men of the Regal Army was comprised of [[Social_class_in_Urcea#Freeman_2|freemen]], who felt no fondness for and extracted no benefit from the Rifled State. Although the Army remained united through the very earliest months of the [['97 Rising]] - namely July and August - widespread discontentment filled the army as guerilla engagements increased in regularity toward late summer. On 2 October 1897, the 4th Highlanders regiment - a regiment from [[South Ionia]] - voted 1,702 - 8 to defect from the Regal Army and declare their allegiance to [[Patrick III of Urcea|Patrick de Weluta]]. Their [[Ranks_in_the_Urcean_Armed_Forces#Senior_Officers|Práfati]] subsequently ordered the white flag raised on their position close to guerilla lines, subsequently being greeted by the militia with applause. The 4th Highlanders were the first unit of the Regal Army to defect, setting a precedent followed by more than fifty other regiments in October 1897. After "defection October", high command cracked down on votes being held within any unit and recalled many officers whose loyalty were in question. Despite this, units would defect in a trickle throughout the war, although units responsible for fighting non-Urcean forces typically remained loyal to the Regal Army out of a sense of national obligation. | Despite the near ubiquitous support for the regime among the higher ranking officers of the Regal Army, support for the regime was limited at best among the lower ranking officers and enlisted personnel. As of 1895, the vast majority of the enlisted men of the Regal Army was comprised of [[Social_class_in_Urcea#Freeman_2|freemen]], who felt no fondness for and extracted no benefit from the Rifled State. Although the Army remained united through the very earliest months of the [['97 Rising]] - namely July and August - widespread discontentment filled the army as guerilla engagements increased in regularity toward late summer. On 2 October 1897, the 4th Highlanders regiment - a regiment from [[South Ionia]] - voted 1,702 - 8 to defect from the Regal Army and declare their allegiance to [[Patrick III of Urcea|Patrick de Weluta]]. Their [[Ranks_in_the_Urcean_Armed_Forces#Senior_Officers|Práfati]] subsequently ordered the white flag raised on their position close to guerilla lines, subsequently being greeted by the militia with applause. The 4th Highlanders were the first unit of the Regal Army to defect, setting a precedent followed by more than fifty other regiments in October 1897. After "defection October", high command cracked down on votes being held within any unit and recalled many officers whose loyalty were in question. Despite this, units would defect in a trickle throughout the war, although units responsible for fighting non-Urcean forces typically remained loyal to the Regal Army out of a sense of national obligation. | ||
In December 1897, a command structure for the defected units was established known as the Army of Legitimate Governance, also known as the Legitimist Army. The Legitimist Army fell under the nominal command of retired [[Ranks_in_the_Urcean_Armed_Forces#Field,_Flag_and_Staff_Officers|Lecáti Princeps]] Car Ermano, though Ermano was largely a figurehead due to his advanced age and physical disability. Division-sized formations were established at this time. Throughout much of 1898 and 1899, the divisions operated largely autonomously, with three "primary" groups being observed: "seconded" forces, or those who chose to put themselves under joint forces command of [[Burgoignesc]] leaders; "defensive" forces, divisions and regiments only focused on defending their home provinces from Regal authority, and; "independent" forces, those which operated in an offensive capacity against the Regal Army but in no clear organized way. [[Patrick III of Urcea|Patrick de Weluta]] was given significant oversight of the Legitimist Army in March 1899, although his role remained that of civilian controller of the military rather than as military leader. | In December 1897, a command structure for the defected units was established known as the Army of Legitimate Governance, also known as the Legitimist Army. The Legitimist Army fell under the nominal command of retired [[Ranks_in_the_Urcean_Armed_Forces#Field,_Flag_and_Staff_Officers|Lecáti Princeps]] Car Ermano, though Ermano was largely a figurehead due to his advanced age and physical disability. Division-sized formations were established at this time. Throughout much of 1898 and 1899, the divisions operated largely autonomously, with three "primary" groups being observed: "seconded" forces, or those who chose to put themselves under joint forces command of [[Burgoignesc]] leaders; "defensive" forces, divisions and regiments only focused on defending their home provinces from Regal authority, and; "independent" forces, those which operated in an offensive capacity against the Regal Army but in no clear organized way. [[Patrick III of Urcea|Patrick de Weluta]] was given significant oversight of the Legitimist Army in March 1899, although his role remained that of civilian controller of the military rather than as military leader. On 4 October, Ermano died; Patrick, in consultation with the senior division leaders of the Army, appointed Lecáti Sean Domeo as Commanding General, promoting him to Lecáti Princeps. Domeo, with the support of Patrick, began to reorganize the Legitimist Army. The "Legitimist Front", the name for the unorganized various pro-[[National Pact (Urcea)|National Pact]] and pro-Welute militias, were folded into the Legitimist Army as [[Royal Army Volunteers (Urcea)|Royal Army Volunteer]] "regiments", although the actual organized sizes of these forces varied greatly. Domeo also established a set of {{wp|Corps#Operational_formation|corps}} of three division commands and a varied number of "volunteer regiments", with senior division commanders in each grouping assuming corps command. From 1899 through the end of the war in 1902, corps remained the largest units of the Legitimist Army, and at its peak in mid-1902 the Army fielded eight corps. The focus on corps established the modern convention of corps as the basic unit of the Royal and Imperial Army. Once the war ended and [[House de Weluta]] was restored, the command apparatus of the Legitimist Army became the new hierarchy of the restored Royal Army. Many units of the Regal Army were incorporated wholesale, but full units who fought under the banner of the Regency were gradually mustered out over the next four years. Soldiers and officers who fought for the Regency were generally subjects of discrimination, and by [[1909]] all former Regal Army personnel were no longer in service. | ||
===Creation of the modern army=== | ===Creation of the modern army=== | ||