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From [[1702]]-[[1876]] the Colonie Sud Moll was administered by the [[Burgoignesc South Levantine Trading Company|Bourgondii Royal Trading Company]] (BRTC). They set up Fort St. Matius which served as a trading post and garrison post for soldiers and a small naval contingent. | From [[1702]]-[[1876]] the Colonie Sud Moll was administered by the [[Burgoignesc South Levantine Trading Company|Bourgondii Royal Trading Company]] (BRTC). They set up Fort St. Matius which served as a trading post and garrison post for soldiers and a small naval contingent. | ||
They were unmolested by the natives for the first few years as they remained focused on the one fort and some modest agricultural fields to supplement their fishing. In [[1709]], three villages banded together and assaulted the crop fields, burning them down. In retaliation the garrison started a pacification campaign. The Coastal Clearances of 1710 were a violent period of pillaging and raiding the native Austal Vallois fishing villages on the coast and forcing them to submit to a tribute system or vacate the coast. 7 villages were "pacified", 3 submitting to tributary status, two moving inland, and two particularly resistant | They were unmolested by the natives for the first few years as they remained focused on the one fort and some modest agricultural fields to supplement their fishing. In [[1709]], three villages banded together and assaulted the crop fields, burning them down. In retaliation the garrison started a pacification campaign. The Coastal Clearances of 1710 were a violent period of pillaging and raiding the native Austal Vallois fishing villages on the coast and forcing them to submit to a tribute system or vacate the coast. 7 villages were "pacified", 3 submitting to tributary status, two moving inland, and two particularly resistant villages being burned and its inhabitants hunted down. | ||
In [[1722]], a new magistrate arrived who was charged with subjugating the whole of the island. He held a ''Gran Promenade'' and all the leaders/elders of the villages on Sud Moll were invited to hold council. Each attendee was given a robe and a headress that was made for the ceremony and fine foods from both local and [[Levantia|Levantine]] cuisines were prepared. The two week long feast was punctuated by both group and individual negotiations and by the end of time the magistrate had orchestrated a compex web of interlocking treaties and agreements that brought all of the villages on Sud Moll into the fold as either tributaries, protectorates, or colonial settlements. This massive success was touted across the [[Kingdom of Dericania]] as a model of colonial expansion, but it was not without its critics. | |||
By [[1732]] the colonial administration had truly mapped, censused and envoloped the whole of the island. Forts St. Giles and Fort St. Aumand were established as fortified towns for [[Occidental]]s but the remainder of the territory was reserved and protected for the native Austal Valloise population. | |||
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