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| conflict    = San Rositan invasion of Kenega
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| partof      = [[Kenegan War]]
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| caption     = From top right and in clockwise direction:<br>[[HMNS Kenega]] damaged under missile attack; Imperial troops of 3rd Battalion, [[Royal Erin Regiment]] in action in [[Kenega City]]; Two aircraft of the [[La Armada de San Rosito|San Rositan Navy]] above Kenega; San Rositan troops in [[Terelenga]]
| date        = Late 2022
| place       = Kenega, Northen Wishtonia
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| result      = San Rositan victory
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| combatant1  = [[File:Flag of Castile-La Mancha.svg|25px]] [[Vionna-Frankenlisch]]<br>
[[File:Kenega.jpg|25px]] [[Kenega]]
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| commander1  = [[File:Flag of Castile-La Mancha.svg|25px]] '''[[Charlotte, 5th Baroness Bamber|Baroness Bamber]]''' {{surrendered}}<br>
[[File:Flag of Castile-La Mancha.svg|25px]] [[Christina Wappelode]] {{surrendered}}<br><br>
[[File:Flag of Castile-La Mancha.svg|25px]] [[Sir Edwin Fitz-Bryce]] †
[[File:Kenega.jpg|25px]] '''[[Kendal Devarnum]]''' {{surrendered}}
| commander2  =  [[File:San rosito.png|25px]] [[Efrain Veracruz]]<br>
[[File:San rosito.png|25px]] [[Jorge Sepulveda]]
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| units1      = [[File:Flag of Castile-La Mancha.svg|25px]] [[Imperial Garrison of Kenega]]<br>
[[File:Kenega.jpg|25px]] [[Royal Gendarmerie (Kenega)|Royal Gendarmerie]]<br>
[[File:Kenega.jpg|25px]] [[Royal Coast Guard (Kenega)|Royal Coast Guard]]<br>
[[File:Kenega.jpg|25px]] [[Royal Park Ranger Service]]
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[[Ejército de San Rosito]]<br>
[[Fuerza Aérea de San Rosito]]
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| strength1   = '''Ground Forces'''<br>
[[File:Flag of Castile-La Mancha.svg|25px]] 2,200 troops, 75 armoured vehicles<br>
[[File:Kenega.jpg|25px]] around 4 battalions<br>
'''Naval Forces'''<br>
[[File:Flag of Castile-La Mancha.svg|25px]] 5 ships<br>
[[File:Kenega.jpg|25px]] 3 corvettes, 31 patrol cutters<br>
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[[File:Flag of Castile-La Mancha.svg|25px]] 24 aircraft<br>
[[File:Kenega.jpg|25px]] 10 turboprop aircraft, 125 helicopters
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The '''San Rositan invasion of Kenega''', named '''Operation Barracuda''' by the San Rositan military, was an operation launched in late 2022 by forces of the Republic of [[San Rosito]] to invade and capture the island of [[Kenega]] a protectorate of [[Vionna-Frankenlisch]]. The operation was the opening of the [[Kenegan War]]. With an overwhelming superiority in numbers and materiel, the San Rositans were able to land amphibious and airborne forces on Kenega and seize strategic points on the island, inflicting heavy losses on the Vionna-Frankenlischian and Kenegan defenders. After a period of sporadic and intense fighting, the Kenegan and Imperial authorities surrendered to the San Rositans. Despite scoring a decisive victory, the San Rositans were unable to eliminate the defenders entirely and significant portions of the Imperial garrison and the Kenegan forces were able to escape to form a guerilla [[Kenegan Insurgency|insurgency]] which lasted for the rest of the conflict.

The island was eventually retaken by an Imperial task force, bringing an end to the Kenegan War several weeks later.

==Background==
===Ownership of Kenega===
San Rosito had long maintained a claim to the island of Kenega. Considered a joke by many observers, the claim to the island rested on claimed descendance of the founders of San Rosito from the families of the original [[Espicuta|Espicutan]] colonial settlers of Kenega. Espicutan colonists had founded the settlement of [[Espicutan Kenega|Terelenco]] (now [[Terlenga]]) in 1570 and coexisted relatively peacefully with the native population. Though Terelenco expanded over the following centuries and other settlements were established, the colonists never laid claim to the whole island. The first power to claim the entirety of Kenega was [[Terre des Gaules|Gaul]]. The Gauls [[Gaulic conquest of Kenega|ejected]] the Espicutan colonists from Terelenco in 1769 and expanded their control over the whole island with the construction of a fort and naval base on the eastern coast (approximately where Kenega City is today). The [[Kenegan Revolution of 1813]] saw the Gaulic government forces overthrown on much of the island and the remains of the garrison [[Siege of Fort Kenega|besieged]] in the fort. The fort fell when Frankenlischian forces arrived the following year and the [[Battle off Hutanjia (1815)|Battle off Hutanjia]] of 1815 brought an end to the colonial wars in the region with Kenega and other Gaulic possessions in eastern Wishtonia being ceded to Frankenlisch. In spite of Frankenlischian decolonisation in the region of Wishtonia in the 1950s, Kenega and [[Colony of Owaya|Owaya]] remained Imperial possessions. Kenega remained peaceful from that point until the San Rositan invasion.

===Failed Diplomacy===
In the lead-up to the invasion, both Vionna-Frankenlisch and San Rosito displayed only minor interest in resolving the claim diplomatically. In June 2021, in the latter days of [[Dochlov Zimmermann]]'s Conservative [[Second Zimmermann Ministry|government]], Vionna-Frankenlisch was presented with an ultimatum by San Rosito. The ultimatum demanded Imperial withdrawal from Kenega and a handover of power to San Rosito with a deadline set in the following year. The general who delivered the ultimatum, coincidentally, was Jorge Sepulveda, who would go on to be one of the principal San Rositan commanders during the invasion. The ultimatum was ignored and the Conservative government in Vionna-Frankenlisch was soon replaced by one led by the [[Imperial Party (Vionna-Frankenlisch)|Imperial Party]] under [[Arthur Astron]] and the Kenega situation was swiftly forgotten by the new government.

Continued San Rositan petitions to the Teremaran Security Organisation and other international bodies to support them over Kenega were ignored as well. In fact, San Rosito's standing in the TSO particularly was at rock bottom due to border conflicts with its northern neighbor Reino de Brazil. The Queendom of Espicuta, similarly, had complaints ignored by the TSO as their government and portions of the Espicutan public were furious about San Rosito's claims to former Espicutan possessions. The Espicutans were further insensed by the genealogical aspect of the San Rositan claim, which was unverified.

===Kenegan Defence Forces===
Responsibility for the defence of Kenega was down to Vionna-Frankenlisch and a combined arms force was spread across the island as a defensive garrison. Imperial forces were dispersed across four locations on Kenega: the main garrison station at [[Port Faronham]], [[Ewickford Barracks]] in central Kenega City, [[Terlenga Coast Guard Station]] at Terlenga on the island's eastern coast, and [[Hilton Barracks]] at Wexborough on the island's south-western peninsula. Overall command of the Imperial garrison fell to the Governor-General, but Brigadier [[Christina Wappelode]] (the commander of Port Faronham and the ranking Imperial officer on the island) was generally accepted as the de-facto commander. Kenega had never been fortified to the extent of other Imperial colonial outposts. Budget constraints had led to planned defensive networks around Terlenga and the Wexborough peninsula being cancelled in the 1990s and more recent proposals were rejected due to political concerns involving the Kenegan administration. The proximity of Owaya also contributed to the lack of fortification on Kenega as the strong garrison of Owaya was considered strong enough to reinforce Kenega in the event of a war. Fixed guns and coastal fortifications, common of other Imperial possessions, were therefore unavailable to the defenders except at Port Faronham which boasted some minor defences.

The Imperial ground forces on Kenega totalled 2,274 troops. 1,460 of these were based at Faronham in four units: the [[Imperial Kenega Rifles]] (a locally-recruited rifle battalion), 14th (Independent) Company of the [[Imperial Army Corps of Marines]], 201st Independent (Rocket) Battery of the [[Royal Artillery]], and B Company of 3rd Battalion the [[Royal Erin Regiment]]. 400 troops were stationed at Ewickford Barracks under Lieutenant Colonel [[Alexandra Fitz-Morton]]: A Company of 3rd Battalion the Royal Erin Regiment, and 2nd Squadron of the [[Earl of Hackett's Own Lancers]]. At Terlenga Coast Guard Station, 74th (Independent) Platoon of the Imperial Army Corps of Marines (40 troops) was stationed under Lieutenant [[Garret Haye]]. And at Hilton Barracks under the [[Gwynn Royland-Davis, 8th Viscount Dyfenrir|Viscount Dyfenrir]] was: the Grenadier Company of 2nd Battalion the [[Duke of Glynmoran's Regiment]], 1st and 2nd (Kenega) Troop of the [[Imperial Frontiersmen]], and a company of armed sailors designated [[Naval Infantry Company Hilton]] (374 troops total).

Imperial naval and air forces were mostly based at Faronham while at Terlenga, Commander [[Elizabeth Molland]] commanded [[HMNS Kenega City]], a large patrol vessel. The Imperial [[Imperial Navy Kenega Station|naval station]] at Faronham consisted of three [[Town-class frigate]]s ([[HMNS Terlenga|Terlenga]], [[HMNS Ourapeka|Ourapeka]], [[HMNS Marousha|Marousha]]) and the [[Colony-class destroyer]] [[HMNS Kenega]]. The station was commanded by Commodore [[Sir Edwin Fitz-Bryce]]. Major [[Edith McAdam]] commanded the small IAS station at Faronham. The [[Port Faronham Air Group]] consisted of: 44. Independent (Reserve) Flight from [[Fighter Command]], 51. Independent (Reserve) Flight from [[Strike Command]], and the locally-recruited [[Royal Kenega Air Squadron]]. These three units only totalled 24 aircraft, mostly of outdated designs and vastly outclassed by the San Rositan aircraft.

Kenegan local forces were also involved in the defence. Four battalions of the [[Royal Gendarmerie (Kenega)|Royal Gendarmerie]] alongside units of the [[Royal Park Ranger Service]] and the [[Royal Coast Guard (Kenega)|Royal Coast Guard]]. These local forces were equipped with large numbers of helicopters and modern small arms which put them generally on-par with the Imperial and San Rositan infantry, but they were not trained for conventional warfare which proved a major disadvantage when they came into combat during the invasion. The 34 vessels of the Royal Coast Guard were mostly destroyed or captured during the early stages of Operation Barracuda. Several of the RCG's patrol cutters were able to escape and these were involved in the [[Kenegan Insurgency|insurgency]] which followed the island's surrender.

==Operation Barracuda==
===Forces involved===
===Air attacks===
===Landings===

==Aftermath==
===Occupation of Kenega===
===Foreign reactions===
===Imperial plans===

==Timeline==