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Nuxican Revolution Revolució Nuxicana
Left-Right from top: Aquilles Pintà in the National Palace with his officers, Federals execute Vermell rebels, Blanc paramilitaries during the Battle of Jerilejo, Federals march following the Battle of Quezalquina, Vermell militias prepare to execute suspected spies.
Date 5 September, 1915 - 13 August, 1928 (12 years, 11 months, and 8 days) Location Nuxica Result Blanc-Federal victory Constitution of 1928 implemented End of civilian democracy in Nuxica Beginning of the authoritarian rule
Belligerents
1915-28 Federals	1915-28 Vermells	1916-20 Blancs
Commanders and leaders
Aquilles Pintà Aaron Larroder  † Tomàs Sitjar  † Cosme Sansalva Lleó Vilademuls Roger Badal Ferran Puyal  † Samsó Balagué Raül Fores Arnau Roel	Biel Izaguerri   Emili Yaben  † Salvador Fatjó  † Borja Baye   Àngel Ribes  † Livi Traveria Brandà Maruny  † Absaló Ull   Arnau Latas   Gondicari Xifrà Pere Decasas	Moisès Utge Aleix Arqués Raimon Guillaum Pròsper Bos  † Llucià Cubells Jacint Bover
Strength
1915 strength: 225,000+ army 350 tankettes 800 aircraft 75 ships 35 submarines 1928 strength: 815,000+ army 360 tanks 725 aircraft 60 ships 30 submarines	1915 strength: 600,000+ fighters 120 tankettes 275 aircraft 30 ships 2 submarines 1928 strength: 72,000 fighters 150 tankettes 25 tanks 100 aircraft 13 ships	1915 strength: 650,000+ fighters 120 tankettes 100 aircraft 12 ships
Casualties and losses
220,750+ killed in action 125,000+ civilians killed inside the Federalist zone	375,000+ killed in action 570,000+ civilians killed inside the Izaguerrist zone	95,700+ killed in action 12,000+ civilians killed in inside the Blancist zone
Estimated 213,520-1,570,000 civilians and military killed total.

The Nuxican Revolution (Floren: Revolució Nuxicana), also known as the Great Chaos (Floren: Gran Caos), the Lost Fifteen (Floren: Els Quinze Perduts) or the Nuxican Civil War (Floren: Guerra Civil Nuxicana) was a major civil, military, and political struggle in Nuxica fought from 1915 to 1928. Nuxican Army forces -- known as the Federals -- loyal to the centre-right government, in an alliance with the right-wing to far-right National Front for Traditional Rights and Piety -- known as the Blancs -- from 1920 onward, against a revolt against the far-left umbrella organization United Army of the Labor Class -- known as the Vermells.

The conflict ended with the execution of Biel Izaguerri and the creation of the constitution of 1928, drafted, passed, and promulgated by both the Federals and the Blancs, effectively installed an authoritarian government under significant sway of the Nuxican Armed Forces. The war was both politically and economically destructive, shattering existing political norms and leading directly to the 1950 Nuxican white coup and the beginning of La Suautadura.

The passive phase of the conflict technically began in 1914, when the military overthrew the civilian government of Bernat Bargalló and installed a military triumvirate, leading to violence and strikes. The active phase of the conflict began when government forces, now under the authority of Prime Minister Aquilles Pintà i Puigdellivol, crushed a general strike in the city of Estancaja, prompting the Nuxican Revolutionary League, the Syndicalist Party of Nuxica, and the Social Democratic Labor Party to arm themselves and unite under the United Red Army of the Labor Class (Floren: Exèrcit Roig Unit de la Classe Treballadora; ERUCdT), led by revolutionary communist Biel Izaguerri. Establishing the Nuxican Socialist Soviet Republic in Estancaja the ERUCdT, now known as the Vermells, Reds, or Red Army, engaged in fierce fighting with the government while also attacking both Catholics, the Solarian Catholic Church, and much of the traditional values still making up Nuxican society. These events prompted Bishop Moisès Utge along with leaders of the Catholic-interest party National Action, Aleix Arqués and Raimon Guillaum to lead an armed counter-rebellion against the Estancaja government. Uniting with other local groups and Catholic sympathizers the leading triumvirate of the counter-rebellion declared an alternative government, known as the Nuxican State.

Red Army forces initially made rapid gains against government forces in industrialized areas of northern and western Nuxica, the government maintained control of major population centers of the western coast and south, and the Blancs secured control over much of the central areas of the country. Having a major advantage in terms of numbers and the element of surprise, Red Army forces took the cities of Nagua, Semeca, San Peluca, and El Tumcualpa during the 1915 fall offensive, besieging San Ferteli and forcing a general retreat of government forces to the west. Diplomatic overtures between Federal and Blanc forces lead to the two creating a united front against the Vermells, known as the Federal-Blancs or Federal-Whites. The Vermells, while numerically superior, lacked the training and equipment necessary to prosecute a war against the two united armies. With their forces split in half after the Battle of Quezalquina as a part of the Federal-Blanc Operació Boa the Vermells reverted to scorched earth tactics, being besieged in the final holdout of La Hetezo. Principle Vermell leadership were killed during the fall of the city; others, including Biel Izaguerri, were captured, tried, and executed, while the remainder fled into neighboring Chervolesia and beginning the Nuxican insurgency from there.

The war represents the end of the liberal republicanism and parliamentarianism that made up the Nuxican political sphere for nearly half a century, and the centralization of a right-wing, proto-Functionalist political ascendancy. Though not officially cemented until 1950 many historians posit that the end of the revolution and the promulgation of the Constitution of 1928 marked the technical beginning of the La Suautadura civic-military dictatorship, with the military not giving up its power on politics until the Dahlia Revolution.

Background

1910-1928 Nuxican political crisis

Bernat Bargalló, Prime Minister of Nuxica from 1913 to 1914.

• Did somebody say political polarization
• Left and right will not work together
• Political balance is at basically a fifty-fifty between right-wing and far-right and liberals & leftists
• Governments are fragile and consistently fall apart/threaten to
• Former military generals keep publishing editorials suggesting that a little martial law never hurt anyone
• Then the "Events of the First of May" happen

Events of the First of May

• Communist mutiny happens within low ranks of military
• Mutineers attempt to get public to force regime change
• It fails, but spooks the functionalist officers
• Red Scare

1914-15 Nuxican general strike

Crowds during a rally in Sant Picano.

• Discontent with labor standards and workers rights prompt strikes
• Additional discontent over right-wing functionalism and oppression of left-wing causes

Initial strikes

Police protect company offices from strikers in the city of Estancaja.

• Strikes are a mixed bag, some are broken up and some are not
• Still has a negative impact on the economy
• Mostly radicals at first, but more leftist parties begin floating into it as well
• Leftist parties that are in government; solidarity forever and all that
• Leftist government in power so this is kinda awkward

Post-coup d'état

• Remnants of left-wing parties all say join the strike
• People do
• Government starts cracking down, but its fairly restrained

Government-military split

Chief of the Armed Forces Juan Sebastián García, 1914.

• Government is not cracking down
• Economy is in the shitter
• Members of the Armed Forces are big mad, want gov't to step down
• Political right-wing also angry and want gov't to step down
• President and PM do not resign
• Armed Forces Chief Juan Sebastián García gives leftist PM "until Christmas morning" to resign

1914 Nuxican coup d'état

Troops patrol Sant Picano on Christmas Day, 1914.

Main article: Christmas Revolution (Nuxica)

• Sant Picano, Nuxica
• Christmas Eve, 1914
• 11:59 PM
• Leftie president goes to bed thinking the military is bluffing
• They are not
• Juan Sebastián García is declared the military head of state in time for Christmas dinner; reorganizes government so now the right wing is in power
• Power is ceded "to civilian authorities" under Aquilles Pintà
• Pintà is a literally a former military officer, professor at a war college, and far-right functionary
• Strikes continue

Factions

Dia de les Massacres

Carutaguan Municipal Police Chief Narcís Bort and officers immediately after ordering his men cease firing in Marshal Amadeu Juarez Square.

• PM Pintà gets sick of the protests
• Legitimate rumor is that protests outside of the war college (where Pintà was basing his gov't due to the massive garrison and military bases nearby) woke him up early in the morning
• Drafts order mandating that soldiers 'clear the streets' of major cities of protestors 'by any and all means necessary at your disposal'
• It goes as well as one can imagine
• Carutagua is clear of protestors though
• EVERYONE (LEFT WING) HATED THAT
• Protests get bigger

Storming of El Castell

Soldiers of the Castellian garrison during the Storming of El Castell.

Main article: Storming of El Castell (Nuxica)

• Left wing parties organize members to storm El Castell, a massive armory
• They-can't-kill-us-all logic on full display
• But it works
• Uprising begin

Aftermath

Constitution of 1928

Main article: Constitution of Nuxica § Constitution of 1928