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{{Infobox military conflict
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| partof      = the [[Great War of the North]]
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| caption    = ''Sjealandic infantry defend the Staksrode Gate against Ambrosian cuirassiers'', {{wpl|Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville|Alfons af Nørremarken}}
| date        = 29 October 1864 {{ndash}} 28 April 1865<br><small>({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=10|day1=29|year1=1864|month2=04|day2=28|year2=1865}})</small>
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Girenas Silvistravičius File:Julio Argentino Roca con la banda presidencial.jpg
The '''Siege of Asgård''' was fought between October 29, 1864 and April 28, 1865, during the [[Great War of the North]]. The [[Ambrose|Ambrosian]] [[President of Ambrose|commander-in-chief]], General [[Godfred Crovan]], landed on [[Sjealand]] proper with his {{wpl|Army of the Potomac|Army of the Kings}} in August of 1864. After several maneuvers, he was able to flush the Sjealandic army, under {{wpl|da:Georg Gerlach|Georg A.D. Gerlak}}, out of the {{wpl|Dannevirke|Tynnevirke}} fortification line and amanged to trap them in [[Asgård]], the capital of Sjealand.


File:Giuseppe Saracco.gif Poncijus Kizlaitis]]
The six month-long siege was characterized by {{wpl|trench warfare}} punctuated by occasional attempts to break the siege—bloody engagements such as Ønnerød, Grejsdal, Kollerup, and Rhys's Landing.Crovan knew that he could not outright defeat the entrenched, numerically-superior Sjealandic Army, but hoped to pressure them into abandoning the capital and allowing the Ambrosians to take it unopposed. However, the Sjealandic [[Monarchy of Sjealand|king]], [[Monarchy of Sjealand|Håkon VII]], refused to abandon the capital, saying ''"I will conquer or I will die in my nest"''. Though they maintained naval superiority from the {{wpl|Kattegat|sea}}, the [[Ambrosian Confederal Navy|Confederal Navy]] weas unable to gain control of the {{wpl|Elbe River|Kongeelven River}}, allowing the [[Royal Sjealandic Navy]] to continue to resupply the capital (a fact which has lead certain commentators to question whether the operation was truly a "siege" in the classical sense of the term).


==List==
In February 1865, Crovan was killed by a Sjealandic sharpshooter, causing a mass reorganization of the Ambrosian Army. Several factors—the continued resistance of the Asgård garrison, pressure from a relief force led by {{wpl|da:Glode du Plat|Glode Henrik du Plat}}, and the [[Great War of the North:Sea of Njord|breakout]] of the Sjealandic fleet from the Nordvakt Straits (which threatened their supply lines)—caused the new Ambrosian commander, {{wpl|George McClellan|Brinton ap Rhys}}, to withdraw to the positions of the captured Tynnevirke. Due to the exhaustion of the Sjealandic Army, there was little further action on the Sjealandic front for the duration of the year.


===Second Republic (1811-1863)===
== Background ==
'''Political Parties'''<br>
=== Military situation ===
{{legend2|#0067A5|[[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
Sjealand had been [[Great War of the North|at war]] against the Coalition—Ambrose, [[Engatia]], [[Suavia]], and the [[Valland|Valish]] states—since late 1861. In the intervening years, the forces of the [[Royal Sjealandic Army]], led by Field Marshal {{wpl|Patrice de MacMahon|Frederik Læssøe}}, had been largely pushed off of the [[Aldinea]]n continent, rolled back through various defeats or inconclusive engagements such as Ildre, Gryby, Damstorp, and, in late 1863, Fleninge, at the hands of a Valish-Engatian army. With the [[Royal Sjealandic Navy]] largely having been confined to port after the [[Battle of Cape Heria]] the year before, political elements in [[Asgård]] feared that the Sjealandic mainland was now excessively vulnerable. With mounting political pressure, as well as concern over their supply chain across the Tynic Straits, Læssøe withdrew the bulk of his army to Sjealand in a series of planned evacuations, coinciding with a ceasefire and peace talks in [[Klarvann]]. Though the talks would end in failure by early 1864, by their end, Sjealandic control on the continent would reduced to [[Thy]] and the surrounding highlands, while the majority of the Sjealandic Army was safely rearming in Sjealand proper.
{{legend2|#C90016|[[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Liberal]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}


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As the Sjealanders were expelled from the continent, [[Godfred Crovan]], the [[President of Ambrose|president]] and commander-in-chief of Ambrose, had won a series of striking victories against [[Galideen]], [[Kulavia]], and the [[Frysa]]n states. As the invasion of Galideen continued, however, Crovan became increasingly convinced of the need to knock Sjealand out of the war. In a conference with the [[Valland|Valish]] commander, Field Marshal {{wpl|Helmuth von Moltke the Elder|Johan Axel Mardefelt}}, in January of 1864, the two coalition leaders settled on a two-pronged invasion of Sjealand; one, a Valish army moving towards Nordvakt, and the other, an Ambrosian army moving towards Asgard. The invasion was set to commence in the early August of 1864, after Crovan returned from campaigning in the East.
 
=== Initial movements ===
The Ambrosian army landed in western Nillas Bay on the 8th of August, 1864. In a careful display of maneuver warfare, Crovan threatened to overrun the {{wpl|Dannevirke|Tynnevirke}}, the Sjealandic Army's defensive line. With their rear threatened, on the 20th of September, Field Marshal Læssøe took the decision to pull back from the fortifications, despite the strenuous objections of his own staff, such as Lt. Gen. {{wpl|Christian de Meza|Karl Vilhelm de Mesa}}, as well as politicians in Asgard.
 
The armies met at Lamborg on the 6th of October. Due to the inadvertent movement of General {{wpl|da:Christian Lunding|Niels Lunding}}'s corps, a large gap was opened in the Sjealandic line. A cavalry charge by the brigade of {{wpl|George A. Custer|H. Alexander Fitzpatrick}} threw the Sjealandic Army into disarray. Partially due to the incompetence of Ambrosian Gen. {{wpl|Henry W. Halleck|Wager ap Henry}}, and partially due to a brave stand by the 8th Brigade of Sjealandic Gen. P.L. Møller, the Sjealandic Army was saved from a decisive defeat. Læssøe was bought time to form an organized retreat to the safety of the Asgard fortifications, where his army would rest and regroup.
 
Despite quartering his troops in the capital, Læssøe did not plan to weather a siege and made plans to leave the confines of the city before the winter ended the campaigning season; he reasoned that the city's fortifications were already impregnable and that Crovan's expeditionary force could only be defeated in open battle. Nevertheless, the Sjealandic government immediately undertook a massive effort to further the city's already-formidable defensive works.
 
Crovan had not planned on {{wpl|Investment (military)|investing}} Asgård; his plan had been to decisively defeat the Sjealandic Army in battle—which he had attempted and failed at Lamborg—and hopefully force the Sjealandic government to ask for an {{wpl|armistice}}, allowing him to march into the city unopposed. In any case, he had no intentions of directly assaulting the city's fortifications, and especially not when they were manned by the intact, if battered, Sjealandic Army. He considered moving his troops across the {{wpl|Elbe River|Kongeelven Rover}} and abandoning Asgard entirely, though he concluded it was too late in the year to begin a {{wpl|scorched earth}} campaign deep in enemy territory. Instead, Crovan settled on besieging the city while continuing to apply pressure in order to bring the Sjealandic military and civilian administration to their brink.
 
After Crovan took the railroad junction of Krusbjerg on 20 October with little effective resistance, the city of Asgard flew into an all-out panic. Læssøe was confronted by his staff, who argued that a siege was now inevitable; he offered his resignation to the king, [[Monarchy of Sjealand|king]], [[Monarchy of Sjealand|Håkon VII]], but was refused. The  offices of the Sjealandic government evacuated the city on the 26 of October, effectively leaving the city under {{wpl|martial law}}.
 
==Opposing forces==
 
===Ambrose===
{| align=right
!bgcolor="#8db4e3"|Key Ambrosian commanders
|-
|-
! {{Abbr|No.|Number}}
|<gallery perrow="3">
! width=10%| Portrait
File:Major General Philip Henry Sheridan (cropped).gif|<center>Gen. F.M.<br />[[Godfred Crovan]]</center>
! width=15%| Name
File:GeorgeMcClellan2.jpg|<center>Lt. Gen.<br />{{wpl|George McClellan|Brinton ap Rhys}}</center>
! Took office
File:GenJFRenyolds.jpg|<center>Lt. Gen.<br />{{wpl|John F. Reynolds|Wulfred H.L. Reynolds}}</center>
! Left office
File:Daniel Edgar Sickles.jpg|<center>Maj. Gen.<br />{{wpl|Daniel Sickles|Desmond Sickles}}</center>
! Days
File:GKWarren.jpg|<center>Maj. Gen.<br />{{wpl|Gouverneur K. Warren|G. Kembell Warren}}</center>
! Seimas<br/><small>(election)</small>
File:John Sedgwick.png|<center>Maj. Gen.<br />{{wpl|John Sedgwick|Gordon ap Seward}}</center>
! Political Party
</gallery>
! colspan="2" style="width:110px;" | Appointer
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#0067A5; color:white;" rowspan="3"|1
| rowspan="3" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Eustachy Sanguszko 1814.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="3" style="background:#EEEEEE"| <small>{{wpl|Marshal}}</small><br>'''[[Teodoras Valančius]]'''<br/><small>(1760 - 1833)
| rowspan="2"| 17<sup>th</sup> March 1815
| rowspan="2"| 24<sup>th</sup> February 1826
| rowspan="2"| {{Age in years, months and days|1815|02|24|1826|03|17}}
| I<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1818|1818]])
| rowspan="2"| [[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]]
| style="background:{{Independent (politician)/meta/color}};|
| [[Seimas (Vilcasuamanas)|Provisional Seimas]]<br /><small>(1811-1818)
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
| II<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1821|1821]])
| rowspan="4" style="background:#0067A5; color:white;"|
| rowspan="5"| [[File:Eustachy Sanguszko 1814.jpg|70px]]<br /><small>{{wpl|Marshal}}</small><br>[[Teodoras Valančius]]<br /><small>(1818–1833)
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Military leader and [[President of Vilcasuamanas|Provisional President]] of the {{wpl|Parliamentary system|Parliamentarian}} faction during the [[First Vilcasuamanian Civil War]], Valančius was appointed to the position by the [[Seimas (Vilcasuamanas)|Provisional Seimas]] in 1815 and confirmed in a nationwide election after the war's end. Though he retained the  position of President, during his tenure he largely exercised his powers through the chancellorship, setting a precedent that would define the office. Instituted {{wpl|suffrage}} for all landowning males.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#0067A5; color:white;" rowspan="5"|2
| rowspan="5" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Valentín_Gómez_Farías,_portrait.JPG|80px]]
| rowspan="5" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Rolandas Stulginskis]]'''<br/><small>(1765 - 1843)
| rowspan="4"| 24<sup>th</sup> February 1826
| rowspan="4"| 28<sup>th</sup> March 1835
| rowspan="4"| {{Age in years, months and days|1826|02|24|1835|03|28}}
| III<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1826|1826]])
| rowspan="4"| [[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]]
|-
|-
| IV<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1828|1828]])
|-
| rowspan="2" | V<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1831|1831]])
|-
| rowspan="7" style="background:#0067A5; color:white;"|
| rowspan="7"| [[File:Sulkowski-paul-antoni.jpg|70px]]<br /><small>{{wpl|Marshal}}</small><br>[[Henrikas Ciplijauskas]]<br /><small>(1833–1843)
|-
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Defaulted Vilcasuamanian war debt, antagonizing Euclean creditors. Commissioned cartographic surveys of interior, laying claim to vast swaths of Scythian rainforest.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! rowspan="2" style="background:#0067A5; color:white;" |3
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Jjolemdo.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Aleksandras Jucys]]'''<br/><small>(1796 - 1870)
| 28<sup>th</sup> March 1835
| 11<sup>th</sup> January 1836
| {{Age in years, months and days|1835|03|28|1836|01|11}}
| —
| [[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Reinforced {{wpl|religious tolerance}} and abolished the {{wpl|Pervuian Inquisition|Vilcasuamanian Inquisition}}. Perceived liberal tendencies led to his removal.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#0067A5; color:white;" rowspan="3"|4
| rowspan="3" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Evaristo_Pérez_de_Castro.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="3" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Algis Simonavičius]]'''<br/><small>(1779 - 1857)
| rowspan="2"| 11<sup>th</sup> January 1836
| rowspan="2"| 17<sup>th</sup> February 1843
| rowspan="2"| {{Age in years, months and days|1836|01|11|1843|02|17}}
| VI<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1837|1837]])
| rowspan="2"| [[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]]
|-
| VII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1841|1841]])
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Declared a general amnesty for surviving presidentarians imprisoned from the civil war of 1811. Expanded public education, created 13 National Universities during his tenure, including the National Autonomous University in Biržuventis and the Tauragė Military Academy.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#0067A5; color:white;" rowspan="2"|5
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:MartinezRosa-1-.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Žygimantas Vingis]]'''<br/><small>(1777 - 1843)
| rowspan="1"| 17<sup>th</sup> February 1843
| rowspan="1"| 20<sup>th</sup> August 1843
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1843|02|17|1843|08|20}}
| —
| rowspan="1"| [[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]]
| rowspan="6" style="background:#0067a5; color:white;"|
| rowspan="6"| [[File:Marechal Drouet.jpg|70px]]<br /><small>{{wpl|Marshal}}</small><br>[[Baltramiejus Jurkunas]]<br /><small>(1843–1848)
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Died in office.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#0067A5; color:white;" rowspan="3"|(3)
| rowspan="3" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Jjolemdo.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="3" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Aleksandras Jucys]]'''<br/><small>(1796 - 1870)
| rowspan="2"| 20<sup>th</sup> August 1843
| rowspan="2"| 22<sup>nd</sup> April 1847
| rowspan="2"| {{Age in years, months and days|1843|08|20|1847|04|22}}
| VIII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1844|1844]])
| rowspan="2"| [[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]]
|-
| IX<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1845|1845]])
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Returned to power with support of rural landowners. Instituted lower tariffs, promoting agrarian policies and the mass exportation of coffee, cotton, and tobacco. Criticized for failing to stimulate burgeoning industrial sector.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#0067A5; color:white;" rowspan="3"|6
| rowspan="3" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:José_María_Queipo_de_Llano,_conde_de_Toreno_(Museo_del_Prado).jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="3" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Vygantas Graičiūnas]]'''<br/><small>(1806 - 1863)
| rowspan="2"| 22<sup>nd</sup> April 1847
| rowspan="2"| 5<sup>th</sup> January 1851
| rowspan="2"| {{Age in years, months and days|1847|04|22|1851|01|05}}
| rowspan="2"| X<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1848|1848]])
| rowspan="2"| [[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]]
|-
| rowspan="6" style="background:#0067A5; color:white;"|
| rowspan="6"| [[File:Martin_Tovar_y_Tovar_23.JPG|70px]]<br /><small>{{wpl|Marshal}}</small><br>[[Emilis Ancevičius]]<br /><small>(1848–1853)
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Promoted a {{wpl|central bank}}ing system, establishing the National Bank of Vilcasuamanas over the protests of the federalists.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#C90016; color:white;" rowspan="2"|7
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Juan_Bravo_Murillo.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Paulius Liaudanskas]]'''<br/><small>(1803 - 1882)
| rowspan="1"| 5<sup>th</sup> January 1851
| rowspan="1"| 7<sup>th</sup> July 1852
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1851|05|01|1852|07|07}}
| XI<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1849|1849]])
| rowspan="1"| [[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Liberal]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>First Liberal and first [[Calumnior]] chancellor. Reorganized and professionalized the Vilcasuamanian Army, outlawing the {{wpl|purchase of commissions}}. Attempted to implement a federal system through the creation of an {{wpl|upper house}} to act as a {{wpl|senate}}. Removed due to conservative backlash.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#0067A5; color:white;" rowspan="2"|8
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:El rey Francisco de Asís de Borbón (Real Alcázar de Sevilla).jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Ažuolas Vilcikauskas]]'''<br/><small>(1808 - 1890)
| rowspan="1"| 7<sup>th</sup> July 1852
| rowspan="1"| 17<sup>th</sup> February 1853
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1852|07|07|1853|02|17}}
| rowspan="1"| —
| rowspan="1"| [[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Reversed Liaudanskas' federal reforms, passed Constitution of 1852 stipulating the {{wpl|unitary system}} and removing the autonomy of the {{wpl|voivodeships}}. Called the "Constitution of Monstrosities" by liberals and federalists, was removed from 1852 electoral ticket in failed attempt to quell controversy.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#0067A5; color:white;" rowspan="2"|9
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Francisco_Javier_de_Istúriz_(Palacio_del_Senado_de_España).jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Kristupas Matusevičius]]'''<br/><small>(1800 - 1881)
| rowspan="1"| 17<sup>th</sup> February 1853
| rowspan="1"| 17<sup>th</sup> February 1858
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1853|02|17|1858|02|17}}
| rowspan="1"| XII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1852|1852]])
| rowspan="1"| [[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]]
| rowspan="3" style="background:{{Independent (politician)/meta/color}};|
| rowspan="3"| [[File:Palluy_-_Anne-Charles_Lebrun_(1755-1859).jpg|70px]]<br /><small>{{wpl|Marshal}}</small><br>[[Joris Simonavičius]]<br /><small>(1853–1859)
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>With steadily deteriorating national situation, Matusevičius attempted to quell dissidents with suspensions of freedoms of speech and assembly. Draconian measures earned him widespread unpopularity, and dissatisfaction within his military power base caused him to forgo re-election in 1858.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#0067a5; color:white;" rowspan="3"|—
| rowspan="3" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Massimo_D%27Azeglio_crop.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="3" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Gvidonas Leofredsun]]'''<br/><small>(1767 - 1833)
| rowspan="2" colspan="3" style="background:#EEEEEE;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;"|''Did not take office''
| rowspan="2"| XIII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1857|1857]])
| rowspan="2"| [[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Liberal]]
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C90016; color:white;"|
| rowspan="3"| [[File:Sirvydas.jpg|70px]]<br /><small>{{wpl|Marshal}}</small><br>[[Elfegas Grigucevičius]]<br /><small>(1798–1863)
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Took office in heavily-rigged election. Outbreak of Second Vilcasuamanian Civil War prevented him from taking office.</small>
|-
! style="background:; color:"|—
| style="background:#EEEEEE" colspan="7" | ''Position Vacant''<ref>{{wpl|Marshal}} [[Elfegas Grigucevičius]] unilaterally suspended the Seimas and assumed the powers of Chancellor from 25<sup>th</sup> August 1859 to 11<sup>th</sup> December 1863.</ref>
|}
|}
The Ambrosian forces were that of the {{wpl|Army of the Potomac|Army of the Kings}} (named after the {{wpl|Elbe River|Kongeelven}}, or "King" River). This formation had been assembled in early 1864 in [[Valland]], cobbled together from the {{wpl|Army of the Ohio|Army of the Kenetcy}} and detached regiments of the [[Army of the Els]]. At the time of the invasion of Sjealand, it numbered approximately 75,000, having been gathered and trained at camps along the coast of [[Valmark]].


===Third Republic (1863-1927)===
In keeping with the typical structure of 19th century Ambrosian {{wpl|Field army|field armies}}, the Army of the Kings was divided into two "wings" (right and left), each commanded by a {{wpl|lieutenant general}}. The Right Wing of the army was commanded by {{wpl|George McClellan|Brinton ap Rhys}} and was made up of:
'''Political Parties'''<br>
* II Corps, under Maj. Gen. {{wpl|Daniel Sickles|Desmond Sickles}}, and later {{wpl|William Farrar Smith|Redwulf H. "Baldy" Wilson}}
{{legend2|#C90016|[[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Liberal]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
* V Corps, under Maj. Gen. {{wpl|Gouverneur K. Warren|G. Kembell Warren}}
{{legend2|#0067A5|[[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
* VI Corps, under Maj. Gen. {{wpl|Oliver O. Howard|Tostig Anderson Cromwell}}
{{legend2|#FFD700|[[National Party (Vilcasuamanas)|National]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
* X ([[Valland|Valish]]) Corps, under {{wpl|Duke William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin|Ole, Prince Fasting}}
{{legend2|#FF7F50|[[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|National Liberal]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend2|#679267|[[Vilcasuamanas#Military|Military]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}


{| class="wikitable"  style="width:100%; text-align:center;"
The Left Wing of the army was commanded by Lt. Gen. {{wpl|John F. Reynolds|Wulfred Horace Lucan Reynolds}} (the former Lord Reynolds), and consisted of:
|-
* IX Corps, under Maj. Gen. {{wpl|John Sedgwick|Gordon ap Seward}}
! {{Abbr|No.|Number}}
* XX Corps, under Maj. Gen. {{wpl|Lew Wallace|Llewelyn A. Wallace}}
! width=10%| Portrait
* XXIV Corps, under Maj. Gen. {{wpl|Edward O.C. Ord|John Edward Ord}}
! width=15%| Name
* III Cavalry Corps, under Maj. Gen. {{wpl|Alfred Pleasonton|Alfred Alfredson}}. Often on detached service, they were nominally part of the Left Wing but were in practice under Crovan's direct command.
! Took office
! Left office
! Days
! Seimas<br/><small>(election)</small>
! Political Party
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#C90016; color:white;" rowspan="2"|10
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Jose_Maria_Melo_1.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| <small>{{wpl|Marshal}}</small><br>'''[[Mykolas Sauka]]'''<br/><small>(1799 - 1865)
| rowspan="1"| 25<sup>th</sup> March 1863
| rowspan="1"| 20<sup>th</sup> December 1865
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1863|03|25|1865|12|20}}
| —
| rowspan="1"| [[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Liberal]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Mounted liberal rebellion against conservative [[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]] regime of {{wpl|Jose Maria Obando|Elfegas Grigucevičius}}, uniting {{wpl|social liberal}}s and {{wpl|Federalism|federalist}}s in the cause of the "Liberal Regeneration". Laid the groundwork for the modern federal republic with the Constitution of 1863, which notably outlawed {{wpl|repartimiento|indigenous serfdom}} and established the concept of {{wpl|separation of church and state}}. Participated in first free elections of Vilcasuamanian history, but died of {{wpl|tuberculosis}} before votes were counted.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#C90016; color:white;" rowspan="2"|11
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:General_José_Hilario_López.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Algirdas Basanavičius]]'''<br/><small>(1798 - 1872)
| rowspan="1"| 20<sup>th</sup> December 1865
| rowspan="1"| 15<sup>th</sup> November 1870
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1865|12|20|1870|11|15}}
| XV<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1865|1865]])
| rowspan="1"| [[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Liberal]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Appointed by Seimas to serve Sauka's term. Initially considered an ally of liberalism, Basanavičius broke with the policies laid out by his predecessor. Tempering the radicalism of the Regeneration, he created a centralized {{wpl|national post office}} and restored the standing army. Unpopularity among the Liberal orthodoxy led to Basanavičius limiting his chancellorship to one term.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#C90016; color:white;" rowspan="2"|12
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Petras.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Petras Kvasinskas]]'''<br/><small>(1816 - 1884)
| rowspan="1"| 15<sup>th</sup> November 1870
| rowspan="1"| 20<sup>th</sup> February 1872
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1870|11|15|1872|02|20}}
| XV<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1870|1870]])
| rowspan="1"| [[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Liberal]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Supported by radical liberals, Kvasinkas butted heads with the [[Solarian Catholic Church]], legalizing {{wpl|civil marriage}} and attempting to pass an amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing free and secular education. Controversial comments, presented as rabid {{wpl|anticlerical}} by his opponents, cause an erosion of support from moderate liberals and a {{wpl|vote of no confidence}}.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#0067A5; color:white;" rowspan="2"|13
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Bartolomé_Calvo.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Sebastijonas Levendavičius]]'''<br/><small>(1815 - 1889)
| rowspan="1"| 20<sup>th</sup> February 1872
| rowspan="1"| 15<sup>th</sup> November 1874
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1872|02|20|1874|11|15}}
| XVII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1871|1871]])
| rowspan="1"| [[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Elected after Liberals failed to unite around a successor to Kvasinskas. Mended relations with the Church but failed to rollback other liberal reforms, largely due to ill health. Narrowly lost 1871 general election and replaced as party leader shortly thereafter.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#C90016; color:white;" rowspan="5"|14
| rowspan="5" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Aquileo_Parra.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="5" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Laimis Petrosiunas]]'''<br/><small>(1820 - 1882)
| rowspan="4"| 15<sup>th</sup> November 1874
| rowspan="4"| 9<sup>th</sup> December 1882
| rowspan="4"| {{Age in years, months and days|1874|11|15|1882|12|09}}
| XIX<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1874|1874]])
| rowspan="4"|[[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Liberal]]
|-
| XX<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1878|1878]])
|-
| XXI<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1880|1880]])
|-
| XXI<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1882|1882]])
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>First chancellor to sit as an elected member of the Seimas. Instituted civil service reform, promulgated first national census, and developed the city of Biržuventis. Encouraged exploitation of {{wpl|Amazon rainforest|Scythian rainforest}} by promoting mass settlement programs. Passed major land redistribution legislation in 1880, aiming to transfer church-owned lands to private landowners; this triggered a vote of no confidence which resulted in a stronger majority. Signed [[War of the Arucian#Aquinas Treaty of Defensive Alliance|Aquinas Treaty of Defensive Alliance]] with [[Marirana]], in opposition to [[Satucin]] and [[Gaullica]]n imperialism. Died of a stroke shortly after fourth electoral victory in 1882.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#c90016; color:white;" rowspan="2"|15
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Angulo,_Euclides_de.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Mikalojus Žasinas]]'''<br/><small>(1831-1900)
| rowspan="1"| 9<sup>th</sup> December 1882
| rowspan="1"| 22<sup>nd</sup> February 1884
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1882|12|09|1884|02|22}}
| —
| rowspan="1"| [[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Liberal]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Petrosiumas' Interior Minister, his chancellorship was dominated by foreign affairs. Entered into the [[War of the Arucian]] against Gaullica, only for early victories to be reversed by the entry of [[Nuvania]]. Worsening military situation led to his resignation.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#c90016; color:white;" rowspan="2"|16
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Xilografia_de_José_Manuel_Marroquín.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Juozapas Gečys]]'''<br/><small>(1830 - 1912)
| rowspan="1"| 17<sup>th</sup> February 1884
| rowspan="1"| 27<sup>th</sup> May 1884
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1884|02|22|1884|05|27}}
| —
| rowspan="1"| [[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Liberal]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Appointed as Žasinas' successor, lost much power as military administration began to take over deteriorating war effort. Removed in a {{wpl|coup d'état}} three months after taking office.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#FFD700; color:white;" rowspan="2"|17
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Deodoro_da_Fonseca_(1889).jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| <small>{{wpl|Marshal}}</small><br>'''[[Girenas Silvistravičius]]'''<br/><small>(1827 - 1898)
| rowspan="1"| 27<sup>th</sup> May 1884
| rowspan="1"| 14<sup>th</sup> September 1888
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1885|05|27|1888|09|14}}
| —
| rowspan="1"| [[National Party (Vilcasuamanas)|National]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Took power in coup, suspending the Seimas. Signs Treaty of Soleil Couchant, ending War of the Arucian. Presided over outbreak of civil war, with conservatives attempting to reverse Liberal Regeneration. Ended the Third Vilcasuamanian Civil War with the Pact of Tauragė, promising to restore free elections and step down.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#C90016; color:white;" rowspan="3"|18
| rowspan="3" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Clímaco_Calderón.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="3" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Klimakas Ažukalnis]]'''<br/><small>(1848 - 1911)
| rowspan="2"| 14<sup>th</sup> September 1888
| rowspan="2"| 4<sup>th</sup> August 1893
| rowspan="2"| {{Age in years, months and days|1888|09|14|1893|08|04}}
| XXV<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1888|1888]])
| rowspan="2"| [[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Liberal]]
|-
| XXV<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1892|1892]])
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Elected on platform of amnesty for conservatives arrested during the civil war. Government reduced to a minority in elections of 1892. Charged with corruption and removed in {{wpl|vote of no confidence}}, facilitated by splits in the Liberal Party.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#0067A5; color:white;" rowspan="2"|19
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Miguel_Antonio_Caro_2.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Narcizas Mickevičiaus]]'''<br/><small>(1845 - 1923)
| rowspan="1"| 4<sup>th</sup> August 1893
| rowspan="1"| 26<sup>th</sup> November 1894
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1893|08|04|1894|11|26}}
| XXIV<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1893|1893]])
| rowspan="1"| [[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Focused on federal infrastructure projects; established the Vilcasuamanian National Railways. Instituted high tariff regime intended to support growing manufacturing sectors, at expense of farmers.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#C90016; color:white;" rowspan="2"|(18)
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Clímaco_Calderón.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Klimakas Ažukalnis]]'''<br/><small>(1848 - 1911)
| rowspan="1"| 26<sup>th</sup> November 1894
| rowspan="1"| 21<sup>st</sup> March 1896
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1894|11|26|1896|03|21}}
| XXV<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1894|1894]])
| rowspan="1"| [[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Liberal]]<br><small>([[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Constitutionalist]])</small>
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Voted in due to agrarian backlash. In foreign policy, reduced tariffs and abandoned [[Marirana]]n ties in favor of [[Eldmark]]. Reticence with infrastructure and social projects caused schism in Liberal Party between progressives and federalists. Corruption charges resurfacing from previous administration prompt resignation, in order to avoid no-confidence vote.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#C90016; color:white;" rowspan="2"|20
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Ignacio_Andrade_2.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Adomas Valeška]]'''<br/><small>(1844 - 1920)
| rowspan="1"| 21<sup>st</sup> March 1896
| rowspan="1"| 24<sup>th</sup> October 1896
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1896|03|21|1896|10|24}}
| —
| rowspan="1"| [[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Liberal]]<br><small>([[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Constitutionalist]])</small>
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>A Constitutionalist Liberal, Valeška refused to pursue the radical policies demanded by the progressive wing of the party. Lack of party support lead to his failure in the general election.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#0067A5; color:white;" rowspan="3"|21
| rowspan="3" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Prudentedemorais.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="3" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Skomantas Krasnadamskis]]'''<br/><small>(1841 - 1905)
| rowspan="2"| 24<sup>th</sup> October 1896
| rowspan="2"| 20<sup>th</sup> October 1900
| rowspan="2"| {{Age in years, months and days|1896|10|24|1900|10|20}}
| XXVI<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1896|1896]])
| rowspan="2"| [[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]]
|-
| XXVI<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1899|1899]])
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Hoping to win over Constitutionalist Liberals, Krasnadamskis tempered centralist rhetoric and instead doubled down on non-interventionist social policies. Failed a no-confidence vote, only to be returned to lead a drastically-lessened minority government by the 1899 snap election. Lost power to insurgent National Liberals the next year.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#FF7F50; color:white;" rowspan="4"|22
| rowspan="4" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Steponas.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="4" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Steponas Vailokaitis]]'''<br/><small>(1849 - 1921)
| rowspan="3"| 20th<sup>st</sup> October 1900
| rowspan="3"| 22<sup>nd</sup> May 1907
| rowspan="3"| {{Age in years, months and days|1900|10|20|1907|05|22}}
| XXV<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1900|1900]])
| rowspan="3"| [[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|National Liberal]]
|-
| XXVI<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1901|1901]])
|-
| XXVII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1904|1904]])
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Chief ideologue of the National Liberals, Vailokaitis broke with the conservative-leaning Constitutionalists and advocated radical progressive policies reminiscent of the Regeneration. Extended the {{wpl|franchise}} to all males and established the Ministry of Indian Affairs. Embarked on ambitious land reform programs, seizing church land and redistributing it to the peasantry. Embraced a nationalist foreign policy, renewing irredentist claims and demonstrating a marked hostility to Euclean influence in the Asterias. Drastically raised tariffs and began nationalizing foreign-owned rubber plantations in 1906. Threat of Euclean intervention caused his resignation.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#0067A5; color:white;" rowspan="2"|23
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Ismael_Montes_1914.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Jonas Martinaitis]]'''<br/><small>(1858 - 1931)
| rowspan="1"| 22<sup>nd</sup> May 1907
| rowspan="1"| 10<sup>th</sup> November 1908
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1907|03|17|1908|11|10}}
| —
| rowspan="1"| [[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Installed by [[Werania]]n and [[Gaullica]]n occupation, suspended Seimas. Reversed Vailokaitis' nationalizations and tariff regime, giving Gaullican and Weranian companies numerous trade concessions. Removed as Unitarian leader by occupation authorities due to refusal to crack down on nationalist guerillas.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#0067A5; color:white;" rowspan="2"|24
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Germán_Riesco_con_banda_presidencial-2.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Marius Kulbys]]'''<br/><small>(1854 - 1920)
| rowspan="1"| 10<sup>th</sup> November 1908
| rowspan="1"| 3<sup>rd</sup> July 1909
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1908|11|10|1910|07|03}}
| XXVI<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1908|1908]])
| rowspan="1"| [[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Brought to power in heavily-rigged election, continued to support pro-Euclean policies including tax exemptions and private railway rights to foreign companies. Presided over onset of {{wpl|Great Depression}}. Resigns shortly after withdrawal of occupation forces.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#0067A5; color:white;" rowspan="2"|25
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Washington_Luís_(foto).jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Kazimeras Žvirblis]]'''<br/><small>(1860 - 1939)
| rowspan="1"| 3<sup>rd</sup> July 1909
| rowspan="1"| 27<sup>th</sup> August 1912
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1910|07|03|1911|08|27}}
| —
| rowspan="1"| [[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian Party]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Cut spending across the board in order to combat Depression. Refused to take government action to prevent rubber price collapse, alienating landowners. Violently suppresses attempted liberal coup d'etat. Removed in liberal {{wpl|coup d'etat}}.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#679267; color:white;" rowspan="2"|26
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Juan_Vicente_Gómez.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| <small>{{wpl|Marshal}}</small><br>'''[[Jurgis Mažvydas]]'''<br/><small>(1871 - 1936)
| rowspan="1"| 10<sup>th</sup> August 1912
| rowspan="1"| 11<sup>th</sup> August 1927
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1912|08|10|1927|08|11}}
| —
| rowspan="1"| None<br><small>({{wpl|Military dictatorship|Military}})
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Took power in coup d'etat, dissolved Seimas due to disagreements and inability to form government with Liberal Party. Implemented {{wpl|Import substitution industrialization|ISI}}-based trade policies to spur growth of industrial sector. Drastically tightened immigration policies. Tackled rubber overproduction by burning surpluses, balancing out prices. Supported by the landowning oligarchy, Mažvydas became more authoritarian by the late 1930s, suspending key articles of the Constitution concerning freedoms of speech, press, and assembly. Assumed state control over foreign oil refineries in 1923, alienating Euclean powers and Satucin. Fled the country during the opening stages of the [[Great War]].</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#c90016; color:white;" rowspan="2"|27
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Rafael_Lopez_Gutierrez.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Vladas Strasunskas]]'''<br/><small>(1871 - 1936)
| rowspan="1"| 11<sup>th</sup> August 1927
| rowspan="1"| 4<sup>th</sup> September 1927
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1927|08|11|1927|09|04}}
| —
| rowspan="1"| [[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Liberal]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Dissolved the briefly-restored Seimas and with it, the Fourth Republic, forced to hand over power to the Entente puppet government.</small>
|}


===Great War (1927-1933)===
After Crovan's death, ap Rhys assumed command of the army by virtue of seniority (promoting Desmond Sickles to take his place). Elite units in the army included the IX Corps' {{wpl|Iron Brigade|Ice Brigade}}, an all-[[Northumbrian people|Northumbrian]] unit led by Brigadier {{wpl|Ely S. Parker|Alfred Taymoor}}, as well as the feared {{wpl|Imperial Guard (Napoleon I)|Presidential Guard}}.
====Chancellor of the Vilcasuamanian State====
'''Political Parties'''<br>
{{legend2|#FFFFFF|[[General Action Party|General Action]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}


{| class="wikitable"  style="width:100%; text-align:center;"
===Sjealand===
|-
{| align=right
! colspan="2" width=10%| Portrait
!bgcolor="#ffda73"|Key Sjealandic commanders
! width=15%| Name
! Took office
! Left office
! Days
! Political Party
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#FFFFFF;" rowspan="2"|
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Sivickas.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| <small>{{wpl|Marshal}}</small><br>'''[[Aurelijus Šivickas]]'''<br/><small>(1889 - 1934)
| rowspan="1"| 4<sup>th</sup> September 1927
| rowspan="1"| 28<sup>th</sup> March 1933
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1927|09|04|1933|03|28}}
| rowspan="1"| [[General Action Party|General Action]]
|-
|-
| colspan="4"|<small>Assumed power with backing of the Entente military administration, signing Treaty of Vandžiogalas. Enacted the Plan of Aporimakas, aimed at systematically reversing decades of liberal reforms. Šivickas pursued hardline corporatist policies against [[Bahia]]ns, {{wpl|Amerindians|Asterindians}}, and workers. Heavy-handed authoritarianism lost him the support of the "silent majority" of urban conservatives. Deteriorating military situation caused him to seek peace terms with the National Resistance Government, prompting his removal. Was executed after the war for collaboration.</small>
|<gallery perrow="3">
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
File:Patrice-Mac Mahon.jpg|<center>Fld. Mrs.<br />{{wpl|Patrice de MacMahon|Frederik Læssøe}}</center>
! style="background:#FFFFFF;" rowspan="2"|
File:Georg_Daniel_Gerlach.jpg|<center>Gen.<br />{{wpl|da:Georg Gerlach|Georg A.D. Gerlak}}</center>
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Elíseo Arango Ramos.jpg|80px]]
File:Christiandemeza large.jpg|<center>Lt. Gen.<br />{{wpl|Christian de Meza|Karl W. de Mesa}}</center>
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Voldemaras Vilmantas]]'''<br/><small>(1903 - 1933)
File:Glode du Plat by E. Lange.jpg|<center>Lt. Gen.<br />{{wpl|da:Glode du Plat|Glode Henrik du Plat}}</center>
| rowspan="1"| 28th<sup>st</sup> March 1933
File:Johan_Waldemar_Neergaard_by_Georg_E._Hansen.jpg|<center>Lt. Gen.<br />{{wpl|da:Johan Waldemar Neergard|Valdemar Neergard}}</center>
| rowspan="1"| 26<sup>th</sup> May 1933
File:Paul_Ulrich_Scharffenberg_by_Hansen_&_Weller.jpg|<center>Lt. Gen.<br />{{wpl|da:Paul Scharffenberg|Ulrik Scarpenberg}}</center>
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1933|03|28|1933|5|26}}
</gallery>
| rowspan="1"| [[General Action Party|General Action]]
|-
| colspan="4"|<small>A functionalist ideologue, Vilmantas was installed by the Satucinais after the removal of Šivickas. Largely powerless, as the Entente withdrew from the country Vilmantas committed suicide.</small>
|}
|}


====Chancellor-General of the National Resistance Government====
At the outset of the siege, the Sjealandic forces were under the command of {{wpl|Field Marshal}} {{wpl|Patrice de MacMahon|Frederik Læssøe}}. The cornerstone of the defense was the 1. Army (under the immediate command of {{wpl|da:Georg Gerlach|Georg A.D. Gerlak}}), numbering approximately 80,000 regular troops. Læssøe also assumed command of the [[Royal Sjealandic Army#Structure of the army|Capital Garrison]], though most of these soldiers were "green" recruits that had not yet seen battle. In total, the regular army that had been trapped in the city was made up of:
'''Political Parties'''<br>
 
{{legend2|#679267|[[Vilcasuamanas#Military|Military]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
* [[Royal Sjealandic Army#Structure of the army|I Corps]], under Lt. Gen. {{wpl|Christian de Meza|Karl W. de Mesa}}
* [[Royal Sjealandic Army#Structure of the army|II Corps]], under Lt. Gen. {{wpl|da:Johan Waldemar Neergard|Valdemar Neergard}}
* [[Royal Sjealandic Army#Structure of the army|III Corps]], under Lt. Gen. {{wpl|da:Paul Scharffenberg|Ulrik Scarpenberg}}
* [[Royal Sjealandic Army#Structure of the army|Cavalry Corps]], under Maj. Gen. {{wpl|da:Cai Hegermann-Lindencrone (officer)|Ditlev Hegermann Lindencrone}}.


{| class="wikitable"  style="width:100%; text-align:center;"
In addition to the regular army and garrison troops, the local Home Guard was made up of approximately 100,000 men, though their training, equipment, and even their ages varied widely. Some of these units were well-disciplined local militias and {{wpl|rifle clubs}}, though others were scattered groups of poorly supervised and inexperienced civilians, or in some cases, discharged soldiers which had previously been declared unfit for service due to wounds.
|-
! colspan="2" width=10%| Portrait
! width=15%| Name
! Took office
! Left office
! Days
! Political Party
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#679267;" rowspan="2"|
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Stanisław Sosabowski.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| <small>{{wpl|Marshal}}</small><br>'''[[Napalys Ciapas]]'''<br/><small>(1892 - 1932)
| rowspan="1"| 20<sup>th</sup> September 1927
| rowspan="1"| 5<sup>th</sup> December 1932
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1927|09|20|1932|12|05}}
| rowspan="1"| None<br><small>({{wpl|Military dictatorship|Military}})
|-
| colspan="4"|<small>Disputing legitimacy of Vilcasuamine State and Treaty of Vandžiogalas, Ciapas declared a "Government of National Resistance" (VNP), continuing the war from the {{wpl|National Redoubt}} defensive lines in the mountains. Successfully drew the Entente into bitter {{wpl|Attrition warfare|attritionary}} {{wpl|alpine warfare}}, while maintaining constant opposition to Šivickas' puppet regime. Viewed as an effective war leader, Ciapas' campaigns eventually prompted the mass withdrawal of Entente forces and the beginning of a counterattack into Satucin; he would not live to see victory, however, killed in a bombing shortly before the Peace of Gatôn.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#679267;" rowspan="2"|
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Ac.sikorski.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| <small>{{wpl|Marshal}}</small><br>'''[[Kazys Lesiauskas]]'''<br/><small>(1879 - 1960)
| rowspan="1"| 5<sup>th</sup> December 1932
| rowspan="1"| 20<sup>th</sup> July 1933
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1932|12|05|1933|07|20}}
| rowspan="1"| None<br><small>({{wpl|Military dictatorship|Military}})
|-
| colspan="4"|<small>Ciapas' protegé and the mastermind of many of the VNP's most successful military campaigns, Lesiauskas vigorously prosecuted the last months of the war, and signed the Peace of Gatôn, ending the conflict. On July 20th, 1933, Lesiauskas declared the war of resistance over.</small>
|}


===Fourth Republic (1933-1958)===
The 2. Army, under {{wpl|da:Glode du Plat|Glode Henrik du Plat}}, existed the north of the country; however in late 1864 it was by no means an effective fighting force, made up of reservists, volunteers, and understrength 1. Army regiments that had been depleted in previous campaigns. It would take several months before it was to be organized into an army capable of relieving the capital.
'''Political Parties'''<br>
{{legend2|#679267|[[Vilcasuamanas#Military|Military]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend2|#0067A5|[[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend2|#db4d34|[[Social Radical Sotirian Party|Social Radical Sotirian]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend2|#C90016|[[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Liberal]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}


{| class="wikitable"  style="width:100%; text-align:center;"
== Initial assaults ==
|-
=== Ønnerød ===
! {{Abbr|No.|Number}}
=== Grejsdal ===
! width=10%| Portrait
! width=15%| Name
! Took office
! Left office
! Days
! Seimas<br/><small>(election)</small>
! Political Party
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#679267; color:white;" rowspan="2"|29
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Lesiauskas.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| <small>{{wpl|Marshal}}</small><br>'''[[Kazys Lesiauskas]]'''<br/><small>(1879 - 1960)
| rowspan="1"| 20<sup>th</sup> July 1933
| rowspan="1"| 12<sup>th</sup> May 1936
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1933|07|20|1936|05|12}}
| -
| rowspan="1"| [[Vilcasuamanas#Military|Military]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Established national emergency over after withdrawal of [[Great War|Entente]] forces. Resisted giving power back to a civilian government and refused to re-establish Seimas until threatened with riots and a military coup. </small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#0067A5; color:white;" rowspan="2"|30
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Laikis.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Žygimantas Laikis]]'''<br/><small>(1876 - 1943)
| rowspan="1"| 12<sup>th</sup> May 1936
| rowspan="1"| 17<sup>th</sup> November 1936
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1936|05|12|1936|11|17}}
| —
| rowspan="1"| [[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Appointed chancellor by Lesiauskas pending 1936 general election. Defeated in dramatic and unexpected liberal landslide.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#db4d34; color:white;" rowspan="2"|31
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Klimaitis.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Alfonsas Klimaitis]]'''<br/><small>(1884 - 1966)
| rowspan="1"| 17<sup>th</sup> November 1936
| rowspan="1"| 26<sup>th</sup> January 1939
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1936|11|17|1939|01|26}}
| XXXII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1936|1936]])
| rowspan="1"| [[Social Radical Sotirian Party|Social Radical Sotirian]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Elected on wave of social progressivism, passing the radical Constitution of 1937. Extended the franchise to women, implementing {{wpl|universal suffrage}}, and removed the {{wpl|immunity from prosecution}} of corrupt elected officials. Narrowly defeated by no-confidence vote engineered by plantation and mining interests.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#0067a5; color:white;" rowspan="3"|32
| rowspan="3" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Mecislovas Skurius.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="3" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Mečislovas Skirius]]'''<br/><small>(1902 - 1983)
| rowspan="2"| 26<sup>th</sup> January 1939
| rowspan="2"| 17<sup>th</sup> November 1944
| rowspan="2"| {{Age in years, months and days|1939|01|26|1944|11|17}}
| XXXIII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1938|1938]])
| rowspan="2"| [[Conservative Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Conservative]]
|-
| XXXIII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1940|1940]])
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Elected on minority government. Pursued anti-leftist policies, including cracking down on socialist activity. </small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#db4d34; color:white;" rowspan="4"|33
| rowspan="4" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Kanys.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="4" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Petre Kanys]]'''<br/><small>(1895 - 1951)
| rowspan="3"| 17<sup>th</sup> November 1944
| rowspan="3"| 17<sup>th</sup> November 1950
| rowspan="3"| {{Age in years, months and days|1944|11|17|1950|11|17}}
| XXXIV<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1944|1944]])
| rowspan="3"| [[Social Radical Sotirian Party|Social Radical Sotirian]]
|-
| XXXV<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1945|1945]])
|-
| XXXVI<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1948|1948]])
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Elected to plurality in Seimas. Unable to form a government in 1944, Kanys rolled back progressive rhetoric to attract bipartisan support in 1945. Expanded national communications sector, establishing [[Vilcasuamanas Radio Television]]. Relaxed his predecessor's anti-labor policies, codifying the rights to {{wpl|trade union|union organization}} and {{wpl|collective bargaining}}. Invested heavily in infrastructure projects. Resigned in 1950, halfway through second term, due to ill-health.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#db4d34; color:white;" rowspan="2"|34
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Arunas Vanderhoek.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Arūnas Vanderhoek]]'''<br/><small>(1904 - 1975)
| rowspan="1"| 17<sup>th</sup> February 1950
| rowspan="1"| 17<sup>th</sup> February 1952
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1950|11|17|1952|11|17}}
| —
| rowspan="1"| [[Social Radical Sotirian Party|Social Radical Sotirian]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Attempted to expand Kanys' infrastructure projects, but was stymied by uncooperative Senate. Defeated in 1952 elections after budgetary party schism.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#0067a5; color:white;" rowspan="2"|35
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Café_Filho.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Plutarchas Jucevičius]]'''<br/><small>(1899 - 1970)
| rowspan="1"| 17<sup>th</sup> November 1952
| rowspan="1"| 17<sup>th</sup> November 1956
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1952|11|17|1956|11|17}}
| XXXIII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1941|1941]])
| rowspan="1"| [[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Seen as a "creature of the plutocrats", Jucevičius turned a blind eye to labor abuses and stocked his government with industrialists. First [[Solarian Catholic Church|Solarian Catholic]] in power since 1874, made polarizing concessions to the clergy. Defeated in 1956, in large part due to cabinet corruption scandal concerning Vilcasuamanian Railways.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#C90016; color:white;" rowspan="2"|36
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Ramón_Villeda_Morales_1962r.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Feliksas Balgys]]'''<br/><small>(1905 - 1969)
| rowspan="1"| 17<sup>th</sup> February 1956
| rowspan="1"| 7<sup>th</sup> January 1959
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1956|11|17|1959|01|17}}
| XXXIII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1956|1956]])
| rowspan="1"| [[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Liberal]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Reformed Liberal Party, aligning it with progressive causes and drawing grassroots support from union leaders and peasants, and  fierce opposition from conservatives and military. After successful farm subsidies program, Balgys proposed a radical land reform program, creating intense controversy. Threatened with a {{wpl|no-confidence vote}}, he dissolved the Seimas with the intention of holding new elections. Deposed in coup d'état.</small>
|}


===Sprogys military dictatorship (1958-1979)===
== Siege ==
{{legend2|#679267|[[Vilcasuamanas#Military|Military]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}


{| class="wikitable"  style="width:100%; text-align:center;"
== Relief and withdrawal ==
|-
! {{Abbr|No.|Number}}
! width=10%| Portrait
! width=25%| Name
! Took office
! Left office
! Days
! Seimas<br/><small>(election)</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#679267; color:white;" rowspan="2"|37
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:A. Pinochet Stamp cropped.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| <small>{{wpl|Marshal}}</small><br>'''[[Mauricijus Sprogys]]'''<br/><small>(1918 - 1978)
| rowspan="1"| 7<sup>th</sup> January 1959
| rowspan="1"| 4<sup>th</sup> June 1978
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1959|01|07|1978|06|04}}
| XXXIII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1976|1976]])
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Took power in a coup d'état. Fiercely {{wpl|Anti-communism|anti-collectivist}}, Sprogys created the [[National Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services|NZPTD]] intelligence service with sweeping powers of arrest, detention, and deportation; several thousand suspected socialists and syndicalists were imprisoned without trial or {{wpl|Forced disappearance|disappeared}}. Implementing {{wpl|neoliberal}} reforms, Sprogys stabilized a plummeting economy and ushered in a period of national growth, though one also characterized by rising {{wpl|inequality}}. Foreign policy dominated by rapprochement with neighbors, forging alliances with [[Nuvania]], [[Satucin]], [[Sanslumière]] and [[Marirana]], and founding the [[Asterian Forum for Development and Cooperation|AFDC]]. {{wpl|Low intensity conflict|Low-intensity}} [[Vilcasuamanian Bush War|insurgency]] caused Sprogys to announce {{wpl|democratization}}, but he died before this could be carried out.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#679267; color:white;" rowspan="2"|—
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Vilcas-CoA.png|50px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''Military Junta'''<br><small>{{wpl|Marshal}} [[Lauras  Lagunavicius]]</small><br><small>{{wpl|Marshal}} [[Vladas Pranskunas]]</small><br><small>{{wpl|Marshal}} [[Povilas Bauzys]]</small><br><small>{{nowrap|{{wpl|Admiral}} [[Anupras Kvedaravicius]]}}</small>
| rowspan="1"| 4<sup>th</sup> June 1978
| rowspan="1"| 19<sup>th</sup> April 1979
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1842|03|17|1856|02|24}}
| —
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Took power upon Sprogys' death. Attempted to postpone democratization, but were prevented by increasing civil unrest and the threat of renewal of the [[Vilcasuamanian Bush War|Bush War]].</small>
|}


===Fifth Republic (1979-present)===
== Aftermath ==
'''Political Parties'''<br>
{{legend2|#0067A5|[[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend2|#C90016|[[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Liberal]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend2|#FAA61A|[[Sotirian Social Alliance]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend2|#013068|[[National Solidarity Party (Vilcasuamanas)|National Solidarity]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend2|#1e781e|[[Democratic Action (Vilcasuamanas)|Democratic Action]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}


{| class="wikitable"  style="width:100%; text-align:center;"
== In popular culture ==
|-
! {{Abbr|No.|Number}}
! width=10%| Portrait
! width=15%| Name
! Took office
! Left office
! Days
! Seimas<br/><small>(election)</small>
! Political Party
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#0067a5; color:white;" rowspan="2"|38
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Drusutis.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Kazys Drusutis]]'''<br/><small>(1822 - 1899)
| rowspan="1"| 19<sup>th</sup> April 1979
| rowspan="1"| 17<sup>th</sup> November 1979
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1842|03|17|1856|02|24}}
| —
| rowspan="1"| [[Unitarian Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Unitarian]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Caretaker government</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#c90016; color:white;" rowspan="2"|39
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:A Zuokas.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Algis Zuokas]]'''<br/><small>(1822 - 1899)
| rowspan="1"| 17<sup>th</sup> November 1979
| rowspan="1"| 17<sup>th</sup> November 1983
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1842|03|17|1856|02|24}}
| —
| rowspan="1"| [[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Liberal]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>uh</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#FAA61A; color:white;" rowspan="4"|40
| rowspan="4" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Tancredo_Neves,_1983.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="4" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Salemonas Sakatauskas]]'''<br/><small>(1884 - 1989)
| rowspan="3"| 17<sup>th</sup> November 1983
| rowspan="3"| 16<sup>th</sup> September 1989
| rowspan="3"| {{Age in years, months and days|1842|03|17|1856|02|24}}
| XXXII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1983|1983]])
| rowspan="3"| [[Sotirian Social Alliance]]
|-
| XXXII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1985|1985]])
|-
| XXXII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1987|1987]])
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Dissolves Seimas and calls 1985 elections, giving him larger majority. Resigns due to ill-health in 1989.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#faa61a; color:white;" rowspan="2"|41
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Luis_Herrera_Campins.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Adolfas Svirelis]]'''<br/><small>(born 1952)
| rowspan="1"| 16<sup>th</sup> September 1989
| rowspan="1"| 17<sup>th</sup> November 1991
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1842|03|17|1856|02|24}}
| —
| rowspan="1"| [[Sotirian Social Alliance]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Unpopular due to increased drug cartel activities.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#c90016; color:white;" rowspan="3"|42
| rowspan="3" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Normantas.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="3" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Ricardas Normantas]]'''<br/><small>(born 1946)
| rowspan="2"| 17<sup>th</sup> November 1991
| rowspan="2"| 1<sup>st</sup> August 1996
| rowspan="2"| {{Age in years, months and days|1842|03|17|1856|02|24}}
| XXXIV<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1991|1991]])
| rowspan="2"| [[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Liberal]]
|-
| XXXIV<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1995|1995]])
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Accused of using drug money to fund second campaign. Resigns during investigation.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#c90016; color:white;" rowspan="2"|43
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:OscarArias.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Giedrius Veiverys]]'''<br/><small>(1884 - 1952)
| rowspan="1"| 1<sup>st</sup> August 1996
| rowspan="1"| 5<sup>th</sup> January 1997
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1842|03|17|1856|02|24}}
| —
| rowspan="1"| [[Liberal Party (Vilcasuamanas)|Liberal]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Former Minister of Exchequer and only prominent cabinet member untouched by scandal. Attempts to distance himself from Normantas by cracking down on cartels. Vote of no confidence.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#013068; color:white;" rowspan="4"|44
| rowspan="4" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Lulayuribe 20051214 02 (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="4" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Antanas Graičiūnas]]'''<br/><small>(born 1948)
| rowspan="3"| 17<sup>th</sup> November 1997
| rowspan="3"| 10<sup>th</sup> June 2005
| rowspan="3"| {{Age in years, months and days|1842|03|17|1856|02|24}}
| XXXIII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1996|1996]])
| rowspan="3"| [[National Solidarity Party (Vilcasuamanas)|National Solidarity]]
|-
| XXXIII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1999|1999]])
|-
| XXXIII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 2003|2003]])
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Expands military spending, cracks down on drug trafficking. Calls snap election in 2005 to bolster mandate but narrowly loses in upset.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#faa61a; color:white;" rowspan="2"|45
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Panama.MartinTorrijos.01.jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Andrius von Wrangel]]'''<br/><small>(1905 - 1969)
| rowspan="1"| 10<sup>th</sup> June 2005
| rowspan="1"| 17<sup>th</sup> November 2007
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1842|03|17|1856|02|24}}
| XXXIII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 2005|2005]])
| rowspan="1"| [[Sotirian Social Alliance]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Elected to minority government. First Weranian Vilcasuamanian to be elected.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#013068; color:white;" rowspan="2"|(44)
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Álvaro_Uribe_(cropped).jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Antanas Graičiūnas]]'''<br/><small>(1905 - 1969)
| rowspan="1"| 17<sup>th</sup> November 2007
| rowspan="1"| 12<sup>th</sup> January 2011
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1842|03|17|1856|02|24}}
| XXXIII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1956|1956]])
| rowspan="1"| [[National Solidarity Party (Vilcasuamanas)|National Solidarity]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Does not run in 2011 after elected to chair [International Orgsnization]</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#1e781e; color:white;" rowspan="2"|46
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:Visita de la Canciller colombiana, María Ángela Holguín a Cancillería de Ecuador (5187684560).jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Anamarija Galaunė]]'''<br/><small>(1905 - 1969)
| rowspan="1"| 17<sup>th</sup> November 2011
| rowspan="1"| 17<sup>th</sup> November 2015
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1842|03|17|1856|02|24}}
| XXXIII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 1956|1956]])
| rowspan="1"| [[Democratic Action (Vilcasuamanas)|Democratic Action]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Elected to minority government. Reforms Liberal Party and aligns it with progressive causes, facing fierce opposition from conservatives and military. Dismissal of Minister of War prompts coup d'état.</small>
|- style="background:#EEEEEE"
! style="background:#faa61a; color:white;" rowspan="2"|47
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| [[Image:CENA_LENIN_MORENO_(16217113764)_(cropped).jpg|80px]]
| rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE"| '''[[Vytautas Kaparauskas]]'''<br/><small>(1905 - 1969)
| rowspan="1"| 17<sup>th</sup> November 2015
| rowspan="1"| ''incumbent''
| rowspan="1"| {{Age in years, months and days|1842|03|17|1856|02|24}}
| XXXIII<br><small>([[Vilcasuamanian general election, 2015|2015]])
| rowspan="1"| [[Sotirian Social Alliance]]
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>Elected to minority government. First Weranian Vilcasuamanian to be elected.</small>
|}

Latest revision as of 20:34, 5 July 2020

Gibbs/Sandbox
Part of the Great War of the North
Neuville défense de la porte de Longboyau img 1960-rama.jpg
Sjealandic infantry defend the Staksrode Gate against Ambrosian cuirassiers, Alfons af Nørremarken
Date29 October 1864 – 28 April 1865
(5 months, 4 weeks and 2 days)
Location
Asgård, Sjealand
Result Ambrosian withdrawal
Belligerents
 Ambrose  Sjealand
Commanders and leaders
Ambrose Godfred Crovan  †
Ambrose Brinton ap Rhys
Ambrose W.H.L. Reynolds
Ambrose Desmond Sickles		 Sjealand Frederik Læssøe
Sjealand Georg A.D. Gerlak
Sjealand Karl W. de Mesa
Sjealand Glode Henrik du Plat

The Siege of Asgård was fought between October 29, 1864 and April 28, 1865, during the Great War of the North. The Ambrosian commander-in-chief, General Godfred Crovan, landed on Sjealand proper with his Army of the Kings in August of 1864. After several maneuvers, he was able to flush the Sjealandic army, under Georg A.D. Gerlak, out of the Tynnevirke fortification line and amanged to trap them in Asgård, the capital of Sjealand.

The six month-long siege was characterized by trench warfare punctuated by occasional attempts to break the siege—bloody engagements such as Ønnerød, Grejsdal, Kollerup, and Rhys's Landing.Crovan knew that he could not outright defeat the entrenched, numerically-superior Sjealandic Army, but hoped to pressure them into abandoning the capital and allowing the Ambrosians to take it unopposed. However, the Sjealandic king, Håkon VII, refused to abandon the capital, saying "I will conquer or I will die in my nest". Though they maintained naval superiority from the sea, the Confederal Navy weas unable to gain control of the Kongeelven River, allowing the Royal Sjealandic Navy to continue to resupply the capital (a fact which has lead certain commentators to question whether the operation was truly a "siege" in the classical sense of the term).

In February 1865, Crovan was killed by a Sjealandic sharpshooter, causing a mass reorganization of the Ambrosian Army. Several factors—the continued resistance of the Asgård garrison, pressure from a relief force led by Glode Henrik du Plat, and the breakout of the Sjealandic fleet from the Nordvakt Straits (which threatened their supply lines)—caused the new Ambrosian commander, Brinton ap Rhys, to withdraw to the positions of the captured Tynnevirke. Due to the exhaustion of the Sjealandic Army, there was little further action on the Sjealandic front for the duration of the year.

Background

Military situation

Sjealand had been at war against the Coalition—Ambrose, Engatia, Suavia, and the Valish states—since late 1861. In the intervening years, the forces of the Royal Sjealandic Army, led by Field Marshal Frederik Læssøe, had been largely pushed off of the Aldinean continent, rolled back through various defeats or inconclusive engagements such as Ildre, Gryby, Damstorp, and, in late 1863, Fleninge, at the hands of a Valish-Engatian army. With the Royal Sjealandic Navy largely having been confined to port after the Battle of Cape Heria the year before, political elements in Asgård feared that the Sjealandic mainland was now excessively vulnerable. With mounting political pressure, as well as concern over their supply chain across the Tynic Straits, Læssøe withdrew the bulk of his army to Sjealand in a series of planned evacuations, coinciding with a ceasefire and peace talks in Klarvann. Though the talks would end in failure by early 1864, by their end, Sjealandic control on the continent would reduced to Thy and the surrounding highlands, while the majority of the Sjealandic Army was safely rearming in Sjealand proper.

As the Sjealanders were expelled from the continent, Godfred Crovan, the president and commander-in-chief of Ambrose, had won a series of striking victories against Galideen, Kulavia, and the Frysan states. As the invasion of Galideen continued, however, Crovan became increasingly convinced of the need to knock Sjealand out of the war. In a conference with the Valish commander, Field Marshal Johan Axel Mardefelt, in January of 1864, the two coalition leaders settled on a two-pronged invasion of Sjealand; one, a Valish army moving towards Nordvakt, and the other, an Ambrosian army moving towards Asgard. The invasion was set to commence in the early August of 1864, after Crovan returned from campaigning in the East.

Initial movements

The Ambrosian army landed in western Nillas Bay on the 8th of August, 1864. In a careful display of maneuver warfare, Crovan threatened to overrun the Tynnevirke, the Sjealandic Army's defensive line. With their rear threatened, on the 20th of September, Field Marshal Læssøe took the decision to pull back from the fortifications, despite the strenuous objections of his own staff, such as Lt. Gen. Karl Vilhelm de Mesa, as well as politicians in Asgard.

The armies met at Lamborg on the 6th of October. Due to the inadvertent movement of General Niels Lunding's corps, a large gap was opened in the Sjealandic line. A cavalry charge by the brigade of H. Alexander Fitzpatrick threw the Sjealandic Army into disarray. Partially due to the incompetence of Ambrosian Gen. Wager ap Henry, and partially due to a brave stand by the 8th Brigade of Sjealandic Gen. P.L. Møller, the Sjealandic Army was saved from a decisive defeat. Læssøe was bought time to form an organized retreat to the safety of the Asgard fortifications, where his army would rest and regroup.

Despite quartering his troops in the capital, Læssøe did not plan to weather a siege and made plans to leave the confines of the city before the winter ended the campaigning season; he reasoned that the city's fortifications were already impregnable and that Crovan's expeditionary force could only be defeated in open battle. Nevertheless, the Sjealandic government immediately undertook a massive effort to further the city's already-formidable defensive works.

Crovan had not planned on investing Asgård; his plan had been to decisively defeat the Sjealandic Army in battle—which he had attempted and failed at Lamborg—and hopefully force the Sjealandic government to ask for an armistice, allowing him to march into the city unopposed. In any case, he had no intentions of directly assaulting the city's fortifications, and especially not when they were manned by the intact, if battered, Sjealandic Army. He considered moving his troops across the Kongeelven Rover and abandoning Asgard entirely, though he concluded it was too late in the year to begin a scorched earth campaign deep in enemy territory. Instead, Crovan settled on besieging the city while continuing to apply pressure in order to bring the Sjealandic military and civilian administration to their brink.

After Crovan took the railroad junction of Krusbjerg on 20 October with little effective resistance, the city of Asgard flew into an all-out panic. Læssøe was confronted by his staff, who argued that a siege was now inevitable; he offered his resignation to the king, king, Håkon VII, but was refused. The offices of the Sjealandic government evacuated the city on the 26 of October, effectively leaving the city under martial law.

Opposing forces

Ambrose

Key Ambrosian commanders

The Ambrosian forces were that of the Army of the Kings (named after the Kongeelven, or "King" River). This formation had been assembled in early 1864 in Valland, cobbled together from the Army of the Kenetcy and detached regiments of the Army of the Els. At the time of the invasion of Sjealand, it numbered approximately 75,000, having been gathered and trained at camps along the coast of Valmark.

In keeping with the typical structure of 19th century Ambrosian field armies, the Army of the Kings was divided into two "wings" (right and left), each commanded by a lieutenant general. The Right Wing of the army was commanded by Brinton ap Rhys and was made up of:

The Left Wing of the army was commanded by Lt. Gen. Wulfred Horace Lucan Reynolds (the former Lord Reynolds), and consisted of:

After Crovan's death, ap Rhys assumed command of the army by virtue of seniority (promoting Desmond Sickles to take his place). Elite units in the army included the IX Corps' Ice Brigade, an all-Northumbrian unit led by Brigadier Alfred Taymoor, as well as the feared Presidential Guard.

Sjealand

Key Sjealandic commanders

At the outset of the siege, the Sjealandic forces were under the command of Field Marshal Frederik Læssøe. The cornerstone of the defense was the 1. Army (under the immediate command of Georg A.D. Gerlak), numbering approximately 80,000 regular troops. Læssøe also assumed command of the Capital Garrison, though most of these soldiers were "green" recruits that had not yet seen battle. In total, the regular army that had been trapped in the city was made up of:

In addition to the regular army and garrison troops, the local Home Guard was made up of approximately 100,000 men, though their training, equipment, and even their ages varied widely. Some of these units were well-disciplined local militias and rifle clubs, though others were scattered groups of poorly supervised and inexperienced civilians, or in some cases, discharged soldiers which had previously been declared unfit for service due to wounds.

The 2. Army, under Glode Henrik du Plat, existed the north of the country; however in late 1864 it was by no means an effective fighting force, made up of reservists, volunteers, and understrength 1. Army regiments that had been depleted in previous campaigns. It would take several months before it was to be organized into an army capable of relieving the capital.

Initial assaults

Ønnerød

Grejsdal

Siege

Relief and withdrawal

Aftermath

In popular culture

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