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===Rise of Maxime Séraphin===
===Rise of Maxime Séraphin===
Son takes power and begins consolidating authority, using Aquitayne as a scapegoat for the pressure to remove the monarchy from power that his mother was touting.
Son assisantes his mother and takes power, begins consolidating authority. Domestic troubles


===Domestic troubles in Cassonne===
===Domestic troubles in Cassonne===

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War of the Usurper
Part of the Reign of Maxime Séraphin and the First Seraphic Revolution
War of 1888.png
Battle of Chouteau
Date12 May 1888 - 21 July 1894
Location
Southern Teudallum
Result

Peace of Saint-Catherines

  • Cassonne pays reparations to Aquitayne for full cost of the war
  • Cassonne issues a full apology and retracts its claims to the initial cause of the war
Territorial
changes
  • Valle Crucis gains independence from Cassonne within 10 years of peace
  • Aquitayne annexes Port Puichéric
  • Aquitayne annexes Al-Raha ???
  • Belligerents
     Cassonne  Aquitayne
    Commanders and leaders

    Cassonne Maxime Séraphin
    Cassonne Lord Alphonse of Auberon

    Cassonne Clément Trausse

    Aquitayne Immanuel I (d. 1889)
    Aquitayne Tiberius III

    Aquitayne Lord Reich of Freyport
    Strength

     Cassonne

    375,000 - 625,000

     Aquitayne

    325,000 - 550,000
    Casualties and losses
    Combat deaths:
    100,000
    Combat deaths:
    75,000

    Military deaths from disease: 150,000 - 300,000
    Total civilian dead: 550,000

    Total dead: 950,000 - 1,225,000

    The War of the Usurper, War of 1888, or Guerre de l'Usurpateur, was one of the largest conflicts in the 19th century in Astyria. An estimated 900,000-1.2 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battle, famine, or disease.


    Background

    Constitutionalism in the Republic

    Melisent Séraphin takes power in 1875 after her dad dies and begins trying to bring constitutional reforms to the monarchy.

    Restorationists

    Group of wealthy merchants and military officers begin colluding to restore absolute authority to the monarchy. Melisent goes on a public speaking tour promoting constitutionalism and gets assassinated by her son.

    Rise of Maxime Séraphin

    Son assisantes his mother and takes power, begins consolidating authority. Domestic troubles

    Domestic troubles in Cassonne

    Economic collapse due to harsh authoritarian treatment of military and civilians.

    Beginning of hostilities

    Maxime declares war on Aquitayne for destabalizing the country by trying to remove its monarch, in an attempt to consolidate power and get the economy working on a war footing. Not expecting much resistance from Aq.

    Phase I: 1888-1891