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Grand Alliance
1927–1935
  Countries directly involved in the Grand Alliance.   Countries involved in the Grand Alliance through other nations.   Striped nations joined the Grand Alliance after Entente affiliation. Principal Allied Powers: * Kingdom of Estmere (to 1929; from 1933) * Etrurian Second Republic (from 1928) * Narozalic Republic * Republic of Senria * Panswetanian Council Republic (from 1931) * Weranic Crown Other Allied Nations: * Aucurian Republic (1928) * Azmaran Commonwealth (from 1933) *File:Eldmark.png Kingdom of Eldmark (from 1929) * Commonwealth of Halland (from 1931) * Kingdom of Maracao (from 1929; to 1930) * Republic of Nuxica (from 1929)
  Countries directly involved in the Grand Alliance.
  Countries involved in the Grand Alliance through other nations.
  Striped nations joined the Grand Alliance after Entente affiliation.


Other Allied Nations:
StatusMilitary alliance
History 
• Established
1927
• Disestablished
1935

The Grand Alliance, also referred to as the Allied Powers was a worldwide military alliance that countered and fought the Entente throughout the Great War. The main preceding iteration of the Great Alliance was the Tripartite Pact of Estmere, Etruria and Werania in 1923. The phrase "Grand Alliance" was coined by Weranic Emperor Leopold IV in 1926, and was used to describe the alliance throughout the war.

Whilst there was never any binding alliance on paper, the Grand Alliance contained six forefront powers (Estmere, Etruria, Narozalica, Senria, Swetania and Werania), and added many new countries throughout the duration of the conflict, particularly as the fronts expanded to the Asterias. The Grand Alliance ceased to exist in any notable form by the end of the war in 1935, and was mainly superseded by the Security Council of the Community of Nations.

Background

Main powers

Kingdom of Estmere

Etrurian Second Republic

Narozalic Republic

Republic of Senria

[background - keiou restoration, stagnation of modernization, first sakata incident]

[senrian revolution as an estmere-gaullica/xiao proxy conflict]

Senrian troops in house-to-house combat during the Third Battle of Ukyou.

[the council of the senrian state is an uncomfortable compromise; public faith falls; second sakata incident is initiated by senria; this escalates into the great war when both sides call in their alliances]

[initially, senria's goal in the GW is just to survive by any means necessary; three-point plan and imahara coining "total war", plus the trauma of the Senrian Genocide, hammer home this notion of "we win or we die"]

[as the war goes on, its goal becomes dominance in coius and the dismemberment of xiaodong (Nakagawa Plan); but euclea doesn't like this, which engenders bitterness between it and the rest of the allies]

[senria comes out of the war immensely war-weary, but modernized and militarily and economically powerful; this weariness, plus tensions w/ the euclean allies, help pave the way for a return of the xiao threat]

Panswetanian Council Republic

Weranic Crown

Affiliated nations

Aucurian Republic

Azmaran Commonwealth

Kingdom of Eldmark

Commonwealth of Halland

Maracao

Kingdom

Republic

Republic of Nuxica

Non-state combatants

Leaders

Estmerish Empire

  • William III - King of Estmere, of Buckland, and the Lands beyond the Sea (until 31 December 1936)
  • H. H. Arterbury - Prime Minister of Estmere (until 28 August 1928)
  • Augustine FitzWarren - Prime Minister of Estmere (from 28 August 1928 until 21 May 1929)
  • Edward G. Norcross - Prime Minister of Estmere (from 21 May 1929)
  • Wolfgar Godfredson - Commander of the Southern Front (until 1929) and Commander of the Estmerish Liberation Army (from 1929 until 1934)

Buckland

Imagua

Etruria

Narozalica

Senria

Grand Marshal, and later Prime Minister, Katurou Imahara.

Swetania

Werania

Aucuria

Azmara

Eldmark

Halland

Maracao

Maracan President Renato Guimarães, leader of the Liberação

Nuxica