Inglaterran Annexation of the Kolmhark Islands

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Inglaterran Annexation of the Kolmhark Islands
Part of Niagaran Civil War
Inglaterran Troops Wade Ashore.jpg
Inglaterran troops wade ashore on 20 November
Date20 November 2011 – 22 November 2011
(2 days)
Location
Result
Belligerents

Inglaterra

Greater Niagara

Commanders and leaders
NIAGARAN KING
NIAGARAN PM
NIAGARAN SECDEF
SEXDICK POLICE CHIEF
Units involved
Navy Elements
Elements of the Second Fleet
Inglaterran Third Marine Expeditionary Group
Territorial Police Force
Strength

Navy
14000 sailors

  • 11 support vessels
  • 6 amphibious assault ships

Marines
9,000 marines
Territorial Police Force
18 police officers

In March 2011, Inglaterra invaded and subsequently annexed the Kolmhark Islands from Greater Niagara. During the MAYBE POLITICAL TENSIONS OF NIAGARA???. Then-president Sebaastian Wijk had discussed the possibility of having the Kolmhark Islands "returned" to Inglaterra, citing that when Inglaterra was a colony of Niagara the islands had been a part of that dominion. Additionally, Inglaterra claimed that the Inglaterran-speaking minority of roughly 300 residents were oppressed by the Niagaran government and Niagaran-speaking majority of Kolmhark residents. On 18 March 2011, 17 vessels belonging to Inglaterra left the port of Harkzel and headed north. Inglaterra claimed that these ships would be preforming exercises in international waters. No alarm was raised under 20 November when the ships suddenly changed course and entered Kolmhark waters. Later that same day, Inglaterran marines landed across all three islands. Inglaterra claimed that the territorial police helicopter had buzzed one of the Inglaterran ships, provoking the response.

Following the annexation, Inglaterra escalated its naval presence in the surrounding sea as a deterrent to any Niagaran or Furbish attempt to reclaim the islands by force.

Niagara and many other countries condemned the annexation and consider it to be a violation of international law and the agreements of Inglaterra's borders as set by the settlements at the end of the Third Great War. The annexation led to major powers introducing sanctions. The Global Community also rejected the annexation, adopting a resolution affirming the annexation to be illegal and violating the rights of the Kolmhark Islands to determine their nationality.

The Inglaterra government opposes the "annexation" label, with Wijk defending the annexation as complying with the principle of the self-determination of peoples, claiming the territorial government had requested annexation.