1974 Ascollan Coup Attempt

1974 Ascollan Coup Attempt
File:... Parliamentary building in Tardania after coup forces were driven out of the city
Date 18-19 March, 1974 Location Ascolla-East Ternev Result Coup forces crushed SOSG disbanded for taking part in the coup GPAET maintains control over the country
Belligerents
Loyalists AFAET Republican Vanguard SOSG loyalists Various security officers and police	Coup Forces Two battlegroups of various sizes Majority of the SOSG
Commanders and leaders
GC Daniel Renwald Arwin Liegenburg Olenik Szvarsie	Erwin Tauberg   Lynn Deanessé  † Tarwin Decannié
Casualties and losses
1 859 killed 4 592 wounded	2 264 killed 8 945 wounded

The 1974 Ascollan Coup Attempt (though people from both Ascolla and East Ternev participated in the attempt, it had a much larger impact in Ascolla, thus the name) was an attempt by parts of the armed forces to seize power in Ascolla-East Ternev and stop left-wing groups, which had been gaining favor amongst the public and in the parliament even after the 1973 Escan Incident, from taking control over the parliament, and thus the country.

Though initially successful, with the coup forces under Erwin Tauberg seizing the parliamentary building and executing several members of the Liberty Party, a combined force of the regular army and the Republican Vanguard were able to retake control shortly afterwards.

The remaining coup forces in Veccia, heavily outnumbered (having vastly overestimated the number of soldiers that would join them), attempt to flee the city and reorganize for an assault on Tardania, but are stopped by either police or units of the ReVa, and after a few hours of fighting throughout Veccia, the last of the coup participants had either surrendered or been killed in the fighting.

In the wake of the coup attempt, 100's of soldiers and officers were executed for their role in attempting to overthrow the government; Amongst them, Erwin Tauberg.

Background

The rise of left-wing groups in 1970, and the Greater Union Socialists party under Vladimir Ekadyr securing 30% of the vote in 1971, worried the conservative ASU who feared they'd lose the absolute majority they had held in the parliament. In response, the ASU formed the SOSG (though they claimed it was to stop terrorism).