Great Pacific Revolt of 1886
| The Great Pacifican Revolt of 1885 | |||||||||
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| Part of Atlantean Colonization of the Pacific Ocean | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Tui Tonga Empire | Atlantean Republic | ||||||||
| Kingdom of Vanuatu | Houpo'e | ||||||||
| Tahitian Kingdom | |||||||||
| Various Pacifican principalities | |||||||||
| Irregular Peasant insurrectionists | |||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Emperor Aitonui XIV King Necumejili
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Azara Karistig Ilzakt Renastiak Azaviz Munastiak Avetanprion Kemanstanziz
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| Strength | |||||||||
| 5,000,000-12,000,000 (Teihotaata); 800,000-1,000,000 (Ucastiak); 750,000-800,000 (Lamanstig) |
60,000 Initially; 350,000-500,000 peak 200,000 Houpo'e Warriors | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 6,000,000 - 7,000,000 Military and Civilian deaths (Teihotaata); 150,000 Military casualties, 800,000 Civilian Casualties (Ucastiak); 200,000 Military and Civilian Deaths (Lamanstig) | 80,000 Military Casualties, 12,000 Civilian Casualties | ||||||||
The Great Pacific Revolt of 1886 was an unsuccessful general insurrection in Atlantean controlled Pacifica. The revolt was carried out by an eclectic mix of Pacifica actors all seeking to eject Atlantean influence from the continent. These included major Pacifica monarchs and nobles like King Necumejili of the Kingdom of Vanuatu, or Emperor Aitonui XIV of the Tonga Empire who had previously submitted to Atlantean suzerainty, and decentralised and spontaneous peasant and worker uprisings in major cities and the countryside. The revolt saw initial successes in the years of 1886 and 1887, in which the combined strength of independent peasant warbands and the personal armies of Pacifica nobles were able to take control of the majority of the Pacifica countryside, and managed to push Atlantean forces to the coastal regions of Dragon bay, as well as capturing several major cities along the Dragon river. However, as Atlantean troops began arriving in earnest to put the revolt down, and the Navy, unrestrained by the government in Atlantis proper, began adopting draconian and brutal policies of repression including scorched earth tactics, forced labour, forces conversions to christianity, mass murder, etc, Pacifica gains began to be reversed. After Atlantean forces defeated the standing armies of the nobles and the monarchs in the Riverine Expedition in early 1888, the peasant warbands quickly began to falter and disappate as harvest season, low morale, and military defeat rendered the revolt untenable. In the aftermath, the 'Eiki system in which Pacifica nobles and monarchs retained their titles and fiefs but submitted to Atlantean suzerainty was abolished. The Kingdom of Vanuatu, the Tonga Empire, and all Pacifica principalities were abolished, while their land was divided up and distributed among Naval officers and other prominent business and political figures in Atlantis as private property or were directly administered by the Navy.
Many historians in Pacifica and Internationally have characterised the Atlantean response to the revolt as a genocide. However, the Atlantean government and many Atlantean academics maintain that the actions of the Navy during the revolt were largely appropriate and necessary to quell an insurrectionary force, and argues that the label 'genocide' is inaccurate. The revolt, too, would solidfy both Atlantean and Pacifican nationalisms. On the one hand, Atlanteans began identifying with an increasingly radical protestant Christian nationalism based in a 'Crusading spirit' born out of wartime propaganda syntheised with Racialism, while Pacificans came to identify the revolt as the genesis in their national conciousness and a common interest in resisting Atlantean colonialism, leading to a more unified understanding of "Pacifican" nationhood.
Background
<start with the basic history of Pacifica, settlement by polynesian peoples. basic geographical descriptions of the large south east asia like archipelago. Then describe the social and political entities that showed up, what exact peoples, what kingdoms and empires, etc. Then skip to the first european exploration and first Atlantean incursions. After that, explain how the atlanteans obtained, governed, and exploited the land, functioning almost like feudalism at first with naval officers and their marauding bands of soldiers going around demanding tribute and 'taxes'. Explain how nobles were brought under suzerainty of the Atlantean state, and were forbidden from acting against the local garrisons and officers de-facto owned the land as their private fiefdoms. Enclosurement of lands that uprooted local farmers and peoples, increasing immigration of Atlanteans, and general abuses by the garrisons led to spontaneous peasant uprisings first, and then the upper class who saw their wealth and status diminish revolted against the Atlanteans as well. After this point describe how the war went, which we already know. Make sure to mention how dragon bay was the center of Atlantean activity in the colonies. Also mention how dragon bay was named so because of the various semi-submerged caves of varying sizes that line dragon bay, some of which are used as harbours if they are big enough, because early superstitious sailors believed sea dragons lived in them.>