Triple Alliance
Alliance of Interior Republics Alleanza delle Repubbliche Interne | |||||||||||||
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| 1890–1894 | |||||||||||||
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Motto: Equità sotto Dio "Fairness Under God" | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Lungofiume, Amonte | ||||||||||||
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| Government | Confederation of democratic republics | ||||||||||||
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• 1890-1894 | Ricardo Coroni | ||||||||||||
| Legislature | Alliance Council | ||||||||||||
| Historical era | Late Confederacy Era | ||||||||||||
• Established | 12 September 1890 | ||||||||||||
• New Year's Day Constitution | 1 January 1894 | ||||||||||||
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• 1894 | 2,120,000 | ||||||||||||
| Currency | Credito Comune (₵) | ||||||||||||
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The Alliance of Interior Republics (Almaran: Alleanza delle Repubbliche Interne), or oftentimes simply the Triple Alliance (Triplice Alleanza) was a confederation that existed from September 1890 to January 1894. It is the first modern state to control and govern the interior of Soltenia.
The Alliance came into existence after years of mistreatment of the interior republics of Terrenero, Granacastas, and Amonte by the Soltenish Confederacy, dominated by the coastal republics. Despite being policed by Confederate forces, forced to trade solely with the Confederate credit, and forced to place no tariffs on Confederate goods, the Confederacy maintained that the interior republics were not members of the Confederacy and therefore denied the interior republics any representation in the Confederacy. Ricardo Coroni, leader of the Amonte Republic, remarked that the interior republics had all the negative consequences and duties of Confederate membership without any of the benefits.
With the interior being colonized during the early 1800s, the area that would eventually make up the Alliance had been mistreated for over 90 years before the leaders of the three interior states combined their militias and efforts on September 12th, 1890. The Alliance's combined militia, though untrained, caught the Confederate Army by surprise, killing and capturing most of the garrisons in the major cities of the region. The Confederate Navy, long oriented towards operations on the high seas, was unable to travel upriver to reinforce any of the garrisons. By 31 October the Confederacy had been pushed out of the region.
The initial response of the Confederacy was to send more troops into the region. The combined militia of the Triple Alliance totaled just under 18,000 volunteers. The much better equipped Confederate Army had nearly 36,000 men and the Confederate Marines had another 10,000. Additionally, the Confederate population of 28.2 million dwarfed the 8.1 million in the Alliance. However, Alliance control of the rivers meant the Confederates would be forced to march through the mostly undeveloped jungle. An attempt to capture the critical riverside port of Alesia resulted in most of the Confederate landing barges being sunk in the river; 4,500 of the original 6,000 soldiers dispatched drowned before even arriving on the north bank of the river. Additionally, the Confederacy had become dependent on the Alliance members for foodstuffs and many raw materials. A 19 December report by the Confederate General Staff found that the Confederacy was unlikely to force a military capitulation by the Alliance before food stores ran out. Faced with no other options, the Confederacy agreed to negotiate on 21 December.
The Alliance cause was helped by the fact that Irassia and Aestas, junior members of the Confederacy, supported a rebalancing against the coastal members. Additionally, Liberocolpi, despite being a coastal republic, was declining relative to Almara, Sulma, or Soleria. Liberocolpi was thus inclined to support any agreement that redistributed power away from those three states. The Alliance had a goal of a union with a more powerful central government that protected the rights of the constituent members.
From December 1890 to July 1891 the two sides negotiated. The resulting constitution would take effect when the term of the incumbent government of the Confederacy expired on 1 January 1894, at which point the Confederacy would be dissolved and a new democratic federal government would assume power. True to its word, the last act, minutes before midnight on 31 December 1893, of the Confederate government was to vote to dissolve itself. At midnight, both the Triple Alliance and the Confederacy would cease to exist as de jure political entities.