War of the Englean Diet

War of the Englean Diet
Date 29 December 1749 - 29 December 1756 Location Sunalaya Result Imperial Victory
Belligerents
Englean Congressional Empire Rhodevus	Englean Empire Rezua Talvistova
Commanders and leaders
Emanuel Eckhardt von Radnitz Asser Faulhaber Linus Pfennig	Albrecht I Gustav I Prince August of Hohenzern Siegard Ottomar IV Gustaf III Axel Emil Arfvidsson

The War of the Englean Diet, also known as the Seven Years' War or War of the Great Powers, was a major global conflict in Sunalaya. This conflict involved many great powers of Sunalaya and their possessions around the world, making the war effectively the first "world war."

The immediate cause of the war was an internal conflict between the Englean Reichstag and the Englean Emperor, in which the former attempted to implement reforms that would restrict the powers of the monarch and designate an alternate form of succession for the latter's office. Statutes such as determining succession based on popular vote and approval by the Reichstag, as well as permitting the Reichstag to dismiss a monarch, were not accepted by Emperor Albrecht I. The Emperor declared the dissolving of the Reichstag, which resulted in the Mandate of 1749, declaring the formation of the Englean Empire from the Kaiserreich under Albrecht and designated Prince Emmanuel Calheon of the Rezuan Empire as its new emperor. Emperor Albrecht declared war on the Congressional Empire, as it became known as, which brought about the start of the global war.

Background

Englean Empire

The Enlightenment Era brought troubled times for the Englean monarchy, which had been generally successful since its inception in 875. The spread of liberal democratic ideas from Western Ventismar had inspired a new wave of Englean philosophers, including that of Joseph Gehring who created the idea of "liberal monarchism." This idea essentially supported the continuing presence of the monarch within the nation-state, but enjoyed less power than a standard absolute monarch of the time. Powers of the office that were previously present, such as enacting laws and mobilising the army, would be controlled by the parliament - known as the Imperial Diet (Reichstag) within the Englean Empire. While there were reactionary republicans present within the empire, the vast majority of republicans supported the "liberal monarchism" concept due to the unlikliness that a fully-fledged republic could be created within the Englean homeland.

Ventismar

Englean grenadiers overrunning Congressional forces in the Battle of Hallenkastel, 1754