Second Elwynnese Civil War

Second Elwynnese Civil War
Date 12.II.1692 AN Location Amokolia & Upper Elwynn
Belligerents
Elluenuueq Benacia Command  Unified Governorates Honourable Company Support Mission Androphagi & Dromosker clans ESB Security Directorate  Hexarchy	Elwynn and Amokolia Logistical and material support  Calbion
Units involved
Union Defence Force IX Combined Arms Corps 1st Division "Elwmacht" 10th Division "Zjandarian Guards"  Hexarchy The Praetorian Guard 1st Legion, 1st Cohort (The Praetorian Expeditionary Unit) 650 troops (140 officers, 530 soldiers) 600 infantry (500 light infantry, 100 heavy infantry) 50 pilots (all light, multipurpose aircraft)  Black Legions	Self-Defence Forces Eliria Castle Operational Area 3rd Division "Livgardet Elenaran" XXX Combined Arms Corps 25th Territorial Division 70th Territorial Division XXXI Combined Arms Corps 50th Territorial Division 71st Territorial Division

Timeline

• 12.II.1692 AN: Declaration of the Republic of Elwynn and Amokolia, formation of SDF. Affirmations of loyalty to the Court of the Prince from senior UDF commanders but mutinies and disorders reported in barracks and depots throughout Elwynn. The Panopticon reported its findings that, based on ethnicity, religious affiliation, and political allegiances, junior, regimental, and division level commanders cannot necessarily be relied upon to remain loyal to the regime.
• 13–21.II.1692 AN: Attempts to quell the mutinous soldiery and mobilise UDF forces in the 1^st Territorial Inspectorate (Elirian metropolitan area) resulted in a fracturing of those garrisons and a loss of effective government control. Five divisions defected to the SDF, three remained loyal to the Court of the Prince, whilst a fourth - the Babkhi majority "Zjandarian Guards" Division had become enthusiastically embroiled in attacks on demonstrations and secessionist held buildings in the capital.
• 14.II.1692 AN: Benacia Command commences Operation Retribution against separatist forces in Elwynn. Notice is given to the governments of Alalehzamin, Kalgachia and Mishalacia to immediately, within 24 hours, indicate their willingness to permit the transit of allied forces northwards into Amokolia and Upper Elwynn.
• 15.II.1692 AN:
  • 2^nd Pansar Army (IX Territorial Inspectorate, Headquartered in Mišalan) declares for the Court of the Prince.
  • Union Aerospace Corps Command, upon being receipt of orders to conduct strikes against targets in metropolitan Eliria, declared for the Republic of Elwynn and Amokolia. The 4^th Tactical Aviation Division, based in Amokolia, however repudiated this declaration, whilst the 5^th Tactical Aviation Division based on aerodromes in Elwynn proper affirmed their transfer of allegiance to the SDF, commencing the fragmentation of Elwynn's powerful air arm.
  • Calbion becomes the first state to declare its support for the Republic, recognising Benjamin Sluyjs and the Unified Congress as the sole representatives of Elwynn and Amokolia. In a radio broadcast, Governor-General Richard ab Ioan promised "full support to the brave people of Elwynn, who have come to reject the yoke of Raspurid oppression" and announced that a first shipment of defensive material was on its way.
• 16.II.1692 AN: A major setback for the Court of the Prince as the Corps of the Gentlemen-at-Cudgels, previously a stalwart of the regime, declared for the revolutionary forces. The defection was seen as a reaction by the Council of Cudgellers against the efforts of the Court of the Prince to impose Babkhi and ESB leadership upon the organisation - embodied in the detested person of Zurvanudin Miran al-Osman, the largely absentee Inspector of Cudgels who was out of the country in Sathrati at the start of the uprising. In response the government of the AAR issued an ultimatum to the Cudgeller Palatinate in Alalehzamin for the immediate surrender of their commanderies to local authorities within twelve hours.
• 17.II.1692 AN: At the expiration of the ultimatum period without a response from the Superintendent Officers of Cudgels, the commanderies in the south of Elwynn, isolated and surrounded by a hostile population, began to respond favourably to emissaries from the local government who sought to negotiate the surrender of individual outposts in turn. The only exception to this generally peaceable capitulation being in Islus where the commandery, hopeful of relief from the north via the Elwynn river, fired upon the negotiating party and swiftly found themselves under siege by local militia drawn from the ranks of the Behsaz-Eluin.
• 22.II.1692 AN: The defection of the 6^th Logistics-Airlift Division to the SDF interrupted the operations of the Boreal Air Bridge, disrupting the supply chain of UDF forces in Hurmu, Leng, and Normark.