Anahuacano Civil War

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Guerra civil Anahuacana
The historic center of Guerrero, the capital city of Granaditas State, viewed one month before the city became the scene of the final battle of the Anahuaco civil war.
Date June 10th 1704 - February 12th 1705 Location Anahuaco Result Imperialista victory Anahuaco becomes an empire. Republican insurgency formed.
Belligerents
Anahuaco Imperialistas	Republicanos
Commanders and leaders
-José Joaquín of Anahuaco -Emiliano Orozco	-Roberto Sanchez -Ignacio Sanchèz Herado
Strength
-7,000 regulars -25,000 volunteers -40 artillery pieces	-4,000 regulars -42,000 volunteers
Casualties and losses
-820 killed -6,500 wounded	3,500 killed -10,400 wounded

The Anahuacano Civil War (Martino: Guerra civil Anahuacana) was an internal armed conflict fought in Anahuaco between June 1704 and February 1705. Nominally triggered by the filing of incorrect customs paperwork, the war was the manifestation of a variety of ethnic and historic grievances. Ultimately, the conflict came to be about the form of government Anahuaco would adopt as a new nation.

Background

Prior to the establishment of Anahuaco as a modern state, the territory of what is now the empire underwent various stages of human settlement. The oldest recorded inhabitants of the area, unoriginally known simply as Las Originales, played almost no part in the civil war, although they were accused of subversive activities by both sides and subject to arbitrary detention and other forms of punishment.

The origins of Las Originales is unclear, but it is speculated that the group is an amalgamation of individuals from Nova England, Gran Verionia, the Warring Islands and Xang Muang who formed a unified and distinct culture over several generations while living in The Green.

La Gran Migración

The era of the Grand Migration laid the seeds for the conflict to come. Starting in 1680, the first wave of migration came from the territories formerly occupied by Gran Verionia, with Martino-speaking migrants arriving and settling the fertile coastal territories of what would later become Anahuaco. This first wave consisted of migrants carried the republican instincts and politics of Gran Verionia with them, and set about establishing a loose form of government based on these principles.

This early form of state-building was led by Ignacio Sanchèz Herado, a hero of the Verionian community who was largely credited with leading his community into their new territory. While Las Originales were not happy with the incursion into their historic lands, the two groups had limited interaction and lived in largely peaceful isolation from each other.

Nova English collapse

The second wave of migrants arrived around 15 years after the first, following the final demise of Nova England to the north of the territory. The inflow reached its peak in 1697. This group also brought elements of their culture with them from their former homeland, with Nova England having been both a monarchy and broadly militaristic.

Despite these differences, the Nova English migrants mingled freely with the migrants from the first wave of the Grand Migration and the two groups became increasingly integrated and indistinguishable. The language differences which initially existed between the Martino and Britannic Istvanistani speaking communities largely disappeared, with Martino becoming the de facto language of the territory, while Britannic Istvanistani retained its dominance of international trade and commerce.