1721 Ludwiggian coup d'état attempt

1721 Ludwiggian coup d'état attempt
Date 6.VII.1721 - 9.VII.1721 Location Stadt Sankt Ludwigshafen
Belligerents
Reactionary elements in the armed forces of the Republic of Sankt Ludwigshafen	Government of the Republic of Sankt Ludwigshafen Sisera's Angels Sanaman Union of People's Republics Logistics and Security Support  Cibola Command
Commanders and leaders
Heinrich Nudelfleisch	Stadtholder Charlène Jolicoeur-Schafenweide Partisan leader Razzie Waldfürcht tbd
Units involved
Nordhafendivision	Großstadtdivision Eingreiftruppe I Sisera's Angels tbd

On 6.VII.1721, troops formerly belonging to the Nordhafendivision of the Ludwiggian armed forces attempted a coup d'état against the Stadtparlement and the Stadtholder of the Republic of Sankt Ludwigshafen. The coup leaders were related to the Tekeel Party of 1697 and the Ludwiggian Reformed Church and opposed the ceding of Nordhafen to the Imperial Federation, the decline of influence of the Nazarene faith, and the election of a woman,Charlène Jolicoeur-Schafenweide, the year before as stadtholder.

Plans for the coupe were made in secret while the conspiring troops were still stationed in Nordhafen, pending the transfer of the territory to the military of the Imperial Federation. On 6.VII.1721, the troops disembarked at the container port from a civilian cruise ship, chartered by the Kriegsflotte Ludwigshafen and escorted by the RSLS Claudia Weißdeich. They had instructions to take a day of leisure, before the operational unit would be formally be disbanded by Stadtholder Charlène Jolicoeur-Schafenweide the next day. Instead the division marched towards Sankt Ludwigshafen. The city guard had no previous warning that the Nordhafendivision was staging a coup d'état attempt and did not assume defensive positions until fire was opened on them. After intense gunfights, the Nordhafendivision defeated the heavily outnumbered guards and the city lay open to them. Alerted by the noise of gunfire, Divisionskommandeur Ernst Mariacottage of the Großstadtdivision sent the regiment that was on active patrol towards the Stadtparlement, to assume defensive positions there, and had the rest of the division report immediately at the barracks to join the fight. Scouts on horseback were sent out of the city to the barracks of the Eingreiftruppe I, so that it could help defeat the Nordhafendivision as well. On their way towards the barracks of the Eingreiftruppe I, the scouts encountered Razzie Waldfürcht and her group of circa one hundred female riders, called Sisera's Angels, that were returning towards Stadt Sankt Ludwigshafen after a successful raid on a Monovian village that practised cannibalism. When the scouts had informed them of the attack on the city by the Nordhafendivision, the Angels sped towards the city to help in its defence.