War of the Seven Provinces
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| War of the Seven Provinces | |||||||
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| File:The Battle of Monterrey, led by General Zachary Taylor and General William J. Worth, in the Mexican-American War.jpg Painting by Jason Stewart of a battle during the War of Seven Provinces | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Libertas Omnium Maximus | ||||||
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 John Robinson | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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45,000 provincial regulars 6,000 territorial militia |
42,000 regulars 12,000 volunteers | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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3,400 killed Thousands wounded |
2,950 killed Thousands wounded | ||||||
The War of the Seven Provinces was an armed conflict between Laeralian and Maximusian forces, lasting from 1875 to 1877. The war began in 1875 when Laeralian settlers who had migrated southward from the province of Bethune came into conflict with settlers from Libertas Omnium Maximus. After Bethune provincial militia fired upon the Maximusian settlers, war broke out and Maximusian regulars were called in. As Laeral possessed only a limited national military at the time, and many of Laeral's wealthier northern provinces opposed the war, only the forces of seven Laeralian provinces would actually be involved in the conflict. Laeralian forces were defeated, and the areas comprising Laeral's modern-day Lematre and Brissac provinces were ceded to Libertas Omnium Maximus in the 1877 Treaty of Legrange. In 1925, an uprising by inhabitants of the Brissac region was used as a pretext by Laeral to declare war on Libertas Omnium Maximus as a means of avenging the war and restoring Laeralian national pride.
Background
Throughout the 1870s, Laeralian settlers from Bethune province had been migrating southward in search of land for agriculture and grazing, encountering Maximusian settlers who had already established themselves. The increasing number of Laeralites began to be seen as a threat by local Maximusian authorities, particularly as they began to outnumber Maximusians in the region and discuss annexing the region to Laeral. In addition, Laeralian settlers often refused to hire Maximusians, meaning that Maximusian settlers could not find jobs on the increasing number of Laeralian farms and homesteads. By 1873, Laeralian settlers numbered around 40,000 in the region.
At the 1875 Legrange Convention, a convention of Laeralian settlers declared themselves the Lematre Territory, named for the first Prime Minister of the First Allied Provinces of Laeral. The territory's flag was flown and a provisional constitution adopted. This development was greeted with alarm by Maximusian settlers, many of whom began to arm themselves.
Conflict
In May of 1875, following the Legrange Convention, the Lematre Territory settlers called for the neighboring Bethune province to send forces to protect their claim. Following debate, the Bethune Parliament decided to send a force of