Mawbol/Mawbol Colonial Empire

The Mawbol Colonial Empire, officially the Kingdom of Mawbol from 1638 until 1855 and the Republic of Mawbol from 1855 to 19??, is a name given to the territorial possessions of Mawbol outside of Messer, which were colonial in nature. The colonial empire was established in 1638 following the Mawbol-Akail War, when Mawbol defeated Akail and took control of the Akail vassal of Alejman, turning it into the Territory of New Jamestown and the Somorcan Titles, for short New Jamestown. It came to an end in 19??, when the natives of Mawbol were granted equal citizenship and rights by Mawbol and the native-led Autonomous Republic of Astram was established in New Mawbol.
==History==
===New Jamestown===
Ever since the late 1600's, Mawbol merchants and trade companies had made regular voyages to the Isles of Vista - what is now known as Somorcos and the Greater Somorcan ArchipelagoSome consider Somorcos and the archipelago to in fact simply be parts of a greater Somorcan continent, though this is still heavily debated in the scientific community. - exhanging furs and grain for precious diamonds and other natural resources found on the island (while Mawbol did have massive natural resource deposists as well, they were mostly found more inland and thus weren't yet able to be exploited at this point). The main trade partners were the coastal kingdoms of Arghel, Žjenj and Alejman along with multiple smaller chiefdoms and tribes deeper in the interior. In 1623, Arghel would be conquered by Neuver and turned into a colony, ceasing all trade with Mawbol due to the still rocky relationship between the two countries. Just four years later, Žjenj and western Alejman would also be conquered by Neuver, while the remaining half would in 1630 become a vassal state of Akail, almost completely cutting off all trade between Somorcos and Mawbol. This would only get worse in 1634, when Neuver implented the Colonial Protection Act, which prohibited any trade with foreign countries including Mawbol, causing major outrage among the nobles and merchants of Mawbol. After some consideration, King Henry would propose to the parliament the idea to invade the Akail part of Alejman, though the parliament rejected the idea. The king would not give up though,proposing the idea instead to the military directly and convincing them to begin preparation for the invasion. After roughly two months the army was ready for the invasion and set off from Jamestown on July 3rd, 1634, reaching the Somorcan coast by the middle of August. 25 thousand Mawbol troops would swiftly take over Grennem City and force the Akail governor to surrender the territory to Mawbol. This would be the start of the Mawbol-Akail War, which would take place until 1638, mostly involving naval skirmishes and an Akail counter-invasion of western Alejman that failed, ending in Akail being forced to officially hand over the territory to Mawbol.
A year following this victory Mawbol would negotiate a new colonial border with Neuver, handing over most of it's Somorcan territory over to Neuver, only keeping the port city of New Jamestown founded in 1637, in exchange for a lifting of the Colonial Protection Act in regards to all of Messer. This would be seen as a great victory for Mawbol and the monarchy, convincing the king to go even further and begin pressuring multiple other kingdoms to become vassals of Mawbol, though this would quickly fail after Neuver invtervened on behalf of the natives. This and multiple other colonial incidents would cause relations between the two countries to once more worsen, leading to the Colonial Protection Act being reimplemented, which in return would lead Mawbol to attack multiple Neuverian trading vessels, causing the Neuverian-Mawbol War of 1641. The war would last all but four months as Mawbol swiftly took control over Neuverian Somorcos, but just as swiftly saw it's fleet completely decimated by Neuver's fleet, forcing both countries to return to the status quo before the war. This would only last two years, during which both countries rebuilt and expanded their militaries in preparation for the next war. The war finally began in 1643 after a skirmish on the borders of New Jamestown. This time Mawbol did far better in the war, once more capturing Neuverian Somorcos and managing to maintain some control over the seas, finally coming out on top following the naval battle of Julian's Bay on March 7th, 1645, which saw over 20 Neuverian and 15 Mawbol ships sunk, forcing Neuver to retreat from the region and surrender to Mawbol two months later, handing over it's Somorcan territories to it and again repealing the Colonial Protection Act. Thus on June 12th the Territory of New Jamestown and the Somorcan Titles - for short New Jamestown - would be proclaimed, being divided into the city of New Jamestown and the three unnamed Somorcan Titles ruled by members of the Statter Dynasty.
Already during the wars for New Jamestown, Mawbol officials and settlers had begun making attempts to establish relations with the natives and learn where the major natural resource, mostly metal, deposits where located, though this would fail due to the natives wanting to keep it a secret. In 1646, Mawbol would send Prime Minister Sir George Pallet and Foreign Minister Sir Charles Jonnathan Sky to New Jamestown in a final attempt to make a deal with the natives on the location of the deposits (though some suspect it was simply done by the King to get the parliament out of the way for a few months). The negotiations would go on for three months, but still eventually would fail, leading to the king to ordering the army to attack the natives and capture their leaders. Once this was done, the leaders were tortured into revealing the ore deposit locations and then were executed by the army, which then sent explorers, settlers and workers to the locations to find and extract the minerals. Once the natives learned of this, they would rise up in revolt and drive Mawbol troops all the way back to New Jamestown, laying siege to the city and forcing Mawbol to send it's navy and 15 thousand more troops to relieve the city of siege, beating back the natives and finally defeating them at the Battle of Planteb, ending the revolt and forcing many of the natives into slavery while deporting the rest to beyond New Jamestown's borders. After some discussion and a request by the King, the parliament would pass the "New Jamestown Settlement Act", which would would officially open the territory up for settlement by the inhabitants of mainland Mawbol along with "mandatory settlement" being introduced as a concept, allowing the state to forcefully relocate thousands to New Jamestown, which the king would use regularly. In just a decade, the colony's population had already grown to 55 thousand spread out along the coast in New Jamestown and multiple newly established settlements such as New Partland, Henrystown and Autor. As the colony continued to expand inland in search of raw materials and deported the natives further and further away, the surrounding native tribes and chiefdoms began to form alliances in order to oppose Mawbol expansion, fighting off multiple of their armies in battles such as Holgermo Hill and Vjeles all over central Seirmor. This would result in the king personally setting sail for the colony with 45 thousand troops and landing in New Jamestown on March 6th, 1648, soon moving inland to challenge the massive coalition of tribes that hard formed against the colony, defeating them in multiple battles but failing to drive them away fully. After two years of fighting on June 17th, 1650, suffering from a lung infenction and having been wounded in a recent battle, King Henry I passed away and was replaced as king by George I, who quickly made his way oversea to the war front. While the major offensive carried out by Henry I would continue until 1654, the war against the natives itself wouldn't end until the loss of New Jamestown to the natives multiple decades later, during which time the colony would be used as a mineral extraction and trade hub for Mawbol, along with serving as a resupply station for fleets on their way to the continent of Astram, later to become the colony and then province of New Mawbol.
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===New Mawbol===
While the continent of Astram had been known to the Old World peoples' for centuries, major trade expeditions hadn't been attempted to the area until the late 1500's, at which point they would be cut very short by the independence wars on Messer and following conflicts over trade routes. By the 1640's and 50's, these wars had finally slowly began to come to an end, though they wouldn't truly be done until the 1670's, but either way the slow return of regular trade to the Astrat Sea soon gave way to the first exploratory and trade missions to Astram, mostly spearheaded by Neuver and Mawbol with strong competition between eachother. The first to reach the shores of Astram would be a Neuverian fleet lead by Sir John Bakersfield in 1657, which would make contact with the local coastal tribes and map some of the continent's coastline before making their way back home with limited success. The next to arrive to the continent would be captain Ellis Thompson, who, working for Mawbol, would explore much of southern Astram and establish relations with the Kada and Mogeb tribes, establishing the town of Hillsvill in 1659 before returning to Mawbol. Just two months after the arrival of Thompson to the continent, a second Neuverian fleet once more under the leadership of Sir John Bakersfield would also arrive to Astram, laying claim to part of the northern coast and establishing the settlements of Kingsvill and New Neuver. This would soon be followed by two Mawbol fleets being sent to the western coast of the continent, establishing diplomatic relations and trade ties with multiple local Qalqlyili, Nerqis and Piriiden chiefdoms and founding the port towns of Windswerry, Coaster and Flowback along with others to help maintain and grow these ties. The next year in 1662, Neuver sent another fleet to the northern coast of Astram, properly ressuplying the growing cities of Kingsvill and New Neuver on top of founding multiple new settlements, and establishing relations with the many mixed native groups of the north, even fighting the first colonial war on the continent against the Chiefdom of Helger, turning them into a protectorate of Neuver. 
This was followed the next year by both countries ramping up their exploration efforts, each sending another fleet to Astram in an attempt to establish deeper trade ties with the natives and founding more trade outposts in the region; the two fleets even came into contact and engaged in open conflict around the mouth of the Korsinki River, sinking four ships. During their expedition, the Neuverian command brought multiple tribes into protectorate status through the signing of multiple treaties and signed an agreement with the Eskelqa Chiefdom to buy parts of their coastal territories, founding the city of Willingsburg (modern day Wesen) there to further the trade with the Eskelqa. Once more the following year, under the direct leadership of Prime Minister Sir John Collton, a large Mawbol expedition would reach the southern most lands of the Qalqlyili, establishing multiple temporary outposts on the coast and making their way inwards to establish trade relations with the inland chiefdoms of Astram. The expedition would reach the small town of Qroqelli around August 1664, where, due to miscommunication, they would attack multiple inhabitants near the end of their stay, causing the neighboring chiefdoms to descend upon the expeditionary force in revenge, making them to retreat and greately injuring Collton, who would die from his wounds soon after. Upon arriving at their outposts, the expeditionary forces would regroup and, in pure rage, begin a violent murder spree across the coast of western Astram, leading to the death of thousands of native and the burning of over 30 villages, only being forced to stop following a defeat at the Battle of Hillqon. With this, the expedition would come to an end, the remainder of the men returning to Mawbol and being dismissed by the king for their failure in securing trade relations, though no punishment or even mention of the native mass killings would appear. Just two years later, Neuver's new king would officially issue a statement declaring everything north of the Korsinki River as part of the Colony of New Bullough, drawing up plans for an colonial expedition to the island in 1667, officially beginning the colonisation of Astram. 
The planned Neuverian expeditioin set off from Neuver in May 1667 with 12 ships for Astram, landing at Willingsburg on August 3rd. After dropping off around half of it's crew and supplies, the rest of the expedition ventured south, entering the territories of the Terihan tribes. There they met with the local chiefs, who they first exchanged gifts and celebrated with, before moving to the topic of trade agreements. In the end the Neuverians successfully signed protectorate treaties with the chiefs of Tomak, Ahraqu and Quillo, while the chiefs of tribes such as the Morak, who resisted the Neuverians, had their leaders taken hostage and made to forcably sign the treaties in exchange for their release. Even though these treaties had been signed, actual control over the Terihan tribes would remain limited for at least the next decade or 15 years. They expedition also went onto establish the fort of Maccar, which was planned to be used to monitor the Terihan chiefdoms, as well as a link to colonies further inland that would be established later. Meanwhile the chiefdom of Nestar, not related to the Terihan tribes, remained independent from Neuverian influence, as the Neuverian expedition had been warded off by a force of 300 troops and further incursions hadn't been attempted as the expedition saw it more important to sign treaties with the rest of the tribes. This period of independence finally came to an end in October 1667, when the expedition, joined by over 150 colonists from Willingsburg, entered the territory of the Nestar once more, this time defeating their force in active fighting at the Battle of Bush Hills. Following this victory the expedition made it's way to the chiefdoms capital, which also put up further resistence to their advance, leading to the destruction of much of the town. Having lost again, the Nestar decided to submit to avoid further losses, signing their own protection treaty with the Neuverian expedition in November of the same yar, though they didn't plan to actually abide by it. After returning to check up on Fort Maccar, most of the expedition returned to Willingsburg to stay out the winter, while around 5 ships made the journey back to Neuver to inform the king of the expeditions' progress and gather more resources for further exploration.
Mawbol, having learnt of Neuver's proclamation of New Bullough and suspecting that it was preparing to send another fleet to Astram, began to prepare their own expeditionary fleet to western Astram. This expedition was planed to repair relations with the local Qalqlyili tribes following the Qroqelli incident, which would then be used to build up a trade and eventually colonial presence in the region to combat Neuver's expansion in the north. [WE GETTING DA LORE (Slowly)]
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