La Legión de Sonora

La Legión de Sonora or The Sonora Legion is a militaristic faction based out of Sonora, Mexico, with its headquarters being the Hermosillo Cathedral in Hermosillo, Sonora. 
==History==
The Sonora Legion was founded in 1987 by Colonel Ramon Garcia, an ex-Mexican army officer originally in charge of counter-cartel operations in the province of Sonora in 1973, though after the Great War, Colonel Ramon Garcia gathered his soldiers and assumed control over Hermosillo, and soon took control of the Hermosillo Cathedral where he would establish what he called "La Legión de Sonora", where he then began recruiting an even larger army which he would use to slowly conquer Sonora and surrounding regions. 
By 1988 when Hermosillo was fully under Ramon's control, he would then form a provisional government that would act as the governing body of Hermosillo indefinitely, this government would be known as the "Gobierno Provisional de la Legión", and it would be led by a man named Governor Alvaro Menendez, who would act as Ramon's right-hand man. 
By 1992 the Sonora Legion would have expanded outwards in all directions, establishing military outposts in Guaymas, Peurto Libertad, Santa Ana, and Ures, Ramon gathering an army of nearly 20,000 at this point. 
===Territory Expansion===
In 1999 Ramon with his army growing and territories expanding rapidly, he would decide it was time to look North, and by 2001, after a long two years of campaigning, Ramon managed to secure Nogales. 
After the capture of Nogales, Ramon would decide he would do as he did Hermosillo, and establish a governing body of the city, one he would call "Gobierno Provisional de Nogales", a smaller government localized only to Nogales while as Gobierno Provisional de la Legión would oversee Hermosillo and surrounding territories.
Ramon also decided to put a man named Armando Reyes in charge of Gobierno Provisional de Nogales, Reyes being a local warlord in Nogales before Ramon took over the city. 
In 2005, Ramon with his armies and the mounting wealth he had gathered from raiding and pillaging, would decide he would make an attempt at American wealth, and he and 7,000 soldiers would march north to Tucson, where he began a frontier in Arizona, his main enemy being the Mesa Valley Bandits, an Arizonan raider group located in between Tucson and Phoenix. 
by 2008 the war in Arizona had reached its high, Ramon bringing in even more soldiers to Tucson to fight against the bandits and locals, his numbers now being around 13,000, though he had a bigger problem coming to him other than the Arizonians, the governor of the Gobierno Provisional de Nogales, Armando Reyes, had rallied an army of around 4,000 militants in Nogales and surrounding territories as well as 1,000 garrisoned legion soldiers in Nogales and launched a revolt against the legion, in an event that would spark the Sonora Civil War.
===Sonora Civil War===
The Sonora Civil war began on March 17th, 2009, when the "Ejército Libertador de Nogales" or Nogales Freedom Army launched a revolution against the ruling Sonora Legion. 
The Nogales Freedom Army was led by Armando Reyes, and upon the start of the war, the Nogales Freedom Army had held control of Nogales as well as the Santa Ana military post, as well as 5,000 or so soldiers. Upon Colonel Ramon Garcia learning of this act of disobedience, he would order 2,000 of his men stationed in Tucson south to burn Nogales, him still being on the frontlines of the war against the Mesa Valley Bandits he couldn't spare too many of his men to fight against the rebels. 
Commander Armando Reyes would get word of the incoming army, and send an army of 4,000 of his 5,000 soldiers to intercept the incoming army, leaving his remaining 1,000 to stand guard in Santa Ana. 
On April 26th, 2009, the two armies met in Rio Rico, Arizona, where they first engaged each other along the Interstate 19 highway, Ramon's army was caught off guard by the intercepting army, and their size, though put up a fight for nearly 4 hours on the highway, where 192 of Ramon's soldiers died, whilst only 48 of Armando's soldiers died, Ramon's army then split 400 of their soldiers off to flank Armando's army on the highway, where they were then met 100 or so of Armando's soldiers in the streets of Rio Rico where they engaged in urban combat,
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