Second Texas Republic

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Second Texas Republic 	Second Texas Republic
Segunda República de Texas (Spanish) 	Segunda República de Texas (Spanish)
 	
 	
 	
Anthem: Revenge of the Alamo 	Anthem: Revenge of the Alamo
 	
 	
Location of Texas (Green) Trinity claimed but never fully controlled (Light Green)	Location of Texas (Green) Trinity claimed but never fully controlled (Light Green)
 	
Official languages 	English
 	
National language 	English
 	
Religion 	Christianity
 	
Demonym(s) 	officially: Texan
 	
Government 	Presidential Republic
 	
• President 	Joshua Stone
• Vice President 	Henry Jackson
• Speaker 	Franklin Jobs
 	
Legislature 	Senate
House of Representatives 	
 	
Independence 	Independence
 	
• Declaration of Independence 	March 4, 2637 (3 years ago)
• Capture of Houston 	October 31, 2637 (3 years ago)
• Death of Joshua Stone and collapse 	December 25, 2637 (3 years ago)
 	
Area 	Area
• Total 	211,482 sq mi (623,234 km2)
 	
Population 	Population
• 2637 estimate 	43 Million
 	
 	
Currency 	Texan Dollar
 	
Time zone 	CST+1 (CET)
 	
• Summer (DST) 	UTC+2 (CEST)
 	
Driving side 	right
 	
Calling code 	+1
 	
ISO 3166 code 	KA
 	
Internet TLD 	.tx (Unrecognized)
 	
Website 	Website
Official website 	freetexas.tx
The Second Republic of Texas also known as the Second Texas Republic or Free Texas was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from March 4, 2637 to December 25, 2637. It was created following increased resentment towards the Federal Government by the Texas State Legislature. Increased immigration from Mexico and Central America overwhelmed the holding capacity of the states of Texas, Chihuahua and Sonora. Governor Joshua Stone took advantage of the anger and resentment and took charge by attempting to nullify Federal law in Texas with the help of the State Legislature. On March 3rd, President Tonka Sinatra attempted to mobilize the national guard to enforce Federal law. In a surprise turn of events, the majority of them refused and stood behind Stone.
Taking advantage of the situation, Stone declared independence on March 4th following concurrence from the majority Boxer state legislature. Immediately following, around a third of counties in the east of Texas declared loyalty to the Union and broke off, forming the Free State of Trinity on March 7th. Free Texas attempted to retake Trinity by force and seeing as they had initiated hostilities, Sinatra authorized an invasion of Texas to put down the rebellion. Federal forces entered Texas on March 13th.
On June 1st, Trinity was declared to not have to rejoin Texas and thus was admitted into the Union. Following repeated defeat on the battlefield, the state legislature began to turn on Stone as well for his failure to stop border raids by cartels taking advantage of the war. Facing threats of impeachment Stone opted to solve this by invading Mexico and occupying border cities where cartel activity was rampant. This caused Mexico to themselves push back and eventually send Mexican military forces into Texas. On October 18th, another region of Texas broke off following the Free Republic's failure to defend it's territory. It styled itself as the Second Republic of the Rio Grande and lasted 10 days (October 18, 2637 - October 28, 2637) until it negotiated entry into the Union and was admitted as the state of Rio Grande. At the same time on October 31st Houston, the second capital of the Free Republic was captured, forcing President Stone and his cabinet on the run.
Following the fall of the capital and mass arrests of state legislature members portions of what remained of the Texas military began to surrender beginning on November 10th. This would continue until the Union launched a final push on December 15th to cut Stone off from possible naval escape. This succeeded and on December 20th he was entirely cut off. Stone would take his own life on December 25th and following his death his cabinet disintegrated and the last remains of the military surrendered and the Second Republic of Texas was dissolved.
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