Marquis of Gavia's Revolt

### Outcome:

Republican victory, indirectly leading to the rise of Cadrilla, and the creation of Novo Gavia and the SRK

The **Marquis of Gavia's Revolt** was one of the many conflicts during the 1915 Lesovian Revolution, between the leftist prgressive First Republic of Lesovia and loyalists to the Lespian Crown and Church. It contributed to the rise of Escamillo Cadrilla, who would become dictator of Lesovia, and the creation of the Principality of Novo Gavia by the defeated Marquis and his loyalists

## History

### Background

When the Kingdom of Lesovia was overthrown by the Republican-Socialist Coalition and replaced by the First Republic, many in Lesovia were against the Republic's leftist, secular, progressive policies. Mere minutes after the monarchy was abolished, mobs supporting the Republic formed to destroy and loot churches and monasteries all across Lesovia. Many saw it as a socialist destruction of Lesovian culture and traditions, and when Crown Prince Alexander declared a counter-revolution, monarchists, Lespian supremacists and religious Lesovians rose up in revolt against the Republic in Lostana. The Marquis of Gavia, Luis Philippe, declared the Republican-Socialists an "illegitimate socialist bandit regime", and recognized Prince Alexander as the legitimate monarch of Lesovia.

### First months

In the first three months of the Revolt, everything seemed smooth for the Marquis. The counter-revolutionaries took control of all of Gavia, as the local garrisons, led by fellow Lespian supremacists, all joined their side. However, most of Gavia's food supply came from the neighboring province of Kastelona, which was controlled by the Republic. The Marquis therefore led a force to control the agricultural Kastelon countryside, extorting food from the local Kastelon farmers. As this went on, many Kastelon peasants fled their farms to the city of Madrisk or formed militias to protect their crops and communities. The food extortion was not enough to feed Gavia, and by March the province was starving. The Marquis responded by rationing food supplies, distributing more and higher-quality food for his soldiers and lower-quality food for the peasants of Gavia.

### Internal issues

On March 11, 1915, approximately 1400 workers and their families gathered in the Gavian capital of Acisto to protest against the food crisis. The Marquis responded by ordering General Gustavo Goncalves to open fire upon the crowd, killing 381 and wounding 562. This event was known as the March 11 Massacre, part of the Green Terror orchestrated by the counter-revolutionaries during the Lesovian Revolution. 4 days later, unionized workers armed with Montelan rifles attempted to storm the Marquis' mansion, but the revolt was suppressed by Colonel Osvaldo Miguel.

### Last Months

After the Republic suppressed the Liamist Republic of Krenats in May of 1915, the general responsible for capturing Laansa, Escamillo Cadrilla, was redeployed to the Kastelon border to end the food extortion. Instead, Cadrilla marched into Gavia to put an end to the Marquis' revolt. On the way, local peasants welcomed his army as liberators, and the Revolt was quickly crushed in 2 months. The Marquis and many of his loyalists fled to Prithanian held Gebril Island, and Gavia was under the Republic's rule. The Marquis would afterwards launch an expedition into southern Helinska, founding a new Lespian supremacist monarchy called Novo Gavia