Feidel Longwood

**Feidel Azabar Longwood**, **6th Duke Longwood** (August 2, 1824 - October 15, 1871) was a Libirachi politician and revolutionary who claimed the title of President of the Libirachi Empire between December 30, 1870 and October 15, 1871, having previously claimed the office of Vice President of the Libirachi Empire between October 18, 1870 and December 30, 1870. Longwood was the Chairman of the Kuomintang from February 21, 1867 until August 1, 1870, and again between December 30, 1870 and October 15, 1871. Between November 16, 1848 and his death on October 15, 1871, Longwood was also the 6th Duke of the Longwood family.

Raised as part of the influential Longwood family, Feidel Longwood took up the title of Duke of the Longwood family following the death of his father in November 1848, assuming control over the vast political power of the Longwoods, with his twin brother Ashford Longwood taking over the reigns of the family armies. With the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1849, Duke Longwood joined his brother in defecting to the side of the Rebel Alliance during the Battle of Ulaanbaatar, and throughout the war Longwood would remain a crutial part of the war effort as part of Duke Stanford Rightly's war council. With the death of Emperor George IV in August 1852, Longwood was present for the proclamation of the new Imperial Republic of Libirachi, heading a commission on the future of the noble families in the new regime, and in February 1853, Longwood presented a document to the newly founded Libirachi National Congress which recomended abolishing the titles of senior nobles upon their deaths, and not renewing the peerages.

Following the entering of his report into law in April 1853, Feidel Longwood entered the Libirachi National Congress as a congressman, winning a by-election in the district of Hong Kong. In 1856, Longwood was part of the congressional delegation to vote in favour of abolishing term limits during the Beijing Spring, before entering the cabinet of President Stanford Rightly in 1858 as a junior minister. After the dismissal of his brother from the office of Vice President, Longwood was one of the front runners for the title but ultimately lost out to Theodore Rothchild. In February 1867, Feidel Longwood was one of the founding members of the Kuomintang political party and was elected as the group's first chairman on February 21st 1867.

After the death of president Stanford Rightly and the ascension of vice president Rothchild to the office of the presidency in July 1870, Longwood joined the cabinet of *acting-president* Theodore Rothchild as a senior figure, and on August 1, 1870 he relinquished his role as Chairman of the Kuomintang to allow Rothchild to govern effectively. Following the death of president Rothchild in October 1870, Longwood was sworn into office as the Vice President to president Azriel Janda and became the leader of the Beijing government, leading the region's fight back against Grand Marshal Ashford Longwood and his armies which were attempting to capture the capital city from their base in Shanghai. On December 30, 1870, President Azriel Janda died of a stroke in the city of Nanchang, leaving Longwood to be sworn in as president by the National Congress, who also elected him as leader of the Kuomintang the same day.

Now serving as President of the Libirachi Empire, Feidel Longwood inherited the task of fighting off various fractions during the Shanghai Uprising, such as the Reborn Alliance, Yuan Shikai's millitary fraction and Ashford Longwood's Imperial Army, all the whilst presiding over a dwindling army. Setting up a base of operations in the capital of Beijing, President Longwood left many senior roles within the government vacant as several *de-facto* leaders instead vied for power within the flailing government. In 1871, Longwood's faction came under intense fire from his brother's army faction, with the city of Beijing coming under siege in August 1871. In October 1871 during the Battle of Beijing, the forces of the Libirachi Imperial Army overwhelmed the Beijing defence forces and seized control over the capital, capturing all senior members of Longwood's government; on October 15, 1871, Feidel Longwood and his forces were made to sign a document of unilateral surrender to Grand Marshal Ashford Longwood, with the armies of the Kuomintang fleeing positions across the nation to go into hiding as the Grand Marshal asserted his dominance over the capital.

On the same day as the surrender document was signed, Feidel Longwood was forced to surrender from his office, with his brother Ashford assuming the presidency, before using the powers of his new title to execute Feidel Longwood and dissolve the Libirachi National Congress for it's treachery in support of the Kuomintang. Feidel Longwood was given a state funeral upon the orders of president Ashford Longwood and was commemorated on the Yīngxióng Qiáng (英雄墙), the Libirachi Memorial to the Uprising, which was destroyed in 1935 on the orders of *then-*President Eshter Morgan.