Libirachi War of Revolution

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The **Libirachi War of Revolution**, also known as the **Great Revolution** or the **Revolutionary War**, was a prolonged three year civil war within the Libirachi Empire fought between organised Rebel groups and the Libirachi Dynasty, lasting between 1849 and 1852 and resulted in the overthrowing of Emperor George IV and the installation of the Imperial Republic of Libirachi, with Duke Stanford Rightly, a key revolutionary warrior, as the inaugural President of the Libirachi Empire; the war became forever cemented in the Libirachi zeitgeist thanks to the war's success in overthrowing the emperor, widely regarded as a tyrant, and replacing him with a quazi-democratic republic, although the republic would only last for 167 years and in 2019 the monarchy would be reinstated following a coup d'état.

As secessionist ideologies began to take hold over the Libirachi Empire in the mid-19th century thanks to decades of mismanagement from the Libirachi Dynasty, various rebel cells and fractions began to form across the nation, ultimately leading to the formation of the Rebel Alliance in 1845 with Duke Stanford Rightly as its most dominant leader. The Rebel Alliance began their uprising in 1849 with an attack on Imperial Forces in Mongolia. Despite a defeat on the battleground, Duke Stanford Rightly was able to secure a victory by enticing Marshal Longwood to throw his family army behind the Alliance leadership and granted Longwood control over the entire Alliance Armed Forces. Now boasting a sizable army, the Rebel forces made a second effort at the Battle of Ulaanbaatar in April 1849 and managed to destroy the severely weakened Imperial forces there thanks to the defection of the Longwood family army.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Ulaanbaatar, Rebel forces began a long march to the central south of the Chinese regions, invading Tibet in September 1849 under the direct leadership of Ashford Longwood. The Beijing Campaign was launched in January 1850 and forces finally entering the city of Beijing in 1851; the Alliance army was initially repelled back from the capital although a second assault the following year would yield more success as Longwood led the Revolutionary Army of the Alliance into the Forbidden City on August 26, 1852 where Emperor George IV and his privy council were brutally murdered by members of the army, bringing about an end to the Libirachi Dynasty.

In the aftermath of the massacre of the imperial family, the Imperial Republic of Libirachi was established as one of the first democracies in Asian history, with Stanford Rightly elected as the nation's first president in August 1852. Rightly would serve as president for 18 years, abolishing term limits in a self coup in 1856. The Imperial Republic continued to survive until 2019, when an army coup d'état replaced it with a new monarchist empire under the new Fox Dynasty.

## War of Revolution

As secessionist ideologies began to take hold over the Libirachi Empire in the mid-19th century thanks to decades of mismanagement from the Libirachi Dynasty, various rebel cells and fractions began to form across the Imperial Frontier, a broad stretch of Asia only loosely controlled by the Beijing monarchy; small and spread apart, many rebel groups across the nation began to band together in regional alliances, leading to the formation of the Rebel Alliance in 1845 under a coalition leadership of various militias and family armies, with Duke Stanford Rightly of the Rightly family becoming the forefront leader of the Alliance by 1848 through a gradual consolidation of power, aided by the armed forces of his family.

Following 4 years of secretly gathering forces and integrating into one entity, the Rebel Alliance began their uprising in 1849 with an attack on Imperial Forces in Mongolia controlled by Marshal Ashford Longwood, leader of the Longwood family army. Despite a defeat on the battleground, Duke Stanford Rightly was able to secure a victory by enticing Marshal Longwood to throw his family army behind the Alliance leadership and granted Longwood control over the entire Alliance Armed Forces. Now boasting a sizable army, the Rebel forces made a second concerted effort again at the Battle of Ulaanbaatar in April 1849 and managed to destroy the severely weakened Imperial forces there thanks to the defection of the Longwood family army from the Libirachi Dynasty.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Ulaanbaatar, Rebel forces began a long march to the central south of the Chinese regions, invading Tibet in September 1849 under the direct leadership of Ashford Longwood and smashed through the armed forces of the Libirachi commander Brigadier Kalen Barto in order to install a rebel government in the region, causing a domino effect as forces in the region began to retreat back to protect the imperial heartlands as the dynasty began to crumble. Initiating the Beijing Campaign in January 1850, Grand Marshal Ashford Longwood and Marshal Azriel Janda led the slow charge towards Beijing and the imperial palace, marching across Asia in order to try and make it into the capital of the floundering nation, as more and more family armies began to defect to the rebel alliance. Entering the city of Beijing in 1851, the Alliance army was repelled back from the capital although a second assault the following year would yield more success as Longwood led the Revolutionary Army of the Alliance into the Forbidden City on August 26, 1852 where Emperor George IV and his privy council were brutally murdered by members of the army, bringing about an end to the Libirachi Dynasty.

With the death of Emperor George IV on August 26, 1852, the Alliance Grand Council took control over the nation as a military junta, before the Imperial Republic of Libirachi became the official title of the new regime under the leadership of the inaugural President Stanford Rightly, forgoing the flag of the Alliance for a new design and seal. Proclaimed from the the Forbidden City on August 30, 1852, the Imperial Republic took over the nation, with a President replacing the Emperor as head of state, although the nation retained its title as the Libirachi Empire despite not having a monarch. Founded from the ruins of the Libirachi Dynasty, the Imperial Republic took over land controlled by the former Empire and the Alliance, merging the two armies together over the span of the next decade. Elected almost unanimously in 1852 by Alliance High Command, General Stanford Rightly was proclaimed President on August 30, 1852 before dissolving the Alliance the same day with all former members becoming absorbed into the empire, with rebel states forcefully occupied by the Imperial Guard and former Alliance Army to keep them in tow with the Beijing government. As the first Presidential term came to an end in 1856, Rightly and his Vice President conducted a self coup, demolishing the democratic institutions they had fought to create to preserve their grip on power.

## Leadership

### Rebel Alliance

 **Stanford Rightly**
(1845 - 1852)
(1849 - 1852)
(1851 - 1852)
(1847 - 1852)
(1849 - 1852)

### Libirachi Dynasty

 **George IV**
(1841- 1852)
(1843 - 1852)
(1838 - 1851)
(1824 - 1852)

## See Also

* Libirachi Dynasty
* Emperor of the Libirachi Empire
* Imperial Republic of Libirachi