Mainerian War of Independence

(Clockwise from left to right) JAA Cessna is shot down over the settlement of Carlson. Two ISS UH-1s patrol over New Acadia. ISS member Robert White poses with a captured National Guard M1 Abrams. CAP UH-60 Blackhawk patrols outside New Paris. JAA Cessna bombs a GHG holdout. Brass Lingo ALPGRU Members pose. Abenaki and Acadians arm themselves.

### Territorial Changes

Maineria gains independence, Maineria gains Northern Settlements, US State of Maine looses portions of Franklin, Somerset, Kennebec, and Sagadahoc counties.

## Belligerents

### Side A forces

New Acadia Richmond AuthorityMainerian Patriotic PartyInternal Security Service-Abenaki Liberation Front

-Foreign Volunteers

-French Guard

-New Acadia Defence Force

-Richmond Defence Force

Southeast Civilian Defense Conference-Various Militias

Mainerian Southwest Militia Alliances-Various Militias

Brass Lingo PMCs

Brotherhood of Liberty and Christ

### Side B Forces

Green Hill Gang White American Union

American Communist Movement

National Socialist Ayran Front

Various Militias

## Commanders and Leaders

### Side A Leaders

NARA and ISS-CLM Michael Boucher

-CLM Carl Archambault

-CLM Louie Allard

-CLM John Wesley Jr

-CLM Lucas Smith

-CLM Chief Abornazine "Brownbear" Kelly

-COM Sebastian Ferrigan

-COM Scott Price

-COM Thomas Escoffier

-COM Abraham Pretre

-COM Karaka "Badger" Tourneur

SCDC-Lemond Jefferson

-Zayden Hodges † (KIA)

MSMA-Toby Wood

-Axel Franklin †

-Kevin McKinley

Brass Lingo-CEO Cameron Robertson

Brotherhood of Liberty and Christ

-Jonathan Stone

### Side B Leaders

GHG-Connor Cole

-Rex Brennan †

-Jameson Mullins †

WAU-John Gardner

-Aidan Stewart ☠

-Josh Poole

-Alec Mitchell III †

ACM-Romain Watts

NSAF-William Banks

## Strength

### Side A Strength

NARA and ISS-7,509

SCDC-1,200(Est)

MSMA-1,700(Est)

BL PMC-120

BLC-150

Total: 10,679

### Side B Strength

GHG-15,600

WAU-2,004

ACM-600(Est)

NSAF-482

## Casualties and losses

### Side A Casualties

Total Military Est. 515Total Civilian Est. 4,495

### Side B Casualties

Total Estimate: 6,486American Civilian Deaths Estimate: 20

### Total Losses

11,516 estimated deaths

The Mainerian War of Independence, also known as the Fourth Pine War, was an armed conflict fought in Northeast America from April 7th 1994 to March 18th 1995. It was fought between the New Acadia-New Richmond Authority and its American Settlement allies, vs various radical Anti-Mainerian American militant groups. Which includes the Green Hill Gang, White American Union, American Communist Movement, and their respective allies. It initially started as a proxy conflict between the NARA supported Pro Mainerian Settlements vs Anti Mainerian American Militias.

### **Background**

**Third Pine War and the Toronto Treaty.**

From 1965 - 1972, The Third Pine War was the last conflict between Abenaki-French and the English. Most of these combatants were extremists , who conflicted over old feuds, new British Laws, and Abenaki-French attempts to attain better rights.( which were inspired by the US Civil Rights movement. )The Longest of the Pine Wars, this was a low-level insurgency, comparable to that of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. In 1968, the New Acadian Republic was established. In 1972, both parties grew weary of conflict, especially the civilian populous. Most of the extremists were killed off, including the founder of the New Acadia Republic, Jean Archambault. This led to a period known as deradicalization.

On November 15th 1972, the Mayor of New Acadia, Louie Allard, Abenaki tribal leaders, and the Governor-General of Richmond, John Wesley, signed the Toronto Treaty. (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) This included the “10 year plan” which included the slow withdrawal of British assets starting from May 1972 to May 1982. After British withdrawal, the plan was to recognize the land as a country.

#### **British Withdrawal**

In June 1982, New Acadia and Richmond became unincorporated territory within the US State of Maine via a deal with the British. The inhabitants were hoping to become an independent nation. This newly acquired territory became a major issue in American Politics. President Ronald Reagan defended the point of New Acadia-Richmond being US Territory, as he feared that a Communist Uprising may occur in the region if the US didn’t control it. ( During the third pine war the Abenaki Liberation Front(ALF) was a communist/socialist force, which the USSR was suspected of funding) Meanwhile, Tribal Leaders, Acadian leaders, Richmond leaders, Louie Allard and John Wesley decided to form the “New Acadia-Richmond Authority”. This became a local governing body for Maineria. The NARA and the Maine/Federal Government clashed on multiple occasions, and demanded a form of self rule. Ironically, the period of Deradicalization led to an era of patriotism. The Inhabitants began calling themselves Mainerians to unify the two territories. This led to a second governing authority, the Mainerian Patriotic Party(MPP).

##### **Michael Boucher and his party.**

In 1984, 31 Year old Richmond Born American Entrepreneur Michael Boucher founded the Constitutionalist Party(CTP), a libertarian type party which supported Mainerian independence. The CTP was founded to combat the worsening relationship between the right and the left. In 1983, many riots occurred throughout the country between democrats and republicans. The CTP was supposed to be moderate, and as Boucher described “bring order to America”. However, leftists criticized the CTP for supporting the Second Amendment, some conservative values, and Anti-Communist Anti-Socialist stances. The Right criticized because of their New Acadia-Richmond/Maineria Stance, some leftist values, and in the extreme, the Anti-Racism stances. As many Americans refused to be radicalized, the CTP had a rapid climb in membership. With Boucher's Acadian descended background, many Acadians in New England, as long as Cajuns, supported him.

##### **Origins of the Green Hill Conflict.**

In 1985 at a CTP rally, two gunmen from the American Communist Movement attempted to assassinate Boucher. However, he survived the attempt. After repeated political violence against the CTP, and between left and right wing groups, Michael Boucher wanted a security force. In late 1985, Virginia based Militant group called the Green Hill Gang(Named after the Green Mountain Boys), offered their service. The GHG was a Right wing militia that was willing to protect the CTP.

However, during the 1986 March, GHG Members and Neo Nazis proceeded to shoot and kill 3 Leftists and 5 CTP members. The GHG leader at the time, Joseph Michaels, condemned the attack. One week later he was assassinated by his own bodyguard. Michael Boucher with the help of Le Souterrain, came to find out that GHG had contact with many hate groups for years, and that Michaels was the only one standing in their way. After this incident the CTP and NARA cut ties with the GHG, as it had been infiltrated by the far right and white supremacist members. This increased their attacks.

Boucher decided to purchase an American Private Military Company, known as Brass Lingo, to offer protection instead. NARA was also attacked by the GHG and their Neo Nazi allies. This led to the siege of a small Abenaki village to the south of New Acadia. This event led to the establishment of the Internal Security Service, a group of small volunteer Militias, and the paramilitaries established by the British. After repeated violence and riots, Boucher had: Make New Acadia-Richmond/Maineria independent and have the CTP and members move there to escape the violence in the US.(During this period, the land was referred to as Maineria, yet the Authority was still called New Acadia-Richmond authority) In July, Boucher and his family moved to Maineria, and so did 2,000 of his followers. And slowly, members of the CTP began moving there as well, many joining the ISS.

##### **Population Explosion, Settlements, and Seeds towards conflict.**

In 1986, Boucher privately made the decision to make Maineria independent. Before the 1988 US Presidential Election, Boucher decided to run. However, he publicly announced that if he lost, he and the CTP are going to do anything to make Maineria independent. This only increased attacks on CTP members. Which, in turn increased two things: Tensions with the GHG, and other radical militias, and CTP members immigrating to Maineria. However, since New Richmond City and New Acadia were getting full, migrants created Settlements.

These settlements were small communities established by CTP members outside of Maineria( mostly uninhabited land in Maine, however, some Mainers, loyal to the CTP, decided to make their town/ neighborhood( or part of a neighborhood), a settlement) However, this further complicated things with the GHG, who had branches in northern Maine, and attacks continued. In 1988, Boucher was nominated by the CTP, and ran against both George H.W Bush and Michael Dukakis.

As a result, Boucher made a speech:

```
“The American people have been corrupted, not by money, not by oppression, but by themselves. In order to change their minds, something big and unprecedented must occur, something to preserve classical liberty, and that is to create something defiant towards this widespread social tyranny we call modern politics. I consider myself a realist, and to be fair, this won't happen soon on this great soil. In my opinion, the only logical course of action is to establish a new state. One that will defy the order of the world, one that will be fair. Our great allies in New Acadia and Richmond gladly offer their support."

```

After this announcement, CTP members began moving into Maineria by the dozen, and began building new infrastructure. These CTP members began denouncing their American citizenship, and began living and learning from the original inhabitants. The populous of NA and RM accepted the immigrants due to deradicalization.
The Population of 250,000 in 1982, became the population of 320,000 in 1990. From 1988 to 1994, Maineria became almost a De Facto state. Although they didn’t declare independence, they began establishing schools, laws, towns, and building infrastructure, yet not declaring independence. The membership of the ISS increased, from 490 from 1986 to 2,000 in 1990 However, tensions would rise over the next four years. The GHG membership would increase to a record high of 100,000, after the events of Waco and Ruby Ridge.
In the Summer of 1993, the CTP merges with NARA. Boucher and NARA began modernizing the ISS. They began to smuggle weapons and supplies into Maineria. This included the purchase of 5 UH-1H Iroquois helicopters and outfitting them with “modern” technology. This also included the purchase of 9 other helicopters, dozens of Cessna aircraft, and multiple Armored Vehicles.

On June 5th, the GHG and allies held a secret meeting to discuss coordinated attacks on Maineria. The White American Union(WAU) would attack New Acadia, GHG would attack settlements and Richmond, and a combined force would attack Richmond, all from the North. The ACM got a wind of this, and decided their own attacks, from the south. The attacks were planned for April 7th (The ACM didn’t know when to attack, so they waited for the GHG to move first) The bulk of the GHG wanted to distract the ISS, while a small contingent would infiltrate and assassinate NARA leaders. The WAU planned ethnic cleansing and other genocidal attacks to further destabilize the region. Prior to the attacks Maineria, GHG and allies built up forces in areas around Maineria concealed by the woods.

### **Start of the War**

#### **First Day**

At 7:16Am, on April 7th, 1994, the attacks began. The GHG started to attack the northern settlements via makeshift Mortar Attacks, and then began to invade the settlements. Most of the Casualties were civilians. This only angered the populous, which took up arms and retaliated. Throughout the northern settlements, were intense firefights which lasted into the night. In New Acadia, the WAU attempted to invade New Acadia, and the Northwest Settlement.
However these were both repelled by the French Guard and New Acadia Defense Force. However, nearly 600 White Supremacists infiltrated New Acadia through the unpopulated woods, beginning an insurgency within Maineria and eventually attacking New Acadia City.

#### **Attack on Fort Richmond.**

In 1994, a small contingent of 30 Royal Marines and 12 other British officials, were stationed at the Fort in Richmond. Upon hearing of the attacks, the American Communist Movement attacked Fort Richmond. The attack killed 7, and injured 14 of the 30 Royal Marines. Most of these casualties were sustained when the ACM entered and broke into the base. The Royal Marines retreated into New Richmond City. The surviving Royal Marines decided to join the ISS.

At 11:39PM NARA declared war on the GHG coalition.

#### **Mainerian Counteroffensive**

From April 7th to April 21st attacks continued on Mainerian territory and settlements, including an attack on New Acadia. As the request for the National Guard to be deployed was ignored, Michael Boucher and NARA ordered the ISS to mobilize and begin a counteroffensive. Additionally, the NARA called out for foreign volunteers to join the effort.

In the settlements, settlers began forming Self Defense Militias. These, unlike the ISS and Brass Lingo, had mixed training , and multiple northern settlements were invaded. The NARA established what they called a “Self Blockade” where a line, known as the Joint Control Line, was drawn around New Acadia, Richmond, and the settlements. This self blockade was designed to stop invasions and to increase internal security. Within the Joint Control Line were three theatres,

Theatre A: New Acadia and three settlements (Settlement of Speers, Richards Settlement, Pierre Settlement). Theatre A was under the control of mainly the French Guard and New Acadia Defense Force, but also included the Self Defense Militias of Speers, Richards, Pierre Settlements; and multiple Abenaki Militias; all trained by the ISS.

Theatre B: Richmond territory and various settlements to the west, Controlled by mainly the Richmond Defense force and Brass Lingo,

Theatre C: The Northern Settlements. As territory here was lost, NARA deployed its Joint-Air Authority, and began conducting air strikes, day and night, on taken territory. During May, a small force of French Guard, New Richmond Defense Force, Abenaki Militias, and Brass Lingo PMCs began to occupy settlements to the south of GHG held territory. As time went on, the SDMs were trained by Brass Lingo PMCs and New Acadia Defense Force members. These Southern SDMS formed two alliances, The “Mainerian Southwest Militia Alliances”(MSMA) and the “Southeast Civilian Defense Conference” (SCDC). These two Alliances retook the settlements to the north( see Retaking of the Northern Settlements)

Richmond became heavily defended and the RDF defeated the ACM and allies on multiple occasions. The RDF retook the Richmond Fort. On April 15th - 25th, the New Acadia Defense Force fought off the WAU attempting to take the city. On May 1st, the first foreign volunteers arrived, these were 500 Americans who were veterans of the gulf war. As the conflict grew in the northern settlements, Richmond and New Acadia began fighting a “border war” as they helped the northern SDMs. The Abenaki Militias also fought WAU guerillas in the dense pine tree forests. American and foreign volunteers continued to come into Maineria. These “Foreign Volunteer Units” were formed, trained and integrated into the ISS. Since most of these Foreign Volunteers were veterans of other conflicts, they did not require much training, and were mostly deployed in Theatre C.

##### **American Response**

As the conflict continued and as mostly American veterans kept flooding in, US President Bill Clinton was pressured into doing something, On May 24th, Bill Clinton assembled a task force of FBI agents, ATF agents, Civil Air Patrol, and the Maine and New Hampshire National Guards. This task force was tasked with containing the conflict, such as surrounding Maineria( around the Joint Control Line) and preventing anyone from coming in and out of the territory. Bill Clinton viewed the conflict as a domestic dispute, such as the events of Waco. However, the media portrayed the true events of the war, showing its full damage.

Many Americans( Mostly Gulf War, Invasion of Panama, and some Vietnam War veterans) decided to join the ISS for various reasons. Many African Americans from impoverished neighborhoods also volunteered, motivated by fighting White Supremacy and the promise of a new country.
An estimated 15,000 American Volunteers flowed into Maineria at the end of the war, alongside Yugoslav, Israeli, Australian, Kurdish,South African, and British volunteers. The American public was torn on the subject, many viewed it as a domestic issue, while others viewed it as a war for independence. During the 90s, political violence had decreased because of the GHGs commitment to fighting the NARA.

#### **Retaking of the Northern Settlements**

The MSMA and SCDC, alongside Foreign Volunteers from the ISS, and an American Militia, The Brotherhood of Liberty and Christ, spent the entire summer retaking northern settlements with the help of the Joint Air Authority and ALPGRU. In the occupied settlements, the local SDMs fought a guerilla war against the GHG. Throughout June and July, the ISS coalition fought an intense yet swift counteroffensive against the GHG. Deaths at first were high, yet decreased as the alliance’s and SDMs became more better trained. This caused GHG deaths to Increase. On July 29th most settlements were retaken.

The GHG in these pockets, attempted to create a guerilla war like what the WAU has done in New Acadia. As GHG morale began to collapse, battles over these "pockets" became more intense as the GHG militants became desperate. Yet, almost all engagements led to defeat. To prevent a GHG counteroffensive, Boucher ordered the ISS to invade land outside of the Joint Control Line to prevent a GHG counteroffensive. This caused conflict, although mostly non violent, encounters with the National Guard task force. Meanwhile in New Acadia, the WAU militias were trapped within the Joint Control Line, and losing against the French Guard and Abenaki militias. In a last ditch effort to turn the tides, the WAU surrounded and attacked New Acadia with improvised artillery, and snipers. However, they were repelled by the New Acadia Defense force in a week, and encampments were destroyed by the Joint Air Authority.

After another defeat, the WAU Militias were forced to hide and survive in the wilderness within New Acadia, many experiencing ambushes from Abenaki Militias, and animal attacks. Food became dangerously low for them, and an attempt to create an underground supply line was stopped by the French Guard. Many died to nature itself, and many deserted and fled back to the US, and this would continue as fall and winter began to set in.

#### **Winter Phase**

The war during the winter phase turned the tides in Mainerias favor. In January and February, the conflict became a border war, with the GHG and allies fighting the highly trained ISS. The GHG also began losing strength as they had come into conflict with the Federal Task Force as well, making it more difficult to start a counteroffensive. In March, with no victory in sight, the GHG agreed to a cease fire.

Little resistance still continued however, until, arguably, The Gorham Accords.

### **End of the Conflict**

With the announcement of a ceasefire, the NARA began negotiations with the US government, and started talks of recognition.  On March 11th the US, GHG, and NARA announced the “Gorham Accords summit” which would take place in Gorham, Maine. That same day the Joint Control Line was abolished. The Gorham Accords was to be a three day summit, doubling as a peace treaty, and negotiation/recognition talk.

On March 16th, 4 hours before the Gorham Accords were to take place, Maineria Declared Independence and the NARA was no more( See Mainerian Transitional Council)

Celebrations took to the streets, in New Richmond, New Acadia, and the settlements. The Gorham Accords officially ended the war on March 18th.

### **Aftermath**

The total death count for all combatants is believed to be estimated at 11,516. At the start, a majority of deaths were civilian, to an estimated 200 - 4,000 deaths. However as the war entered its summer phase civilian deaths decreased and combatant deaths increased. A majority of combatant deaths were GHG militants, this in turn caused the organization to decline in influence and was almost disbanded. Many GHG allies, such as the Texan Disciples of Israel and other right wing militias disbanded after the war due to great losses. The remnants of these groups are now splinter organizations, which have small membership, and lack training/weaponry to start any trouble. Many of these splinter groups have been absorbed by the GHG or the WAU. Many GHG and WAU deaths can be attributed to the harsh winter.