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Yeah, and I've also reconsidered the situation and learned from past mistakes: If we are ever going to defeat the empire, a fair trial will be held.

My uncle Fernando Zepeda was very dangerous for the government of the time. But he faced a fair trial and suffered the consequences of his failure. Likewise, Emperor Cesar I will face a fair trial. There's nothing as "too dangerous" in this world.
 
King50000 said:
((Yes... The most loyal... That is why you have a position in the new government. :p))

Perhaps it would be wise for our glorious Emperor or Minister of War to revoke Santandera's Generalship with his recent disloyalty to mother Chile, and expose him to the people for the traitor he is.
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((Normally, I would post an IC message as General Santandera, countering the ridiculous "disloyalty" point as well as insult your character and all. Also not recognising any authority of the Emperor which renders this proposal moot. However, General Santandera has closed all communication with those he deems traitors to Chile (as seen in his last public message, Post #2499 on Page 125) so...I can't do that :(. Anyways, that proposal is totally pointless since he doesn't recognise your authority. Just saying.))
 
Dyranum said:
((Normally, I would post an IC message as General Santandera, countering the ridiculous "disloyalty" point as well as insult your character and all. Also not recognising any authority of the Emperor which renders this proposal moot. However, General Santandera has closed all communication with those he deems traitors to Chile (as seen in his last public message, Post #2499 on Page 125) so...I can't do that :(. Anyways, that proposal is totally pointless since he doesn't recognise your authority. Just saying.))
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((Well, it wouldn't really matter at this point, as the transition to the Empire was successful thus far, so by all intents and purposes for this game you guys are traitors and disloyal. And it's not as we are looking for your approval when revoking your Generalship, who does look for the approval if they are doing something like that?))
 
((Meh, no one. Still, it will never be recognised by the Republicans. Also, I consider the disloyalty point to be ridiculous when considering who couped (thereby being disloyal) and who stayed loyal to to the government. Anyways, end of discussion.))
 
I'll notify the mods about the spambots and I've cleared my inbox. Sorry to those who've been trying to contact me.

I don't think there are any new agitators since yesterday.

Update comes tonight. Hold on.
 
(( We all appreciate your hard work and hope you had a good Thanksgiving ))
 
((Question to Cesar: I have to admit, this coup was very cleverly planned. However, what did you really expect when you gave the Ministry of War to General Santandera? His stubborness and obedience to his own moral code is quite blatant.

Also, miscellaneous fact: Irony. Santandera working with his former enemies (the liberals and Zepeda (not the same of course but w/e)))
 
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((I would say it is, since your changing the form of government without popular consent (or without a plebiscite).

As the others have said, thank you for your kindness, TH; you are my my frand. Happy Thanksgiving!))
 
The 1856 Coup, Part 1: The Empire of the Andes​
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One thing about being President: the power is nice, but you can always use more power. Perhaps this was the reasoning of President Cesar Roseno as he took his seat in the La Moneda Palace in Santiago. Even so, the idea of a coup did not strike Roseno the moment he was elected. It was clear, he had been planning the coup for much, much longer, and the public had suspected nothing. For his generals, Roseno appointed General Manuel Carrera - an establish military man - as the commander of the army of the North and General Sebastian Carrow - another established army figure - as the head of the army of the South. For his ministers, Roseno chose the former Minister of Church and Culture Disraeli for the Interior, and the distinguished general Santandera as his new Minister of War. The only new face in the government was José de Vallenare in the State Department, but Roseno had drawn enough from the existing establishment that no one suspected a thing.

Only a month after taking office, after his people had thoroughly dispersed themselves throughout all the workings of the Chilean government, Roseno made his declaration. In front a huge crowd in Santiago, Roseno made his now-famous declaration:"The Republic is defunct, he said. "I hereby announce the creation of the Chilean Empire with myself as Emperor!" Thus came into being the Chilean Empire and Cesar I, Emperor of the Andes.

The coup shocked Chile, as Roseno had been seen by many as a defender of the Republic. More surprising still were those who stood with him: Carrera and Carrow, who had stood four-square against coups in the past, pledged their undying devotion to the new Empire in communiques from their posts in Potosí and Patagonia (respectively). De Vallenare was quick to pledge his support and that of the State Department, and the Interior Minister Disraeli walked to the National Congress Building himself to inform the Congreso (who had been assembled there for an address by the President).

The only man who stayed silent was Jorge Santandera, the Minister of War.

Disraeli's address provoked an immediate revolt in the halls of the Congreso, where dozens - including such prominent statesman as Francisco Rivera and Mario Larraín Zepeda cried out against the new Empire. The most notable, however, was Antonio de Santa Rosa. The former general, present for the address, sprung to the floor of the Congreso and declared Disraeli a traitor - the ensuing passionate row between the two was cut short only when one errant guest produced a rifle and fired at Disraeli's head, provoking the Minister of the Interior to beat a hasty retreat from the chamber.

Disraeli quickly returned to La Moneda, where he instructed the loyalist police to surround and arrest all members of the Congreso. They complied, and the National Congress was quickly surrounded, though the dissident members of the Congreso had barricaded themselves inside. When Cesar asked where Minister Santandera was, and if Imperial troops might be sent in to break the siege, Disraeli discovered he was nowhere to be found.

In reality, Santandera had been at the armories since he first heard the news. The spirit of republicanism, he knew, was strongest in Santiago, and though he no longer had an army at his own disposal, he was still a general and Republican to the bitter end. Cesar had been wrong to think that Santandera would support him in his mad bid for power. Making a rapid speech about the defense of the republic outside the Ministry of War, Santandera gathered those officers he knew were loyal to him and quickly raised a small force of 3,000 or so Republicans, a hodgepodge of soldiers and civilians.

He led this force to the Congreso, where he surrounded the police around the National Congress and broke the siege, allowing the senators trapped within to escape. Then, he marched to La Moneda. Cesar's miscalculation about Santandera forced him to flee north of the city with his fledgling Imperial government, but Santandera's resistance would not last long. Immediately, Cesar sent a message to both Carrera and Carrow, who sprung to his defense and marched to Santiago. Two weeks later, they surrounded the city, where Santandera and his hodgepodge force had fortified the city.

Carrera and Carrow attacked without hesitation, and after three days of fighting and thousands of casualties on both sides, Santandera and the only Republican forces in Chile finally fell. Cesar was adamant that Santandera should be brought before him and hung for treason, but it was not be. General Jorge Santandera's body was found at the foot of the National Congress, pistola in hand. His body was stolen away by Republican elements shortly after it was found and cremated.

Though most of the political establishment opposed Cesar's coup, there was no organized resistance to Imperial rule in Chile remaining, and rebellion was a problem for the future. Cesar quickly appointed Disraeli as the first Prime Minister of the Empire, and the Empire of Chile turned its attention to other goals: Argentina.


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Player Actions Needed:
Santandera (Dyranum) is disenfranchised for backing the wrong side of a coup.

Agitators can keep declaring if they like. I'm going to write another post about the agitators in just a minute. The 1856-1861 update isn't until tonight, so keep holding on.
 
Santandera, a martyr of the Republic! His action saved the leaders of the Republic from capture, and death. His death will go down in the annals of history, akin to Cato, as a man who fought a ruthless dictator, and would never bow to a tyrant.

La Republica will rise again, thanks to his bravery!
 
((The disenfranchisement is kind-of irrelevant from my PoV. It's hard to vote when being dead.))
 
((But you'll be a hero of the Republic, and your son/nephew/etc. will likely be very popular amongst the Republicanos. Oh, and great writing TH. Can't wait for the other two installments coming up! :D))
 
The 1856 Coup, Part 2: The Underground Republic​
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One does not simply overthrow a long-lived democratic government without consequence. Emperor Cesar's coup was opposed by most of the political establishment from the start, and while loyalists and monarchists sung his praises in the streets, for every celebrant there too was a militant. When Santandera broke the siege on the National Congress, he freed dozens of agitators against the new imperial government - and while Santandera fought so desperately to defend the capital, these agitators fled into the night. The general's sacrifice, while perhaps seeming feeble and pointless to the forces arrayed against him, gave the remainder of Chile's patriots a means to escape.

Most notable among these agitators were Adonie, Pablo Subercaseaux, Antonio de Santa Rosa, Mario Larraín Zepeda, Anselmo Galante, Gabriel Alvarez, Jorge Gales, Armando de Vasces, Diego Ortiz, and Francisco Rivera -- statesmen, generals, and great men all.

The Last Boat Out​

A decade prior, in 1846, the Congreso had the option to hang Gabriel Alvarez but instead chose to acquit him, sending him forth from Santiago a free man. Gabriel Alvarez would return to military service under President Romano, and never again contemplated coup against the Republic. In 1856, as Cesar became Emperor, the Republicans of the Congreso had considerable reason to be grateful that they had spared him.

As he held Santiago, Jorge Santandera rushed to find Gabriel Alvarez, former admiral of the Chilean fleet. Santandera located Alvarez, in Santiago on business, and gave him a hastily drafted and sealed set of papers reinstating Alvarez as admiral of the Republican Navy on his own authority. Then, Santandera took Alvarez to the Congreso and assigned a handful of soldiers and notable Republican politicians to the new admiral and said: "For the love of god, go!"

Alvarez rushed with these people, whose lives he had been entrusted to protect, to the docks at Valaparaiso where the San Martin was waiting to meet them. Alvarez presented his credentials to the sailors, who accepted them without question, as Cesar had neglected to secure the loyalties of the navy during his coup. Gabriel Alvarez, the only Chilean admiral in recent memory, did this with ease. He escorted those willing to go with him aboard the frigate and cast off immediately, setting sail for the Ecuadorian Galapagos. Imperial troops would arrive in the city shortly thereafter and shut down the port, but Alvarez had already gone.

The Congress of Valaparaiso​

Many Republicans refused to flee with Alvarez, choosing to begin their campaign against the Emperor on land rather than at sea. In a hastily assembled Congreso at Valaparaiso, the Republican agitators nominated Antonio de Santa Rosa as their leader and from there scattered to the corners of Chile.

When word of this Congress reached Cesar in Santiago, the Emperor bid Prime Minister Disraeli to appoint Karl Weissmuller as their new Minister of Security. He was tasked with finding and arresting the Republican agitators - and Antonio de Santa Rosa above all others - with treason against the Empire. This task proved to be less than simple, as the Republicans slipped through their fingers again and again. The first Republican evasion was in the district of Maipú, just south of Santiago, where Weissmuller's men raided a flat only to find it empty, a hot kettle and four near-empty cups of tea still on the table.

Weissmuller's campaign against the Republicans would continue even as the military campaign against Argentina began. After all, as Disraeli would say, the rebellion was a problem for the future - the war was a problem for the present.


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Player Actions Needed:
Santandera (Dyranum) is disenfranchised for backing the wrong side of a coup. Oh, yeah, and you probably have to make a new character Dyranum...

The Empire loses the Chilean Navy (one frigate).

Once again, agitators can keep declaring. I'm not writing the next five-year update until this evening.

EDIT: And before I forget, any extralegal change in government is a coup, yes. It's just a self-coup in this case.
 
((Hmmm... didn't have to wait long.. :happy:.

I just read the tea-cup part! Brilliant!))
 
I had issues at times with Santandera but no one can deny that he was a true patriot to the end. LOng Live the Republic.
 
Just readf the new update. Senator Adonie continues to be an Agitator
 
rudders10 said:
Just readf the new update. Senator Adonie continues to be an Agitator
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No, people who have already declared don't need to re-declare. It's just that people who haven't declared yet can declare themselves agitators.
 
((no worries, just noticed that even I am spelling my charcters name wrong now as well, lol))
 
((My new character is not really that relevant to these events (nor would he involve himself in them), so I'll post his character sheet later on))
 
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