The Dutch Republican fleet decimates the Royal Dithmarschen Navy in the battle of the Bay of Campeche, after the successful siege of Commune #11.
As DictatorJohan once more betrayed his peasant subjects and crowned himself KingJohan, the Republic of the Netherlands decided it had been enough and that the peasants had to be forcibly freed from KingJohan's yoke. Within months of the declaration of war, a Johan-funded bourgeois coup attempted to seize control of the government. Luckily, they were only partially successful, and could not prevent the liberation force that promptly descended on the Royal Dithmarschen Caribbean holdings.
Much tolerance was exported, and in Central America an army of 30,000 peasants, forced into service by their despicable King, were tolerated to the last man, scant weeks after the Royal Dithmarschen Navy was tolerated to the bottom of the seas. And yet, after all hope had faded, KingJohan still refused to relinquish his new-found throne. And so, the Dutch were forced to make do with liberating the peasant populations in the Caribbean from the tyrant's hold, and welcome them to a true republic. As promised, no attempts to core these lands have been made, giving these peasants total autonomy.
Even now, the Tyrant of the West continues to rule from his throne, raised high above the heads of his labouring subjects... If internal forces do not return Dithmarschen to a proper republic, the Dutch shall be forced to intervene once more...