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In December of 1854, Hong Xiuquan finally agreed to Yang Xiuqing's estimates of troop requirements to aid the Eurekan Rebels in Australia, calling up 15,000 reserves and mobilizing 10,000 additional forces in Eureka Stockade, for what was promised to be a easy campaign. The OCU were on the brink of finally realizing their ancient hope of demilitarizing the British territory into a republic and removing British monarchy from the Australian territory, and becoming a republic. On the morning of December 1st, 1854, Eurekan rebels forces assembled there troops for the day, while the OCU and there troops were organizing themselves onto ships. The supplies would be arriving from further down the Australian coast. Early in the morning of December 2nd, 1815, the ships crossed the Victoria-Tasmania to Bellarine Peninsula, where 5,000 OCU soldiers were deposited on the beach in the first infantry wave along five miles of desert to walk to Eureka. They quickly met up with the Eurekans and where the Eurkans built a capital in Eureka to make a republic. On December 3rd, the rebellion began, the OCU and the Eurekan rebels quickly overran the city under the command of Peter Lalor, and moved north of the town and moved to the city of Ballarat and declared the Republic of Australia. 7,000 additional OCU soldiers arrived twenty miles west of the city and set up camp at a Tent House. 2,000
Australian Republican rebels swept through Ballarat throughout the day. The OCU and Australian republicist's force in Australia stood now at 45,000 soldiers.

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On February 24th of 1855, the waves of the 27,000 strong Australia Republicist and 8,000 OCU troops had finally arrived and assembled along the Victorian coastline in several corps, that would move north and east simultaneously towards Mount Alexander and Pyrenees. The move north through the countryside was bloody and destructive, 7,000 Australian Republicist soldiers perished between March 6th as they neared Corangamite. British soldiers fell by the thousands during some of the bloodiest days of the war, and famrs and armories were stripped and burned. As Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom said:

"Nowhere else in Australia did the republicists lay waste in such manner, but the republicists sought to conquer the rest of Australia, and only fools destroy what they seeks to have."​

The key to the push lay in the ability to move quickly without stopping or getting worn down by British forces. The bloodshed was massive as the Australian-OCU army barreled through the Southwest of the British Victoria territory, but Queen Victoria was starting to regain her wits. Armies based in the remnants of Anti-Republic rebels were quickly recalled to the Victorian territory only days before the British Victory at the Battle of Melbourne, Even though with the Republic of Australia's forces becoming stronger, Hong Xiuquan was thinking of withdrawing OCU troops from Australia and let the republicists fight on there own, and by April 1st the first contingents of OCU soldiers were ready to return home. Critical to the Australian Campaign was the Battle of Geelong, on April 11th. A massive British force was defeated soundly by single handed Australian republicists, who with the help of aboriginal Australians won a decisive battle, thus giving Hong Xiuquan and the OCU even more time to establish there selves to Revolt on there own soil.

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The Republic of Australia after the aid from the OCU. ​
 
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Can you please post in game screenshots? If we are reading about a strange and exotic mod, we would like to see how the game looks (idk, new maps, events etc... with the map you showed us, it doesn't look really EU2-ly...)
 
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