[center][h2][b][color=007236]The Osladian Empire[/color][/b][/h2]
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[center][i]The following is taken from Dr. Igor Resnick's '[u]History of the Oslads: The Terrible War and Beyond[/u]'[/i]

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[i]Tilogar Yarshenko's '[u]Charge of the Tangarians[/u]'[/i][/center]

In the initial months of the Osladian Civil War, the conflict directly leading to what we now know as the Terrible War, the 2nd Imperial Army under command of Lieutenant-General Sobek Perlitch (1853-1918) faced off against recently organized Boletarian militiamen. Initially it seemed to be a repeat of the 1900 Revolt, with villages quickly falling under Osladian control and rebels being put down by the sheer manpower of the 2nd Imperial Army. However upon reaching Wrenclaw and beginning assaults on the city did the Osladians truly take into account the ferocity and will to fight that the bulk of the Boletarian resistance held. The initial attacks on Wrenclaw failed miserably as the unprepared and ill-equipped Osladians were forced into street by street urban combat in a city that many Osladian soldiers knew very little about. Meanwhile the Boletarian fighters were in their own urban centers, fighting only blocks from their own homes. In the vain hope of simply demoralizing the Boletarians, Perlitch allowed mass artillery barrages on Wrenclaw, even while civilians occupied the city. Within the first month of the Civil War, an estimated eight to ten thousand Boletarian civilians had been killed in the crossfire, while only a thousand Boletarian fighters and two thousand Osladian soldiers lay dead in the fields of Boletaria and the streets of Wrenclaw. 

Outside of Oslad, the drastic and desperate actions taken by the 2nd Imperial Army only further propagated the view that Oslad was in the wrong and that the Boletarians were indeed simply fighting for independence and the right to exist as a culture. However within Osladian media the actions were shown as noble and that the Boletarian 'terrorists' were the ones instigating such actions in the hope to show Oslad as barbaric. 

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[i]Ruins in Wrenclaw, circa 1917.[/i][/center]

In the end, the siege of Wrenclaw was considered a complete failure and the 2nd Imperial Army was ordered into retreat, fearing the cost of continued urban combat. In Wrenclaw, this was met with joyous celebration and was the first victory of many the Boletarian rebels would have against the overstretched Osladian army. Across the entire front more Boletarians joined in a fight they now believed was winnable, and the Osladians were forced into a full retreat by the end of 1915. Even with Survaekom equipment and volunteer manpower coming in, the Osladian High Command knew that this would be a long and bloody civil war.

In late August of the same year, the Kadnydzians rose to revolt in the Hurzlands, with the local garrison falling to socialistic revolutionaries, much like the city of Novouvodsk had faced, and much like Novouvodsk the revolt was quickly put in it's place and the Reds stomped before December. However socialist sentiments remained within the two cities for decades to come, and the Hurzland has since shaped into a left-leaning region throughout the 20th century.

Once the Terrible War began in earnest, the coastline of the Osladian Empire filled with the transports of Soroyan marines in Suvre, Boletaria and Survaekom Troop Carriers in Novouvodsk. By Fall of 1916 a series of trenchworks had begun construction stretching across Boletaria and the lines stretched back and forth across the endless steppes of Tangaria. In fact, it was in Tangaria where the Imperial Army of Oslad held the most advantage. Since the 18th century the Tangarians were loyal subjects of the Osladian monarchy and the Tangarian Cossacks had earned a name as incredible cavalry fighters and warriors. The most famous Tangarian regiment being the 16th 'Wind Lords', who faced devastating casualties during the Osladian conquest of Boletaria in the 1850s yet still took their given objective and won the battle of Tvarlești for the Osladian Empire. 

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[i]Osladian trench positions on Hill 358 in Eastern Boletaria, circa 1917.[/i][/center]

For years the war stretched on, and the bodies piled up into the millions. By 1919 it was clear that Oslad was not on the side of the victors. Joint Soroyan-Ostružnican massed assaults and artillery barrages broke the eastern Boletarian line and the entire front was once again on the move southward, closer and closer to Osladian lands. Yet, Tsar Lubomir II stood firm and called for all Osladians to serve the Imperial Armed Forces and send the 'terrorist, traitors, and their bedmates' out of the Empire's rightful lands.

It was sudden, but not surprising. In October of 1919, as another summer of failed offensives and retreats, came to a close Tsar Lubomir II passed from this world and into the next. The Tsar died in his sleep at the age of 63, leaving behind three children and Tsarina Vedrana as a widow. On October 28th, 1919 Anton Manevski ascended to the Throne of all Oslads as Anton I at the age of 30. 

Anton was much like his grandfather and a reformist, viewing the entire war as a disgrace to his family and the Osladian Empire. Thus his first act as Tsar came as no surprise. He agreed to come to the negotiating table and signed a treaty of unconditional surrender on January 18th, 1920 alongside delegates from his allies in Survaek and Vornhem. 

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[i]Tsar Anton I, Emperor of all Oslads, in his service uniform from his time in the Officer's Corp, circa 1919.[/i][/center]