[center][img]http://pre05.deviantart.net/5617/th/pre/i/2014/218/9/e/nordic_flag_proposals__iceland__state__by_daneofscandinavy-d7tyoce.png[/img] [h2][color=steelblue][b]The Boletarian Free Army[/b][/color][/h2][color=steelblue][h3]March 22nd, 1915 - February 2nd, 1916[/h3][/color][/center][hr][hr] "[i]We have done everything that could be done to avert that which we must now do. We have rallied, we have demonstrated and we have petitioned for the very ideal of independence. These things have all been in vain. We can no longer hold hope that our freedom might be acquired peacefully, there is but one course ahead of us. The Boletarian Free Army calls on the thousands of brothers thirsting to fight, to take up arms and smash the oppressor... Every Boletarian homestead must become a stronghold in the struggle against the invaders... Not a moment is to be lost.[/i]" - Wireless telegraph transmitted across Boletaria by Teodor Ladzinksi ordering the BFA to arms, circa 1915. [center][b]- - - - - - - The Second Revolution[/b][/center] In late 1914, Boletarians with a hope for a sovereign Boletaria began serious preparations for an uprising in face of the unsuccessful revolution of 1910. Which had served only to tighten the ironclad grip of the Osladian regime over the region and populace with a large garrison stationed in the capital of Wrenclaw in response. The [i]Boletarian Free Army[/i] formed by Teodor Ladzinksi, a firm Boletarian nationalist and former General of the Osladian Empire. Came to be the dominant resistance movement during the 5 years following the Boletarian Revolution of 1910 as it continued to absorb other underground forces. Under the guiding hand of Ladzinksi, the movement saw itself organized and militarized. Weapons were purchased from the sympathetic Kingdom of Soroya as regions and towns were allocated and plans were drawn up to be carried out when the time came. That time came 7 days later after the world learned of the [i]Blackcoat Massacre[/i]. On March 22nd, 1915 the BFA took up arms. Across the city of Wrenclaw alone, 8,000 partisans were mobilized and positioned throughout the city to strike at the appointed time. This sudden mobilization did not however go unnoticed and sporadic gunfire and engagements between the BFA and Osladian Garrison sounded throughout the city before the hour. The Osladian DSSS had encountered and anticipated the threat of a second revolution resultant in the bolstered garrison but had ultimately failed to realize it's full strength until it was too late and the Second Boletarian Revolution was underway. [center][img]http://41.media.tumblr.com/c0e4ab91aae462d15007467644121491/tumblr_nmdz54O9mu1tzeqovo3_500.jpg[/img] [i]Partisans of the Boletarian Free Army mobilize.[/i][/center] The streets became a flurry as the BFA, bolstered by organised regiments of partisans trickling into the city, rounded up and captured Osladian soldiers forcing them from their barracks with relatively minor bloodshed compared with what was to come. After talks, the regiments were allowed to leave the city without their weapons and munitions, which was to summarily be put to use by the uprising forces, as they set about securing and fortifying their homes and the city itself from the impending rebuttal of the Osladian armed forces. Across the countryside, towns and villages were captured by Boletarian forces to be then fought over as the Osladian 2nd Army were dispatched to the region. These fights across the plains of Boletaria were to remain indecisive while Wrenclaw saw the most bloodiest and decisive battles fought. [center][img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Powstancy_Wlkp.jpg/400px-Powstancy_Wlkp.jpg[/img] [i]Teodor Ladzinksi, donned in his distinct great goat convenes with key leaders of the BFA.[/i][/center] The 2nd Army's response was one of pure cruelty and terror. Shells flew in earnest as the distant boom of artillery resounded across the city of Wrenclaw. [i]The Siege of Wrenclaw[/i] had begun. With civilians still present within the city as the mass bombardment began, a bloodbath ensued which in it's graphic detail was conveyed to sympathetic officals across the globe, so that all would know of the unjust ways of the Osladian Empire. The Siege would persist for months. The people of Boletaria endured however. Civil unrest wracked the oppressive Empire and eventually the tide began to turn as the Siege of Wrenclaw turned into an Osladian retreat as across the Boletarian plains sporadic engagements took place. Almost a year after the Second Boletarian Revolution had begun, the two nations faced a sluggish and indecisive war. The Boletarians supplied by the Soroyans and their allies, the Osladians intent on maintaining their power, supplied by the Survaekom and their allies. This would eventually graduate to world war with a Survaekom declaration of war on the Kingdom of Soroya. The [i]Terrible War[/i] was about to begin in all it's horror.