Twenty Four Years' War

Twenty Four Years' War (-210-186 CC), was an armed conflict motivated by the scramble for colonies, rich in gold and other resources and established by the settlers from Guntreland and Sigisland, in that time still divided in numerous states. Owing to the strategic genius of General Labser, Guntreland won in nine battles and, despite the relatively balanced power relations, conquered practically all of the colonies of Sigisland. Ferdinand-Oterlon, a Sigislandian nobleman and the Prince-Magnate of the state of Oterlon, initiated the making of a strong alliance of eight Sigislandian states, which then sent an immense expeditionary party to Neuland, under General Francis's command. Francis decisively defeated Labser in the Battle of Hettin (-193 CC) and the Battle of Ransburg (-192 CC), restoring Sigislandian colonies to status quo antebellum. After six further years of war between the two continents, henceforth consolidated in solid alliances, an international peace congress had been arranged, held at the island of Eliza halfway between Sigisland and Guntreland. The Elizine Congress adopted the principle of 'one continent - one country', proclaimed the continental sovereigns who were to guarnatee their respective prerogatives, and Archking Ferdinand I of the Archkingdom of Sigisland was declared the first amongst the sovereigns. Neuland was designed as a loose federation of semi-dependent cantons and former colonies, headed by a king of its own. It was initially planned to give the crown to General Labser, however, since he refused to abide by the will of the Elizine Congress, describing it as 'an oligarchical division of the world', setting up his own state on an archiepelago which did not fall under any country's authority, General Francis was anointed the first King of Neuland, having married Beatrix, daughter of Philip-Friedhold, the sovereign of Guntreland.