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The Kingdom of England has fallen into civil conflict; centuries of resentment, foreign concessions, harsh taxation and a 500 year long dynastic rivalry has torn the land against itself! With feudal lords and military strongmen commanding the nation, the wars of peasant levies and medieval warfare continue, supported by technology and mercenaries from the Orient. Having been exploited for labor and resources for centuries, Europe itself struggles against foreign domination, while internal factions across the continent threaten to tear itself apart. This is seen no more clearly than within the English Kingdom, in which the Fourth Civil War is about to begin. Nobles, kings, democrats and idealistic serfs all prepare to wage war for control of the nation, while foreign empires watch on with opportunistic eyes...

Following the death of the old King Henry XIII in 1910, a regency council was convened to rule until the King's heir, 5 year old Edward X Lancaster reached maturity and could rule himself. At the head of this regency was the Lord Protector, Winston Churchill, the former First Lord of the Admiralty and Chancellor of Lancaster, who pledged to uphold the Kingdom in Edward X's name. However, as the months past into the regency, moves by Lord Churchill to consolidate power alarmed groups across all of English society, with tensions growing following the decree for the arrest of noted Yorkist David Lloyd George, the 'Shadow Chancellor' for the exiled Yorkist pretender, Richard VI York.

With Yorkist nobles and military strongmen already having secured their ancestral powerbases in the final years of Henry XIII's rule, the apparently 'illegitimate' decree was the excuse needed for the Yorkist's to mobilize, not openly declaring war, but cutting off communication from the central government in October of 1910, and later expelling notable Lancaster officials from their positions and later the Yorkist territory entirely. These various cliques and feudal lords were loosely aligned with one another, their only shared aim being the restoration of the line of York to the throne of England. Other than this, the motivations of each group were disparate, with the warlords of Snowdonia demanding greater autonomy from London, while the Kielder warlords were secured by the Yorkist's promise to remove the invaders that dominated English foreign policy and politics from the country.

On the other side of the dynastic war, the Lancaster's too began to turn against the regency, with many royalists believing that Lord Churchill would come to dominate the rule of the child king, even into his adulthood, while others feared that he would seize power for himself, or even attempt to restore the long abolished parliament to prominence in the Kingdom's weakness! In this, the Lancaster camp was split between loyalists to the regency government and Edward X, with those who followed his uncle, the Duke of Warwick, who sought to overthrown Churchill and install himself as regent. These supporters of Warwick would seize the Duchy of Lancaster, as well as gain territory in the land of the High Weald, where Edward X's cousin, Lord-General Richard Spencer took control of the local garrison, including the staple port of Dover from the central government.

Meanwhile, across the country in Cornwall and Devon, the anti-Lancaster Exeter Clique suffered a split in its loyalties; having been supported by the Bourbon King of Neustria for so long, many of the founding members of the 'Exeter Clique' sought to remove King Edward X and replace him with King Louis XXI. Many of the 'young officers', despite having anti-Lancaster sympathies, balked at the idea of inviting a French King to seat the throne of England and instead believed that the Yorkist pretender was a much more amenable option to lead the Kingdom. As a result, the Exeter Clique that dominated the South-West broke down into the 'Old' and 'New' Exeter Cliques, in the south and north respectively, with each preparing to press the claim of their chosen leader..

Unnoticed by the leadership in London, resentment had been growing for the past half-century, following the dissolution of the parliament in the Third English Civil War. The remnants of the factions that existed in the old parliament had been gaining support in the Midlands of England, and by 1910, the liberal Whigs and the conservative Tories were planning to restore the primacy of the parliament; removing the regency's leadership in their territory, and the 'party leader' of each faction took 'emergency power' in order to restore democracy to the nation. Despite being united by a desire to restore parliament, the two parties and the pro-democracy Hereford Clique were each divided and unable to ally outside of a common goal against the Lord Protector...

These 'parliamentarians' were not the most radical faction however, as the banned 'Labour Faction', a collection of serfs and lower class intelligentsia, had been plotting the removal of the Kingdom in it's entirety and planned the creation of a 'serf state' across the land. This would lead to disparate peasant uprisings against the local nobility and military governors until the 'General Rising' of 1909, in which the city of Birmingham and its local areas were seized by the serfs. The Labour Faction would project itself into leadership of these serfs and establish the National Executive Committee of Labour, a 'provisional government' claiming its mandate to liberate the serfs from the mercantile class and the nobility. With the authority of the central government destroyed and its control over the military non-existent, the Committee was able to grow as it expanded around the city of Birmingham, before eventually being contained by other warlords and factions in the kingdom.

With this obvious collapse of power within the kingdom, the international community looked at the situation with apprehension, concerned that any victor in the civil war would threaten their interests and control. As a result, the foreign concession cities were staffed with 'security personnel' preparing to intervene should their interests be threatened by the war. This would not be enough for some members of the International Council's ruling body, with the Chinese, Moroccans and the Ottomans creating the 'League of Counties' that secured the entire South and East of England. It would mostly collapse within a few months, due to the Moroccans pulling out their support as the expenses grew higher than expected, resulting in the international mandate being limited to the east of England. However, this region remains one of the most stable areas within the Kingdom, as the military of the international community was still acting under the orders of their governments, allowing for unrest to be suppressed and order maintained.

The civil war would officially start on the 11th April, 1911, when the 2nd Royal Army under the Lord-Protector marched on the Castle at Tonbridge, in High Weald Clique territory. The government's army was forced out of the Clique's territory following an ambush at Seven Oaks, and the war between the Lancasters and the regency began. 12 days later, the Yorkist pretender arrived by boat to York and joined the war to force his claim; by this time, about 1/3 of England was in revolt against the central government and the rest of the major factions across England would enter the war in the next two months. The Kingdom fell into chaos, and the civil war would continue for over a decade, lasting 13 years until its end in 1924; with each victory and defeat shaping the factions of the war, until the Battle of London brought peace to the land...

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The Kingdom of England has fallen into civil conflict; centuries of resentment, foreign concessions, harsh taxation and a 500 year long dynastic rivalry has torn the land against itself! With feudal lords and military strongmen commanding the nation, the wars of peasant levies and medieval warfare continue, supported by technology and mercenaries from the Orient. Having been exploited for labor and resources for centuries, Europe itself struggles against foreign domination, while internal factions across the continent threaten to tear itself apart. This is seen no more clearly than within the English Kingdom, in which the Fourth Civil War is about to begin. Nobles, kings, democrats and idealistic serfs all prepare to wage war for control of the nation, while foreign empires watch on with opportunistic eyes...

Following the death of the old King Henry XIII in 1910, a regency council was convened to rule until the King's heir, 5 year old Edward X Lancaster reached maturity and could rule himself. At the head of this regency was the Lord Protector, Winston Churchill, the former First Lord of the Admiralty and Chancellor of Lancaster, who pledged to uphold the Kingdom in Edward X's name. However, as the months past into the regency, moves by Lord Churchill to consolidate power alarmed groups across all of English society, with tensions growing following the decree for the arrest of noted Yorkist David Lloyd George, the 'Shadow Chancellor' for the exiled Yorkist pretender, Richard VI York.

With Yorkist nobles and military strongmen already having secured their ancestral powerbases in the final years of Henry XIII's rule, the apparently 'illegitimate' decree was the excuse needed for the Yorkist's to mobilize, not openly declaring war, but cutting off communication from the central government in October of 1910, and later expelling notable Lancaster officials from their positions and later the Yorkist territory entirely. These various cliques and feudal lords were loosely aligned with one another, their only shared aim being the restoration of the line of York to the throne of England. Other than this, the motivations of each group were disparate, with the warlords of Snowdonia demanding greater autonomy from London, while the Kielder warlords were secured by the Yorkist's promise to remove the invaders that dominated English foreign policy and politics from the country.

On the other side of the dynastic war, the Lancaster's too began to turn against the regency, with many royalists believing that Lord Churchill would come to dominate the rule of the child king, even into his adulthood, while others feared that he would seize power for himself, or even attempt to restore the long abolished parliament to prominence in the Kingdom's weakness! In this, the Lancaster camp was split between loyalists to the regency government and Edward X, with those who followed his uncle, the Duke of Warwick, who sought to overthrown Churchill and install himself as regent. These supporters of Warwick would seize the Duchy of Lancaster, as well as gain territory in the land of the High Weald, where Edward X's cousin, Lord-General Richard Spencer took control of the local garrison, including the staple port of Dover from the central government.

Meanwhile, across the country in Cornwall and Devon, the anti-Lancaster Exeter Clique suffered a split in its loyalties; having been supported by the Bourbon King of Neustria for so long, many of the founding members of the 'Exeter Clique' sought to remove King Edward X and replace him with King Louis XXI. Many of the 'young officers', despite having anti-Lancaster sympathies, balked at the idea of inviting a French King to seat the throne of England and instead believed that the Yorkist pretender was a much more amenable option to lead the Kingdom. As a result, the Exeter Clique that dominated the South-West broke down into the 'Old' and 'New' Exeter Cliques, in the south and north respectively, with each preparing to press the claim of their chosen leader..

Unnoticed by the leadership in London, resentment had been growing for the past half-century, following the dissolution of the parliament in the Third English Civil War. The remnants of the factions that existed in the old parliament had been gaining support in the Midlands of England, and by 1910, the liberal Whigs and the conservative Tories were planning to restore the primacy of the parliament; removing the regency's leadership in their territory, and the 'party leader' of each faction took 'emergency power' in order to restore democracy to the nation. Despite being united by a desire to restore parliament, the two parties and the pro-democracy Hereford Clique were each divided and unable to ally outside of a common goal against the Lord Protector...

These 'parliamentarians' were not the most radical faction however, as the banned 'Labour Faction', a collection of serfs and lower class intelligentsia, had been plotting the removal of the Kingdom in it's entirety and planned the creation of a 'serf state' across the land. This would lead to disparate peasant uprisings against the local nobility and military governors until the 'General Rising' of 1909, in which the city of Birmingham and its local areas were seized by the serfs. The Labour Faction would project itself into leadership of these serfs and establish the National Executive Committee of Labour, a 'provisional government' claiming its mandate to liberate the serfs from the mercantile class and the nobility. With the authority of the central government destroyed and its control over the military non-existent, the Committee was able to grow as it expanded around the city of Birmingham, before eventually being contained by other warlords and factions in the kingdom.

With this obvious collapse of power within the kingdom, the international community looked at the situation with apprehension, concerned that any victor in the civil war would threaten their interests and control. As a result, the foreign concession cities were staffed with 'security personnel' preparing to intervene should their interests be threatened by the war. This would not be enough for some members of the International Council's ruling body, with the Chinese, Moroccans and the Ottomans creating the 'League of Counties' that secured the entire South and East of England. It would mostly collapse within a few months, due to the Moroccans pulling out their support as the expenses grew higher than expected, resulting in the international mandate being limited to the east of England. However, this region remains one of the most stable areas within the Kingdom, as the military of the international community was still acting under the orders of their governments, allowing for unrest to be suppressed and order maintained.

The civil war would officially start on the 11th April, 1911, when the 2nd Royal Army under the Lord-Protector marched on the Castle at Tonbridge, in High Weald Clique territory. The government's army was forced out of the Clique's territory following an ambush at Seven Oaks, and the war between the Lancasters and the regency began. 12 days later, the Yorkist pretender arrived by boat to York and joined the war to force his claim; by this time, about 1/3 of England was in revolt against the central government and the rest of the major factions across England would enter the war in the next two months. The Kingdom fell into chaos, and the civil war would continue for over a decade, lasting 13 years until its end in 1924; with each victory and defeat shaping the factions of the war, until the Battle of London brought peace to the land...