Le Lutte Pour l'indépendance

                          Prologue:

I look Face to Face at the griffonian army, I think to myself of the extreme measures of this action, and how the world may view me... but it is needed for the fate of holestria. I look Round.... my small but well disciplined holestrian and batonian army, then to the enemy,i can see at least twice as many griffins with Firearmery on their side, but my gamble is that they are not well trained and we should be able to defend this city, if it falls, we will lose, and Holestria will truly be bleed to death. Its a wonder how a mare like myself, one of the arts could eventually be in charge of a whole front. I also remember my life until this moment and why this war is justified.The other stream of thought is of our nation's history that led to this as well.

Holestria, a once very religious Realm that dominated european politics alongside Great Britannia, Batponia and the Holy griffin Empire from it's unification in 1470 to the coronation of Anner The third... as we normally call him, Anner The Mad. he took Over the Empire in 1776 nd promptly tried his best, being among the rouge group of the enlightenment and began to "De-Christianize" the nation... and that counted for everypony, even the nobels, a group of ponies who are usually excluded from horrific polices such as his "Re Birth" was. He made  military service compulsory, no longer voluntary as it had been previously. The Unpopular Autocrat also began to Tax those of Any religion, Catholic, Muslim, Protestant, Jewish, no Devine faith was spared. This was not well Received by the peasantry and even the nobels were safe. it was like this for about 6 or so years later until 1782 when they had had enough, then citizens of religion rebelled. when he heard of the civil unrest, he told the soldiers to fire upon the crowds... and as he put it " Make sure that they all get a Musket ball through the eyes and heart." the army had no choice but to obey and killed over 60 Ponies,including a Certain Princess Alexia of Genovia who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. She has hit in the head by a musket ball directly  between the eyes,She died within minutes if not seconds, and this event would go down in history as " Musket Sunday"

This shooting shocked the continent, Esspeically Gonivia, a Secondary Power within the realms of The Holy Griffin Empire, a coalition of griffin nations puppeted or allied with the Holiest state, Hooviana, where the capital of the Catholic faith  laid. This event more interested than Appalled one nation in particular, Griffonia. a nation with the second largest army in Europe right behind the Ruthians to the east. They saw this as a chance to expand the griffin eagle to other courts of Europe by force.

The Govian Goverment demanded an appology for this atrocity But being the Egotistical Imbecile he was, Anner refused and the Griffins negotiated an alliance with the Batponian Empire, a Also powerful nation, but unified and more organized, it was also just as religious as most of the Holy Griffin Empire, excluding Griffonia of course. Just as any Sane griffin would do, The King took this as Declaration of war and went to The highest authority in the Coalition, The Emperor of Hoovania for Permission to Write a declaration of War to the Holestrian Embassy. Although the Emperor denied his requests, a Holestrian spy Loyal to Anner quickly returned to Bovaire and  informed his King of this.

Legend has it that Anner threw a glass of Red wine from his desk and at a Cross, remarking " Ill destroy you and your God!", giving the appearance of blood on the holy cross.  " I'll shatter them all like that Glass!" He exclaims as he gets dressed in a military uniform and prepares to do the unthinkable, for the first time in over two centuries, he is forcing Holesrtia into a war with a Very holy state.

He attacked the Griffin-Holestrian border, a place that hadnt been altered in half a millennium and captured four griffin villages in one day. This was a most arrogant approach obviously since he forgot that the members of the Holy Griffin Empire may have had personal Allies counting for certain nations, which they did. Due to the fact that The City State of Ultz ( the cloest nation to Holesrtia that is a member of The HGR) was attacked without warning, its allies came to its aid, not just the rest of the griffin states. A number of Countries declared war on Holestria the Next day, the most notable being Batonia, a nation some say was even more religious than Hoovania in some instances. The war raged on for half a decade, it's high point was when Holestrian Stallions at Arms reached the Gates Of Prome, Both North Eastern and North Western Batonia and Even the whole Benelux region in 1779, from here, the war would begin to take a dark road towards defeat for the Holestarian Eagle. While commanding the attack himself, Anner failed to capture Batonia's Capital of La Berna, was surrounded and as opposed of going down like a real king would by fighting with his troops to the bitter end, he put a loaded musket unto his mouth and pulled the trigger with his magic.

His whole army was either killed or taken as prisoner a mere three days later, this Diasterious attack on The capital Of the Batponies' Capital cost Holestaria's its most populated army of 300'000 and even of the nation's own leader ship... the Realm was instantly thrown into chaos, Since he had no heir, let  alone a wife since no pony wanted his hoof to be truthful. Civil revolts broke out In Bovaire, demanding a revoking of the Church goer Payments that had robbed them of so many Dons over the course of his reign by both nobels and peasents, they were,  just as in the massacre less than a half decade earlier shot, but this time they fought against the troops and attempted a coup, it worked. The nobels were able to force a distant cousin of Anner, who of which didn't wish to rule on the throne by the name of Papacy De Antoinette, a stallion devout to The cross and one that the nobles believed would help stop internal dissent creating a possible civil war During an actual war, a death wish for any nation. both economic, social and political damnation. It also usually means that it will lose the conflict. the New leader was not even of our blood though, but despite this actually did a decent job at holding back all three collapsing fronts( the Italian, Batonian and Griffin fronts to be specific.), but he could not  stop the inevitable and the troops of griffonia were soon at the gates of formally the most glamerous City in Europe before Anner, Bovaire. Other troops of griffin nations tried to attack the city head on and use minimal artillery fire, knowing that many ponies lived there, griffonia how ever Literally surrounded the metropolis, fired at with with over 3000 artillery cannons, and was aiming specifically as General Franz Uber put it " To Bleed Bovaire white and force a surrender if they continue to resist, no matter how harsh it may seem, this is a time of Hostilities, it is needed." It was like this for a full week of hell for bovaire, over 70 percent of its infrastructure being bombed out, with damage that even the most opportunistic pony would say was horrific, including the left wing of imperium, the nation's Grand Palace and even now... still elegant and illustrious in its own way. Papacy had no choice, being trapped within the Withering city himself to surrender, a armistice was officially declared on August 1st, 1787.  The Peace terms were individually drafted by each side, the Batponies demanded that Holesrtia limit it's army's size to no more than one hundred thousand troops and that it should pay for any damage, which was something that was harsh, but relatively needed at the time to control a rouge power.  But the Griffonian terms were just unbearable.. Complete vassalization, an all griffin royal family to replace the old Dabosu' Dynasty, and even a number of harsh new taxes would be implemented a mere few months later on both the nobels and peasantry.

The Stallion, Papacy was my Grand father.... And my mother his offspring.... Who of which was a mere eighteen years of age at the time being. She would later marry my father and give birth to me..... That technically states that I am of royal blood and so is my mother in particular, but that does not mean anything in the new government...  They allowed us to be Nobels and the highest ranking just for the sheer torture for the fact that despite our rank, we shall never put the crown on our heads again. I was born on December 25th, 1786, I was from the time I first wrote my name on a schooling paper said and seen to be intelligent, yet I attended mass every Sunday, While Mathematics, science and chemistry bored me, history, The arts and government most certainly caught my eyes and intrigued me.