The Challenge: Make the flag and state a brief history of a 19th Century (or technological equivalent) Revolutionary State
The Entries:
The Entries:
Entry 1 said:The United Commonwealth is the auto-official name for the Treble Protectorate period of the Union.
It followed the Mayday Coup in 1840 by General Rosby and his cabal of the General Staff where the elderly King William [II of Denmark, V of England, II Lord Protector of the Netherlands] and his immediate family were taken hostage.
The coup was designed to force the fairly autocratic King to cede much needed reforms to civil government, the Parliaments of the time being fairly unrepresentative of the contemporary makeup of the Union, but increasingly became an authoritarian military dictatorship under "Protector-General" Rosby.
With the death of King William, Rosby lost much of his support and facing impending revolution in the Netherlands a countercoup took place 5th July 1846 and Rosby was executed.
The new young King took the regnal name Julian, proclaimed a general amnesty, and enacted many of the early reforms that had not been delivered; these later developed into the more federal Union of recent times.
The flags used during this period are essentially the Union flags superimposed with the Wreath and Sun-in-Splendour design of the General Staff.
Entry 2 said:WALDECK
During the upheavals of 1848, a revolution took place in the German state of [FONT="]Fürstentum Waldeck, part of the German Confederation. The revolution was led by the charismatic soldier[FONT="]/[/FONT]politician Otto von Großeradler. The current Prince, George Victor, was deposed, a republic (Republik Waldeck) declared and Großeradler assumed the role of President.[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is down to the skills of Großeradler that the other German states did not crush the new state – after protracted negotiations, Waldeck was accepted into the Confederation in 1852; the title “Fürstentum Waldeck” was restored but without a Prince; in a compromise Großeradler retained the title of President.[/FONT]
[FONT="]With the creation of the German Empire (1871) the Principality was assumed into Prussia; Großeradler chose not to remain in Germany but spent his retirement years in the English seaside resort of Littlehampton.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The flag of the revolutionary state bears an Eagle, said by some to be in honour of Großeradler, surrounded by a wreath and above a sword (“the sword of the revolution”)[/FONT]
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