Flag Challenge 219: Wannabe Claimant to the Crown of the Couldhavebeen
An ATL Empire than nearly was OTL has fallen. Generations later one of the fragments makes a bid at a "restoration".
Create the imperial flag, or banner of arms, of the claimant and advise what has changed in the interim.
The Entries
ONE:
1888. The assassination of Emperor Maximilian I at the hands of a socialist radical named Eugenio Debs only hastened the inevitable. Sixteen hours after the fatal shot blew the Habsburg monarch's head off, Empress consort Carlota of Belgium rallied her forces, led by General Miguel Miramón, and stormed the capital. The townsfolk of Mexico City gathered around her golden carriage, welcoming her with flower petals and colored handkerchiefs. As the empress announced from the high balconies of Chapultepec Castle her ascension to the throne of Mexico, artillery fire ravaged the city outskirts. Crown Prince Agustín, Maximilian I's foster son and claimant to the Crown, had arrived.
The civil war between the pro-Carlota Habsburg faction and the pro-Agustín Iturbidist faction ravaged imperial Mexico. In '89, the exiled Republic launched a campaign against monarchic rule, led by star general Porfirio Díaz. The prolonged campaign would engulf the north of Mexico, and inch its way south through silver-rich Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, northeastern Jalisco, and Guanajuato. The Iturbidist faction, which commanded most popular support, retreated to the countryside of south-central Mexico, where Agustín was the strongest. Conservative and Catholic Carlota and the Habsburgs, meanwhile, withdrew to the wealthy Bajío region of the center-west, which was historically more receptive towards the Habsburgs' liberal policies. Upon reaching Mexico City in the autumn of 1891, after bitter casualties and long months of war, Porfirio Díaz proclaimed the Mexican Republic, although his influence was constricted to the areas under Republican control. Fractured and divided, the Second Mexican Empire was no more.
1924. An ailing Carlota has summoned her Imperial Council. Childless, the future of the Imperial State of Mexico hangs in the balance. Her ministers and counselors assemble by her bedside. The old Empress has made her decision: "the young princess from Germany, that Hohenzollern girl... She shall succeed me." The sole survivor from the Berlin Massacre of 1914, she escaped the bitter fate of her brothers and fled to Belgium. Upon the outbreak of war mere months later, Carlota's connections secured her safe passage to her dominions. Her name is Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, former Duchess consort of Brunswick.
Upon Carlota's passing in 1927, Victoria Louise became Empress Victoria I of Mexico. She was unbending in her mission to reunite Mexico under the glorious banner of the Habsburgs, and crush the God-forsaken Iturbidist filth that tainted the Madre Patria. On the cool night of 20 July 1928, 40,000 soldiers rushed the countryside of western Guerrero. From her palace in Guadalajara, Victoria I proclaimed the Third Mexican Empire.
Personal standard of Victoria I as Empress of the Third Mexican Empire.
TWO:
Kingdom of Sichuan, claiming to be a successor to Shu-Han of the Three Kingdom period.
An ATL Empire than nearly was OTL has fallen. Generations later one of the fragments makes a bid at a "restoration".
Create the imperial flag, or banner of arms, of the claimant and advise what has changed in the interim.
The Entries
ONE:
1888. The assassination of Emperor Maximilian I at the hands of a socialist radical named Eugenio Debs only hastened the inevitable. Sixteen hours after the fatal shot blew the Habsburg monarch's head off, Empress consort Carlota of Belgium rallied her forces, led by General Miguel Miramón, and stormed the capital. The townsfolk of Mexico City gathered around her golden carriage, welcoming her with flower petals and colored handkerchiefs. As the empress announced from the high balconies of Chapultepec Castle her ascension to the throne of Mexico, artillery fire ravaged the city outskirts. Crown Prince Agustín, Maximilian I's foster son and claimant to the Crown, had arrived.
The civil war between the pro-Carlota Habsburg faction and the pro-Agustín Iturbidist faction ravaged imperial Mexico. In '89, the exiled Republic launched a campaign against monarchic rule, led by star general Porfirio Díaz. The prolonged campaign would engulf the north of Mexico, and inch its way south through silver-rich Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, northeastern Jalisco, and Guanajuato. The Iturbidist faction, which commanded most popular support, retreated to the countryside of south-central Mexico, where Agustín was the strongest. Conservative and Catholic Carlota and the Habsburgs, meanwhile, withdrew to the wealthy Bajío region of the center-west, which was historically more receptive towards the Habsburgs' liberal policies. Upon reaching Mexico City in the autumn of 1891, after bitter casualties and long months of war, Porfirio Díaz proclaimed the Mexican Republic, although his influence was constricted to the areas under Republican control. Fractured and divided, the Second Mexican Empire was no more.
1924. An ailing Carlota has summoned her Imperial Council. Childless, the future of the Imperial State of Mexico hangs in the balance. Her ministers and counselors assemble by her bedside. The old Empress has made her decision: "the young princess from Germany, that Hohenzollern girl... She shall succeed me." The sole survivor from the Berlin Massacre of 1914, she escaped the bitter fate of her brothers and fled to Belgium. Upon the outbreak of war mere months later, Carlota's connections secured her safe passage to her dominions. Her name is Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, former Duchess consort of Brunswick.
Upon Carlota's passing in 1927, Victoria Louise became Empress Victoria I of Mexico. She was unbending in her mission to reunite Mexico under the glorious banner of the Habsburgs, and crush the God-forsaken Iturbidist filth that tainted the Madre Patria. On the cool night of 20 July 1928, 40,000 soldiers rushed the countryside of western Guerrero. From her palace in Guadalajara, Victoria I proclaimed the Third Mexican Empire.
Personal standard of Victoria I as Empress of the Third Mexican Empire.
TWO:
Kingdom of Sichuan, claiming to be a successor to Shu-Han of the Three Kingdom period.
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