OOC: Well, here's a brief overview of the history of my nation up until the point of this proposed war.
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The Uiric Archipelago was uninhabited until the Portuguese found it in 1472. As a way point in between Portugal and future colonies, it was populated well and treated better than Portugal's other colonies. It was happy this way until the Estado Novo, a dictatorship regime in Portugal which ruled from 1926 up until 1974. In the late '50s the literate population of Uiri was well aware that colonial empires were letting go of their colonial possessions while Portuguese dictator Salazar was still holding on. At first the Frente Nacional de Libertação de Uiri (FNLU) tried peaceful protests against Salazar's colonial regime. When the Police came and massacred the protest, the FNLU knew that this was not going to won bloodlessly.
The War lasted 12 long years, but with the death of Salazar in 1970 and the Carnation Revolution in Portugal in 1974, many international commentators said the Portuguese Third Republic handed over independence because of the principles of democracy instead of superior guerrilla warfare tactics although both contributed to the winning of independence on July 8th 1975. Anyone interested?
