History of the Oan Isles: Difference between revisions
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The Oans were defeated, forcing them to cede the islands of the North Antilles, Pasuica, Hayo Island, Yasa and Bach Island and Mazi, Nga Motuere Raki, East Point Island, Noamotu, Maungamotu, Manaakitangamotu, and Nga Motuere Whenua. With the help of sympathetic Morsts namely the Earl of Peal, Tamatea II proved that Lord Lusegart had broken the law and by extension the Morstaybishlian Crown was implicated in breaking the treaty. He was arrested and tried. As part of the Treaty of Nangahena, the Morsts returned Nga Motuere Raki, Noamotu, Nga Motuere Whenua, Maungamotu, and Manaakitangamotu to the Oan Isles. On one hand Queen [[Rosamund II]] was embarrassed by the oversight that started the war. On the other, she would be embarrassed to concede territory in war that lasted 14 years. Thus she negotiated with Tamatea II that the Morstaybishlian Crown pay the Oan government 12 million kiribs for the North Antilles, Hayo, Yasa, Bach, East Point and Mazi Islands and abolish the slave trade of Oans throughout the Morstaybishlian Empire. Many in the aristocracy including his son, Prince Rangitake felt that Tamatea II had been too weak in both the war and the negotiations.
The city of Tauranga a te Toka was a major stronghold of Oan forces during the Second Morsto-Oan War. Following the war, many displaced people from other islands built shanty towns and faced Malthusian pressures. This was part of the reason Rangitanga-a-te-Moana Rangitake the Great became disillusioned with his father Emperor Tamatea and subsequently overthrew him.
The Tekeha Banking Consortium (TBC) became among the 3 main banking groups in the Oan Isles by the Second Morsto-Oan War in 1855. It established offices in Monte Cadre in what today comprises the Morstaybishlian West Pacific Territories. When the Morsto-Oan War broke out, the banking operations in Morstaybishlian territory were reorganised as a nominally independent company, the Standard Pacific Banking Corporation (SPB), receiving Royal Charter in 1856. The TBC grew enormously wealthy from lending funds to both the Oan sides and the Morstaybishlians and was found to have an indirect working relationship with the Wakatunuye Tribe and Admiral Lusergart who had effectively started the war. When the war ended in 1860, the Oan government was rebuilding the country and relied on financing from the TBC, incurring massive kirib-denominated loans (which TBC received via TMG from SPB). When Emperor Rangitake the Great overthrew his father Emperor Tamatea and undertook reforms, he established a commission led by Great Chief Ahere Hupirimu (who was a commercial and political rival to the Tekeha Clan and ally of the new Emperor).
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