Loyal March (Batavian Empire)

The Loyal March was the event, which would ultimately lead to the formation of the Batavian Empire under monarchist rule. The Loyal March was in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Prelude
After the 2nd Chamber Elections in the Netherlands in 2025 the popular monarchist politician, Saviël, became the largest party with 62 seats, which is the most seats a party ever received. Although he had become the largest party, Saviël refused to become Prime-Minister. Instead, he became Defence Secretary and Deputy Prime-Minister. He reformed the military forces into a strong defence, the largest of Northern Europe. He had already served as Foreign Secretary in the cabinet before. He became the most popular Commander in Chief the Dutch forces ever had, though it wasn't without difficulties. The Dutch people had lost faith in the democracy, due to economic crisis and bad decisions. Saviël knew this with his Loyalist Party and wanted a true loyal and monarchist state. Many people saw something in this, and as soon as reforms were stopped in parliament, Saviël resigned as Defence Secretary, leading towards a great anger of the people with the government, which hadn't given Saviël his reforms. Just before the recess Saviël and the whole Loyalist Party resigned, leading a gap in the parliament, which had already been demissionaried after Saviël's resignation as minister. In January Saviël gathered with the complete Loyalist Party and many paramilitary organisations in the little town Doorn in Utrecht at the palace where the former German Emperor had lived in exile. The government send them a warning, and ordered the immediate dissolution of the party. Saviël refused and the mayor of the municipality of Utrechtse Heuvelrug joined them. Many other Utrechtian municipalities pledged allegiance to the Loyalist Party, the called themselves 'the Monarchists' and as a paramilitary organisation they started a huge march towards Amsterdam.

Civil war
As soon as the Loyal March had started, the government sent word to the police and Mobile Units to stop them with force, although there were many deserters, a group kept loyal to the Dutch government and tried to stop the Monarchists. They failed and were completely wiped out. When the Comissonary of the King of Utrecht declared his province property of Saviël and the Monarchists saw the government the urgence of the matter and asked the forces to stop them. Because Saviël's popularity in the army, a huge part choose to help him instead. In a few days they reached Amsterdam, were they marched into the streets with his Monarchists towards the Royal Palace, which became the headquarters. The Commisonary of North-Holand and the Commisonary of Flevoland both choose to step down in favour of Saviël, thus leaving those provinces in Monarchist hands. The Loyal March had been a huge success.

Aftermath
The Monarchists started with an offensive towards Overijssel and Gelderland. At the Grebbenberg the Dutch tried to defeat the monarchist armies, but were completely wiped out by the Monarchists. Comissonaries of Gederland and Overijssel saw the situation would only get worse and decided to surrender, without approval of the government. The police was gratefull for this and said the honoured the wishes of the Comissonaries. The king, William-Alexander, said he was willing to sign terms of surrender to Saviël, but was immediately forced to abdicate by the government. The people of the Netherlands became furious after this and half of the army deserted. The republic was basically the government without the parliament, with the Prime-Minister as Acting President. Drenthe's commissonary decided to resign in favour of Saviël after this move which they saw as unconstitutional. Saviël was in name Comissonary of six provinces now. In Groningen the provincial government did support the republic, but with a few days of militarily fighting the commissonary decided it wasn't worth it, giving Saviël the title of Comissionary of Groningen. The Wadden were conquered to make sure there couldn't be an offensive from water against Frisia, which refused to surrender. Frisian airports were completely bommed and the province was isolated from the rest of the republic. In the meantime Luxembourg joined the monarchist side, while forcing the Grand Duke to abdicate. After Belgium was conquered in a few days and the last comissonaries in the Netherlands, including the national government finaly surrendered Saviël gave a speech to announce the re-unification of the Benelux into the Batavian Empire and signed the Treaty of Doorn.