Hsinchu Campaign
The Japanese had hoped that their occupation of Taipei on 8 June 1895 would end the fighting in Taiwan. It did not. The Republic of Formosa tottered on for another five months of existence, as its presidency was assumed by Liu Yung-fu on 26 June in Tainan. Liu's assumption of the presidency stiffened the will of ordinary Formosans to resist the invaders. The result was a perceptible growth in guerrilla activity against the Japanese, and as the month of June wore on it became clear that all the island's main towns would have to be occupied forcibly before opposition to the Japanese invasion collapsed. From now on, the capture of Tainan became a political as well as a strategic imperative for the Japanese. During the next four months the Japanese would direct their efforts towards occupying Tainan and snuffing out the nascent Formosan Republic.
Institutions in the Southern Victory Series
In 1914, following the assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the Confederacy declared war on Germany and Austria-Hungary, and the United States then declared war on the Confederacy. The Great War lasted for three years on the American continent, during which there were an estimated 1,500,000 men were killed on the US side alone. All the nations, save Mexico, suffered gruesome casualties. When it was over, the U.S. occupies all of Canada save Québec (which became a pro-U.S. puppet republic), and had seized portions of Confederate land which include Kentucky, Sequoyah, and the newly-created Houston (named in honor of former governor of Tennessee and Texas and President of the Republic of Texas Sam Houston who was a Unionist opposed to Texas' secession) and annexed them.