Siege of La'Victoria
| Siege of La'Victoria | |||||||||
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| Part of the Creeperian Civil War | |||||||||
 Imperial Council soldiers in suburbs of La'Victoria in 1941 | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Imperial Council |
 National Council | ||||||||
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| Units involved | |||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| Initial: 450,000 | Initial: 500,000 | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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235,000–356,000 dead 260,000+ wounded 55,000 missing |
217,000–340,000 dead 280,000+ wounded 62,000 missing | ||||||||
| 542,000+ civilians dead | |||||||||
The Siege of La'Victoria (Creeperian: Sito de La'Victoria) was a military engagement of the Creeperian Civil War fought between the Catholic Imperial Restoration Council (Imperial Council) and the National Council for Peace and Order (National Council). The siege lasted over 15 years, making it the the lengthiest military engagement of the entire civil war.
La'Victoria was and still is considered to be a "crown jewel" of Creeperopolis due to the city's history of being established upon the ruins of Almadinat Almuqadasa, the capital city of the Caliphate of Deltino, in 1326. Due to this symbolic religious importance, the Imperial Council sought to keep the city at all costs while the National Council sought to capture it at all costs. For most of the civil war, La'Victoria was the only major city held by the Imperial Council in the viceroyalty of San Luís, which had mostly been captured by the National Council.
The siege was one of the deadliest of the civil war, with between 994,000 to 1.238 million deaths occurring throughout. Around half of the deaths were civilians, and around two-thirds of the city's pre-war population were killed and a further one-fifth was evacuated.
