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2025 Vatican City Coup d'état
	Part of the Battle of Rome and the Tenth Crusade
	; Riot police in the streets of Rome
Date	15 May 2025
Location	Vatican City and Rome, Italy
Result	Tagle victory ; Crowning of Luis Antonio Tagle as Pope Chito I; Establishment of the Holy Kingdom of God; Start of the Tenth Crusade;
Belligerents
Vatican City; Italy	Tagle's supporters; Philippines
Commanders and leaders
Pope Leo XIV †; Giorgia Meloni (POW)	Luis Antonio Tagle
Units involved
Swiss Guard; Polizia di Stato; Carabinieri	Armed Forces of the Philippines; Mob of Tagle's supporters
Strength
135 Swiss guards; 1500 police officers	2500 soldiers; 5000 rioters
Casualties and losses
160 killed; 1475 captured	20 killed

Battle of Washington
	Part of American theater of the Second World War
	; American soldiers defending a home in Southeast, Washington D.C.
Date	19 April 1947 - 6 September 1947
Location	District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, United States
Result	Allied Victory; Axis abandon plans to capture North America; Atlantic stalemate;
Belligerents
Allies: United States Philippines; ; Cuba; Brazil; Mexico; United Kingdom Canada; Australia; New Zealand; ; Free France; Poland; Belgium; Netherlands; Norway;	Axis: Germany Vichy France; ; Italy; Romania; Hungary;
Commanders and leaders
Harry S. Truman; Dwight Eisenhower; Winston Churchill;	Adolf Hitler;
Units involved
Order of Battle	Order of Battle
Strength
1,410,000 troops (total)	821,000 troops (total)
Casualties and losses
750,000 killed; 400,000 wounded	515,000 killed; 306,000 captured

The Battle of Washington (19 April 1947 - 6 September 1947) was a major battle during the American theater of the Second World War mainly between the United States and Nazi Germany. A part of Operation Eisensturm, the battle began following German landings in Southern Maryland and the Northern Neck of Virginia after the Battle of Hampton Roads where German forces secured the entrance of the Chesapeake Bay.

The German objective in the battle was to secure the American capital city of Washington, D.C. and it's surrounding areas. German strategists hoped capturing Washington would make allied forces in North America more amicable to surrender. The campaign was marked with brutal and irregular fighting. Local American militias and resistance groups sabotaged German occupied infrastructure and supply lines as well as held small territories such as buildings and neighborhoods to the last man. In retaliation, Axis forces committed numerous atrocities against the local population. Strong resistance against the Germans extended to professional Allied forces, consisting of the United States Armed Forces, units from Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, Australia and New Zealand, as well as exiled units of the United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Poland and the Philippines. Suffering heavy casualties, allied forces fought hard and held ground for as long as possible. Axis forces were comprised of well-trained, battle hardened soldiers from Germany, Italy, Romania and Hungary, along with Axis vassal states such as Vichy France.

On 5 June 1947, after months of intense fighting throughout the southern parts of the Washington metropolitan area, German forces advanced into Washington, D.C. proper, reaching the banks of the Anacostia River. German forces advanced towards the National Mall following high-casualty crossings of the Anacostia River. With brutal, intense combat that left much of the structures destroyed, American forces successfully repelled Axis forces from the White House and Capitol Building though at heavy casualties. The failure to take the National Mall, along with intense combat at Arlington National Cemetery and the Pentagon, resulted in German momentum halting. The following week, German forces retreated back across the Anacostia and Potomac rivers.

On the Fourth of July, 1947, allied forces had successfully repelled German forces from Washington, D.C. proper, and began major counterattacks into Prince George's County, Maryland and Arlington County, Virginia. Following major victories at Fort Washington, Maryland on July 20th and Manassas, Virginia on July 23rd, allied forces had axis forces on full retreat. Throughout August, German forces were slowly pushed back towards their landing sites at Point Lookout, Maryland and Colonial Beach, Virginia. Following an allied victory at the Battle of the Potomac, German forces were trapped in Virginia and Maryland. On 6 August, 1947, Axis forces in the Washington area surrendered to allied forces.

A major military defeat for the Axis, the battle of Washington turned the tide of the war. With boosted morale from Washington, Allied forces successfully drove out German beachheads at Hampton Roads, Virginia and Boston, Massachusetts, resulting in all Axis forces being driven out from mainland North America. With the allies and axis now separated by the Atlantic Ocean, a stalemate ensued allowing Allied forces were able to rebuild their naval strength to capabilities prior to their defeat at the Battle of the Azores. The strengthened naval capabilities of the Allies resulted in the Second battle of the Atlantic and eventually the return of Allied forces to Europe.

Background

The Axis victory in the Battle of the Azores in 1944 essentially wiped out the Royal Navy and the U.S. Navy in the Atlantic Ocean, granting the Axis powers naval superiority. With their newly gained naval superiority, Axis forces launched successful invasion of Britain during Operation Sealion, forcing the British government to go into exile in the United States. From 1945-46, Axis forces secured multiple Atlantic islands, starting with Britain, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, the Azores, Iceland, Greenland and finally Bermuda. U.S. Naval forces in the Pacific were unable to reinforce allied forces in the Atlantic, as the Imperial Japanese Navy began failed attacks on Australia and New Zealand and successful landing operations in Fiji, Hawaii and the Aleutian Islands.

With America threatened from both the Pacific and Atlantic, the Germans and Japanese began coordinating a joint attack on the United States. The two powers coordinated Operation Eisensturm, the invasion of North America. Japanese forces would attack Alaska, the cities of Monterey, California, Oxnard, California and Brookings, Oregon in the U.S., Vancouver Island, British Columbia in Canada, as well as the Panama Canal and Manzanillo, Mexico. Axis forces would launch attacks on the Bahamas, the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, Boston, Massachusetts and Halifax, Nova Scotia. The attacks commenced in December 1946 and were largely successful.

With German forces succeeding in capturing the Hampton Roads, the Germans now controlled the entrance of the Chesapeake Bay which led to the city of Baltimore and the U.S. capital of Washington. Plans to capture Washington were created prior to the Hampton Roads landing, and preparations to conduct them occurred as Hampton Roads were captured.