Yucatan (Alternity)

Yucatán, officially the Republic of Yucatán, is a nation located in southern North America that shares borders with Mexico to the west, Central America and British Honduras to the south, and a maritime border with the US state of Cuba to the east, across the Yucatan Channel.

The nation initially declared independence as early as 1823 (the First Republic of Yucatán), but within seven months, integrated itself into the original United Mexican States as the Federated Republic of Yucatán. But with Santa Anna's continuing centralization of the Mexican government following a coup d'état, independence was officially declared on October 1, 1841. Following a failed series of treaties signed in November, Santa Anna attempted to subdue the Yucatecan federalists with military force the following August, but failed to gain a foothold on the peninsula. Less than six months later, Santa Anna again sent troops across the Bay of Campeche, to finally gain a foothold in the republic's Campeche District. A force of four thousand troops, led by Santa Anna himself, split into separate forces to lay siege to the cities of Campeche and the capital Mérida. Santa Anna himself led the attack on the capital, but came face to face with a force of nearly eleven thousand indigenous Mayans; at the Battle of Pacabtún outside Mérida, the Mexican force of two thousand was utterly annihilated and Santa Anna himself was captured and forced to recognize the independence of Yucatán (much as with Texas in 1836).

Territory
Main Article: Districts of Yucatán