Standard history and situation exposition chapter with a hook at the end.
So of course the mouth breathers are now going to scream and whine about wasting SS in 3, 2, 1....
I spent 10 ss just to skip 2/3 of the chapter (history lesson)... I hate chapters like these. If these events are really like this in history, the reader can just go research it, there's no reason for the author to describe everything, seems like needless exposition to get more words out and make the novel bigger.
Pedro25