Operation Enduring Fellowship

Operation Enduring Fellowship
Part of Great Consolidation of Craitland
Date XI.1699 AN - XV.1701 AN Location Oudorp, Zandarijn Result Initial Ludwiggian victory Ludwiggian-Monovian War
Belligerents
Sankt Ludwigshafen	Monovian militants
Casualties and losses
55 fatalities, 4 injuries	87 fatalities, several hundred injuries

Operation Enduring Fellowship is the name given to a military incursion into Zandarijn, which was at the time a failing dominion of Craitland. Goal of the operation was to protect significant Ludwiggian interests in the seaport of Oudorp, as well as protect the inhabitants of that town.

Background

Since the day of its foundation, the Republic of Sankt Ludwigshafen has depended on the seaport in Oudorp to trade with overseas nation. The harbour in Stadt Sankt Ludwigshafen was not deep enough to allow modern container freighters to moor at its docks. Over almost twenty years, Ludwiggian traders settled in Oudorp, followed by a consul and the Ludwiggian Reformed Church. Following the Sack of Hamstadt by Monovian militias in late 1699 Craitish authority structures in Zandarijn broke down. The risk that the instability in Zandarijn would cut off Sankt Ludwigshafen from the outside world was deemed unacceptable, as was the threat of Monovian militants to the cherished Oudorp population.

Timeline

1699

• XI.1699: Ludwiggian consul Sebastian Frech warns Stadtholder Adam Rettich that Zandarijn will soon fail, and that as a result the Republic of Sankt Ludwigshafen can lose access to the vitally important seaport. The Stadtparlement is called together and it resolves to inform the Craitish government in Cherry Trees that Sankt Ludwigshafen will assume government in Oudorp until Craitland restores law and order in Zandarijn. At the same time the Dragonerkorps Ludwigshafen is deployed to the town, the Ludwiggian incursion is not resisted by the local population or authorities.
• XII.1699: Craitland recognises Ludwiggian rule over Oudorp.
• XV.1699: The Kingdom of Craitland and the Republic of Sankt Ludwigshagen agree to make Ludwiggian rule over Oudorp permanently and record this change with the Micras Cartography Society.

1700

• II.1700: The Republic of Sankt Ludwigshafen reforms its territory to formally incorporate Oudorp as a regular city within the republic, this change is recorded with the Micras Cartography Society.
• IV.1700: Monovian militants raid a position of the Dragonerkorps 5 kilometers south of Oudorp with machine gun fire and rocket propelled grenades, injuring 3 soldiers, killing 1.
• V.1700: The Dragonerkorps locates a position of the Monovian militants 4 kilometers west of Oudorp, aware of their detection the militants move to another location.
• VII.1700: The Dragonerkorps locates another camp of the Monovian militants 12 kilometers south-west of Oudorp, in a surprise attack the Dragonerkorps kills 43 militants, 2 dragoons suffer serious injuries.

1701

• III.1701: After a long period without incidents, the Stadtparlement decides to reduce the strength of the Dragonerkorps in Oudorp and relocates 500 soldiers to operations in the Lanzerwald.
• IV.1701: Out of the blue, several hundred Monovian militants launch an attack on Oudorp and find the Ludwiggian troops to be unprepared. Initially the Monovians are able to occupy southern boroughs of the city, until reinforcements from the Bezirkbürgwehr arrive and retake the city. The Ludwiggians mourn 54 soldiers, the Monovians lose 44 before they retreat into the Lanzerwald.
• VI.1701: A Monovian leader, styling himself Elonzo XII of Monovia, is encountered by dragoons patrolling the Lanzerwald and taken into custody. In return for his freedom he reveals the locations of several Monovian positions in the Lanzerwald and the adjacent Green to the south and south-west of Oudorp. They abide to his command to take down their weapons, and are escorted out of Ludwiggian territory.
• XV.1701: The Stadtparlement announces Operation Enduring Fellowship to be completed.