Battle at Ash Bay

The Battle at Ash Bay (also known as the Battle at South Bay) was a major battle in during the First Galesian War (E.2 90-96) between the Camleric Kingdoms and the Kingdom of Gales.

Background

The Kingdom of Gales invaded the Camleric port city of Halstyra and established the Colony of Galpora in E.2 75. Due to the Camleric Kingdoms' peaceful nature, the various kings were unable to vote to take back Halstyra from the Galic forces. It wasn't until E.2 88 that a new High King, King Yupas Kardinal, was able to convince the other monarchs of Camleron to invade Galpora. After two years of debate, war was finally declared in E.2 90.

What the Camleric kings didn't realize was that Galpora was only one of the Galesians' targets. The Galic King at the time, King Samok Gamla, had ordered his navy to seige the cities in the Camleric Colony of South Bay. The most successful city in South Bay was a major city known as Ash Bay. Ash Bay was minimally protected, with the Camleric navy focusing on attacking Galpora in the coming weeks.

The Battle

On the 3rd of Caeus, the Galesian navy began to its siege on Ash Bay. At first, it appeared as though the Galesians would win without a fight from the Camlerics. The Galesian navy destroyed the cargo ships docked in Ash Bay which they had hoped would wreck the Camleric economy and force an early withdrawal from war. Several Galesian ships began to land around Ash Bay and some 1100 troops began to march towards the city. The Galesians were ruthless, burning towns and crops along their path towards Ash Bay.

Word reached a Camleric city in the north of South Bay called Auvar. Auvar was a naval hub for Camleron and still had several ships even while the Camlerics prepared a siege on Galpora. These ships left Auvar at once and headed towards Ash Bay, arriving some five hours after the attack began.

The city was nearly in ruins and the Galesians began to raise the Purple Banner on the burning government buildings and temples of Ash Bay. By the time the Auvar navy arrived, the Galesians had begun rounding up Ash Bay citizens to be sold into slavery. The first Auvar ships to arrive began to fire cannon balls at the Galesian ships and ultimately sank two of the ten. When the next three Auvar ships landed in Ash Bay, two Galesian ships began to flee. The Auvar crews then boarded the remaining Galesian ships and defeated the remaining troops. Finally, the Auvar ships docked at Ash Bay and the crew put out the fires, defeated the Galesians still in the city, and freed the many Ash Bay citizens tied up.