Attack on the Ruadhain Forest

The Attack on the Ruadhain Forest, also called the Forest War or Gabrain War, was an event during the Wars of Lacrivian Aggression. Cont Bellevue, seeing the weakness of the Faramondian crown after the Scanbroughan Secession, decided to capitalise and annex lands his family had claimed for decades.
The action involved the forces of Cont Bellevue and several of his chevaliens, numbering around five hundred. The only early opposition was Duke Tuathalain, the ruler of Ruorgagh, who cobbled together a force a fifth the Lacrivians' size to face them.
Tuathalain holed himself up in his hall and endured a two-month siege, at the end of which he and his men were forced to surrender. Bellevue spared the defenders and sent Tuathalain himself on a boat down the Ruorgagh River, telling him to sail east along the coast back to Faramond.
Faramondian forces mobilised under several Counts and Dukes in late August 638, but their efforts were for nothing. Bellevue had been reinforced, and his claims legitimised, by the Lacrivian King Richaud IV.
Once Duke Tuathalain arrived in Faramond he was shunned for surrendering to Lacrivians; he lived out the rest of his life as a landless noble in the court of King Aylard, then later King Arnulf III. He died in 654 at the age of thirty-seven, leaving behind three sons with claims on what is now the town of Rogneus.
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