The Grand War

## Overview

The Grand War at the time this was written (1585) was the largest war in the Central Hemisphere too date with almost 1.5 million soldier deaths. This was a defining

    war that arguably has set Grand Island into dicourse. It involved every country in the Central Hemisphere with few exceptions and caused death and destruction that every country (Except Swithern) had ever witnessed before, with major shifts in land and power

## How it Started

Grand Island was fresh off of the loss in a war that they felt they should have won, where they lost many POW to Acadia as neither side was able to come to a deal after the war. Grand Island had its eyes on revenge against Acadia. They assassinated the King of Acadia Robbert Norris while he was at a victory parade. Both sides started re-arming, Acadia with funds from the Swithern Canal got 300,000 new troops and Grand Island paid both Bluetooth Tribe and the Hiawatha Tribe to join their side in the impending war. Jamestown bitter after feeling like they got screwed over by Acadia in the Battle of Cato, being left with 1 cannon and 150 after losing 360,000 troops and Acadia lost less and got the whole Continent of Cato. Grand Island got together an invasion force of 1,000,000 including allies, and they decided their point of attack would be the secure Acadian bunker.

## The Fort Norris Siege

Grand Island started the siege by sending volleys of cannonballs and siege shells at the side of the Fort. This put all the Acadian troops scrambling around as they were expecting a landing but didn't know where to expect the troops now that the fort could be attacked from all 4 sides.

Grand Island landed \_\_\_\_\_\_ troops, and Hiawatha 200,000 troops. They landed on the outside of the Fort and slowly pushed their way in through the front grates losing a large number of troops doing so.

Grand Island sent a second attack force at the docks but it was unsuccessful as they lost 150,000 to the Acadian 20,000. Grand Island repeatedly shelled and sent troops towards Fort Norris, it wasn't enough though because Acadia was able to manage to get a force together to defend the fort fully, not without the loss of a canon though

Grand Island repeatedly shelled Acadia from their ship, but then they went to the canal to try and shell that, this is when Swithern Territories and Jamestown jumped into the wart. Swithern sent the USS Enfield to help defend the canal, this is when Grand Island had their ship was destroyed. Swithern then proceeded to annex Grand Island. Jamestown took advantage of everyone distracted, they went and annexed the Hiawatha Tribe and Bluetooth Tribes Capitals, both these tribes already lost most of their soldiers attacking Acadia and couldn't defend against the Jamestown forces.

## The Third Burning of Acadia

        Grand Island stormed Acadia with their 60,000 remaining troops, Acadia had troops on the way but they would get to the Grand Island ones before Acadias Capital. So Grand Island knowing they would lose the war at this point, decided to burn down Acadias homes in what was the third burning of Acadia. when the Acadian troops arrived they eliminated the Grand Island forces and helped put out the house fires.

## Naval Battle

    This was one of the first naval battles seen in a long time by anyone in the

    northwest. The battle was the USS Enfield vs The USR Grand. This was a massive miss match and Grand Islands ship was destroyed in a matter of minutes as the Swithern fleet was too much to handle.

Over 200,000 Grand Island troops and workers died in the sinking ships as they had no way to escape the flooding hull.

## Acadian Offensive

Acadia was being shelled by Grand Island relentlessly and had no way to stop it so they decided to attack Flower Island. The attack was very short as Grand Island was running low on resources and their native alive returned home due to their capital being attacked. Swithern just jumped in at this time so Grand Island was unable to send their ship to help defend. Acadia took the canon and the island just across from the capital of Grand Island.

## Peace Settlement

Swithern annexed Grand Island without a fight, all the countries involved put taxes on Grand Island for the war and Grand Island was forced to pay them. Swithern didn't annex Grand Island for long due to a pending threat from the east, which would later lead to a massive East vs West battle.

 Swithern Territories
 Hiawatha
 Bluetooth
 **Total Deaths** | 1,580,000