The Battle Of Cato

## Overview

The Battle of Cato was a large conflict that cost the lives of over 1 million soldiers. This conflict would end all Grand Island colonization on the island of Cato. This also gave Acadia more power than ever before as they tripled their landmass and gained 3 resource blocks. This would be a war that would solidify a unspoken mutual agreement between Jamestown and The Acadian Empire to push Grand Island out of the Eastern lands.

## The Start

The war started with a building up of soldiers by every nation. Jamestown had begun to grow very weary of the Grand Island fort on the tip of the continent on Cato. They felt that Grand Island only had this fort to launch a future attack against them. In 1547, Acadia started to heavily re-arm for a different manner, but both Jamestown and Grand Island saw both the threat and potential of this re-armed regiment. Jamestown was planning an invasion to rid the continent of Grand Island, and to potentially gain resources through the process. Recently to pay for the massive re armouring of about 360,000 soldiers, Acadia acquired a large loan off of Jamestown. Both countries struck a deal, they would pay large sums of money for every Musketmen division that the Acadian soldiers destroyed. During this time, Grand Island became ever more so worried about the Acadian soldiers and moved an additional 300,000 soldiers to the area to combat this threat. These soldiers would take up on the wall between Acadian land and the Bluffs. Additionally, they added more infrastructure to their fort and several Canons. Grand Island became so afraid of the soldiers in The Acadian Plains, they moved 200,000 soldiers into the Acadian land.

## The Landing

### The Jamestown Landing

The Jamestown troops engaged first and attacked with 240,000 troops behind the Grand Island wall. A brutal battle insinuated up and down the Bluffs coast. Acadia was not yet involved in the war as this battle took place. The 200,000 soldiers in the Acadian lands fell back to help on the coastline, at that point, Acadia declared war on Grand Island and formed a musket line to catch the Grand Island soldiers falling back by surprise. Jamestown moved their soldiers to push the Grand Island soldiers by the front. Jamestowns landing party of 240,000 were completely killed or taken prisoner by Grand Island. There now was a dividing wall between Grand Island reinforcements and Canons, and the Acadian soldiers. By this time, it was 1550, and both sides sat idle, waiting for the other to make a move. Jamestown was sending over another 90,000 while Acadia also sent over reinforcements from the East after taking the Mountain in Cato. By 1551, Jamestown made a move on the fortified Grand Island position, and Acadian troops followed.

## The Acadian Mountain Siege

When Acadia joined the war, they set their eyes to the mountain that hung above them, fortified position by Grand Island that was fought for by Acadians in The Siege Of Jamestown but taken by Grand Island for the useful stone resources. 160,000 Acadian soldiers would push the position up the mountain. Grand Island would see this, and instead of turning the Canon to fire upon the oncoming soldiers, they knew they had limited time and 5X less soldiers on the mountain. They instead coveted the idea to rain Canon balls all across the Acadian Harbour (An idea that Jamestown did in the Siege Of Jamestown) and destroyed a large portion of the Harbour. Acadian troops pushed all the way to the top, and 30,000 Grand Island soldiers would surrender after killing many Acadian civilians. One troop in a bunker did not surrender until the Acadian canon shot a hole into the side of it. These surrendered troops would be sent to a camp known as Camp Cato, where they and 180,000 other Grand Island soldiers would never return.

### The Tonsil Invasion

While Acadia was focused on dealing with their prisoners and a pending invasion from Grand Island a small nation just east of the mountain, Tonsil send a small invasion force of 40,000 to fight the 50,000 Acadian troops. This feud between the two goes back to The Siege Of Jamestown where the Tonsil people took the mountain from Acadia and Grand Island. The battle this time was short with few losses and Acadia managed to remain in control of the Island.

## The Push

Jamestown And Acadian soldiers fought through canon craters and constant musket fire. an additional 90,000 Jamestown soldiers died in this push. Acadia pushed on, and with a bayonet rush, pushed the Jamestown soldiers off of the Fortified Canon position and into the Bluffs. Minor fighting took place in the Bluffs, before reaching the Grand Island fort. There were 90,000 Grand Island soldiers within the base with 2 Canons. Acadian troops were numbered to just 80,000. But something incredible would happen, as Grand Island soldiers within the base surrendered. They heavily outgunned the Acadian soldiers preparing for a push on the base but had watched over 400,000 of their own soldiers leave and not return. Plus, they were in sight of the Acadian soldie'rs bayonet charge of the fortified position, and they believed the Acadian soldiers to be unmerciful and savages. Soldiers were sent off to a POW camp in the mountain region, where they would not return.

Peace would finally come in 1552, when Grand Island agreed to let Acadia keep all territory taken, and would pay reparations towards Jamestown. This would set up The Grand War however, as the defeat and surrender of the fort with the murder in Camp Cato would leave Grand Island with a taste for revenge.

## War Stats

 The Acadian Empire | 240,000
 Grand Island | 540,000
 The United Federation of Anaroc
 **Total Deaths** | 1,140,000