Long March

The Long March
Part of the War of the Magpie and the Dragon
The Earl Kimepra leads his troops to an Exponential outpost by Publius Aurelius Gallo (1632)
Date Late 1614 - November 14, 1615 Location Imperial Kamalbia Result Cadenzan victory
Belligerents
Cadenza	Empire of Exponent
Commanders and leaders
Tariq Kimepra	Tiberius Amantius
Strength
2,000 at start of the march 7,000 by Castrum Tiberium	Varied, never more than a few hundred at a time
Casualties and losses
Undetermined	Undetermined

The Long March (Khadenz: Elancri Rineg; Latin: Iter Longum) was an episode during the War of the Magpie and the Dragon, when the Cadenzan expedition under Tariq Kimepra advanced through Imperial Kamalbia over the course of a year. During the Long March, Kimepra captured numerous Imperial outposts and small towns as he waited for reinforcements to arrive piecemeal. Having landed in Kamalbia with two thousand men, he laid siege to Castrum Tiberium with seven thousand, securing Cadenzan control over the entire province.

There were few pitched battles along the March, although local Imperial guerrillas harried the Cadenzan army as it progressed through a hostile landscape. Kimepra's success in overcoming the logistical nightmare of leading thousands of men, subduing a province and rendezvousing with reinforcements arriving only intermittently earned him the praise and admiration of his superiors and, begrudgingly, his opponents.