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|territory  = Empire of Morrawia gains northern and western Wassilian territory, northern half of Errala Peninsula gaining full control of the Wallach Sea
|territory  = Empire of Morrawia gains northern and western Wassilian territory, northern half of Errala Peninsula gaining full control of the Wallach Sea
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Revision as of 20:25, 21 March 2023

First Morrawo-Wassilian War (1645–1650)
Part of Morrawo-Wassilian Wars
Bitwa pod Parkanami.jpg
Battle at Parkany (Štúrovo) (1683), author Juliusz Kossak
Date12 September 1683 — 26 January 1699
(15 years, 4 months and 2 weeks)
Location
Result Empire of Morrawia victory
Treaty of Sren
Territorial
changes
Empire of Morrawia gains northern and western Wassilian territory, northern half of Errala Peninsula gaining full control of the Wallach Sea
Belligerents
Wassilian Confederation Flag.png Empire of Morrawia Wassilian Confederation Flag.png Wassilian Confederation

Background

The former Kingdom of Morrawia had held up until the mid 1600s, a reasonable peace with the Wassilians, and very few periods of instability between the neighbors had occurred. The two countries had developed side-by-side with little in the the way of border disputes. When monarch Rudolf I passed away in 1640, his successor, Augustus I, drastically changed the course of Morrawia transforming the kingdom into the Empire of Morrawia and quickly building up his military. At the same time, while Morrawia was centralizing its power, Wassilia was still a loosely held decentralized goverment known at the time as the Wassilian Confederation. The Wassilians believed that each of the four main regions should hold more power than the central government including the military. This would be a costly decision as even though most Wassilian citizens felt united as a people, the power brokers in the cities of Tyonek, Bursinai and Sren enjoyed the fruits of holding more power over their regions.

While both nations were strong seafaring countries, Morrawia was more quickly advancing its naval prowess which would prove decisive in the coming conflict. Something Wassilia would learn from and apply in time, however it did not have the resources in the mid-1600s to compete on Morrawia's terms.

War

Invasion of Errala

The Empire of Morrawia began its invasion of the Wassilian Confederation with a naval attack on the city of Altapadys, as well as landing xxxxxxx soldiers west of the town to begin a siege of the city, catching the defending Confederation army off guard. This coincided with a separate attack in the Austaras and Olavaian provinces in the western theatre of combat. Morrawian armies captured the city after a month of fighting and many of the Wassilian fighters in Altapadys fled south across the Wallach Sea to the cities of Eleksiadorys and Murslarai and down the peninsula to Bursinai to regroup. With the Errala peninsular being relatively flat aside from the Sunadic coastal highlands Morrawia made steady progress pushing Confederation armies south across the Inner Wallach Sea coastal plain. Wassilian Confederation leaders decided to leave the open countryside territory of northern Errala to the Morrawians as there were not many defensible positions, retreating south to the Wassilian towns of Gryius and Rostinas to form a defensive line which had plenty of access to the Wassilian southern heartland.

Advance toward Tyonek

Western Theatre

Fall of Tyonek

Pushback in Errala

Treaty of Sren