Okkamidur War of 1866
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 The Battle of Abronia, the largest battle of the war. | |||||||
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 United States of Balion |
 Sultanate of Okkamidur | ||||||
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Hiram Barnett |
 Thomas Featherwick | ||||||
The Okkamidur War, often termed the Okkamidur War of 1866 to differentiate it from the later Okkamidur Affair, was a conflict fought between the Sultanate of Okkamidur and the United States of Balion. It was fought throughout the year of 1866 and followed slave unrest in the Balonic territory of South Salorka, a region of Prodava which had been annexed by Balion in 1848. A combination of Okkamiduran political interference, piracy operating out of Okkamidur and Essyria, and strong border tensions led to the breakout of war in February 1866. Though the steadily growing abolitionist movement fiercely opposed war and continued occupation of South Salorka was becoming unpopular, the economic benefits of Balonic-owned plantations in the territory skewed government thinking and there were serious allegations of corruption.
War was declared following the Battle of Karlania, in which Balonic troops fought off a Okkamiduran incursion into South Salorka. A second attempt at Fort Fairweather succeeded and Okkamiduran forces crossed the frontier into South Salorka and marched on Monroweville. The invasion was swift and a series of running battles at Point Silver, New Yellowburg, and Colewood Estate, saw the Balonic garrison forces pushed back towards Monroweville. These victories came at the cost of high Okkamiduran casualties and Balonic troops, though hard pressed and on the retreat, won respect as fine skirmishing troops. When the two sides met at the Siege of Monroweville, a stubborn Balonic defence, along with a lack of supplies and reserves for the exhausted Okkamidurans, saw the invasion halted at the gates of the territory's capital.