First Morrawo-Wassilian War

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First Morrawo-Wassilian War (1645–1650)
Part of Morrawo-Wassilian Wars
Fall of Tyonek.jpg
Fall of Tyonek
Date22 September 1645 — 5 October 1650
(5 years, 1 week and 6 days)
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
Commanders and leaders
Wassilian Confederation Flag.png Gostautas Heralvei
Wassilian Confederation Flag.png Ardas Klastinys
Wassilian Confederation Flag.png Davdidusas Illevivicieus
Wassilian Confederation Flag.pngKordan Bielvo

The First Morrawo-Wassilian War was an armed conflict between the Empire of Morrawia and the Wassilian Confederation between the years 1645 and 1650. The five year war was fought on entirely Wassilian territory and a small series of naval battles on the Wallach Sea.

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 Morrawian monarch Rudolf I passed away in 1640, his eventual successor, Augustus I, drastically changed the course of both Morrawia and Wassilia forever 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 on 22 September 1645 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 a week later. 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 peninsula 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.

Western Theatre

Fall of Tyonek

Pushback in Errala

Treaty of Sren

When the Wassilian armies left the city of Tyonek across the Austaras River, leaving control of the capital city to Morrawia, it was the final significant battle in the western theatre before the leadership of the Wassilian Confederation was toppled and new leadership led by Kordan Bielvo took control of the Confederation. As the Wassilians pushed Morrawia back north at the Battle of Solvenus neither side seemed able to make any more progress without taking on massive casualties. Augustus I had several additional plans beyond the Wassilian front and with the Tyonek and Errala campaigns becoming very costly, late 1650 seemed a good time to set sights on his northern borders. To push further south would not be of any great benefit even though he personally wanted to take the seaside city of Bursinai. He knew he could not get overstretched and bogged down in attempting to siege another major city further from the Morrawian homeland.

It would be on the 5th of October 1650 when the new Confederation delegation headed by Kordan Bielvo met with Emporer Augustus I to sign the terms of surrender at Sren.

Map of the 1650 Treaty of Sren

Wassilia would cede Tyonek and much of northern Wassilia to the Empire of Morrawia directly, while much of the central Austaran region would be organized into the two new protectorate states of Awárie, and Posári. A third protectorate state would also be formed on the northern tip of Errala named Erolsko. The states would be de facto controlled by the Empire.

Legacy

Emigration of Northern Wassilia

Additional Morrawian expansion

Beginnings of Wassilian Unification

The immediate aftermath in Wassilia of the First Morrawo-Wassilian war was of national depression, occupation and emigration. However by the mid-1700s, nationalism would sweep across Wassilia and the complete restructuring of the national government would eventually lead to regaining all lost territories and the downfall of the aggressive Imperial regime of its northern neighbor.