15-Day War

The 15-Day War, also known as the 1870 Rumburgian-Sordish War, was fought between the 5th and 20th of October 1870 by Sordland and Rumburg. In the months prior to the conflict, tensions became increasingly heightened after King Egmund cancelled the Friendship Deal between Sordland and Rumburg, which allowed Rumburgian ships to use the Sourne River, which flows from Alferdon, Crimsrad, Estord and Lachaven to reach the Markian Sea. King Alfred II of Rumburg reiterated his position: the closure of the Sourne River to Rumburgian shipping would be a cause for war. King Egmund announced in May that the river would be closed to all Rumburgian vessels, and then mobilised Sordish forces along the northern border with Rumburg. On October 5th, Rumburg launched a series of preemptive attacks against the Sordish forces along the Rumburgian border. Simultaneously, Sordish forces launched a ground offensive into the city of Crimsrad but were immediately pushed back. On the 10th of October, a group of ethnic Rum’s living in the city of Estord organized guerilla attacks and sabotage missions that were aimed to cut the supply line of the Sordish forces. This resulted in the Sordish Imperial Forces to react by forcefully relocating all ethnic Rum’s living in the Nargis region to the border where battles were taking place. In the event known as the Estord Incident, many Rumburgian lives were lost when they were pushed into the frontlines by the Sordish soldiers. Some sources claim that spontaneous killings by the soldiers also took place for several days. After both Rumburgian and Sordish forces suffered casualties without any military successes, Rumburg and Sordland agreed to a ceasefire on the 20th of October, 1870. The signing took place on a train in the outskirts of Estord, in a forest that is now called the 'Forest of October.'