[center][b][u]AGE OF IMPERIALISM[/u][/b]
[i]June, 1907[/i][/center]

[b]June 16th[/b]
Preliminary bombardments from the [b][color=maroon]Grand Survaek Empire[/color][/b] and the [b][color=green]Republic of Deltora[/color][/b] in the [i]Eerkhbad Gap[/i] get underway.

[b]June 17th[/b]
Reinforcements from the Survaekom [b]1st Army Group[/b] and [b]2nd Army Group[/b] begin filtering in from the flanks of trench lines to fall in on the beleaguered [b]6th Infantry Division[/b]. The fighting intensifies, with mid range bombardments and light machine gun fire to halt probing attacks.

[b]June 18th[/b]
Following the declaration of war between [b][color=blue]Empire of Anvegad[/color][/b] and the [i]Sociatatem[/i] the Anvo-Deltoran border remains silent, with both great nations remaining starkly on the offense--much to the chagrin of the Anvegadian people, who were promised conquest with their joining of the Imperial Restoration.

[b]June 19th[/b]
Operation [b]Morning Star[/b] begins at dawn, with the [b]Anvegdian 1st Field Army[/b] under General Korso Markham crossing the border into Murenheidt. They advanced 45 kilometers before reaching resistance at Hadden, though it was small and putrid. So puny were the 40,000 regulars at Hadden that the secondary operations were never called into action, but rather the start of the [b][color=red]Battle of Hadden[/color][/b], a trench action that run half the width of Murenheidt.

[b]June 20th[/b]
The [b]Battle of the Eerkhbad Gap[/b] begins as 40,000+ Deltorans from the 8th and 9th Infantry Division push into the gap, hoping to expose it's weaknesses before the Survaekoms can reinforce. The [b]Third Army Group[/b], finally untangled from the logistical mess at Arkhaer moves northwest and hits the exposed attack head on. The [b][color=red]Battle of the Eerkhad Gaps[/color][/b] begins in proper.

[b]June 23rd[/b]
[b][color=red]Battle of the Eerkhad Gaps[/color][/b] begins in proper. A meat grinder of the open desert, only hastily drawn trenches exist, with men and machine moving to and fro, fighting over long stretches of sand dunes. The Deltorans were encircled on three sides, with nearly a hundred thousand barreling down on them from the southeast. 

[b]June 24th[/b]
[b]Kalpian Army[/b] units begin a tactical withdraw to Vierkas, preparing for evacuation while the [b][color=lightgreen]Sumayan 1st Army[/color][/b] advances, taking huge swathes of territory.

[b]June 25th[/b]
A breakthrough at the [b][color=red]Battle of Hadden[/color][/b] sees the Murenheidtans outflanked, and 28,000 Murenheidtans surrender. They are taken into custody and the [b]Anvegadian 1st Field Army[/b] continues to move north toward the capital.

[hider=Battle of Hadden Casualties]
[b][color=blue]Empire of Anvegad[/color][/b]: 11,853 (11,953 Rifles, 32 HVL-02 Machine Guns, 31 Ignanov-Ferguson Howitzers)
[b][color=orange]Murenehidt[/color][/b]: 16,653 (16,853 Rifles), 27,541 Prisoners of War[/hider]

[b]June 27th[/b]
A near battle between the [b][color=green]Deltoran Royal Navy[/color][/b] and the [b][color=maroon]Survaek Fleet[/color][/b] nearly occurs around Faris in the Inland Sea, but as dusk approached the fleets broke off, fearful of a night time engagement.

[b]June 28th[/b]
The [b]Southern Army Group[/b] of the [b][color=orange]Xian Clique[/color][/b] reaches Flulin of [b][color=purple]Soroyan Faresia[/color][/b] without a shot fired, taking the entire region in a matter of two weeks marching.

[b]June 30th[/b]
The [b]1st Western Guard[/b] of the [b][color=maroon]Grand Survaek Empire[/color][/b] marches west into Murenheidt, though sparsely populated, they begin claiming huge amounts of territory.

The [b]Northern Army Group[/b] of the [b][color=orange]Xian Clique[/color][/b] begins a minor offensive against the Kedris region of [b][color=purple]Soroyan Faresia[/color][/b]. The [b]Kedris Campaign[/b] starts, with minor probing attacks that run up against well entrenched colonial defenders.