[center][b][h1]SALUTE TO THE FALLEN[/h1][/b][/center]

[center][b][u]August, 1910[/u][/b][/center]

[b][u]August 1st[/u][/b]
[b][color=orange][u]Karalian Uprising[/u][/color][/b]: The [b][color=beige]Seljuk 2nd Army[/color][/b] begins preparations for an artillery bombardment of the Karalian city to take place on August 12th. General Mahmed sends out the [b]90th Riflemen Platoon[/b] into the city with orders to get into contact with the Saurilians there and warn them of the impending attack. The 90th, led by platoon sergeant Murad Hapsyy, departed from the Seljuk lines early in the morning of August 1st.

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[i]Seljuk 90th Rifleman Platoon, photograph circa 1909[/i][/center]

[b][u]August 2nd-August 4th[/u][/b]
During the early hours of the 2nd, the Zellonian colony of Leylon came under heavy attack by non-uniformed soldiers. The colony, which had no military garrison to speak of was ransacked. Several homes were burned and in the three days of raiding, 173 Zellonian nationals were killed--though the majority indirectly. Almost everything of value was taken, several Ellis automobiles (most with less than 50 miles on them), gold watches, hunting rifles. If it wasn't bolted down, the soldiers took it.

The Zellonian colonial governor Matthew Hepbridge sent a report back to the Zellonian Overseas Department (ZOD) indicating that it appeared that the non-uniformed soldiers were those belonging to the [b]Republic of Xian[/b], who had unfortunately just signed a treaty with the Zellonians.  

[b][u]August 5th[/u][/b]
After days of negotiating, the [b][color=beige]Seljuk Empire[/color][/b] and the [b][color=purple]Tyro-Antarian Empire[/color][/b] sign the [b]Bader-Bey Pact[/b] ([i]1910[/i]) in Wreslou, Tyro. The treaty, signed between Ambassador to Tyro-Antari Janus Bey and Tyro-Antarian ambassador Klaus Bader was conducted as a backroom negotiation and much attention was given to keeping it's contents mostly secret.

[u][b]BADER-BEY PACT[/b][/u] ([i]August, 1910)[/i]
[quote][b]Article I.[/b] The Empire of the Seljuk officially recognize the sovereignty of the Tyro-Antarian state's Dual Monarchy as well as the sovereignty of the current reigning monarch and his lineage until at least August, 1920.

[b]Article II.[/b] [Enclosed. [b]-1 Support[/b] ([b][color=beige]Seljuk Empire[/color][/b])]

[b]Artivle III.[/b] [Enclosed. [b]-1 Support[/b] ([b][color=beige]Seljuk Empire[/color][/b])]

[b]Article IV.[/b] [Enclosed. [b]-1 Support[/b] ([b][color=beige]Seljuk Empire[/color][/b])]

[X] [i]Ambassador to the Tyro-Antarian Empire, Janus Bey, Representative of the Imperial Government of the Sultan of Seljuk[/i]
[X] [i]Klaus Bader, Foreign Ambassador to the Seljuk Empire[/i][/quote]

[b][u]August 6th[/u][/b]
The [b]1st Army[/b] begins moving out from Fumen. With over 174,000 men under a single command, they make less than three miles a day suffering along unpaved roads and forced to march three abreast. So long and errant was this single army formation, one witness reported: "[i]For eight hours I worked my fields and for eight hours men marched past waving the six starred flag.[/i]" The lack of infrastructure in the region made maneuvers on such a large scale difficult, but if nothing else, one man rose to acclaim all on his own. [b]General Chi Haotian[/b] (24/[i]Offensive Minded/Risk Taker[/i]).

The [b]1st Army[/b] bore witness to the spectacle of the land they claimed. The Western Provinces were an agrarian paradise, with even the biggest cities failing to stake their claim so firmly as the Meung coastal enclaves. Still, with the support of their people--the Xian Army was bolstered considerably. [[b]Army Spirit +8%[/b]]

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[i]Xian citizens, 1910[/i][/center]

[b][u]August 7th[/u][/b]
On August 7th, four Fusanese built Xian owned destroyers and a nationally built Light Cruiser depart from the Xianese port city of Min, destined for Blutland. Fortunes were nearly halved for both the Xianese treasuries and the Blutland Royal Navy when ships of the Meung Dominion Navy sent eight destroyers to intercept the fleet with orders to [b]sink[/b] the ships at any cost. Fortunately, the Dominion ships were forced to turn back with orders to support army maneuver operations along the coast. The Xianese sailors watched--literally sweating--from the decks of their own ships as the Meung closed and finally swung around in a wide circle back toward their own ports.

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[i]Xianese Hǔ-class Destroyer, circa 1910[/i][/center]