The Battle of Lake Conecuh, as told by a Soldier of Bamard
This is an older book, that has been frequently republished as the authoritative voice on the decisive battle that led to the decline of the Jakonian Empire. The book is the transcribed memoirs of Gerald “Helmsblood” Strout, a soldier from Bamard, which at the time was divided into three provinces of the Jakonian Empire, in the year 820. He described the thirty thousand strong Jakonian army being sent up to the north to conquer the Shin Empire and bring them to their knees at last. He described that after a vicious campaign throughout much of Bamard, the Shin had been worn down in open conflict, and that the last of their garrisons and forces had been emptied out into the field, outnumbered nearly thirty to one by the Jakonian forces. Unfortunately for the Empire, the Sypi Confederacy had for the first time conducted an extraordinary muster, bringing their tribal forces in a unified army to the fray, surprising the Jakonians on the flank. With the Confederates cutting off the Empire’s retreat, the result was a brutal slaughter, as the powerful Shin magic was supplemented by the bodies of countless tribesmen. The Jakonian army was destroyed and what little remained fled to the west, securing Shin and Sypi independence. Gerald Strout gained his name, as he was an archer who ran out of ammunition, and with his own weapons broken from fighting, used only his pointed helmet to escape the chaos. The family is known to continue to reside in the Bamardian capital of Wetumpka to this day.
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