Chronology of the Portland Aftermath Game:
The UKA Years

2020

Spring
With the last of the Inuit-Greenland raiders cleared from the North Sea, Ireland begins to focus on its army, still technically in a state of war as the government-in-exile which refuses to surrender, which now occupies England. A rivalry between the Ministries of the Army and Navy begin to compete against each other. The demands of the Irish army serving with Rome, as well as the rising dependence on the expanding Roman Navy, the army gains the upper hand as the Irish Navy begins to decline.
May 30
President and Prophet Bryan Kevin Wolford of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints leads a second invasion of the Four Corners area.
June 20
The Mormon Army fights a savage, but inconclusive battle against the Navajo-Hopi alliance near Farmington. Wolford orders a retreat. While his men suffer terribly, most survive to return to friendly territory. He vows to continue the war to the bitter end.
June 22 Caesar Vittorio orders his legions to invade the southern Ukraine. The
Ukrainians retreat before the extremely slow moving Roman invaders.
August 7
The Second Colombian War begins with a declaration of war on the UKA by the Colombian government, over the UKA's growing penetration into Colombia's Pacific markets. The Imperial Roman Government palyed a very important part in Colombia's deicision, promising massive military aid..
September 17-23
A large Navajo raid into southern Deseret is contained.
November 10
Rear Admiral Duncan Keaton captures and destroys Cartegena, Colombia after pillaging it of much of its valuables.
November 26
Louis Big Head, Chairman of the Oceti Sakowin of the Lakota nation resigns after eighteen years in office. He is replaced by the slightly more moderate Charlie Two Horses, despite the best efforts of the growing Peace Faction. The raids continue.
December 2, 2020 – February 19, 2021
The Ukrainians counter attack the Romans just north of Odessa on December 2, and while the Romans initially hold, they are eventually defeated and suffer terribly in a headlong retreat back to Roman Rumania, the last legionaries fleeing across the border on February 19, 2021.

2021

March 8-21
A large Navajo raid into southern Deseret is contained.
April 8
Caesar Vittorio I signs the Peace of Silistria with the Ukrainians, agreeing to pay reparations to the Ukrainian government.
June 9
The Army of Deseret launches another invasion of the Four Corners, trying an eastern invasion route through Moab and then toward Mesa Verde.
June 18
The Great South Indian War begins with a carefully planned attack by the Tamils and Karnataka on Andhra and Lanka.
July 23
Battle of Durango. The brave, but poorly led Mormon army wins a Pyrrhic victory and is forced to retreat back to its home territory after taking excessive losses. The Indian warriors follow the retreating army, picking off stragglers.
August 24-September 3
A series of major Navajo raids into southern Deseret are eventually repulsed after doing severe damage.

2022

March 21
President and Prophet Bryan Kevin Wolford of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints signs a peace with the Navajo-Hopi Alliance, ending the Second Navajo War. The Mormons are required to pay a $50,000 in silver a year as a subsidy to the Alliance for the next ten years.
June 23
An Imperial Roman fleet enters UKA waters in support of the Colombians. The Italians threatened Portland with nuclear destruction.
June 25
The Imperial Roman nuke Coos Bay as a demonstration of what they can do.
June 28
An attack by Rear Admiral Duncan Keaton and the Zama on the Italian replenishment squadron results in the Italian squadron being isolated on the west coast of Baja California without fuel.
July 6
While waiting for another fuel convoy to arrive, the Italian squadron is attacked at anchor by a special attack force led by "Scuba." The entire Italian force is captured or sunk. The future HMS Invincible, HMS Pharsalus, and four destroyers are acquired for use by the Royal Navy.
August 29
Cowed by the disaster to their powerful allies, the Colombians sue for peace. The Colombians are banned from sending armed vessels into the Pacific and hand over the future HMS Simon Bolivar as reparations.
November 2
The Mongol Caliphate of Baghdad invades Yemen and eastern Saudi Arabia. Ferocious Wahhabi resistance halts the Mongols on the Yemeni border. by the beginning of the hot season. Khan Chengai decides to end his offensives for a while to reorganize his newly created state.

2023

January 5-19
President and Prophet Bryan Kevin Wolford of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints holds a secret LDS strategy meeting that decides to expand to the west into the UKA rather than continue trying to conquer the Navajo and Hopi. A major missionary effort will be directed towards the Portlanders to create a fifth column, to be followed by direct conquest and conversion when the Army of Deseret is ready.
May 7
The South African government loses a major battle to a Xhosa-Zulu allied army at Ladysmith. The South Africans are pinned into an enclave around the gold fields, ports, and the Cape Province. The South Africans send a message to both the Portland government and the Roman Empire begging for aid.
June 22-27
The Mongol Caliphate of Baghdad captures the Holy Cities of Islam: Mecca and Medina.
August 9 Japanese Marshal Tsushima Masaaki declares the brother of Japan's emperor a rival emperor, beginning the Japanese Civil War.
Summer
Field Marshal Randall Hough is granted a leave of absence to command the Fort Polk U.S. Army in its war with Fort Hood. Hough disappears in the resulting nuclear exchange and is presumed dead. Both Forts Polk and Hood disappear as major powers. Hough is replaced by Field Marshal Carl Goldberg.
September 14
A UKA naval force reaches Durban, South Africa with a brigade of UKA Marines, under the command of Vice Admiral Thomas Bargeson. The South Africans are offered aid if they agree to abolish slavery and extend full civil rights to all inhabitants. Facing defeat and probable annihilation, they agree.
September 23
UKA forces defeat the Argentine blockade of the South African ports, opening them to free trade for the first time in two decades.
October 11
The South Africans adopt a new, liberal constitution with universal franchise. The government remains White dominated, as most former Black South Africans now live outside the shrunken borders of the Republic.
December 30
The South African Parliament votes to join the UKA Commonwealth as a Class I member.
November 15
Indonesia sends its fleet to help the Tamil/Karnataka Alliance to interrupt sea lanes between Andhra and Lanka.

2024

May 1
Field Marshal Charles Goldberg announces the First Five Year Plan for the mechanization of the Royal Army. The Parliament votes large grants to industrialists to promote the building of the needed factories.
June 9
Vice Admiral Duncan Keaton marries Maria, the daughter of the dictator of Peru.
June 16
Peru and Ecuador sign an alliance with the UKA.
June 22
Pope Alexander VIII dies of natural causes.
July 4
A conclave elects Giovanni Gianelli, Cardinal of Turin, Pope Paul VII.
August 2
The Japanese begin to send military supplies to Andhra overland from neutral ports.

2026

August 11
President and Prophet Bryan Kevin Wolford of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints orders the conquest of Western Oregon from the U.K.A. Due to growing tensions, King Patrick has had large numbers of UKA troops mustered in the Hermiston area, so when word of the invasion reaches Marshal Joseph Pratt, a major counter offensive is launched against the invaders.
August 23 -25
The Battle of Boise. Major General Darryl Kilroy's Cavalry Division ambushes the lead wing of the Deseret Army and breaks it up, halting the Mormon advance. Poor leadership on the part of the mostly inexperienced Mormon officers negates the bravery of their men. While not routed, the Mormons fall back on the center column to regroup.
August 28
Pratt's hard marching columns contact the Deseret Army at Fox’s Hill. Launching an all out assault, Pratt’s men turn the Mormon flank and force a withdrawal. The Mormon soldiers again fight bravely and stubbornly, taking excessive losses due to the incompetence of their leadership.
September 2
Battle of Boxtel Creek. Kilroy's Cavalry Division cuts off the Mormon rear guard and traps it against Pratt’s leading units. After over fifty percent of the Mormon 5th Division under Maj. General Daniel Wright is dead or wounded, it surrenders.
September 2
Nihsen’s Last Stand. Mormon General Henry Nihsen and his 2nd Division are sacrificed to buy time for the rest of the Army of Deseret to escape.
September 17-18
The Battle of Ogden. Every available Mormon soldier is assembled in the defenses of Ogden. In the first day’s fighting, an assault on the Mormon trenches is bloodily repulsed. Marshal Pratt, now joined by King Josh, orders another attack the next morning, spearheaded by the Guards Brigade and the Royal Marine Commando Brigade, which breaks through into the Mormon capital city. Piecemeal, ill-coordinated counterattacks cost many Mormon soldiers their lives and by the evening of the second day, the Mormons are in full retreat.
September 26
The Mormon Army flees to its Great Redoubt in the Wasatch Mountains. Finding no other practical solution to its capture save for a long, costly siege, King Josh orders old binary nerve gas shells to be fired at the Mormon positions. Tens of thousands of Mormons, many of them civilians, are killed. The Royal Marine Commando Brigade storms into the Great Redoubt, capturing the Mormon’s food stocks and records. Utterly demoralized, the surviving Mormon leadership surrenders. President and Prophet Bryan Kevin Wolford is among the dead. The UKA annexes Deseret.
October 1
Eugene Duane Wayne is elected President and Prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Wayne is the head of the collaborationist wing of the LDS leadership.

2027

February 6
The Mongol Khanate of Baghdad destroys the army of Greater Israel at the Battle of Ashdod.
August 20 - December 6
The Siege of Jerusalem. The Mongols finally storm the city. The king of Israel, trapped in the citadel makes peace be giving up most of his land to the Mongols in exchange for his life.
December 1
Duke James Morris of Roseburg died of heart failure on December 1, 2027, and was succeeded by his son as Duke Gawaine Percival Morris.

2028

September 17
The Franklin-Gold Corruption Scandal breaks. A Portland Member of Parliament named Erica Franklin and Royal Navy purchasing agent named Donald Gold are arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for masterminding scam involving appropriations for non-existent supplies and the theft and sale of other supplies from government stocks.
September 30
The RCMP arrests Colonel William Reese of the Royal Alaskan Foot Police after the Mounties find that Reese had been taking bribes to conceal the activities of the Franklin-Gold Ring.

2029

June 25
The Great South Indian War ends indecisively for Karnataka and Andhra, though Lanka is reduced to an unwilling satellite of the Tamil Empire.

2030

July 30
Princess Margaret, wife of Crown Prince Patrick, attempts to assassinate King Josh at an intimate family dinner party. Guards and her husband subdue her before the king is seriously injured. The incident is hushed up, but she remains closely watched by the Secret Service for the brief remainder of her life.

2031

May 16 to November 1
Vice Admiral Charles E. Harbuck supervises the blasting open of the Nicaragua canal, using virtually the UKA's entire remaining stock of nuclear weapons to speed the work. Eastern Nicaragua is soon known as the "Land of the Three-Eyed Fish."
September 22
Princess Margaret and her youngest child are killed in a car bomb explosion. No assassins are ever identified.
December 7
Frustrated by its reputation for incompetence and corruption, King Josh abolishes the Royal Alaskan Foot Police, distributing its personnel between the RCMP and Royal Army.

2032

February 27
Pope Paul VII dies of natural causes.
March 6
A conclave elects Cesare Giampietro, Cardinal of Pisa, Pope Urban IX.
May 6
The Italians begin a campaign to drive the UKA out of the Caribbean.
May 12
The Battle of the Yucatan Straits. A fleet of twenty Italian warships confronts a combined UKA-Chilean fleet. Admiral of the Fleet Duncan Keaton leads his men to a spectacular and decisive victory, sinking the entire Italian flotilla. Keaton is killed on the bridge of the HMS Invincible.
May 13
An Italian carrier strike sinks the badly damaged Chilean battleship Almirante Latorre, while the Italians lose a Falco class carrier sunk and another badly damaged.
May 14
A newly completed Italian Traiano class battleship is severely damaged and steams north to Savannah for repairs. Several attempts by the Italians to invade various Caribbean islands fail.
May 15
The Irish Navy arrives to the Caribbean in support of the Romans shortly after the Battle of the Yucatan Straits. Despite its outdated equipment and lack of supplies, Irish forces perform valiantly during the offensive. This will be the last involvement of the Irish navy, once one of the most powerful in Europe, will be involved in a major action.
May 30
General Brett A. Henrionnet invades Cape Canavaral, Florida.
June 4
Henrionnet invades and captures Savannah, captured the Roman battleship Traiano in dry-dock. The ship is renamed H.M.S. Queen Margaret.
September 6
Roman Emperor Vittorio I dies and is succeeded by his nephew Vittorio II.

2033

September 9
The Tamil Emperor Suruli dies of natural causes and is suceeded by his son, the Emperor Puviyarasu.
September 12-27
The Georgia War. UKA Marines destroy the Georgia USA and force it to join the Commonwealth.
October 22
Colonel Michael Galloway of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police retires and is replaced by Colonel Keonn Humphrey.

2034

May 5
Prime Minister Michael Krepel retires. King Josh orders the first truly free elections in the UKA, all members of the House of Commons are elected by their own districts per local law. The Constitutional-Monarchist Party forms a small coalition majority. The head of the Con-Mons, Valeria McKerral, daughter of the late Prime Minister Cromett, is chosen the first elected prime minister.
Summer
An attempt to keep a forward presence open on the upper Mississippi fails when the Black Muslims gas the UKA forward base at Cairo.
August 6-21
The UKA Royal Navy invades and captures the Azores from the Romans in a series of savage air/naval battles. The Roman XIV Legion is wiped out in a fruitless, but fanatical defense of Tenerife. Irish and Swiss forces take part in the battle. Many of the Irish and Swiss are killed while attached to the Roman XIV Legion during the defense of Tenerife.
August 6-21
Prince Patrick marries the widow of Admiral Duncan Keaton I, Maria de Cherruca, daughter of the dictator of Peru.

2035

May 6 - June 23
UKA marines land on the island of Unalaska, attempting to seize the Dutch Harbor naval base from the Japanese. King Josh, dying of cancer, personally leads the invasion, attempting to throw the last Japanese troops off of North American soil before he dies.
June 23
With the last remaining Japanese troops pushed against the sea, King Josh personally storms three machine gun nests, apparently in an attempt to die in battle, but the Japanese keep missing him. On the forth attempt, with practically all the defenders already dead, Josh hurls himself into a Japanese bunker and explodes, presumably when the satchel charge he was carrying is hit by enemy fire.
July 1
Patrick Dolphin is crowned king of the United Kingdom of America in a solemn ceremony in Portland's Roman Catholic Cathedral. Maria is crowned queen beside him.

2036

March 11
Queen Maria, with the help of her lover, Brigadier General William Riddle, seized King Patrick and imprisoned him in the Palace in Portland, in a coup attempt. The coup failed, however, when the commander of the Naval Technical Services, Vice Admiral Squared, commandeered of a regiment of railroad artillery, and with two perfectly placed 14" shells, flattened the wing of the Palace that the rebellious queen was residing. Both Queen Maria and Riddle were killed and the revolt collapsed. Patrick, unharmed, retook control and purged the Guards command structure.

2037

March 13-14
The Second Battle of the Azores. Carrier and land-based aircraft destroy the Roman High Seas Fleet as it attempts to retake the Azores. The Italians lose three fleet carriers and transports carrying three legions of marines at the cost of the battleship HMS Queen Maureen I scuttled. The disaster provokes a coup in the Roman Empire that overthrows the old dynasty. The Emperor Vittorio II is shot while trying to quell a mutiny at the naval base at Taranto. A civil war ensues and the empire breaks up.
March 18
Marshal Giovanni Pigafetta captures Rome and is crowned Emperor Vittorio III by Pope Urban IX.
April 22
Afraid that their precious records will be captured and burned by the encroaching, hated Black Muslims, the Order of St. Leibowitz begins moving its records down the Mississippi from its old headquarters in Mount Vernon, Ohio, to Lake Keaton, Louisiana.
June 23
The new Caesar of Spain grants the UKA ownership Gibraltar in return for an alliance against the other Caesars.
July 16
Regretting his foolish decision to give away Gibralter, Spanish Caesar Alfonso begins to shell the new UKA enclave.
July 19
The UKA seizes Cadiz and invades southern Spain.
July-September
The UKA overruns the southern half of Spain as the demoralized ex-Roman Spanish Army collapses.
September 4
Spanish Caesar Alfonso signs an armistice, giving up half his kingdom in return for peace. The UKA agrees as it lacks enough troops to succesfully occupy all of Spain.
September 28
The Spanish Nationalists, under Ramon Zayas forms the government of the Republic of Spain, as a Class II Commonwealth State under the UKA.
October 2-26
The Spanish Nationalists adopt a liberal, republican constitution at a constitutional convention at Ronda.
November 7
Enrique Morillo is elected President of the Spanish Republic.
December 22
King Patrick married Margaret McKerral, daughter of then Prime Minister Valeria McKerral, and grand daughter of Marshal Cromett.

2038

February 11
Emperor Vittorio III invades southern France, trying to defeat a rebel caesar. Irish forces support Vittorio III's invasion of southern France, however Irish and Swiss officers are relieved of their command for their protests against the disastrous Pyrenees Offensive. Used as scapegoats for the continuous defeats by the Roman High Command, Irish and Swiss status within the Roman military begins to decline as Roman officers are replaced as commanders of mercenary forces and integrated into the Roman Army., leaving only the Irish Legion
April 26
Vittorio III's troops capture Toulouse. All of southern France now answers to Rome.
June 29
Prime Minister Valeria McKerral dies of cancer. The Constitutional-Monarchist Party replaces her with party whip David Borisov.
July 5 - August 24
Vittorio's Legions attempt to invade Spain. The Spanish Caesar Trajan II repulses the attack with heavy losses in the passes of the Pyrenees.

2039

June 8-July 29
The Portuguese War. The UKA conquers the Roman successor state of Portugal. Although many Irish and Swiss officers resign in protest, some are serving the Portuguese Caesar during the Portuguese War. Although they make a valiant defense among the Portuguese troops with the refusal of Rome to reinforce them sees their eventual defeat at the Battle of the Frontiers.
June 8-13
The Battle of the Frontiers. The Royal Army’s 1st Tank Brigade, 34th Infantry Division, and 82nd Airborne Brigade, break through the Portuguese Xth Legion.
August 2
Max Cromett II is made king of Portugal.
August 11
A UKA invasion force launches a surprise attack in Bristol successfully landing troops in an amphibious assault in connivance with the local duke. They proclaim Richard IV king of England. Successfully gaining a foothold in southern England near Bristol, UKA forces fight their way across England in several bloody and hard-fought battles. As the war goes on, the Irish military begin to recognize that no matter how good and tough their troops are on land, the much more powerful UKA Royal Navy and RAF have cut their forces in England off from any practical hope for resupply.
September 23
Hungary declares war on the Eastern Roman Empire as a result of the UKA naval victory off the Azores.

2040

May 18
President and Prophet Eugene Duane Wayne of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints dies.
May 24
Jeffrey W. Carr is elected President and Prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He promises to conduct a more confrontational policy to the UKA than his predecessor.
August 1
The Second Spanish War. The UKA launches a surprise attack, attempting to conquer the rest of Spain from its Roman rump government.
September 18
The last remnants of the Romano-Spanish Army flees into France.
November 1
King Patrick signs a bill that transfers all former Spanish territory on the mainland and the Balearic Islands to the Republic of Spain, which is recognized as a Class I Commonwealth state.

2041

January 9-27
In the Kingdom of Ireland, despite awareness that the military situation is rapidly growing hopeless , the Nationalists stubbornly refuse to negotiate peace with the UKA and Commonwealth. The war in England, now increasingly unpopular, provokes serious, nationwide protests throughout Ireland as the heavy-handed tactics used in the past by the government refuse to deter the Irish people. With the military refusing to take action against the protesting civilians, the Nationalists are forced to surrender their power as the New Sein Fein Party regains office on the 27th after nearly half a century in the opposition.
January 30
The Irish New Sein Fein Party agrees to an armistice, pending peace negotiations to be held under the auspices of the Czar of France in Caen.
April 8
The Kingdom of Ireland and the UKA and Commonwealth sign the Peace of Caen. Ireland agrees to leave England and Wales on the condition that Wales continues to retain its self-autonomous status, while in return UKA asserts the right to inspect any Irish merchant ship on the high seas, prohibit the Welsh from receiving any military assistance from the Irish, and prohibits any Irish national from serving the in armed forces of any other power. The latter provision of the treaty is flouted by many Irish soldiers embittered by the Irish government’s capitulation, who flock to join the Roman Empire’s Irish Legion. The UKA’s policy of boarding and inspecting Irish merchant ships, with the subsequent seizure of any vessel carrying what the UKA considers contraband, meaning any sort of military good being transported to anyone the UKA disapproves of leads to a continuing series of incidents.
July 8
The UKA invades the Imperial Roman territories in southern France from northern Spain.
July 11
Hungary and the Eastern Roman Empire agree to peace, with no substantial victory to either side, though the Romans agree to provide 500 45mm mortars and 100,000 rounds ammunition as a payment for peace., in order to free up troops to fight the UKA.
July 12
King Patrick is shot down over Italy while flying a fighter escort mission. The Imperial Romans capture him and threaten to execute him as a war criminal.
July 13
Queen Margaret threatens to drop a nuclear bomb on a Roman city if Patrick is harmed.
July 15
When Queen Margaret's threats are ignored by the Roman government, she orders a bomb dropped on the most important Roman supply center, about ten kilometers west of Turn and suggests that the next one will fall on Rome. The Romans promptly announce that Patrick will be well treated as a prisoner of war.
July 16
The Roman Army High Command finds that the loss of the railroad junction nuked at the queen’s orders has halted supplies and reinforcements for the front.
In Portland, Prime Minister David Borisov disappears without a trace.
July 19
Queen Margaret announces that David Borisov committed suicide on the night of the 19th while at the Bunker in Portland. His family receives a filled urn, the queen stating that his badly decayed body was cremated as a health hazard.
July 20
The UKA's Army Group A captures Toulouse.
The Constitutional-Monarchist Party elects Joseph Ableidinger prime minister to replace David Borisov.
July 27
The UKA's Army Group A captures Bordeaux. The Romans are reeling back, shedding thousands of stragglers.
July 29
Imperial Rome signs an armistice with the UKA, giving up all of France west of the Rhone.
August 15
The Empire of France is created out of the southern French lands occupied by the UKA, with Charlemagne Harbuck as Emperor.
September 3
The Irish merchant ship Brian Boru is stopped, boarded, searched, and seized by a UKA Royal Navy destroyer for carrying banned arms to Wales. The Irish government raises strong protests, even threatening to resume the war, but the UKA stands firm, and the Irish back down.

2042

February 5
UKA External Security determines that the Romans are planning an attack on the western part of France in the summer.
May 1
In a carefully planned pre-emptive attack, the Royal Army and Commonwealth Forces attack the Roman Empire, crossing the Rhone in many places. A simultaneous airborne drop seizes key Alpine passes, despite heavy losses among the troops of the 82nd Airborne Brigade.
May 2
UKA Marshal Gerald Simes threatens to shoot any Irish nationals serving in the Roman Army in contravention of the Treaty of Caen, but is angrily overruled by King Patrick, who has no tolerance for deliberate atrocity. Irish POWs are treaty identically with other Roman Army prisoners.
May 7
The Armies of the Sultanate of Gary sweep down from the Tennessee and Missouri borders into northern Alabama and Arkansas.
May 11
Gary troops seize and destroy Rome, Georgia.
May 15-18
The Young Guard Division is badly mauled while attempting to reach the 101st Air Landing Brigade.
May 20
The 1st Armored Division and Guard Armored Division liberate Nice. The Roman Army crumbles over the next several days, with entire divisions surrendering en masse.
May 23
Gary troops invade northern Louisiana. The same day, they reach and pillage Columbus, Georgia and destroy Fort Benning.
May 28
The Guard Armored Division enters Turin, well ahead of the rest of the Royal Army, and goes into defensive positions. King Patrick commands Company A of the Guard Tank Destroyer Battalion there.
May 30
The Gary Army of the Atlantic sets out from Columbus with the intent to take Savannah and drive the UKA out of the east coast. The UKA XII Corps under Lt. General Stephen Jordan covers the move.
June 1
The Battle of Alexandria (Louisiana). Gary troops shatter the Louisiana National Guard.
June 3
Jordan's troops defeat a column of Gary troops at Americus. Further enemy units, however, force him to withdraw to avoid encirclement.
June 4-8
The massed Roman Imperial Army Reserve, including no less than six tank divisions and five infantry legions, attacks Turin after isolating the Guard Armored Division. The Guards fight back desperately, inflicting horrific losses on their Roman attackers. The Romans fight their way into the heart of the city, but wreck themselves in the process. The Guard holds itself together and hangs on until relieved by the 1st Armored Division and the cadre of the Young Guard.
June 5
Jordan smashes an enemy brigade at Henderson, but resumes his retreat.
June 6
Islamic Nation troops reach the outskirts of Lake Keaton. Marines, national guards, and the Royal Navy's guns deter an attack. Thousands of refugees are loaded onto available cargo ships and sent to Puerto Rico. The Gary Army begins a low intensity siege, while plundering the countryside.
June 9
Jordan defeats nearly 20,000 Islamic Nation troops near Dublin, then retreats to avoid being cut off.
June 9-15
The UKA Ist Armored Corps annihilates the wrecked Roman Reserves, eliminating all but one of the Roman's remaining mobile divisions. Over 75,000 prisoners are bagged in the period.
June 15
Jordan again defeats an Islamic Nation column at Swainsboro, but is simply too weak to hold his ground.
June 16-30
The Royal Army overruns Italy down to just south of Florence.
June 23 Jordan retreats into the newly created Savannah Defenses dug by the nearly one quarter million refugees in the area. The Islamic troops, already exhausted by their rapid advance, decide not to attack. Foraging detachments overrun southern Georgia over the next several weeks. Reinforcements from Europe and Colombia are already pouring into the Savannah enclave.
July 1
King Patrick declares the Roman War over unilaterally. He invites the pope to create a government for unoccupied Italy. A Roman state lingers in Sicily and the Balkans.
July 2
King Patrick makes Erich Cromett King of Northern Italy.
July 3
King Patrick orders the transfer of the bulk of the Royal Army to North America. Thousands of troops begin to cross the Atlantic.
July 9
Two UKA infantry divisions are cut off and annihilated near Dothan, Alabama Province by an Islamic army as they try to escape to the coast in Florida. After this engagement, fighting grinds to a halt as both sides enter a state of logistical collapse.
September 11
Peace talks between the Gary Muslims and the UKA commence
September 16
The Peace of Savannah is signed, which leads to a Muslim withdrawal to Tennessee and Missouri. Both sides want a breather so they can attack the other from a position of strength.
December 13
Afraid that another Black Muslim offensive will take Lake Keaton, the leadership of the Order of St. Leibowitz moves its precious archives to Fall River, Massachusetts.

2043

May 30
The Pope and Caesar of Sicily agree to reunite their realms.

2044

May 15
The UKA launches a well-prepared attack on the Muslims. They smash the outer defense perimeter at Chattanooga.
June 3
The UKA attack reaches the Ohio River at Cincinnati. That night, the Guard Armored Division seizes the bridge at Lawrenceburg in a savage night battle.
June 4
A mass suicide air attack sinks many UKA riverine vessels and destroys the Lawrenceburg Bridge. UKA engineers slowly begin to build a new, floating bridge and keep the bridgehead supplied by ferry. The advance into Ohio stops.
June 5
Rear Admiral Booker T. Lincoln directs an airborne landing at Sandusky Ohio using a single battalion of the 82nd Airborne Brigade and the Airborne Armored Car Battalion. Task Force Lincoln is immediately sent west towards the enemy capital city of Joliet. With virtually all Islamic troops around Cincinnati and Louisville, Lincoln races across Northern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, equipping his forces with captured AFVs and trucks.
June 6
The Islamic Army counterattacks in large numbers and begin to crush the bridgehead. Two Islamic Tank Corps break through the 3rd Sardinian Division and nearly reach the Ohio River.
June 7
The Guard Armored Division counterattacks the enemy breakthrough within a few miles of the Lawrenceville bridge and rolls it back with heavy losses. The bridgehead remains precarious as pressure increases.
June 9
As Admiral Lincoln’s two battalions of troops approach Joliet, they have to fight their way through two hastily assembled enemy divisions, who find their complete lack of antitank weaponry fatal. As the Islamic Caliph tries to flee, the remainder of the 82nd Airborne Brigade is dropped on the enemy palace. The paratroopers capture the Muslim sultan and his advisors. Totally demoralized, the caliph orders his entire military to lay down their arms. Confused by the order, but totally conditioned to obedience, the Muslims unconditionally surrender.
June 14
King Patrick awards Rear Admiral Lincoln the title of Duke of Joliet in recognition for his spectacular success.
September 15
The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a multi-prong attack on the UKA, Colombia, and Taiwan. One IJN task force lands troops at Sitka, Juneau, and Ketchikan in Alaska Province, capturing those key ports with little resistance. The Japanese will continue to hold Alaska for the duration of hostilities.
September 15
On the same day, another IJN task force attacked the heavily fortified Lahaina Naval Base, landing several brigades of troops in attempt to take the fortifications by a coup-de-main, which fails. The Japanese settle down for a siege of the fortress.
September 15
A third IJN task force, disguised as a pair of civilian cargo ships, scuttle themselves in the narrowest part of the Nicaragua Canal, blocking traffic for months. The ships also carry a battalion of Japanese Marines who attempt to obstruct attempts to clear the wrecks.
September 15
A fourth Japanese task force is devastated in a night action of the north coast of Taiwan. The Taiwanese fleet sinks three Japanese light cruisers and six destroyers at the cost of three destroyers. Large numbers of Japanese transport ships are sunk following Taiwan's victory, thwarting a major invasion attempt.
September 17
A series of raids by land based Royal Navy dive-bombers and torpedo planes sink both Japanese aircraft carriers as well as many transport ships. The Japanese admiral in charge orders the task force in Hawaiian waters to flee back to Japan, abandoning the Japanese troops on Maui and any hope of capturing Lahaina by starving it out.
September 22
A Japanese infantry regiment, landed near the Argentine airbase on Truk Atoll, storms the base with heavy losses, wiping out the Argentine marine battalion garrison.
September 27
Growing ever more desperate, the Japanese commander on Maui orders an assault on Lahaina. Nearly one third of his forces are killed or wounded without making a dent on the defenses.
September 30
The Japanese again storm Lahaina without success. The Japanese launch banzai charge after banzai charge, wrecking their forces and burning up their ammunition.
November 5
The UKA submarine H.M.S. Erebus, under the command of Crown Princess Maureen, sinks the Japanese battleship Tosa as it approaches Truk Lagoon.
November 19
Strong UKA forces land at Lahaina and begin to drive the remaining Japanese on Maui up the main volcano.
November 23
The Japanese government agrees to an armistice based on the ante quo bellum.
December 20
The Japanese sign the Treaty of Bandung, ending the war with the UKA, Colombia, Argentina, and Taiwan. The Japanese are forced to return all captured territory and pay reparations in warships to all the victors.

2045

May 9
Prime Minister Joseph Ableidinger of the UKA retires due to ill health. The Constitutional-Monarchist Party elects a dark horse, Duchess Julie Harbuck-Hornak of Nicaragua, to replace him.
June 2
King Patrick flies to Roman to open a summit conference with Caesar Aurelian I.
June 3
Pope Urban IX seizes Patrick in conjunction with the emperor after a disagreement.
June 4
Roman Marshal Orsini leads a coup that frees King Patrick. Orsini takes the throne as Emperor Vittorio III. He and Patrick agree to demilitarize their common borders and normalize relations.
June 4
Pope Urban IX is killed by rebellious Roman legionaries during a rescue of the UKA's King Patrick..
July 19
A conclave elects Eberhard von Schwendt-Sommariva, Cardinal of Vienna, Pope John Paul III.
September 23
A revolt breaks out in the Northern Italian Army. King Erich barely escapes being toppled.
October 7
The last Northern Italian rebel troops surrender, after a swift response by units of the UKA?s 3rd Army. King Erich begins a careful purge of his forces.
November 27
The Order of St. Leibowitz creates a new university, the University of St. Leibowitz, at Fall River, Massachusetts. Classes are to begin in January 2046.
December 14
The Mongols, with the help of the Duke of Roumelia and connivance of the Turks, invade the Balkans and begin to swiftly overrun the Lower Danubian Frontier of the Roman Empire. King Erich allows Roman troops free transit through his realm to allow them to counter this invasion. At the same time, the UKA’s 3rd Army is deployed in the Alps to prevent a Mongol breakthrough in the case of a Roman disaster.
December 15
Numerous Roman units in the Balkans mutiny all across the Balkans in protest of the ineptitude of the Imperial Roman High Command’s defensive planning.
December 24
The Battle of Malta ends with the surrender of the last Turkish troops on the island to the Sardinian 185th Airborne Division and UKA Marines under Vice Admiral Booker T. Lincoln.
December 27
The last of the Roman mutineers in the Balkans return to duty, but only after the Danube frontier is lost to the Mongols.

2046

January 6
Pope John Paul III revokes the Imperial Bull and calls for a new spirit of internationalism in the Roman Catholic Church.

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