December 4th, 1791

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 My forces mushed through the cold snow... The promotion came with... More disaster.. I was assigned to lead a assault on a British Convoy, its forces was large. I believe... 2,000 infantry, 5,000 Loyalists (From all British Colonies), and 3,000 Hesse Mercenary's... I simply only had a force of 1,000 Infantry and 2,000 Militia... Well not considering my near allied forces of 4,000 French... I ordered my troops to meet with them, but when I got there, only 2,000 freezing, injured, and starving French soldiers were there. They said they were assaulted by the natives. I remember one conversation....


                 "What happened here?" I demanded


"Damned Indians, Monsieur.." He replied, speaking english


"Where is your commanding officer?" I then asked


"He.. Was butchered by the Indians..." He said



The soldier pointed to a tree where the officer, along with several Generals (British and Spanish) were hanged. I saw them, and then turned to the back portion of it, seeing General Isan Norvik, a Artillery General in the... Russian army?! I realised, looking at the near by bodies that the French were hiding something. I looked around more and saw a dead body. I ran up to it, and pulled him over... It was another Russian... I demanded from the highest (living) ranking french soldier for a response. He said that a army of 200,000 Russian soldiers arrived 2 months ago... And that 5,000 soldiers met there, demolishing their forces.. He said about 20,000 Russian soldiers arrived afterwards to help and that they were further into the forest. 

So, a hour passes, the french are fed (Somewhat), and we leave looking for the russian force. We find another massacre, 12,000 living Russian soldiers, 60,000 dead.. Most were Partisan soldiers from russia (20,000) while the rest were a mix of Indians and British (25,000 Natives, 15,000 British). We wasted no time, and got the living soldiers on the move.. If we did stay there, I believe Morale would drop indefinetly..

So now, I have of 20,000 men against a force of 10,000. I ordered for them to encircle the British forces. They did so. I then ordered to fire...


They did, but one thing I failed to realize was that the british forces were trained, while my forces were not. They also had a new force of 25,000 men. But you see, we fired the first shot, killing many of the 35,000 force. I believe we killed 12,000, luckily, and injured 2,000. But, when they returned fire, 14,000 men died and 5,000 were injured. I ordered another volley which killed 10,000 (The 2,000 Injured died), and then ordered a charge. We surprised the british forces, killing 8,000 and having the rest desert. At the end of the battle, my force was merely a force of 9,000 men, most of the French died, along with the militia, but I had still a strong presence of American Infantry


When I returned, the French honored me with the Order of Military Merite due to me avenging the large army in the North.

Lieutenant Isaiah Parden, Officer of the La nouvelle armée française d'AmériqueWhere stories live. Discover now