Battle of Dagon
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An advisory group of Imperial commanders accompanied the inexperienced Herbert, but half of these were chosen by Herbert and were his personal drinking friends. | An advisory group of Imperial commanders accompanied the inexperienced Herbert, but half of these were chosen by Herbert and were his personal drinking friends. | ||
| - | The FPA force that engaged was commanded by [[Lin Pao]], with [[Yūsuf Topparol]] as Chief of Staff, and was approximately half the size of the Imperial force, comprising | + | The FPA force that engaged was commanded by [[Lin Pao]], with [[Yūsuf Topparol]] as Chief of Staff, and was approximately half the size of the Imperial force, comprising 25,000 ships and 2,500,000 soldiers. |
The two forces first made contact on July 14. | The two forces first made contact on July 14. | ||
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The Battle of Dagon was the first battle of the first FPA–Imperial War. The Alliance forces won a decisive victory against the Empire despite being outnumbered.
History
In 640 UC (331 IC / 3440 CE), Friedrich III appointed his 3rd son, Grand Duke Herbert, Fleet Admiral and Commander in Chief of an Expeditionary Force to subjugate the newly contacted Free Planets Alliance, which the Empire refused to acknowledge as a legitimate political entity and would always refer to as "rebels". The Expeditionary Force numbered 52,600 ships and 4,408,000 soldiers.
An advisory group of Imperial commanders accompanied the inexperienced Herbert, but half of these were chosen by Herbert and were his personal drinking friends.
The FPA force that engaged was commanded by Lin Pao, with Yūsuf Topparol as Chief of Staff, and was approximately half the size of the Imperial force, comprising 25,000 ships and 2,500,000 soldiers.
The two forces first made contact on July 14.
By 24 July 640 UC, the Imperial Expeditionary Force had been annihilated. The remnants of the Expeditionary Force that returned to Odin numbered only 368,200 for a survival rate of 8.3%. By contrast, 2,340,000 FPA soldiers survived, for a survival rate of 93.6%.
The Battle of Dagon, apart from being the first major Imperial military defeat since the founding of the Empire, also changed the course of the Imperial succession. Herbert, who was being groomed for the role of Crown Prince to replace his ailing eldest brother, fell from favor and was placed under house arrest and forced to accept psychiatric treatment.
