The Culling of the Caltu |
IC Date: | 09 Juillet, 1874 IE |
Related Information: | BB 17/211 Closing the Vice |
Last week, the problem of the Caltu in the hills to the east of Fortress Duval were decisively dealt with. The Royal Order and Regiment of the Burnished Spur led by Lord Wulfred de Ufford of Aspendon, was joined by a detachment of the Port of Duval Militia commanded by Sir Bethany Tarris, a company of Repton Highlanders led by Captain Sir Scarlett Chandus and some Kaedon Siegebreakers led by Viscount Dertan Kaedon himself. Sir Brennart Sokar, evidently Sir Bethany's betrothed, was also present in the fighting line.
Acting on intelligence gathered by the reconnaissance elemnts of the Burnished Spurs, the rest of the regiment and other forces surrounded the hills from which the Caltu had been raiding the lands of Sir Bethany, cutting them off with a mix of pike and shot. The Knights of the Spurs under Lord Wulfred and the Siegebreakers under Viscount Dertan and Sir Brennart then conducted a daring frontal attack on the camp in difficult terrain, while the Port of Duval militia under Sir Bethany and the Repton Highlanders under Captain Sir Scarlett envelopped the Caltu from the flanks. After a short battle where the Caltu were decisively routed by the heavier, disciplined soldiers, they threw down their arms and surrendered.
Out of the original 120 Caltu warriors, two score were struck down, a further score wounded and 60 left standing. At the orders of the nobles, these were split, with 30 warriors and the 20 wounded going with Sir Bethany under promise to submit and join her militia, and a further 30 joining Viscount Dertan to return to County Kaedon. All of the non-combatants and the Caltu slaves, nearly all of them residents of Sir Bethany's lands, returned to Duval with her.
With this thorn in the side of Duval finally pulled forth, the Fortress can concentrate on the next enemy - the Empire of Partharia, still waiting somewhere across the Great Salt.