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Siege of Frankfurt
| Siege of Frankfurt |
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| French, Dutch, and Austrian soldiers pouring into Frankfurt |
| Date | 23 January 2021 | |
| Location | The Rhineland, Frankfurt | |
| Result | French Victory • Frankfurt captured • Heavy German node loss |
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| Belligerents | ||
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 FranceSupported by: •  Netherlands •  Russia •  Serbia •  Austria-Hungary |  Germany |
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| Commanders and leaders | ||
| stryker123abc Falklands TrenchByte TheSpookyBone | LeiteArts10 FireRest125 |
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| Strength | ||
| 55 (At peak) | 35 (At peak) |
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The Siege of Frankfurt, or, the First Franco-German War, was a major conflict of the first war day of the thirty fourth iteration - ww1 - of /int/craft.
Prelude
Early on Saturday the 23rd of January, French Emperor Stryker and German Kaiser LeiteArts agreed to have a war. This decision followed a convoluted sequence of alliance crafting, betrayal, and, conspiracy, in which an initial plan to launch a coalition war against the Norse was betrayed by Leitearts10, and was further complicated by the discovery of a looming betrayal of France by Stongduke to Germany. This betrayal was intuited by the French following a string of suspicious actions undertaken by Stongduke - leading the French city of Dijon - including banning access to the city, and being broadly uncommunicative. The following war inaugurated a conflict which was to last for the entirety of the server, lasting a total of four war days, for 24 hours of war in total.
Battle on the Rhine
The war began with the French and German armies clashing on the border of France and Germany, around Alsace Lorraine. A thick,