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06 Maestro -> RE: Janissaries Forward! (6/11/2010 7:42:23 AM)
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December 1801
Strategic View
The Spanish/Ottoman War was a very brief affair that involve Ottoman forces moving into position to attack, but never having the chance. The Turk/Spanish Alliance was cancelled in the late summer, followed by a DoW by Turkey in September. The war was official by October.
The Egyptian Army was loaded on the Turkish Fleet at the beginning of the war. The Plan was to sail to Valencia or South France to disembark. The overriding consideration in this operation was to have a safe landing zone. The Ottoman Army cannot make an amphibious assault-it lands disordered and would be massacred. I needed to land in a French controlled province-or at least one where no Spanish forces were capable of reaching for at least one turn. The area would also have to be supplied, which I could handle-even across the entire Mediterranean Sea-for a few months anyway.
The Invasion Fleet move only about halfway across the sea in the initial phase. Another Army was moving as quickly as possible to West Egypt to invade Tripoli. In November, the Fleet was ordered back to the Adriatic and to land at Anacona while the forces in Africa reached their jump off point. By December, the battles were to begin in earnest. The first Army was then going to be transported by the Fleet across the Adriatic to reinforce the Egyptian Army which would have been in Italy already. This would have been a force of over 200,000 men in Italy to begin an unstoppable drive on Madrid.
The great surprise came at the end of November;Spain Surrendered to Turkey and England-but not to France. Turkey ended up with the cheapest victory imaginable, but Spain just gained 350 experience points. France was now once again fighting against Spain alone. France was now in a very good position to achieve victory, but the back stabbers to the north were still holding the dagger....
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