Cronan Beaver War

The Cronan Beaver War, known in the Cape as the Great Beaver War, was a conflict between Urcea and Kiravia in southeastern Crona during the 1740s. Due to multiple Urcean commitments in the ongoing War of the Caroline Succession, Kiravia sensed an opportunity to seize Urcea's Cronan colonies and declared war. Cartadania joined the war in early 1747. The war was largely fought on the Odoneru with limited land skirmishes in Urcean territory in Crona. By the end of the fighting, most of the Urcean settlements were blockaded by sea with the exception of New Archduchy, which was separated from the other territories of the Julian Belt. The Urceans, largely outmatched by Kiravian and Cartadanian colonial naval forces, decided to avoid further fighting and sued for peace. Urcea ceded the colonies in exchange for solidifying the boundaries of New Archduchy and recognition of Leo IV as Emperor of the Levantines, a subject of the War of the Caroline Succession.

Despite being a limited engagement colonial exchange, the War has taken an outsized importance within Capetian history as a major world event in which Urceans were forever ejected from southeast Crona. It also laid the groundwork for the establishment of Paulastra, which formed in part from the territory of the Julian Belt.

Nomenclature
The term "Beaver War" was popularized in the Urceopolis press about what was mostly viewed as a side conflict in the War of the Caroline Succession. The term originated as a result of a fictitious account of the beginning of the war, that a Urcean hunting party had chased beavers into Kiravian colonial territories. According to the account, the hunters were considered poachers by local Kiravian authorities and shot at, with Kiravian authorities soon launching full scale skirmishing parties into Urcean territory. The story was a popular invention around the perceived importance of beaver pelts within the Julian Belt.