Battle of Ayermer (1936): Difference between revisions

|date =  August - November 1936

The island of Ayermer had long been administered as the Ayermer Colony by [[Burgundie]] since at least [[1616]] by the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Ularien Trading Company]], which was renamed the Marialanii Ularien Trading Company in [[1705]]. The company maintained the island of Ayermer as a trading post and as a part of [[La Garrote]] to control trade and fight piracy in the [[Pukhtun Sea]]. This primarily impacted [[Corumm]]ese trading traversing westerly. Attempts were made by the [[Corumm|Qian dynasty]] to take the island, most notably in the 1685 [[Siege of Ayermer]] which was ultimately repulsed. Corummese naval merchant fleet developed alternate routes to the east to avoid Ayermer and while relations remained sour, Audonia was a market it could not exploit. Burgundie's mercantile outpost in southern [[Rusana]] fell around 1802 but the island continued to be strongly held and supplied from Pukhgundi. The development of new naval technologies and sea based artillery and the introduction of these technologies into the Corummese arsenals in the late 1800's and early 1900's gave military planners new hopes for taking the island in a future war. At the onset of the [[Second Great War]] a secret protocol was signed with the [[Caphiria|Imperium of Caphiria]] that stipulated that the Qian would initiate an attack on Burgundie's possessions in [[Alshar]], and in exchange three fully equipped battleships(originally meant for [[Zaclaria]]) would be transferred to Corumm. These vessels would have to traverse a circuitous route and would not be able to participate in the battle.