Battle of Oxcross
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| Battle of Oxcross | |||||||||||||||||
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| Conflict | War of the Five Kings | ||||||||||||||||
| Date | 299 AL | ||||||||||||||||
| Place | Oxcross | ||||||||||||||||
| Result | Victory for House Stark | ||||||||||||||||
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The Battle of Oxcross was a event during the War of the Five Kings. The army of Robb Stark annihilated the Lannister army of Steffon Lannister who was killed.
After his victory in the Battle of the Whispering Wood and Battle of the Camps Robb Stark planned with Brynden Tully to take the war to the Western lands. As the main Lannister army was in the Riverlands the Western lands would be ligthly defended. Also the Lannisters would have to make a choice of trying to defend their lands, which would mean following Robb's army and leaving Kingslanding undefended or letting the Northern army plunder their lands at will.
The Stark - Tully army avoided the (strong) castles at the border and invaded the westerlands through an unknown path. Meanwhile Tywin Lannister had ordered his cousin Steffon Lannister to raise a new army. Steffon did this and was training the unexperienced recruits at the Oxcross. Thinking himself save in their own lands he did not bother to set enough watchers. At night Robb had his vainguard led by Brynden Tully killed the few guards and then attacked with the main army. The battle was more a rout then a regular battle as the untrained and surpriced Lannister could not put much resistance.
Steffon Lannister was killed by Rickard Karstark while running after his horse.
