Fight by Deepwood Motte
Retaking of Deepwood Motte | |||||||||||||||||
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Conflict | War of the Five Kings | ||||||||||||||||
Date | 300 AC | ||||||||||||||||
Place | Deepwood Motte | ||||||||||||||||
Result | House Baratheon of Dragonstone Victory | ||||||||||||||||
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The Retaking of Deepwood Motte was an event in the late stages of the War of the Five Kings during Stannis Baratheon's attempt to gain the Northmens' allegience by driving the invading Ironborn out of the region.
Prelude
Stannis Baratheon, under the advice of Jon Snow, goes west to take Deepwood Motte, held by the Ironborn under Asha Greyjoy. While moving through the mountains, Stannis wins the support of the mountain clans Flint, Wull, Norrey and Liddle, who remain loyal to the legacy of Ned and Robb Stark.
Battle
Stannis, now with an additional 3,500 men, attacks Deepwood Motte. Asha, seeing she is outnumbered, decides to retreat back to her longships. However the ironborns' movement is slowed due to the darkness, the Northmen by comparison know the woods well and are not hindered in the same way. The Northmen sneak up on the Ironborn, slaying their sentries and closing in around them. The Ironborn fight back fiercely, but they are surrounded and outnumbered. Eventually they are all subdued. Quenton and Dagon the Drunkard, distant Greyjoy cousins, are both slain. Meanwhile Alysane Mormont hid fighters in fishing sloops is able to sneak up on the longships off the strand, capturing or burning them.
Aftermath
Stannis takes several of the ironborn captives such as Asha Greyjoy. He frees Sybelle Glover and her children then returns Deepwood Motte to House Glover. This wins Stannis much popular support in the North.