Taking of the Shields
Battle of the Shield Islands | |||||||||||||||||
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Conflict | War of the Five Kings | ||||||||||||||||
Date | +/- 300 AL | ||||||||||||||||
Place | Shield Islands, the Reach | ||||||||||||||||
Result | Greyjoy victory | ||||||||||||||||
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The Battle of the Shield Islands was the opening battle of Euron Greyjoy's new campaign after his ascension to King of the Iron Islands. It took place in and around the Shield Islands in the Reach.
Intro
When Euron Greyjoy was made King of the Iron Islands he promised to conquer the Seven Kingdoms and return the ironborn as a significant power in the Seven Kingdoms. His first strike would be a surprise attack on the unguarded Reach, whose armies were off fighting battles in the Crownlands and the Riverlands.[1]
Battle
On the Mander
King Euron sent Torwold Browntooth and the Red Oarsman down the river Mander to draw out the lords of the Shield Islands and back up the Mander to where the majority of the ironborn fleet was waiting. Of the Shield Islands fleet that engaged in battle, only a dozen got away from the trap. Among those killed was Ser Talbert Serry. The final total from the ironborn point of view was six ships lost and thirty-eight ships captured.[2]
On the Islands
All four islands were captured with severe losses to the inhabitants of the Shield Islands. Lord Humfrey Hewett and his family were captured. Ser Harras Harlaw landed at Grimston and planted his standard beneath the castle walls. He dared the defenders to face him. He killed every one who came out except for two, who yielded. After the seventh man was defeated the septon in the castle declared the gods had spoken and surrendered the castle.[3]
Aftermath
After the Shield Islands had been taken, King Euron raised four new lords, naming Nute the Barber Lord of Oakenshield, Andrik the Unsmiling Lord of Southshield, Maron Volmark Lord of Greenshield and Ser Harras Harlaw Lord of Greyshield. The lords sworn to Highgarden who had escaped destruction on the islands or the Mander retreated and waited for reinforcement from Highgarden. The peasant women and children whose husbands and fathers died during the battle were sold into slavery by the ironborn.[4] According to the tidings that reached King's Landing, Lord Chester and Lord Hewett were slain, Lord Grimm was held captive in his own castle and Lord Serry had fled to Highgarden with the remnants of his fleet.[5]
References and Notes
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 29, The Reaver
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 29, The Reaver
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 29, The Reaver
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 29, The Reaver
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 32, Cersei