Battle of Roseway
The Conflict
Battlefield
The Village of Roseway in Northern acentia was nothing of note in any history book written before the Twelve years war. it sat on top of a short plateau about 50 to 60 meters above the land to its south west and to the north and east, several large hills sat behind village as the plateau continued on well into Grabbenheim. surrounded by young forests and fields of tall grass, the area looks rather medieval but beautiful none the less. to the east and south of the village runs the river Donsle (at this point a stream). This stream has number of important bridges including a railroad bridge who's connected railroad (on a two meter high embankment) ran east-west before Turning north and running adjacent to the west side of the town. 
(above: The now unused railway, photo taken just south of the town facing north)
The creek, only about 5 feet at its deepest, ran from the northern mountains all the way to the area around Roseway and far to the south where it entered into the Bay of Acentia. within 10 miles of the village there were three bridges, two road bridges and one rail bridge... the latter being the only one capable of holding armor. Naturally this was a strategic consideration for both sides.
The Village itself was only around 25 to 30 structures at the time, mostly densely backed hoses with small gardens. The town was split down the middle by an east-west running main street that was barely wide enough for a truck at some points.
The Engagement
Mid day on the 30th of April, the men of the 2nd Battalion, 127th Infantry Regiment were ordered to make a general advance towards the village of Roseway nearly 5 miles distant to the east. The 657 men of the 2nd then proceeded down the main road into town on foot with their only current heavy support being a mortar platoon and a single light armored car with a 20mm auto-cannon. At approximately 2:17pm the battalion took some pot shots from Retreating enemy pickets... mostly light machine gun fire and scattered rifle shots. This initial fire resulted in one mortally wounded Acentian. After this the Battalion spread out into an open formation amongst the woods and on the road. At some point, D company managed to kill a sniper team to the south of the advance and C company stumbled upon the camp of the enemy picket where a small firefight insued and several Acentians were killed but the camp was surrounded and the picket was destroyed with 13 Grabbenheimers killed. A Company was the first to reach the creek at the rail bridge and as they approached, a pair of Grabbenheimer machine guns opened up from the opposite bank a several men collapsed. Medics ran to help the wounded and men yelled and dove for cover and bullets impacted the ground with a thump, thump, thump into the ground. Meanwhile, 400 meters to the south, B company listened to the sound of the fight and waited for orders as their inexperienced officers contemplated while the other companies kept up the advance with the sound of gunfire distant. Back at the rail bridge, many men were hit and the company had spread out and began to return fire. Frantically they called for help on the radio and soon enough from up the railroad came the Armored car. the vehicles auto-cannon opened up with a terrible rythmic booming like a metronome of death. Soon after this more gunfire was heard to the south as B company stormed across the shallow water just Down stream under heavy fire. several men dropped into the water but most made it to the birm on the other side of the river. However they too were pinned down almost immediately and began to have a Grenade dual with the Grabbenheimers which were now only feet from eachother.
Included under Conflict
Conflict Type
Battle
Battlefield Type
Land
Start Date
5/1/1953
Ending Date
5/3/1953
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