The Reach

299 AC

 * Mace Tyrell arranged to marry his daughter Margaery to Edric Baratheon, securing an alliance with the Crown. He then sent troops to the capital to take the city for the new King.
 * House Tyrell found itself high in the King’s favour and has much influence at court. Lord Stannis attempted to limit the Tyrells growing power, but was largely unable to do so.

353AC - The Targaryen Invasion

 * Lord Gareth Tyrell sent an army north to King’s Landing to assist with the Targaryens invading the Crownlands. The Reachmen arrived at the capital and set sail on the Royal Fleet in an effort to besiege and recapture Dragonstone after Maekar Targaryen captured the castle.
 * There were few ships moored in the Dragonstone port, and the castle was immediately besieged. Word reached the combined Reach, Stormlands and Crownlander army that Maekar had captured Duskendale and would doubtlessly be preparing to march for the capital. Lord Loras Baratheon ordered that the Master of Ships take a force of ships to occupy the Targaryen fleet at Duskendale to keep them from sailing. Tyrell troops joined the Master of Ships, leaving the Stormlands to take Dragonstone back.
 * The Tyrell soldiers and the Royal Fleet arrived at Duskendale to besiege the city, but found it had already been besieged by Lord Lannister only days before. Reinforcements arrived from Dragonstone after the castle had been reclaimed and soon after, King Raymont marched out from King’s Landing to take the city back.
 * The Master of Ships attacked from the sea while King Raymont led an assault from the land. The Master of Ships took the city’s harbour, but was slain in the process. King Raymont, on the other hand, fared much better, and captured the Dun Fort almost with ease. Ser Lucion Stackspear killed Maekar Targaryen in single combat and the Targaryen army laid down their arms and surrendered.

358 AC The War of the Redaxe Raiders

 * In the last moons of 357 AC, a bandit band began gathering, gaining some notoriety in the foothills in the Red Mountains. Led by a man called Robard Redaxe, the band became known as the Redaxe Raiders.
 * By the 4th Moon of 358 AC, Robard's band had grown immensely, forming a small army. Now nearly 2500 men strong, they seized control of several villages under the rule of Houses Mullendore and Tarly.
 * Lord Elwood Tyrell, son of Gareth Tyrell, and new Lord of the Reach, sent his brother, Ser Bennarion Tyrell, to answer the growing threat of the Redaxe Raiders. In the 5th Moon, calling on several of their vassals to muster their levies, including Lord Samwell Tarly, Bennarion assembled an army of 5000 men and marched south to the foothills of the Red Mountains.
 * Learning that the Redaxe Raiders had set their sights on Fox Field, a small village on Mullendore lands, Bennarion led the vanguard of the army, 600 strong, ahead of the main force to the village. There, he and his men dug in and fortified the village against the Raiders approaching assault.  800 Raiders attacked the village four times over the next two days, and were repelled each time by the Reach forces.  At last, the Raiders fled into the foothills.  The Battle of Fox Field ended with the Reach Army victorious.
 * In command of the rearguard, Lord Samwell Tarly discovered a contingent of the Redaxe Raiders attempting to sneak up on the main body of the Reach Army. Marching the rearguard out to meet the would-be ambushers, the two sides met in a bloody clash.  Eventually, Lord Tarly and his stalwart fighters defeated the bandits.  The Battle of the Hidden Hosts was another hard-won Reach victory.
 * After Fox Field was secured and the Reach army saved from ambush, the assembled lords gathered to counsel how to best finish the now-reeling Redaxe Raiders. Some insisted on a relentless pursuit, others on waiting for the Raiders to emerge again.  Ser Bennarion devised a plan of his own, to draw the bandits out of hiding.
 * Sending a small part of his army toward a Redaxe-occupied village, Bennarion managed to pique the Raiders' desire for revenge. Led this time by Robard Redaxe himself, 1500 Raiders attacked the diversionary force, who promptly fled toward the nearby foothills.  With the smell of blood on their air, the Raiders pursued the Reach troops to a steep hill.  There, on either side of its crests, waited the bulk of the Reach Army, the right flank led by Bennarion, and the left by Sam Tarly.  Flanking the deceived Raiders, the two armies met in a bloody final clash.  After a long and difficult battle, the Raiders finally were beaten when their numbers were cut down and Bennarion slew Robard Redaxe in combat.  The remaining Raiders surrendered, and were executed for their crimes.  The War of the Redaxe Raiders was finally over, and the Reach Army had won.

360-361 AC Reach-Westerlands Border War

 * The Reach began to make moves against the West, who were still held poorly in opinion. Several lords from the Reach marched armies north and seized Western lands along the border of the Reach and West.
 * Lannister petitioned the Crown and asked them to step in and order the Tyrells to disband their armies. The plea fell upon deaf ears and Lord Lannister raised an army to combat the invaders.
 * Tyrell Lord Elwood saw a chance for the Reach to gain further lands and power by taking Westerlands bordering the Reach. He sent Lord Bennarion Tyrell, his most trusted general, to seize these lands from the West. Bennarion did so, joined by several other Reachlords (even giving command to an auxiliary army to Lord Tarly), and captured Crakehall as the pinnacle of his offensive.
 * At this time, concern crept up in the court at King’s Landing, and Elwood sent Bennarion to quell any fears there, believing he could finish the war on his own. Because of this, the Reach’s best general was missing when the Lord "old wardog," the Lord of Casterly Rock, Lucion Lannister handed the Reach its first defeat in battle near Cornfield.
 * With impressive speed and efficiency, Lord Bennarion gathered reinforcements and marched to relieve Crakehall, but arrived too late. Instead, he moved to recapture the castle, but was taken by surprise when sly Lord Lucion the Bold marched his forces out to meet him in the field. The battle quickly turned against the Reachmen, and Lord Elwood called the retreat.
 * Lucion Lannister was Injured on the fields in the battle when his horse was struck by an arrow, the fleeing beast threw Lord Lucion, breaking the aging lords legs and several ribs. Lucas Lannister was killed during the same battle.