The Last Stand of The Pontifical Pomeranian Guards (1583) OUTDATED AS HELL

The Last Stand of The PPG at Berlin

Date: August 19, 1583, 2:30 PM
War: War of the Empires, 1572

Result: French Victory
• Mass-pillaging as France pursued it’s fast attack policy
• Thousands of civilians reportedly missing
• Security of at the time King of Lemsrow, Schellfin Schleswig III
• Sacrifice of a few hundred PPG
• Treaty of Schleswig-Holstein

Territorial Changes:
- Fall of Berlin

Belligerents

Defenders:
Kingdom of Hannover (Lemsrow)
Kingdom of Pomerania (Lemsrow)
Kingdom of Brandenburg (Lemsrow)
Kingdom of Prussia (Lemsrow)
Confederation of Southern Germany

Aggressors:
French Empire
Kingdom of Italy
British Empire
Spanish Empire

Strength:

Defenders:
17,193 GAF (German Armed Forces)
1000 PPG (Pontifical Pomeranian Guard)
201 Artillery Corps

Aggressors:
91,293 (combined forces of FE, KoI, BE and SE)
514 Artillery Corps

Casualties:

Defenders:
14,272 killed in combat
1,283 missing
953 PPG killed

Aggressors:
52,282 killed
10,283 missing

The Last Stand of the Pontifical Pomeranian Guard was a brutal fight in August 19, 1583, which lasted for 4 hours. In that time, 953 guards were killed in trying to save the then King of Lemsrow (Lemsrow was a monetary union at the time, but there was no official agreement to unite the kingdoms of Pomerania, Brandenburg, Hannover and Prussia) Schellfin Schleswig III, and a total of 8,293 of the enemy forces. Combined from the Spanish, British, French and Italian empires, they suffered a total 2073.25 casualties from each empire. Dividing the average men lost by 4 hours, each hour meant that the enemy forces lost were 518.31.

Before the War of The 1st Coalition, tensions were rising over the dispute of Wallonia, a French-speaking region of Belgium, part of the Kingdom of Hannover which at the time owned the entire territory of Benelux, a region consisting of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Napoleon was sworn in on July 21, 1583, a few weeks before the War of The 1st Coalition, the Holy Roman Empire was a superpower, spanning from the Northern tip of Estonia to the town of Odessa in Southern Ukraine, and spanning west from the very western edge of Belgium to Rostov in Southern Russia.

At the time, the HRE was facing rebellious provinces and territories in Eastern Europe, so they had sent 250,000 men to suppress the rebellions, Napoleon saw this as a weakness and began to prepare and build more artillery. On the night of August 1, 1583, the first bullet was fired, the next day, French allies had joined the war, thus starting the War of The 1st Coalition. Within a few weeks, the HRE was forced to retreat and abandon Western Germany, setting up on the Rhine River. Meanwhile in Eastern Europe, they had recalled troops to the frontline, which would take a year to reach the front.

Napoleon used this opportunity to bombard the HRE’s positions relentlessly until they made a breakthrough as forces in Cologne faced attrition due to the bombing of an important bridge, they had to abandon defenses in Cologne, but the HRE wasn’t all weak, they managed to produce some artillery and defeated the French in Strasbourg, pushing the French back into Alsace-Lorraine. This was not only the HRE victory as strategic artillery forced the French back into the Belgian region of Flanders, causing the French to pull resources to the Dutch front.

But the French managed to secure decisive victories in Baden-Würtemmburg as resource dwindled on that part of the front. With the Baden-Würtemmburg Line out, the GAF were forced to set up on the border of Bavaria, but the HRE secured another victory when it broke through Northern Alsace-Lorraine, causing French forces to retreat, nearly surrounding 93 French Corps. In the Benelux front, after months of sieging in The Hague, French forces retreated to the French-Belgian border after constant artillery bombardment by the GAF forced the French Corps to retreat in order to prevent attrition.

But a mutiny in Northeastern Germany meant that resources from the GAF would be pulled, causing onset attrition, which meant that the fronts would eventually collapse and pull back but not being prepared before the Coalition came. With that realization, they listened to the demands of the mutiny, and improved it from there. But it would take 1 year to move resources back to the front, by then. The frontline was comparable to the French borders.

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