The Crossing at Sosaaz Tin'Sosaaz

{
  "aliases": [
    "Tin\u0027Sosaaz",
    "The Red Shallows"
  ],
  "content": {
    "consequence": "Sosaaz is the decision point of the entire war. Having lost four Juns in a day, the Zegtuzsos leadership concluded that they could not meet the Grand Army in open ground and withdrew into the fens and the cliff country. Everything that made the next thirty-five years slow follows from a battle that took less than a day.",
    "engagement": "Revakgol crossed on a broad front rather than a narrow one, accepting higher losses in the water in exchange for denying the defenders a point to concentrate against. Kori-duelists went across first and held the far bank while the fording columns came over behind them. The Zegtuzsos committed their reserve early against what they read as the main thrust and found it was one of five.",
    "overview": "A year after Vekh\u0027Zural, the main body of the Grand Army forced the Medestul at a fording point below the confluence. Four Juns contested the crossing under a Mulaagjun of the river clans. They were broken inside a day.\n\nImperial doctrine treats Sosaaz as the model river assault and it is the first action in every Saarotsos officer\u0027s training.",
    "two_names": "The Red Shallows is not a poetic name. The Zegtuzsos who recorded it were counting bodies in water shallow enough to walk."
  },
  "id": "military_conflicts.crossing_at_sosaaz",
  "meta": {
    "notes": "PROPOSAL, not canon. \u0027Sosaaz\u0027 is a generate_names candidate (sigtaara). Tin = river, stream, current.",
    "status": "proposed"
  },
  "name": "The Crossing at Sosaaz",
  "native": "Tin\u0027Sosaaz",
  "relations": {
    "belligerents": [
      "The Grand Army",
      "Coalition of Tribes"
    ],
    "location": [
      "The Medestul"
    ],
    "parent_conflict": [
      "Great Wyrm War",
      "history.events.the_great_wyrm_war"
    ]
  },
  "sources": {},
  "subtype": null,
  "summary": "First pitched engagement of the Great Wyrm War, 1270 AZN. A contested river assault below the Medestul confluence that the Zegtuzsos lost badly enough to abandon open battle for the rest of the war.",
  "tags": [
    "great_wyrm_war",
    "third_age"
  ],
  "timeline": {
    "year_end_AZN": 1270,
    "year_end_MV": 5870,
    "year_start_AZN": 1270,
    "year_start_MV": 5870
  },
  "type": "military_conflict"
}