County Of Tripoli
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2017 2:59 am
Brief History before current events. Questions are more than welcome, out foriegn office is open to all
July 4 1976, The world is fixed on the celebrations in America. Tall ships in New York harbor are shown across the globe. However, over 5,000 miles away in a sleepy Lebonese harbor where the new civil war seems to have calmed down, four ships enter the harbor flying the flag of Italy. All are elderly vessels,2 are small patrol vessels one is a former Corvette the fourth is an American built LST. As the sun rises their colors come down and a flag not seen in these lands in over one hundred years comes flying up the shafts of all four vessels. The flag of the Knights Templar. The LST hits the beach and the bow doors swing open, men and vehicles come streaming out, racing to points predetermined with swiftness only professionals muster. They soon have all the main buildings in hand, one small column swiftly are even seen racing off to Rene Mowad Air Base, to secure the vital airstrip. At the same time word filters through the international press that the Maronite Christians have all but abandoned the South of the country beyond Beirut. A ceasefire between them and the Druze is in place in the North.
The Next day a press conference is held in the main government building in Tripoli, the man speaking claims the centuries old title of Grandmaster of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon. He is reclaiming the former lands of the County of Tripoli, sans those lands now held by the nations of Turkey and Syria. His rule is not subject to aLoy law except those given by Rome. He says copies of his charter and Papal Bull will be available for all to have at the end; he has come to reclaim the County to give safe haven to Christians and others alike. The Pope could not sit idly by and watch fellow believers, whether they acknowledged his primacy or not to continue to be mistreated by unbelievers. He then takes questions. His name is Everard de Croan. Who is financing this? The Church and the Templar treasury. Is he taking sides in the fight? No, he will defend his realm though. All are welcome as long as they obey the law. He also adds that in the next several months there will be recruitment offices opening in all good Christian lands and the original rules for joining are still going to be enforced.
For 5 months there is no real test of the new nation until the Syrians decide to try and take the Bekka Valley. They are repulsed three times with heavy losses by the crack troop of the County. The original battalion that was used to secure the nation is slowly used to expand the forces to more modest levels but the core of that battalion remains so the County has a quick, expert reaction force to respond with. Soon they sign a mutual defense pact with the nation of Israel. In 1982 when Israel finally decides to do something about the basic anarchy that has been festering in the remaining part of Lebanon and pushes north the County sends a small force into the country to clear out some of the PLO around Beirut. The Syrians take this as a declaration of war as they had basically been running the country as a client state. The two allies saw this coming and pound the Syrians hard with Israel not taking any territory but the County using this as an excuse to expand to its traditional border, along with it an expansion of its armed forces to cover the new territory.
Modern Day, the county sits stable and not looking to expand territory but will send out force to help if asked not just from Rome or Israel but also from the countries that it has seen the most economic and emigration from-United Kingdom,France and Germany. The Arab Spring did not catch them too much off guard but it did require a call up of part of the reserve to deal with the border issues.
July 4 1976, The world is fixed on the celebrations in America. Tall ships in New York harbor are shown across the globe. However, over 5,000 miles away in a sleepy Lebonese harbor where the new civil war seems to have calmed down, four ships enter the harbor flying the flag of Italy. All are elderly vessels,2 are small patrol vessels one is a former Corvette the fourth is an American built LST. As the sun rises their colors come down and a flag not seen in these lands in over one hundred years comes flying up the shafts of all four vessels. The flag of the Knights Templar. The LST hits the beach and the bow doors swing open, men and vehicles come streaming out, racing to points predetermined with swiftness only professionals muster. They soon have all the main buildings in hand, one small column swiftly are even seen racing off to Rene Mowad Air Base, to secure the vital airstrip. At the same time word filters through the international press that the Maronite Christians have all but abandoned the South of the country beyond Beirut. A ceasefire between them and the Druze is in place in the North.
The Next day a press conference is held in the main government building in Tripoli, the man speaking claims the centuries old title of Grandmaster of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon. He is reclaiming the former lands of the County of Tripoli, sans those lands now held by the nations of Turkey and Syria. His rule is not subject to aLoy law except those given by Rome. He says copies of his charter and Papal Bull will be available for all to have at the end; he has come to reclaim the County to give safe haven to Christians and others alike. The Pope could not sit idly by and watch fellow believers, whether they acknowledged his primacy or not to continue to be mistreated by unbelievers. He then takes questions. His name is Everard de Croan. Who is financing this? The Church and the Templar treasury. Is he taking sides in the fight? No, he will defend his realm though. All are welcome as long as they obey the law. He also adds that in the next several months there will be recruitment offices opening in all good Christian lands and the original rules for joining are still going to be enforced.
For 5 months there is no real test of the new nation until the Syrians decide to try and take the Bekka Valley. They are repulsed three times with heavy losses by the crack troop of the County. The original battalion that was used to secure the nation is slowly used to expand the forces to more modest levels but the core of that battalion remains so the County has a quick, expert reaction force to respond with. Soon they sign a mutual defense pact with the nation of Israel. In 1982 when Israel finally decides to do something about the basic anarchy that has been festering in the remaining part of Lebanon and pushes north the County sends a small force into the country to clear out some of the PLO around Beirut. The Syrians take this as a declaration of war as they had basically been running the country as a client state. The two allies saw this coming and pound the Syrians hard with Israel not taking any territory but the County using this as an excuse to expand to its traditional border, along with it an expansion of its armed forces to cover the new territory.
Modern Day, the county sits stable and not looking to expand territory but will send out force to help if asked not just from Rome or Israel but also from the countries that it has seen the most economic and emigration from-United Kingdom,France and Germany. The Arab Spring did not catch them too much off guard but it did require a call up of part of the reserve to deal with the border issues.