Daenerys' Invasion of Cape Wrath

Conflict: The War of Dragon and Stag

Date: 302 AC

Location: Cape Wrath

Result: House Targaryen (Daenerys) Victory

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Combatants

House Targaryen (Daenerys) ... House Baratheon of Storm's End

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Commanders

Queen Daenerys Targaryen (nominal) ... Hand of the King Stannis Baratheon
Red Priests

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Strength

50,000... 20,000

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Casualties

5000... 4000

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Prelude

Thanks to the truce, Stannis kept most of his forces along the Mander and the border with the Reach, leaving minimal forces to defend his home territories. But as soon as he heard, he gathered as many men as he could find and rushed back to face the invaders

The Battle

Lord Stannis had no time to pick the battlefield or prepare when he arrived, and the Red Army barrelled into his, driving his forces back from Cape Wrath and into the Kingswood, despite inflicting many casualties on the attackers.

The Aftermath

Thanks to the success of the Red Priests, Daenerys was able to land her best forces unopposed. They also clashed with Stannis and drove him back into the Kingswood. However, thanks to some misleading negotiations by Queen Arya Stark and the boasts of her Red Priest commanders, Daenerys mistakenly believed that they had destroyed the Stormlander army and killed Lord Stannis, a fact she would learn to be false later on, at devastating cost.