Britannia not United

Though there are no deffinite beginings to the Kingdom of England, it is most commonly associated with the coronation of Egbert of Wessex, who took control of the kingdoms in south Britain. But what if he didn't take control of these territories. This is a history of what Britain may of looked liked divided.

822 - The First Irish Invasion (1430)
After the un-successful invasion of Kent and Sussex, Mercia managed to get the upper hand in the territorial grab that Wessex started. They grew so fast that in 13 years they had tripled the territory they originally had. Northumbria also began to grab territory that Picts held. To turn the tide against the invading Northumbrians, some Pict tribes united under a simillar banner for a simillar goal, they formed the kingdom of Picton. They finally won a battle at Albern Marsh outnumbering the enemy 11,000 to 4000. The borders were pushed back after 18 years of fighting and Northumbria settled for the status quo. Meanwhile, the kingdom of Wessex was experience out-of-control rioting in the area of cornwall and the area that would later become the kingdom of South Wales. The so called "fall of Wessex" occurd in this time period and didn't end until 1034. On the opposite side Kent and Mercia, to allies, went though their own gold ages, where they experienced "Romanesque" style culture and reforms, but kept their own style of government. By the turn of the millennium, the british kingdoms entered a new era of relationships with each other, most promonent the treaty of Westbernshire, which put the kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia under the same royal house. This was as close as the two kingdoms came to uniting and the treaty lasted until 1357. And even after the treaty ofically ended the two countries held strong relationship untill the 16th century.

As the millennium progressed science became prosperous in the kingdoms and all of the Britannian countries fought against France in the 70 years war for the Normandy region which the United Kingdom of Jernsey and Gurnsey would later gain. Then in 1301, the kingdom of Ireland was declared by Hygwer Cunryarye, a Welsh-Pict who would declare the land to be poisoned by the Saxon horde and it needed to be punished. Throught the 14th century the kingdom of Ireland executed any Saxon who walked upon Irish territory (this included the Briton Kingdoms' ambassadors). This huge and frankly idiotic excuse for genocide led the kings of Britain to come to the diet of London (1380), a border city that was controlled by Kent, Merica and Wessex, and devise a plan to defend Their kingdoms from the agressive Irish army, who were devising a plan to invade the kingdoms. The kings came to a conclusion of the Saxon League, an alliance of all Britain nations except Picton. This was felt as an act of agression by the Irish and from then on the war was justified in their minds. They began a furous military build up and fifty years after the Saxon League was born, they invaded the grand duchy of Gwynedd and the Saxon League put the Dalwalf Plan into action. They would set up a defensive position in towns outlying Gwynedd and waited for the Irish to arrive...

Fall of the Irish army (1431) - First British war (1502)
While the plan was at first a success, the Irish, who built up a force of 270,000 invaders, dented, then broke through the lines and finally routed the entire Gwynedd army at the battle of Fayenn, where they defeated the 22,000 men fighting with only 17,000 men using a new innovation in technology, the hand gun which itself killed 9,000 men in battle. The Saxons' were fearing for theselves as their only line of defence before the Dalwalf lines. Finally the engagement at Westmenen decimated the Mercian army of 36,000 men to 5,000-7,000 men. The Irish continued unstopable. They then stopped the bulk of their army (40,000-100,000) men at the village of



Llowes, and unexpectantly a Wessex army made mostly of normal village men numbering up to 30,000 surrounded the village and bombarded it with guns captured from the battle of Hay-On-Wye. They entered the town victorious after 5 months of fighting and completly massacred the army that ended with only 2300 escaping or being captured. This battle ended the Irish armies advance into Britain. The final Irish army was defeated by newly recrutited Gwynedd army at Swansea Bay. This was a humilitating loss to an enemy that the Irish people deemed in-human. The win also ushured in the age of fear and hatred between the British nations (due to the spies that were used by all sides, even on each other), that eventually came around to end the Saxon League in 1495. Then, the constitution crisis happend, as the death of Harold Irecel II in 1497 happend and Wessex king Ethrelbert IV claimed the throne on the basis of their old royal ties, even though the royal ties were broken when the treaty of Westbernshire ended in 1357. The tension finally erupted by Mercia claiming they found assasins attacking their crown prince Rudolf Baethel. They invaded Wessex and East-Angles with their allies Kent and Northumbria in 1502 ending the 70 year peace on the British isles. The opening shots were fired at the battle of Ashdown with the Mercians winning a desisive battle that opened the "eastern" and "western" fronts. London, which was at this time a shared capital with Kent, Wessex and Mercia, was invaded and was taken over by Mercia and Kent and they declared it north (Mercian) and South (Kent) London. With the push south happening, the "East-Angles" front was opened and the Mercians taking it over after 4 months of sieging the capital Edmondsbury. The take over was swift but bloody, with 17,000 men dying to defend the Mercian horde from annexing their country, but it was all in vain as the final town was taken 6 months after the begining the front.