
The flag of the Kingdom of Mercia

The flag of the Kingdom of Wessex
Wessex Dark Ages (822) - The First Irish Invasion (1430)
After the unsuccessful 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 similar banner for a similar 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" occurred in this time period and didn't end until 1034. On the opposite side Kent and Mercia, to allies, went through their own gold ages, where they experienced "Romanesque" style culture and reforms, but kept their own style of government.
Eatheral Eargherth 1202-1266, the longest reigning Mercian king
As the millennium progressed science became prosperous in the kingdoms and all of the Britainnian countries fought against France in the 70 years war for the Normandy region which the United Kingdom of Jersey and Guernsey 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. Throughout 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, Mercia and Wessex, and devise a plan to defend Their kingdoms from the aggressive 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 aggression by the Irish and from then on the war was justified in their minds. They began a furious 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 9000 men in battle. The Saxons' were fearing for themselves as their only line of defense before the Dalwalf lines. Finally the engagement at Westmenen decimated the Mercian army of 36,000 men to 5000-7000 men. The Irish continued unstoppable. They then stopped the bulk of their army (40,000-100,000) men at the village of

The Irish (orange) at the height of their expansion.

Britain at the time of the war, Mercia is in light blue.
Meanwhile in the south Wessex soldiers began to fire back and win battles especially around the Winchester area. They developed tactics to that of attack, run then use special groups to sabotage the enemy supply routes. It was an ingenious idea that work well in their favour. The war then entered a period that would not be experienced until the 3rd British war, both sides could not make any ground on each other and the balance of power was constantly being tossed around. The war had many battles that could of changed the balance of power but it had no major effect. The war dragged on for three years and finally the "Galloway decision" was signed bringing the kingdom of Galloway into the war on Mercia's side tipping the scales to the Mercian "empire" as they described it due to the influence of Mercia on the nations. They began to see themselves in the "Britain sun", a termed describing the greatest member of the re-created Saxon League, now being a group of three ministers from the five Strongest nations on the British Isles which was created to solve royal issues, especially after the constitution crisis.
Rise of Colonies (1547) - Mercian Civil war (1719)
Colonies weren't the main priority of the British nations as they were mainly trading nations and only members of the Saxon League could have a navy and even then they were used for trade only. They spent the first half of the 16th century by building up and economy and resources, which were going to be used for in the Poaynen Plan. The Poaynen plan was the plan by the kingdom of Galloway to gain territories in the Americas, especially in the marsh lands that are now Louisiana. But, Galloway couldn't gain the money in time due to being expelled from the Saxon League and stripped of their navy. After this other nations adopted the Poaynen plan as it was fast, easy and not cost worthy to the nation. Meanwhile, Mercia began to colonize Africa mostly for its slave trade to Spain which it earned a quarter of its yearly income.
Religion was also prominent in this era, from the Saxon League members signed the "Anti-Blasphemy act" (1585) that banned all non Catholic religions and made it illegal to practice any blasphemous (speaking out against a deity) and it would be the death penalty for breaking any of the laws. It was a law until 1717.
King Aelfredus III, reign 1596-1623, became the first and only Protestant King of Kent, and the whole British Isles.

"The Protector", King Suthere of South Wales was widely hated by other monarchs due to his helpful nature, reign 1604-1631.
The turn of the century came hard to the British nations, as they were financially bankrupt, and revolts were happening throughout the countries, mostly based on the popular revolt in France, the worlds leading superpower. This and the combine weakness of the kings led to the final dissolution of the Saxon League in 1708. The next years would have to be seen to be believed.
- 1709- A thousand Jews are executed by gunshot after the Foarbank incident in Wessex. A Jewish scholar and refugee carries 1043 Jews from the Middle East to a port in south Wessex where they were captured and all sentenced to death.
- 1711- Mass demonstrations from farmers are put down by force in the capital of Mercia, Tamworth, and more revolts happen even into 1712.
- 1712- The bombing of the tower of London, anarchists destroy the tower by gunpowder fuses and the outcome frightens even the most powerful of monarchs, two of the six plotters get away and raise a small army of 5000 men that are put down at the battle of Cott Fields, but not as easily as the King wants (7000 of his men died defending the fields).
A painting depicting the battle of Cott Fields.
- 1715- A mass rally at Tamworth square begins and doesn't end for four weeks. The ministry is created with the position of lord-at-hand, a position that the nobility elects to power. This lays first frameworks for civil war.
- 1717- The first ever elections on the British Isles, with the nobility electing the king, and people begin to revolt. The king close the elections as the nobility's choice. Mercia is calmed for a short time.
The first elections, with 97% of the nobility voting for the king. The voters voting against the king later joined the Ministry army.
- 1719- King Offa II is assassinated by members of the ministry after he issued law 11, where everyone had to give all land to him personally. The ministry flees to London and sets up an army in the west and north-east of the country. Offa's brother, King Egbert VI, declares the ministry liquidated. The ministry shoot back with their soldiers at the battle of Tamsworth but lose and are forced back to London. They are now fighting for the future democracy.

Offa II. His assassination would spark one of the most fiercest wars in history.
The Mercian Civil war (1719 - 1725)
The Mercian Civil War was the first time the ideas of democracy had to fight to survive, as the idea wasn't around up to the 1710's. King Egbert VI saw an increased number of revolts and noble rebellions during this time. The nobles that voted for the king stayed with him until the had resigned their position, died in battle or were executed. The leader of the Minstrel army was a wealthy mayor of the small town of Aldercy city, Ceid Bray. He took control during the battle of Tamsworth and during the march back to north London. He also oversaw the battle of ridge coast at the colony of Ausce-Lau, an island of the coast of Africa that they captured from the French in 1633. The main fighting occurred along the Margrave's line,
The civil war. The ministry in green, royalists in blue and the Margrave's line in black.