Against us stand the Goa'uld. You know of what they do to their people you know how little they care for humans they care only for themselves. Which is why we are so fundamentally different from the Goa'uld. Humanity evolved to fight for each other, to work for each other, and to die for each other. Humanity cares for each the Goa'uld do not they care only for their own power. It is not only your duty, it is not only your moral imperative, it is the final victory of our evolution of putting the greater good first. So, come my brothers lets show the Goa'uld what us humans are made of iron, blood, and guts. Fix Bayonets! Forward! For Emperor and Country!
-Transcript of a speech given by an unknown officer in the British Army before the landings at Erebor.
Gentlemen, in precisely three minutes we will unleash hell unto the Goa'uld positions. It is the resolve of the Imperial Air Force and our allies to reduce the Goa'uld defences to ash and dust and we will do exactly that. We have been assigned our duty by his most Imperial Majesty himself and we will fulfill that. I have here two messages which I have been ordered to tell you. The first is from his majesty. "Airmen of the Imperial Air Force I Emperor Edward VIII of the United Empire of Britannia do hereby authorize you to leave nothing left of the Goa'uld wherever you fly." The second is from Sir Arthur Harris. "The Goa'uld entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Hawaii, San Francisco, Detroit and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." So, go forth knights of the air bring the Whirlwind unto the Goa'uld.
-Transcript of the internal communications of the Imperial Air Force bomber wing Reapers at the beginning of the Battle of Erebor.
I have served in the Imperial Navy since we sailed on the Celtic Sea against a Ha'tak that was charging at full pace towards the Home Isles. I was then given command over the HIMIS Nelson when it was commissioned and have fought in the stars against the Goa'uld. When Operation Gauntlet was launched I held off waves of Ha'taks before Dakara. I lost several good friends at Dakara and it is time to avenge them it is time to bring the war to the heart of the Goa'uld Empire. No, it is time to end the decrepit Goa'uld once and for all. Men hoist the Black Ensign high we are going to end this war. We are going to end the Goa'uld. We are going to avenge every man, woman and child who has fallen or been enslaved before these pathetic parasites. God save the Emperor! Forwards!
-Transcript of Rear-Admiral Morgan Morgan-Giles speech at the Battle of Erebor.
The French colonial Empire was not purely in Africa with colonies in the Pacific, India, South America, the Caribbean, and the North Atlantic. Following the Andorra ceasefire that ended conflict between the Fifth Republic and Free France said colonies became the last places of conflict between the two. While the Battle of Saint Pierre and Miquelon was inconclusive, and the islands were annexed by the Commonwealth of Canada as part of Quebec the other colonies were different. Most of the Caribbean fell to Free France though the Fifth Republic secured French Guinea and the French part of Saint Martin. In the Pacific, the Fifth Republic lost every colony to the Free French who promptly sold the colonies to the United Empire for desperately needed money. In India they fell to local revolts and were promptly annexed by the Indian Dominions bordering them which proved surprisingly popular to the locals.
-Extract from Nathaniel 1st Duke of Mornington's book The Flames of Freedom: The Great African Revolt.
The initial battles of Operation Lance were the closest the Operation came to failure and they were all decisive victories which weakens the argument that the Goa'uld were powerful by the war. The Battles were at three vital points along the Anubis line which protected the Goa'uld from the allies. Erebor was in the galactic north and represented the last major position the Goa'uld had in that part of the galaxy. Wellington was close to the heart of the galaxy and was arguably the most well defended with better Jaffa stationed on the planet. Gudovich in the galactic west was nearly forgotten by the Goa'uld due to the fall of several key planets to the Replicators. The Battles of Erebor, Wellington, and Gudovich were initially close but following the fall of the main planets to the allied forces the Goa'uld abandoned the systems breaking the Anubis line permanently.
The battles opened the same with the allied fleets entering the system and opening fire while the Death Glider squadrons attached to them were detached to Reap the Whirlwind. The allies battered their way to the orbit of the central planet in the system and launched their landings against the Goa'uld positions. Then the battles diverged into their unique passages.
The Battle of Erebor is the one most promoted in the United Empire for good reason as the Imperial Navy, Imperial Air Force, and British Army all provided the largest share of forces that fought in the battle. The landings were lightly opposed as Sir Arthur Harris had made the bombing arm of the Imperial Air Force unparalleled among the allies. When the British forces landed they stormed the last few routed Jaffa left in the area with Bayonets and swords drawn slaughtering the Goa'uld forces in the landing zones. The perimeters established were at several key points on the planet and the air superiority held by the British allowed any attempts to retake the landing groups be reduced to ash and blood within minutes.
As the Goa'uld counter attacks were annihilated the British rapidly expanded making use of the mechanized transport utilized by the British army. As the southern landing force expanded their hold they came to the bloodiest part of the entire battle the Lonely Mountain.
-Extract from Christopher Bowes's book The Bloody Wolves of the Stars: A history of Imperial Stargate Command.
As the drum roll started on that day, heard a hundred miles away
A million shells were fired, and the green fields turned to grey
The bombardment lasted all day long, yet the mountain was standing strong
Heavily defended, now the trap has been sprung and the battle has begun
Descend into darkness
33 days below the sun
The Lonely mountain
And the battle has begun
Nowhere to run
Father and son
Fall one by one
Under the gun
Thy will be done
And the judgement has begun
Nowhere to run
Father and son
Fall one by one
The Lonely mountain
Though a million shells have scarred the stone, no one has the upper hand
From the ground above to trenches, where the soldiers make their stand
As the trenches slowly turn to mud, and then quickly start to flood
Death awaits in every corner, as they die in the mud, fill the trenches with blood
Fields of execution turned to wasteland from the grass
Thou shalt go no further it was said they shall not pass
The spirit of resistance and the madness of the war
So…
Go ahead!
Face the led!
Join the dead!
Though you die!
Where you lie!
Never asking why!
-Lyrics of Sabaton's Song the Lonely Mountain about the Battle of the Lonely Mountain.