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|battle_title = Battle of Fort Marshank<br />
|image = [[Image:Battle_Marshank.JPG|250px|Battle of Fort Marshank]]<br />
|caption = Battle of Fort Marshank<br />
|location = [[Fort Marshank]], [[Eastern Coast]]<br />
|result = [[Fur and Freedom Fighters]] victory<br />
|hero_leader = *[[Martin the Warrior]]<br />
*[[Ballaw De Quincewold]]<br />
*[[Rowanoak]]<br />
*[[Queen Amballa]]<br />
*[[Starwort]]<br />
|villain_leader = [[Badrang the Tyrant]]<br />
|hero_faction = Fur and Freedom Fighters<br />
|villain_faction = [[Badrang's Army]]<br />
|hero_strength = Around 400 est.<br />
|villain_strength = Around 400 est.<br />
|hero_casualties = At least 100, including [[Laterose of Noonvale]] and [[Felldoh]]<br />
|villain_casualties = All killed, except [[Tramun Clogg|Clogg]] and [[Wulpp]]<br />
|hero_species = [[:Category:Mice|Mice]], [[:Category:Shrews|Shrews]], [[:Category:Otters|Otters]], [[:Category:Moles|Moles]], [[:Category:Squirrels|Squirrels]], [[:Category:Hedgehogs|Hedgehogs]]<br />
|villain_species = [[:Category:Rats|Rats]], [[:Category:Weasels|Weasels]], [[:Category:Ferrets|Ferrets]], [[:Category:Foxes|Foxes]], [[:Category:Stoats|Stoats]]<br />
|books = ''[[Martin the Warrior (book)|Martin the Warrior]]''<br />
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The '''Battle of Marshank''' refers to the attack by the army of [[Martin the Warrior]] and the [[Fur and Freedom Fighters]] against [[Fort Marshank]]. Both sides were roughly equal in size.<br />
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The Marshank [[Badrang's Army|army]], led by [[Badrang the Tyrant]], consisted of rat, weasel, ferret, and fox hordebeasts and corsairs.<br />
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The attackers were mainly of two groups: Martin's army, and the Fur and Freedom Fighters. Martin's army itself consisted of [[Broadstream River]] otters and shrews, [[Noonvale]] inhabitants who had come to fight, a [[Highbeasts|tribe]] of coastal pygmy shrews led by [[Queen Amballa]], and the wild [[Gawtrybe]]. The Fur and Freedom Fighters were former slaves of Marshank, and the [[Rambling Rosehip Players]] from down south.<br />
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There were two attacks: Martin's army actually arrived when the Fur and Freedom Fighters, who numbered only about seventy, were about to be crushed by the Marshank horde. Martin attacked the fort with a driftwood battering-ram, and its soldiers were forced to hurry back to defend it. Although the sudden attack was unnerving, Badrang showed shrewd experience and soon gained a notable advantage, whereupon the attackers withdrew to plan their next move. The Marshank horde relaxed.<br />
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However, before dawn the next day they were fighting a losing battle, as a surprise attack caught them unawares and unready. A burning cart soon destroyed the main gates in a fire. The north and south walls were attacked by Martin; one group scaled the walls using a net dropped by [[Boldred]] and the [[Warden of Marshwood Hill]], the other scaled the walls with the help of ten Gawtrybe squirrels and a group of moles who had tunneled into the fort from the west side. The Marshank soldiers were all killed in the battle, and [[Laterose of Noonvale|Rose]] was killed by Badrang, shortly before he was killed by Martin. The only survivors were Captain [[Tramun Clogg]], and one of his crewmembers, [[Wulpp]].<br />
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After the battle, the victors went their own ways: the Fur and Freedom Fighters went to Noonvale, and Martin's army dispersed.<br />
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