Post by Commandingtripod on Mar 15, 2006 6:41:40 GMT
I was bored when I decided to do this:
(I used different web sites and books to do this)
Battle of Horsell/Woking
Date: 1500-2000, 07 June 1902
Location: Horsell, Surrey, England
Result: Martian Victory
Combatants:
Martians
United Kingdom
Commanders:
Martians:
Unknown
United Kingdom:
Major Eden
Strength:
Martians:
2 Tripods
United Kingdom:
2 Companies initially
Reinforced by:
1 Squadron of Hussars
400 Men
2 Maxim guns
Further reinforced by:
10 Field Guns and their operators
Casualties:
Martians:
-
United Kingdom:
Most men
All materials and guns
Woking lost
Pre-Battle
Over the night of the 6/7 June, two companies of soldiers marched through Woking and deployed around the Common. Soldiers of the Cardigan Regiment departed for Horsell and the second Martian cylinder fell in the woods near Byfleet.
During the morning of the 7 June, roughly at 0900 the Cardigan Regiment arrived and deployed around the Common bolstering the defenders.
The Martians continued to work on their machines defending the pit with their heat ray which killed anyone who tried to approach them.
At 1500, the soldiers around Horsell heard the sound of guns.
The second Martian cylinder was being shelled from Chertsey and Addlestone.
Then, at 1700, the first of 10 guns arrived at Horsell.
The Battle
At 1700 the field guns began shelling the pit and the cylinder.
Since the Martians controlled the ground in and around their cylinder, the British were forced to guess fire their shells and hope that they landed somewhere near.
This at first was not the case – most of the shells landed with in 15 metres of the pit and about 20 of the cylinder itself.
For an hour the British continued to fire shells at the pit.
Slowly the shells worked their way towards the cylinder when the soldiers prepared to go into action.
At 1800, some men of the Cardigan Regiment tried to rush the pit in skirmishing order but were swept out of existence by the heat ray.
The Martians begin to make towards their second cylinder under the cover of a large metal disc.
Shortly after, The Oriental College which was being used by the military as its headquarters was struck by the heat ray, killing most of the soldiers and staff and civilians inside. Few unharmed soldiers are left and those start to look for survivors which are also few or are removing those that are dead – which are horribly burned or crushed.
The evacuation of Woking begins.
At 1900, the Martians activated the first of their fighting machines and wipes out the surviving troops and then destroys the artillery guns. After completing that task, a second fighting machine is activated and rises up and continues to hunt down anyone that survived the attack of the first fighting machine.
At 1915, the fighting machine advances to Woking.
Immediate panic breaks out. The fighting machine levels the houses and then the train station which was crawling with people.
After the fighting machine returns to the pit and the battle is over.
(I used different web sites and books to do this)
Battle of Horsell/Woking
Date: 1500-2000, 07 June 1902
Location: Horsell, Surrey, England
Result: Martian Victory
Combatants:
Martians
United Kingdom
Commanders:
Martians:
Unknown
United Kingdom:
Major Eden
Strength:
Martians:
2 Tripods
United Kingdom:
2 Companies initially
Reinforced by:
1 Squadron of Hussars
400 Men
2 Maxim guns
Further reinforced by:
10 Field Guns and their operators
Casualties:
Martians:
-
United Kingdom:
Most men
All materials and guns
Woking lost
Pre-Battle
Over the night of the 6/7 June, two companies of soldiers marched through Woking and deployed around the Common. Soldiers of the Cardigan Regiment departed for Horsell and the second Martian cylinder fell in the woods near Byfleet.
During the morning of the 7 June, roughly at 0900 the Cardigan Regiment arrived and deployed around the Common bolstering the defenders.
The Martians continued to work on their machines defending the pit with their heat ray which killed anyone who tried to approach them.
At 1500, the soldiers around Horsell heard the sound of guns.
The second Martian cylinder was being shelled from Chertsey and Addlestone.
Then, at 1700, the first of 10 guns arrived at Horsell.
The Battle
At 1700 the field guns began shelling the pit and the cylinder.
Since the Martians controlled the ground in and around their cylinder, the British were forced to guess fire their shells and hope that they landed somewhere near.
This at first was not the case – most of the shells landed with in 15 metres of the pit and about 20 of the cylinder itself.
For an hour the British continued to fire shells at the pit.
Slowly the shells worked their way towards the cylinder when the soldiers prepared to go into action.
At 1800, some men of the Cardigan Regiment tried to rush the pit in skirmishing order but were swept out of existence by the heat ray.
The Martians begin to make towards their second cylinder under the cover of a large metal disc.
Shortly after, The Oriental College which was being used by the military as its headquarters was struck by the heat ray, killing most of the soldiers and staff and civilians inside. Few unharmed soldiers are left and those start to look for survivors which are also few or are removing those that are dead – which are horribly burned or crushed.
The evacuation of Woking begins.
At 1900, the Martians activated the first of their fighting machines and wipes out the surviving troops and then destroys the artillery guns. After completing that task, a second fighting machine is activated and rises up and continues to hunt down anyone that survived the attack of the first fighting machine.
At 1915, the fighting machine advances to Woking.
Immediate panic breaks out. The fighting machine levels the houses and then the train station which was crawling with people.
After the fighting machine returns to the pit and the battle is over.
