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Angevin Empire:

- The Revolt of the Breton Nobles is short but bloody. In mid-May the forces of the Duke of Brittany occupy Rennes and Brest, and demand that Brittany be granted protectorate status under Angevin. The Duke of Champagne in response sends troops in attacking Rennes, initiating a 3-week battle for the city. When Rennes eventually falls, Duke Brittany’s top nobles are captured. Brittany himself escapes to Brest, and refuses to surrender, which prompts Champagne to shell the city, killing many civilians and driving the rebel Duke to give in. Brittany and his four co-conspirators are tried and executed for treason in August. This episode leaves lasting resentment for the French and the nobility amongst the Breton people.

- The Lesothans launch a summer offensive, and win several surprising victories against the Angevin army. The siege of eThekwini continues. All the while Aquitaine grows restless, conscious that his absence from court in Angers is damaging his influence.

- Troops are mobilised on the Angevin-HRE border, to prevent a spillover of Communist rebels into the country.

- The English Liberation Army and the second largest English partisan movement, the Left Resistance, agree an alliance between their groups in the interests of driving out the French. On July 4th, a year after the attack on Cantwaraburh, a car-bomb set off in Legacæstir destroys the headquarters of a French humanitarian organisation and kills 31, surprising many French with its brutality.

- Scotland closes its border with England, causing a bottleneck of refugees to form in the north of the country and pretty much collapsing infrastructure up there. The French garrison at Lunecæster mobilises to restore order to the anarchy.