[Exploration] [War] French Conquest of the New World

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In summer of the year 1508, King Louis XII commissioned for Francisco de Garay to conduct another exploration for the additional conquest and colonization of land. In truth, it was of course in sheer essence also a colonization effort of sorts. There was no logistical way France would be able to conduct any full scale invasions of this New World, which have proven to be unimaginably large, especially compared to Europe itself. However, its people were completely primitive in every way possible. Or at least the natives on the isle of Port Riche seemed primitive. They sported archaic ways of governing, archaic clothing, archaic transportation, archaic weapons, perhaps very little armor to speak of, and even worse they worshipped false gods. However, they seemed to sport gold jewelry abundantly, and thus it was believed that this New World had a large and abundant amount of gold veins that could be plundered.

Thus King Louis XII issued the French Requirement of 1508. It was a declaration of the French monarch, which was sort of a casus belli which gave explorers and conquistadors free reign to do basically whatever they pleased in the New World. As long as they expanded the French Domain, and French wealth, and French religion while they did so. Additionally, funds were to be provided to these people to help support their efforts.

Of course it had little meaning as the colony of Port Riche was just barely reaching a population of one thousand. However, that meant little with the full backing of the French Monarchy whose powerful presence could be even felt in the fledgling New World settlement. It hadn’t taken long, but eventually an army of over one thousand and five hundred men arrived, mostly consisting of musketmen. With them was a fleet of about 3 transports and 5 galleons, which would hopefully provide enough firepower to ward off anything harmful. This small expedition army would be led by the famed explorer and now French conquistador, Francisco de Garay.

It would be his goal to sail further to the west, explore new lands, subjugate and convert their peoples, and loot what gold or valuables they had. He would be provided with a massive fund of about fifty thousand ducats.

300 Swordsman Infantry

400 Pike Infantry

500 Musketmen

150 Light Cavalry

100 Heavy Cavalry

20 Cannons

Path

Francisco shall make extensive use of the maps he created after mapping out much of Cuba, and other isles in the area

[M] As a note, the experience of Francisco de Garay and his crew along with the large funding should at least grant some sort of roll boost or modifier.