Cordilheira do Crepúsculo, Seal II — September and October 1863 — Era of Empire
Historical context
1863. For four years the continent has known the war can be won.
In September of 1859 the Pactuary Host laid siege to Cherniwicz expecting what always happened — the city holds what it holds, falls or is evacuated, the line pulls back a few kilometres and somebody writes a sermon about endurance. Instead there arrived, by rail, in nine days, the first fully industrial army in the history of Cross: Chrism repeating carbines in mass, Ardentine artillery, field telegraph wired to Aurum Roma through the Curial Cables, and a hospital train with Hospitallers of the Hashmal aboard. They broke the siege in four days and did not stop. They pushed the line two hundred kilometres east and held it.
It was the only permanent territorial gain in the whole of the canon, and nobody knew that in 1863, because it looked like the first of many.
