Glover's Gambit

Glover's Gambit was the battle fought during The Second War Beyond the Wall. It was an effort by Lord Jason Forrester to break the siege of Deepwood Motte. Though it ended in defeat the Gambit was successful in causing great losses for the Wildling Army and led to the eventually breaking of the siege.

Background
With most of the Northern Army marching to the Wall to avenge the death of Lord Umber and defeat The Crippled King the rest of the North was left to hold strong in case the Wildlings were able to not only breach the Wall but continue South. Unknown to the North the Wildlings had taken to sea and made their way around the wall and on twenty five hundred Wildling men laid siege to Deepwood Motte.

Word of the siege spread through the Wolfswood and Lord Forrester gathered the remaining Glover men as well as those of Glover's vassals and marched towards Deepwood Motte in order to break the siege.

The Battle
For thirteen days the Wildlings laid siege to Deepwood Motte. Ryon Glover, son to Master Jojen Glover, had lead the men and women inside the Keep in thirteen successful defenses against Wildling attacks. Although he had sent word out to all the Houses of the North for aid he had yet to get word back.

On the evening of the thirteenth day. Lord Forrester and his forces had arrived at Deepwood Motte. He could see that he and his forces were greatly outnumbered. He sent orders down his lines to prepare a surprise attack against the Wildling forces, who up to this time had known that the bulk of the Northern Army was at the Wall.

The command for charge was given and Lord Forrester's men crashed against the Wildlings. They had taken their enemy completely by surprise and pushed hard against the siege. The push was not enough though and the Wildlings recovered and used their numbers to fight back against the attackers. It was soon aware to Lord Forrester that if they did not retreat that all their men would be killed. The order of retreat was given and only one hundred and fifty of the original twelve hundred and fifty men still lived.

Aftermath
The Gambit ended in a defeat for the Northern Forces but it did succeed in greatly reducing the number of Wildlings outside Deepwood Motte. After the battle the Wildlings did not attack the Keep during the remaining five days of the siege greatly reducing the damage to Deepwood Motte. Lord Forrester and his men retreated back into the Wolfswood where they joined forces with the relief force from Winterfell lead by Lady Cerwyn. Their forces combined easily defeated the remaining Wildlings and the siege was broken.