Maxwell Smyth Leng

Maxwell Smyth Leng
Character Profile
Affiliation Capellan Confederation
Rank Colonel[1]

Colonel Maxwell Smyth Leng was an officer with the Capellan Confederation Armed Forces.[1]

History[edit]

Leng served as the Commanding Officer of the Third Chesterton Voltigeurs from at least 3025 until 3029.[1] During the Fourth Succession War, as part of Operation RIPOSTE, Leng and his unit participated in a raid on New Aragon intended to destroy Federated Suns warehouses. Assigned with one Battalion to take a collection of newly constructed buildings near the spaceport of Grahamsville, Leng choose dropzones on the far side of the Graham River, which based on the outdated maps in his possession he believed would be small and easy to ford.

Leng's initial confidence was bolstered by the lack of resistance experienced as his Voltigeurs marched to the Graham River, from the defending New Avalon Crucis March Militia under the commander of Major General Edward Valos, but this vanished on seeing the River was actually subject to a seasonal summer flood and bordered by an imposing flood wall. Leng attempted to seize two bridges crossing the River to the north and south of his target, but these were destroyed by Davion combat engineers before he could do so.

Making an attempt to ford the River, Leng's forces made it across with some losses, before being engaged by the BattleMech's of the Valos' Militia. This resulted in heavy fighting, during which both Leng and Valos received major wounds which removed them from action, but the New Avalon CMM responded better to the loss of their commander. Driving the Capellan's back, the New Avalon CMM broke the Voltigeurs, who eventually surrendered after a last battle in a small valley to which they had retreated.[2]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 House Liao (The Capellan Confederation), p. 84, "Third Chesterton Voltigeurs Unit Profile"
  2. NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1, p. 97

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