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Alexander
Fictional Character
The War Between the Provinces
Fantasy
Appearance(s): Sentry Peak
Type of Appearance: Direct
Nationality: Detina (joined breakaway Geoffreyist kingdom)
Religion: Detinan pantheon
Occupation: Soldier
Military branch: Army of Southern Parthenia;
Army of Franklin

Alexander was a brigadier from "King" Geoffrey's Army of Southern Parthenia who accompanied Earl James of Broadpath in his transfer to the Army of Franklin in the third year of the Detinan Civil War. He was an eager young man, who didn't worry about whether something could be done before attempting to do it. He was in charge of the engines which attacked the walls of Fort WiLi,[1] He was a wit who was grateful to the enemy general Doubting George for assigning the incompetent Whiskery Ambrose to oppose Earl James.[2]

Literary comment

Edward Porter Alexander

General E.P. Alexander

Alexander is based on Confederate General Edward Porter Alexander.

  1. Sentry Peak, pgs. 333-334.
  2. Ibid., pgs. 386-391.
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