Assassination of Tormod Mac Ruaraidh

Tormod Mac Ruaraidh the Governor General of the Ulach Free state was assassinated on Firday, August, 12 1948 at 2pm in Maghinh, the Moon Island along with his fiance Margret Nic Cailean. Tormod was riding in a convoy to his restored family home in Maghinh with Margret Nic Cailean in an armoured sports car which was part of a convoy which include four unarmoured cars with mounted machine guns each with five personal along with four motorbikes. The convoy was due to fighting in the area between goverment and rebel forces forced to go through a narrow valley. When the convoy had reached the middle of the valley where it was blocked from advancement due to a dead mule and an overturned cart. A platoon of rebels with a deployable heavy machine gun entrenched themselves behind the company whilst two more platoons positioned themsleves either side of the valley. The platoon with the machine gun placed dynamite in the road to blow up Tormod's armoured car. In the skirmish all but one of the motorbikers were killed whilst roughly twelve of the other free state soldiers were killed. Tormod's car went over dynamite causing its wheels to be destroyed and for it to be launched twelve feet in the air which fatally wounded Margret Nic Cailean and crippled Tormod who had his spine broken and had fourty five percent third degree burns on his body. Tormod was dragged from the car and then shot by one the rebel Major Aoisghe Mac Taggart.

Background
Tormod Mac Ruaraidh was  Governor General of the Ulach Free State from 1938 to 1942. The Ulach Free state existed intially as a military dictatorship under Tormod who was violently opposed by rebel groups whom are also opposed the Ulach-Mirkuleon peace treaty. Tormod after defeating the rebels during the first stage of the Ulach Civil War gave up power in favour for the Ulach Parliament. Tormod's younger brother Ian Mac Ruaraidh was elected as Prime Minster in 1946 however his decision to support the Eastern Mirkuleon Empire in 1947 during the Imperial Schism meant that he was overthrown by rebels led by Paitric Mac Uagh. Paitric Mac Uagh declared war upon the Eastern Mirkuleon Empire which was in the process of moving the majority of its military into the western hemisphere to fight the Western Empire. The Ulach invasion of the Sun Island failed however it resulted in heavy Mirkuleon casaulites. Ian himself fled to New Donber and refused to return to the Twin Islands. Hazarahaz Cheiftain of the Sun Island gave Tormod an army of Agomoton Mercenaries to stage coup against the rebel goverment. Tormod's coup led to him becoming Governor General for a second time in 1947 in which in just under a year he had tens of thousands of suspected rebels executed along with their families some of whom were even sold into slavery.

Assassination Plan
Tormod's security advisor Danny Mac Calum was a supporter of the rebels and informed the local rebel of company commanded by Aoisghe Mac Taggart of Tormod's journey to Maghine. Taggart created a detailed plan to trap the Tormod's convoy and to kill him along with as many as those accompanying him. The valley was roughly twelve miles long and so Taggart had dead mule and an on over turned cart several miles into the valley. Two Platoons of Ulach soldiers which had twenty  soldiers each which would lay in wait on both sides of the valley, whilst the thirty three man platoon with the machine gun which he commanded would be deployed when it was no longer in the sight of the convoy.