User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why the Stormcloaks are right./@comment-5372149-20130516015716/@comment-5372149-20130518200546

Gelebore is not a liar, he told the version of event that he would have been taught by the other snow elves. History is written by the victors. The story of ysgramore is gonna be written so to make ysgramore look the best he can be without it necessarily being the truth. Plus immigration is tolerated until there are considered to be 'too many' immigrants, being the sovereign territory of the snow elves if they didn't want the immigrants/colonists then they could do what they wanted to get rid of them.

Imperial legions from skyrim AND high rock came to reinforce the emporors army after he broke away from the imperial city, legions from high rock are assumed to have Bretons, just like forces stationed in vallenwood by the dominion would have bosmer.

READ THE LORE it says that the MAIN army was destroyed, not every solider was killed. The main army is not the whole army.