User:DeadRaiser/sandbox/Battles/Battle of A-41 Roanoke

The Battle of A-41 Roanoke was a major engagement fought between the naval forces of the Galactic Commonwealth and the Interstellar Dominion during the Commonwealth-Dominion War. The action was one of the smallest ship-to-ship combat actions, but ended up being one of the most significantly important battles of the war. Intended as a combined arms assault to reclaim the colony, the battle caused a chain of events that would lead to the start of Operation Breaking Dawn. The battle saw some of the highest casualty counts in history up until that point and is taught as one of the worst tactical blunders in military history.

Located in the mid-regions of Commonwealth space, A-41 Roanoke was seen as a key strategic location by both the Commonwealth and Dominion in the new stalemate between the two factions. One of the furthest systems taken by the Dominion, the colony was rich in resources and easily capable of maintaining a large force that the Dominion had planned to use in an offensive to push further into the Commonwealth. With this in mind, the Commonwealth decided that an assault to retake the colony was necessary in order to push the Dominion's offensive line back. However, in preparation for the assault, only a modest task force could be assembled, in a stark comparison to what had been promised.