Battle of Northcoast

The Battle of Northcoast was an engagement that occurred between the, and the Second Soyuz Republic between August 13th and 16th, 2554, during the Soyuz Reclamation. The original force, composed of local UNSC loyalists armed and trained by the under the command of ONI field operative Lieutenant Nate Daniels, were ordered to take the rebel headquarters in the mountains near the town of Northcoast, as regular UNSC forces were engaged in battle against rebels in the major population centers.

However, Daniels and his unit soon ran into a camouflaged rebel defense line in a forest at the foot of the mountains, commanded by Second Soyuz Republic First Lieutenant Marcin Bernard. Running on a timetable to destroy the HQ, and with UNSC air support unable to destroy the line from the air due to its position and rebel anti aircraft in the mountains, Daniels ordered assaults to try and force their way through the line, each of which, although making small progress, sustained heavy casualties.

After two days of combat, the UNSC, finally having subdued most of the rebel resistance in the major population centers, removed Daniels from command of the operation, and placed UNSC Marine Captain Ernest Jackson in charge of the assault on August 15th. Within hours, Jackson's unit had nearly eliminated the already weakened rebels, and in the dawn hours of August 16th, they took Bernard's command bunker as well as the three surviving rebels prisoner, but not before the Lieutenant committed suicide.