User:MastahCheef117/Siege of New Haven

The Siege of New Haven was an important battle in the war between the UNSC and the URF in 2555. It was the first and initial battle on Horizon, an urban-temperate world at the edge of the New Inner Colonies.

Timeline

 * 0554 hours: Five small medium-hulled freighters enter Horizon's atmosphere. Identification is requested, but no return message is received.
 * 0556 hours: Identification is again requested. None is received, and Marine personnel across the planet are authorized to prepare for a possible incursion.
 * 0601 hours: The transports land on the brink of New Haven on Pads 3 and 4 on New Haven Starport. Several hundred infantry burst out and kill the landing guards. The port is locked down and one-hundred Marines converge and guard the starport entrances.
 * 0609 hours: Twenty nine Marines are killed in the Rebel's attempt to break out of the port and the UNSC forces retreat to the outskirts of New Haven.
 * 0613 hours: The entire Rebel force prepares to attack New Haven. Haven was already evacuated when the transports touched down, and some citizens stayed behind to help defend the city.
 * 0625 hours: A group of one-hundred Militia attack the south-eastern section of the city. Forty are killed for the cost of seventeen Marines and one Scorpion.
 * 0629 hours: Artillery starts to fall in the south-east part of the city. Nine Marines are killed and another Scorpion is badly damaged.
 * 0638 hours: Three Marine sniper fireteams, each composed of one sniper, set out to pick off advance Rebel forces and possible Rebel officers.
 * 0643 hours: Colonel Nathan Jones is sniped twice in the back and once in the neck by Corporal James Watson and Lieutenant George Carlson. The snipers immediately retreat while being supported by artillery and the only two Pelicans in the city.
 * 0649 hours: As the snipers retreat, one Pelican is brought down by combined small-arms fire and several Scorpion 90mm tank rounds. A search-and-rescue team of forty men sets out to scour weapons and rescue any survivors.
 * 0703 hours: The Marines find that the entire Marine squad inside the Pelican was executed, the Co-Pilot was shot, and the Pilot was taken as a POW. Marines call for backup and retrieve all weapons left behind.
 * 0711 hours: A force of 230 Marines advance and plan to smash a battery of 8 URF 155mm field guns. Only three are found, and only then, three of the used six thermite grenades failed to ignite, only destroying two of the 3 found.
 * 0720 hours: An entire squad of Marines are annihilated by a counter-attack charge on the artillery. The remaining Marines retreat and the surviving artillery gun is retaken.
 * 0729 hours: More artillery pounds New Haven and another charge ensues. This time, forty Marines are lost for thirty two Militia, a surprising defeat for the UNSC.