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{{Status|Canon}}
{{Era|HCW}}
{{Battle infobox
{{Battle infobox
|name=Battle of the Great Bear
|name=Battle of the Great Bear
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|image=[[File:HWG BattleOfGreatBear.png|300px]]
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|conflict=[[Human-Covenant War]]{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}}
|conflict=[[Human-Covenant War]]<ref name="Genesis"/>
|date=[[2530|December 24, 2530]]{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}}
|date=[[2530|December 24, 2530]]<ref name="Genesis"/>
|place=[[Groombridge 1830 system]]{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}}
|place=[[Groombridge 1830 system]]<ref name="Genesis"/>
|result=Decisive [[UNSC]] victory<ref name="journal">'''[[Halo: Reach]]''', ''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]''</ref>
|result=Decisive [[UNSC]] victory<ref name="journal">'''[[Halo: Reach]]''', ''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]''</ref>
*[[Covenant]] forces twice repelled{{Ref/Reuse|journal}}
*[[Covenant]] forces twice repelled<ref name="journal"/>
|side1=[[United Nations Space Command]]{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}}
|side1=[[United Nations Space Command]]<ref name="Genesis"/>
|side2=[[Covenant]]{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}}
|side2=[[Covenant]]<ref name="Genesis"/>
|commanders1=[[Preston Cole]]{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}}
|commanders1=[[Preston Cole]]<ref name="Genesis"/>
|commanders2=Unknown
|commanders2=Unknown
|forces1=*Seventeen [[warship]]s{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}}
|forces1=*Seventeen [[warship]]s<ref name="Genesis"/>
**{{UNSCShip|Everest}}<ref name="adjunct">'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''', ''Adjunct'': "[[ONI Directorate Memorandum Interrogation Findings]]" (2010)</ref>
**{{UNSCShip|Everest}}<ref name="adjunct">'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''', ''Adjunct'': "[[ONI Directorate Memorandum Interrogation Findings]]" (2010)</ref>
*[[UNSC Marine Corps]]<ref name="lootcrate2">'''[[Halo Legendary Crate]]''', ''[[Halo Legendary Crate/Data Drops|Data Drop #2]]''</ref>
*[[UNSC Marine Corps]]<ref name="lootcrate2">'''[[Halo Legendary Crate]]''', ''[[Halo Legendary Crate/Data Drops|Data Drop #2]]''</ref>
|forces2=Three warships{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}}
|forces2=Three warships<ref name="Genesis"/>
|casual1=Eleven [[destroyer]]s{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}}
|casual1=Eleven [[destroyer]]s<ref name="Genesis"/>
|casual2=All warships{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}}
|casual2=All warships<ref name="Genesis"/>
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{{Quote|Seventeen of our ships against three of theirs. Eleven destroyers lost. Two enemy vessels killed. One crash landed.|Admiral Preston Cole{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}}}}
{{Quote|Seventeen of our ships against three of theirs. Eleven destroyers lost. Two enemy vessels killed. One crash landed.|Admiral Preston Cole<ref name="Genesis"/>}}


The '''Battle of the Great Bear''',{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}} designated as '''GB-5546''',{{Ref/Reuse|adjunct}} was an engagement between the [[United Nations Space Command]] and the [[Covenant]] during the [[Human-Covenant War]], taking place on [[2530|December 24, 2530]]. The battle ended in a decisive victory for the UNSC [[fleet]],{{Ref/Reuse|journal}} which was commanded by [[Admiral]] [[Preston Cole]]. The battle also resulted in the capture and interrogation of a [[Sangheili]] [[Subject 386|prisoner]], expanding the UNSC's knowledge on the Covenant.{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}}
The '''Battle of the Great Bear''',<ref name="Genesis"/> designated as '''GB-5546''',<ref name="adjunct"/> was an engagement between the [[United Nations Space Command]] and the [[Covenant]] during the [[Human-Covenant War]], taking place on [[2530|December 24, 2530]]. The battle ended in a decisive victory for the UNSC [[fleet]],<ref name="journal"/> which was commanded by [[Admiral]] [[Preston Cole]]. The battle also resulted in the capture and interrogation of a [[Sangheili]] [[Subject 386|prisoner]], expanding the UNSC's knowledge on the Covenant.<ref name="Genesis"/>


==The battle==
==The battle==
{{Quote|no=two|q1=I seem to remember us destroying your ships yesterday. Did you think we were going to let you just waltz right in?|Admiral Preston Cole|q2=Yesterday? Three ships, human? You boast about [unintelligible] three of our vessels when you had five times that many, and lost almost all?|Subject 386|Admiral Preston Cole and Subject 386{{Ref/Reuse|adjunct}}}}
{{Quote|no=two|q1=I seem to remember us destroying your ships yesterday. Did you think we were going to let you just waltz right in?|Admiral Preston Cole|q2=Yesterday? Three ships, human? You boast about [unintelligible] three of our vessels when you had five times that many, and lost almost all?|Subject 386|Admiral Preston Cole and Subject 386<ref name="adjunct"/>}}
On [[2530|December 24, 2530]], a total of three [[Covenant]] [[warship]]s,{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}} including a {{Class|CAS|assault carrier}},{{Ref/Reuse|adjunct}} engaged forces of the [[United Nations Space Command]] led by [[Admiral]] [[Preston Cole]] in the [[Groombridge 1830 system]]. Cole's fleet, consisting of seventeen ships, battled the invading Covenant warships, destroying the enemy force but losing eleven [[destroyer]]s in the process. Two of the Covenant ships were destroyed directly in combat,{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}} while the assault carrier attempted to flee to the surface of the nearby [[Groombridge-1830]], a [[human]] [[Human colonies|colony]]. However, the assault carrier was disabled by pursuing UNSC forces, and the ship crash-landed on the planet's surface.{{Ref/Reuse|adjunct}}
On [[2530|December 24, 2530]], a total of three [[Covenant]] [[warship]]s,<ref name="Genesis"/> including a {{Class|CAS|assault carrier}},<ref name="adjunct"/> engaged forces of the [[United Nations Space Command]] led by [[Admiral]] [[Preston Cole]] in the [[Groombridge 1830 system]]. Cole's fleet, consisting of seventeen ships, battled the invading Covenant warships, destroying the enemy force but losing eleven [[destroyer]]s in the process. Two of the Covenant ships were destroyed directly in combat,<ref name="Genesis"/> while the assault carrier attempted to flee to the surface of the nearby [[Groombridge-1830]], a [[human]] [[Human colonies|colony]]. However, the assault carrier was disabled by pursuing UNSC forces, and the ship crash landed on the planet's surface.<ref name="adjunct"/>


During the battle, the Covenant deployed two waves of forces to assault Groombridge. However, both forces were defeated and repelled from the system by Cole's fleet, earning the UNSC a rare decisive victory at a high cost.{{Ref/Reuse|journal}} Personnel of the [[UNSC Marine Corps]] also participated in the engagement, including [[Edward Buck]], who demonstrated exemplary service during the battle.{{Ref/Reuse|lootcrate2}}
During the battle, the Covenant deployed two waves of forces to assault Groombridge. However, both forces were defeated and repelled from the system by Cole's fleet, earning the UNSC a rare decisive victory at a high cost.<ref name="journal"/> Personnel of the [[UNSC Marine Corps]] also participated in the engagement, including [[Edward Buck]], who demonstrated exemplary service during the battle.<ref name="lootcrate2"/>


==Aftermath==
==Aftermath==
{{Quote|You have been judged unclean! A scourge that must be burned away! Every one of your worlds will be reduced to ash.|Subject 386 to Admiral Preston Cole{{Ref/Reuse|adjunct}}}}
{{Quote|You have been judged unclean! A scourge that must be burned away! Every one of your worlds will be reduced to ash.|Subject 386 to Admiral Preston Cole<ref name="adjunct"/>}}
Following the assault carrier's crash landing on Groombridge, two heavily armed tactical strike teams recovered a [[Sangheili]] [[Subject 386|survivor]] within an enclosed compartment which survived landfall at [[Waterford]], [[Lemuria (province)|Lemuria]] that day at approximately 1805 hours [[Military Standard Time|MST]]. The following day, the Sangheili was interrogated by Cole and [[First Lieutenant]] [[Richard Barclay]].{{Ref/Reuse|adjunct}} Through this interrogation, the UNSC learned that the Covenant were wiping out humanity because they had been deemed "unclean." More importantly, Cole discovered that the Covenant were largely unaware of the size and whereabouts of human space, leading to the formulation of the [[Cole Protocol]].{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}}<ref name="Evolutions">'''[[Halo: Evolutions]]''', "[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]", ''page 470''</ref>
Following the assault carrier's crash landing on Groombridge, two heavily armed tactical strike teams recovered a [[Sangheili]] [[Subject 386|survivor]] within an enclosed compartment which survived landfall at [[Waterford]], [[Lemuria (province)|Lemuria]] that day at approximately 1805 hours [[Military Standard Time|MST]]. The following day, the Sangheili was interrogated by Cole and [[First Lieutenant]] [[Richard Barclay]].<ref name="adjunct"/> Through this interrogation, the UNSC learned that the Covenant were wiping out humanity because they had been deemed "unclean." More importantly, Cole discovered that the Covenant were largely unaware of the size and whereabouts of human space, leading to the formulation of the [[Cole Protocol]].<ref name="Genesis"/><ref name="Evolutions">'''[[Halo: Evolutions]]''', "[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]", ''page 470''</ref>


The Battle of the Great Bear was not only one of the few battles in which the UNSC won a decisive victory against the Covenant, but one of the few engagements of the [[Human-Covenant War]] in which the UNSC successfully repelled two Covenant onslaughts on the same world. The UNSC would not earn such a victory again until the [[Battle of Sigma Octanus IV]] in [[2552#July|July 2552]].{{Ref/Reuse|journal}}
The Battle of the Great Bear was not only one of the few battles in which the UNSC won a decisive victory against the Covenant, but one of the only engagements of the [[Human-Covenant War]] in which the UNSC successfully repelled two Covenant onslaughts on the same world. The UNSC would not earn such a victory again until the [[Battle of Sigma Octanus IV]] in [[2552#July|July of 2552]].<ref name="journal"/>


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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[[Category:Battles of the Human-Covenant War|Great Bear]]
[[Category:UNSC victories|Great Bear]]
[[Category:UNSC Victories|Great Bear]]

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