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{{Status|Canon}}
{{Era|HCW}}
{{Battle infobox
{{battle
|name        = Battle of Actium
|name        = Battle of Actium
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|conflict    = [[Human-Covenant War]]{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22|Enc22|Page=49}}
|conflict    = [[Human-Covenant War]]
|date        = [[2545|May 2545]]<ref name="Waypoint">[http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/intel/featured/video/herocourage/c2ada678-e9ce-4db9-9ce9-1864070bd198 '''Halo Waypoint''', ''Hero - Courage'']</ref>
|date        = May-June [[2545]]
|place      = [[Actium]], [[Erem system]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
|place      = [[Actium]]
|result      = *'''[[Covenant]] victory'''
|result      = *[[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] tactical victory
**Heavy Covenant casualties
**Massive Covenant casualties
**Actium glassed{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
*[[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] strategic victory
|side1      = {{Icon|UNSC HCW}} [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]]{{Ref/Reuse|Waypoint}}
**Colony glassed by naval forces
|side2      = {{Icon|Covenant HW}} [[Covenant]]{{Ref/Reuse|Waypoint}}
|side1      = [[United Nations Space Command]]
|commanders1 = [[Colonel|COL]] [[Akono Menteith]]&dagger;{{Ref/Reuse|Waypoint}}
|side2      = [[Covenant Empire]]  
|commanders2 = Unknown [[fleetmaster]]
|commanders1 = [[Colonel]] [[Acono Menteith]]&dagger;
|forces1    = [[UNSC Army]]{{Ref/Reuse|Waypoint}}
|commanders2 = ''unknown''
*[[34th Armored Division]]{{Ref/Generic|Id=HODSICS|Heading=[[Halo: Outpost Discovery]]}}
|forces1    = [[53rd Armored Division]]
*[[53rd Armored Division]]{{Ref/Reuse|Waypoint}}
|forces2    = Covenant Navy<br/>
|forces2    = Unknown
Covenant Army
|casual1    = *53rd Armored Division{{Ref/Reuse|Waypoint}}
|casual1    = *Total destruction
**12,000+ soldiers{{Ref/Reuse|Waypoint}}
**12,000+ soldiers  
|casual2    = *Heavy casualties{{Ref/Reuse|Waypoint}}
|casual2    = Heavy casualties
**[[Marshal of Varo]]{{Ref/Reuse|DW8}}
}}
}}
{{Quote|Let no one here question our place in human history. That we are here right now is not coincidence or accident. It is our fate. And this war, our birthright — our legacy. Our generation was born to fight the Covenant, and you, my fellow soldiers - were born for this very day. Today the enemy will hear the roar of humanity. And they will fear us.|[[Akono Menteith|Colonel Akono Menteith]]'s address to the [[53rd Armored Division]]{{Ref/Reuse|Waypoint}}}}
{{Quote|Let no one here question our place in [[human]] history. That we are here right now is not a coincidence or accident. It is our fate. And this [[Human-Covenant War|war]], our birthright, our legacy. Our generation was born to fight the [[Covenant]], and you, my fellow soldiers, were born for this very day. Today the enemy will hear the roar of humanity, and they will fear us.|2=
 
Colonel Acono Menteith to 12,000 men and women of the 53rd Armored Division.<!--Note that the video does not specify as to their branch--><br/>May 10, 2545
The '''Battle of Actium''' was a key military engagement{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} during the [[Human-Covenant War]], occurring between [[United Nations Space Command]] and [[Covenant]] forces during [[2545|May 2545]] on the [[human]] [[Inner Colony]] planet of [[Actium]] in the [[Erem system]].{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
}}
The '''Battle of Actium''' was a military engagement that occured between [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] forces and the [[Covenant Empire]] between May and June 2545 on the colony world [[Actium]].<ref>[http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/intel/featured/video/herocourage/c2ada678-e9ce-4db9-9ce9-1864070bd198 ''Halo Waypoint'' video], Hero-Courage</ref>


==The battle==
==The battle==
In May 2545, a [[Covenant fleet]] invaded Actium. By May 10, [[Colonel]] [[Akono Menteith]], whom had assumed command of the [[UNSC Army]]'s [[53rd Armored Division]], gave a rousing speech to the roughly twelve-thousand surviving UNSC soldiers.{{Ref/Reuse|Waypoint}} Later that month, the 53rd Armored Division carried out targeted strikes on the Covenant's leadership cadres{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} and then marched deep into Covenant-held territory in order to destroy three of the largest Covenant staging areas on record; the 53rd did so with the aid of a pair of [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon]]s, though they suffered heavy attrition. Within the month, the 53rd Armored Division was annihilated.{{Ref/Reuse|Waypoint}}
In 2545, a [[Covenant]] armada invaded the planet in an attempt to conquer and [[Glassing|glass]] the world.
 
The Covenant later returned en force and [[Glassing|glassed]] much of Actium's surface.{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} The [[Marshal of Varo|marshal]] of the [[Sangheili]] state of [[Varo]] was involved in this battle, and ultimately killed in the conflict.{{Ref/Novel|Id=DW8|HDW|Chapter=8}}
 
==Aftermath==
Colonel Menteith's speech to the 53rd Armored Division became legendary throughout the colonies as a symbol of [[human]] resistance against the Covenant.{{Ref/Reuse|Waypoint}} The tactics used by the 53rd Armored Division during the Battle of Actium later informed the [[United Nations Space Command]]'s other late-war military strategies, including [[Operation: RED FLAG]] in [[2552]].{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}


During the battle, the [[34th Armored Division]] recovered a {{Pattern|Nahle'hax|needler}} from the Covenant that was later displayed at [[Outpost Discovery]], an exploratory initiative launched by the United Nations Space Command.{{Ref/Reuse|HODSICS}}
By May 10th, Colonel Acono Menteith had assumed command of the UNSC's 53rd Armored Division and gave his famous speech to the surviving UNSC forces. Later that month he led the remnants deep into Covenant-held territory in a suicidal attempt to take out three large-scale Covenant Army staging areas - three of the largest in recorded history. Detonating two [[HAVOK Tactical Nuclear Weapon]]s, the Covenant Army took heavy casualties at the cost of the UNSC forces that activated them.


==Production notes==
With no significant military presence remaining, the [[Covenant Navy]] was no longer under threat and the colony was subsequently glassed.
The battle shares its name with a [[Wikipedia:Battle of Actium|real-world engagement]] that occurred in 31 BC. The historical Battle of Actium is often considered a crucial step in the transition of the Roman Republic into the Empire.
 
==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Divine Wind]]'' {{Fm}}


==Sources==
==Sources==
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