Ground Battle for Harvest

"five years, five long years. That's how long it took us to get Harvest back."

- Captain James Cutter The Ground Battle for Harvest was the continuation of the UNSC operation to retake the glassed colony of Harvest from the Covenant. After the initial orbital engagement it took five years to take Harvest back from Covanant control.

Background
On March 2526, Vice Admiral Preston Cole was given the task of retaking Harvest. His fleet engaged the Covenant ship and due to overwhelming numbers, and a last-minute tactical manoeuvre the UNSC defeated the Covenant ship, however the planet of Harvest was still swarming with Covenant. So the Ground Battle for Harvest started to retake the land mass for UNSC

The Battle
Due to superior numbers of UNSC Marines and fast deploy methods of pelican dropships and warthogs, it seemed like the battle was going well. But due to lots of Covenant counter-attacks and other setbacks, including counter attacks by banshees and glassing by a fleet of Covenant Destroyer the UNSC started to lose numbers. The Battle was suppose to be a quick and decisive win, but in the end it took upto five years to take back Harvest. By the end of which all Covanant forces retreated to the north pole and started digging, and waiting for reinforcements that would come at the Third Battle of Harvest

Aftermath
The battle was a victory for the UNSC, but a costly one at that. The Battle was later described as "Five years of Hell", by the end of which the Covenant attacked Harvest again determined to claim the Forerunner artifact buried under Harvest's north pole.

Related Pages

 * Five Long Years Cinematic


 * First Battle of Harvest
 * Second Battle of Harvest
 * Third Battle of Harvest
 * Human-Covenant War