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==Major Ground Campaigns==
 
  
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===Bilad Al-Rafigayn===
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[[Category:The Magnate War]]
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==Major Fleet Actions==
 
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===The Battle of Finnegan's Folly===
 
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'''June-July 2176'''<br>
 
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'''Result:'''  Magnate Pyrrhic Victory, secured Citadel but lost major fleet elements in holding action with superior League forces.
 
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====Forces====
 
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'''Magnate Continuum Joint Operations Fleet'''<br>
 
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Commanding Officer: Fleet Arbitrator Sauer
 
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:lots
 
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'''League Combined Fleet'''<br>
 
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Commanding Officer:  Rakesh Zhang, Minkowski National Guard
 
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:more
 
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====Losses====
 
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'''Magnate Continuum Joint Operations Fleet'''<br>
 
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Commanding Officer:  Fleet Arbitrator E-11
 
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:Significant elements of Expeditionary Force lost
 
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'''League Combined Fleet'''<br>
 
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Commanding Officer: Rakesh Zhang, Minkowski National Guard
 
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====Aftermath====
 
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The Battle of Finnegan's Folly was the defining event of the Magnate war: very long, very slow, and ambiguous in result. League ships began trickling into the system through the month of June and it rapidly became apparent to the quagmired Magnates that their position was untenable. They accelerated plans to activate and evacuate the Citadel and departed with it in the early days of July, mere hours before the League fleet breached their defenses and reached Near Orbit in force. The Magnates, having limited FTL capability deployed the bulk of the Fleet assets of the Expeditionary Force in the system in a desperate holding action to contain advancing League forces, while remaining fleet assets escorted the Citadel out of the system.
 
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The battle left the Magnates with a significantly diminished Expeditionary Force, but they had achieved their strategic objectives. In the wake of the battle and the other concluding actions of the war, neither side could marshal enough force and transport to initiate a new operation before the Breakdown ended and the threat of Core support forced the Magnates to abandon their plans for conquest.
 

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