Second Battle of Minette

The Second Battle of Minette was an armed engagement between the Manticoran Alliance forces and the People's Navy, in which the Manticoran Alliance joint task force defeated the People's Navy Task Force 30 and took back the Minette System. ()
== Prelude ==
Minette was taken by the Havenites in the First Battle of Minette as part of Operation Stalking Horse. ()
== Order of battle ==
=== Manticoran Alliance ===
Joined task force:
* a battle squadron, CO Admiral Henries
* Battle Squadron 2 (GSN), CO Admiral Wesley Matthews
The exact strength of the allied joint task force is not certain due to possible losses in the Battle of Candor, and because a picket of indeterminate size may have been left there. On the other hand, Task Force Minnette-01 and some forces from Task Force Grendelsbane joinedAccording to Havenite reconnaissance, some light units from Grendelsbane joined Task Force Minnette-01 before Operation Dagger was launched.
=== People's Navy ===
Task Force 30:
* Battle Squadron 7 (PN)
* Battle Squadron 12 (PN)
* a battlecruiser squadron
* a screening element32 lighter units
== References ==
Minette, Second Battle of
Minette, Second Battle of