Second Battle of Bounteous

The Second Battle of Bounteous was the second major conflict in the Fifty-Years' War. Fought on the capital of the Socialist Nation, the battle raged for four months before the Confederate commanders surrendered to the UNSC and People's Army.
==Timeline==
On the seventh of October, 2618, a UNSC fleet commanded by Admiral James Hampton arrived just outside the Confederate pickets. After a four-hour battle for orbital supremacy, the UNSC managed to land a battalion of ODSTs on-surface. The Confederate ground troops, who were mostly concentrated around the capital of Reybaud, were taken completely by surprise. Within a few days, the UNSC had total orbital supremacy and over a million soldiers on the ground.
The People's Army, capitalizing on the UNSC's success at surprising the Confederates, quickly threw an attack at the newly-weakend Confederate lines. With a third of the soldiers who were dug in around Reybaud gone to hold off the UNSC, the assault drove the Confederate soldiers back from the capital. The Confederates were caught between the UNSC and the PA.
==Aftermath==
It took another month and a half to dig out the last of the Confederate resistance, but by January the Socialist Nation was free. However, the campaign took its toll. The Socialist Nation's government, never the most stable in the best of circumstances, was thrown into turmoil. The army had been decimated and their factories were burned. Ulimately, the UNSC had to step in and dissolve the governnemt during the Rearming in 2621, keeping the planet under its rule until it was reorganized under the Coalition of Socialist Governments in 2628.