List battles of Honorverse

Battles being held in the universe of fiction Honorverse, by chronological order

Attention: certain battles proceed " tard" in the cycle, and one can quote deaths of them, if you think that would waste your reading, do not read the list.

First Basil Battle

Is held at the end of the first tome cheese of the series, Mission Basil: Honor with the orders of the Intrépide continues and fights the ship-Q havrien Sirius . First (and only) use in combat of the gravific lance, invention promoted by Sonja Hemphill. The installation of this weapon cost the Intrépide most of its capacity to the combat, and the losses of Intrepid are heavy. Samuel Webster is seriously wounded.

First Battle of Yeltsin

( For the honor of the queen )

The admirals Courvosier and Yanakov take along the fleet graysonienne to the meeting of Masadiens, but discover for their misfortune that Havre their entrusted modern vessels. Note: it is the first military cooperation between Grayson and Manticore. The capture of the Madrigal , and the fate reserved to the prisoners of this vessel, will play a big role thereafter.

Battle of Blackbird

( For the honor of the queen )

Honor with the head of a small squadron must take the orbital base of Blackbird, in the system of Yeltsin. It made captive Thomas Theisman there, but not before this one seriously did not damage one of its vessel, which inapt for the combat will have to join Manticore.

Second Battle of Yeltsin

( For the honor of the queen )

Honor Harrington, at the head of the Intrepid , and Alistair McKeon with the head of the Troubadour , arrive by a combination of pure chance and talent, to overcome the Saladin which tried with the hands of Masadiens to destroy Grayson. This battle and the determination of which Honor made proof will be worth him the title of Harrington countess on Manticore, Harrington Lord on Grayson (first woman of their history to have a field there), and marks the beginning of the double citizenship graysonienne/manticorienne of Honor.

First Battle of Hancock

( a victorious and short war )

Acting as captain of house of the rear-admiral Sarnow, Honor takes along to the battle a force of cruisers against super-battleships. Only the providential arrival of reinforcements saves the setting to him. Notable facts:

the force of the FRM tightens a ambush with the havriens using their network of sensors supra-luminic. It is the first time that it is made by it use against Havre.
the cruisers under the orders of the admiral Sarnow make for the first use of the capsules missile launcher, which allows them a first exceptionally provided broadside.
Seule occasion also where a minefield is used in an offensive way (Havriens there is attracted by Sarnow whereas the field was " planté" for the occasion, far from any planet or node of worm where one can expect to find it).

Third Battle of Yeltsin

the Admiral Amos Parnell of the popular Navy of Harbor, expecting an advantage of 50% in vessels of the wall, loses half of its forces when it is taken in ambush by a numerically higher force of Alliance, under the command of the Admiral de White Havre thanks to the strategy of the Admiral Caperali who positions the forces of the FRM in the various systems.

Fourth Battle of Yeltsin

the 6 Supercuirassés, and their escort, of the 1st squadron of battle of the Navy of Grayson, under the command of the Admiral Honor Harrington, destroy the 3 will esquadrons bombers of the popular Navy of Harbor, and their escort, ordered by the Citizen Vice Admiral Alexander Thurston at the time of the Dague.Elle operation engages these adversaries at very short distance while making pass its battleships for cruisers.

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