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The
Battle of Dehli City, the largest battle of the
1971 Diwali Offensive was a major conflict occurring during the climax of
The South Asian War, A 10 year conflict involving the military forces of the
Combined Syndicates of America, the
Syndicalist Union of Britain, The
United Communes of Australasia, and the
Bharatiya Commune, fighting against the forces of the
United Kingdom of the Indian Raj, aided by the forces of the
Riechspakt, primarily the powers of
Qing China and
Imperial Germany. Although the battle ended in a crushing Syndicalist victory, with only around
4000 Syndintern casualties, the majority of them wounded, as opposed to over
57000 Imperial casualties, the majority of whom were killed in action, the brutal fighting recorded by war correspondents helped turn public opinion in
Britain, Australasia, and
America towards returning the troops from aiding the
Bharatiya Commune, resulting in a stalemate that allowed the
Indian Raj to gain the upper hand on the surrounded
Bharatiya Commune in later decades.
The battle began on October 22nd, 1971, when 10000 men of the
Imperial Army of the Raj, aided by over 80000 members of the
Assam Rifle Frontier Militia, wrested control of the city of
Dehli from the forces of the
Bhaarat Liberation Army during the opening stages of the
Diwali Offensive. The
Syndicalist peacekeeping forces in the nation, mostly comprised of British, American, and Australasian military personnel, quickly counter-attacked with a multi-national force comprised mostly of the American
1st Marine Division, the British
1st Red Guard Division (Grenadier) and the Australasian
1st Cavalry Division, aided by elements of the
Bharatiya Communal Army. What followed was a brutal battle of close quarters combat, as the Marines, Red Guards, and Armored Cavalrymen took the city back block by block, inflicting casualty ratios of over
14:1 on their Imperial opponents, eventually taking the city back by early December 1971. Despite the
Diwali Offensive being a major military defeat for the Raj, almost completely sapping the
Assam Rifles of their combat ability for the rest of the
South Asian War, it had a profound effect on the American and Allied governments and shocked the citizenry of those countries, which had been led to believe by its political and military leaders that the Raj was being defeated and incapable of launching such an ambitious military operation. The
"Christmas of Blood" that followed in the aftermath of the Offensive, where the thousands of British, American, Australian, and Allied Military casualties were revealed to the people of the
Syndintern, support for the war in
India waned considerably, and the foreign militaries of the
Syndicalist Internationale were pulled out of South Asia by
Fall 1973.
Photo 1: National Republic Marine Corps Infantry secure an apartment block in Dehli.
Photo 2: NRMC personnel evacuate wounded civilians from the combat zone.
Photo 3: An Australian United Communes Red Army soldier surveys the environment during a patrol.