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By 1944, the Race had occupied many areas of the United States. In the Spring of that year, Fleetlord Atvar ordered an offensive in Colorado targeted at Denver. Unknown to Atvar, this was where the American nuclear project was based. He'd actually had several opportunities to deploy an explosive-metal bomb against the city, but in each instance he opted for a different target he believed more strategic. Prior to this battle, he opted not to bomb it for fear that the fallout would hurt the Race's invasion force.

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rdfs:label	Battle of Denver
rdfs:comment	By 1944, the Race had occupied many areas of the United States. In the Spring of that year, Fleetlord Atvar ordered an offensive in Colorado targeted at Denver. Unknown to Atvar, this was where the American nuclear project was based. He'd actually had several opportunities to deploy an explosive-metal bomb against the city, but in each instance he opted for a different target he believed more strategic. Prior to this battle, he opted not to bomb it for fear that the fallout would hurt the Race's invasion force.
dcterms:subject	Battles of the Race Invasion
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Partof	The Race Invasion of Tosev 3
Date	1944(xsd:integer)
Commander	Atvar Omar Bradley (Worldwar) Leslie Groves (Worldwar)
Timeline	Worldwar
Result	U.S. victory
combatant	United States of America (Worldwar) The Race
Place	United States of America (Worldwar)
abstract	By 1944, the Race had occupied many areas of the United States. In the Spring of that year, Fleetlord Atvar ordered an offensive in Colorado targeted at Denver. Unknown to Atvar, this was where the American nuclear project was based. He'd actually had several opportunities to deploy an explosive-metal bomb against the city, but in each instance he opted for a different target he believed more strategic. Prior to this battle, he opted not to bomb it for fear that the fallout would hurt the Race's invasion force. At first, the Race advanced easily, sweeping aside American opposition and blunting an attack by an American unit lead by Rance Auerbach. However, General Omar Bradley had predicted that the Race would advance on Denver, and had ordered the city to be heavily fortified. By the time the invaders reached the city, they were faced by a defense in depth, several miles long. The Race's attacks were heavily resisted, and the Americans inflicted extremely heavy losses on the Race. However, the enemy's superior technology slowly allowed them to push forward. Bradley and Leslie Groves began to discuss when and where they should deploy the one atomic bomb that they had to use. The bomb was buried in the path of the Lizard advance. Bradley ordered a deliberately clumsy U.S. counterattack that left much of the American line open to attack. When large numbers of the Race's forces moved into the area around the bomb, Bradley detonated it, destroying the southern prong of the Race's advance, and badly damaging those to the center and the north. In addition, Race pilot Teerts was knocked out of the sky and killed. Thus the battle ended in a U.S. victory.

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