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{{Infobox military conflict
|conflict = Battle of Schwartzgrad
|partof = the [[Europan Campaign (1950-1975)]] of the [[War of Lorican Aggression]]
|image= [[File:ChieftainSchwarzgald.jpg ‎|280px|]]
|caption= Lucian [[Chieftain tank|Chieftain tanks]] approaching Schwartzgrad
|date = 16 April - 2 May 1975
|place = [[Schwartzgrad]], [[Autocratic East Europan Imperial Alliance]]
|territory = 
|result = Decisive Allied Victory 
* Suicide of Maximillian I and deaths of other high-ranking Imperial officials
* [[Maximillian Georg Gaius von Reginrave|Maximillian Georg]] takes over as Emperor Maximillian II and sues for peace and surrenders all Imperial forces across the Empire
* Unconditional surrender of the Schwartzgrad city garrison on 2 May
* Capitulation of Imperial forces still fighting the battle outside Schwartzgrad on 8/9 May, following the unconditional surrender of all Schwartzgrad forces
* End of the [[War of Lorican Aggression]]
|combatants_header = Belligerents

|combatant1  = '''''

{{flagicon image|Great_Lucis_and_Accordo_-_Tristain.jpg|22px}} [[Great Lucis and Accordo|United Kingdom]]<br/>
{{flagicon image|GalliaF.png|22px}} [[Gallia-Bruhl]]<br/>
{{flagicon image|Erebonian Flag.jpg|22px}} [[Erebonian Empire]]<br/>
{{flagicon image|Flag of Rubrum1 T E.jpg|22px}} [[Rubrum and the Peristylium|Rubrum]]<br/>
{{flagicon image|Commonwealth of Zanarkand and Besaid 3rd Version.jpg|22px}} [[Zanarkand and the Besaid Islands|Zanarkand]]<br/>
{{flagicon image|Realm_of_New_Akiba_3rd_Version.jpg|22px}} [[New Akiba]]<br/>
{{flagicon image|Europan atlantic federation 133233.jpg ‎|22px}} [[Atlantic Federation]]<br/>
{{flagicon image|East europan imperial alliance 11666.jpg|22px}} Maximillian II Loyalists<br/>

| combatant2  = '''''
{{flagicon image|East europan imperial alliance 11666.jpg|22px}} [[Autocratic East Europan Imperial Alliance]]<br/>

| commander1  = '''''
{{flagicon image|Great_Lucis_and_Accordo_-_Tristain.jpg|22px}} [[Regis Lucis Caelum CXIII]]<br/>
{{flagicon image|Erebonian Flag.jpg|22px}} [[Eugent Reise Arnor II]]<br/>

Army Group Gallia
* {{flagicon image|Great_Lucis_and_Accordo_-_Tristain.jpg|22px}}{{flagicon image|GalliaF.png|22px}} [[Peter Tachibana]]<br/>
* {{flagicon image|Commonwealth of Zanarkand and Besaid 3rd Version.jpg|22px}} [[David Handel]]<br/>
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Rubrum1 T E.jpg|22px}}  [[Murasame Susaya]]<br/>

Army Group South
* {{flagicon image|Europan atlantic federation 133233.jpg ‎|22px}} [[Franklin Victor]]<br/>
* {{flagicon image|Europan atlantic federation 133233.jpg ‎|22px}} [[Roland Morgan]]<br/>

Army Group North
* {{flagicon image|Erebonian Flag.jpg|22px}} [[Karl L.K Arseid]]<br/>
* {{flagicon image|Great_Lucis_and_Accordo_-_Tristain.jpg|22px}} [[Daidoji Kitagawa]]<br/>

Maximillian II Loyalists
* {{flagicon image|East europan imperial alliance 11666.jpg|22px}} [[Maximillian Georg Gaius von Reginrave|Maximillian Georg]]

| commander2  = '''''
{{flagicon image|East europan imperial alliance 11666.jpg|22px}} [[Maximillian Heinrich Gaius von Reginrave|Maximillian I]] {{KIA}}<br/>

Army Group Norden
* {{flagicon image|East europan imperial alliance 11666.jpg|22px}} [[Heyrich Kornard]]{{Surrendered}} <br/>
* {{flagicon image|East europan imperial alliance 11666.jpg|22px}} [[Bethold Gregor Sr.]]{{Surrendered}} <br/>

Army Group Steiner
* {{flagicon image|East europan imperial alliance 11666.jpg|22px}} [[Felix Steiner]]{{Surrendered}} <br/>

Army Group Süden
* {{flagicon image|East europan imperial alliance 11666.jpg|22px}} [[Walther Wenck]]{{Surrendered}} <br/>

Army Group West
* {{flagicon image|East europan imperial alliance 11666.jpg|22px}} [[Alfred Held]]{{Surrendered}} <br/>

Schwartzgrad Defence Area 
* {{flagicon image|East europan imperial alliance 11666.jpg|22px}} [[Hans Krabs]]{{KIA}} <br/>
* {{flagicon image|East europan imperial alliance 11666.jpg|22px}} [[Rickard Jaeger]]{{Surrendered}} <br/>

| strength1   = 72 combined divisions<br/> 1,575,000 troops<br/> 5,750 tanks<br/> 1,175 artillery<br/> 1,250 aircraft
| strength2   = 40 divisions<br/> 750,000-800,000 troops<br/> 1,518 tanks and AFVs<br/> 575 artillery<br/> 750 aircraft<br/> 75,000 troops supplanted by the police force, Maximillian Youth, and the Volkssturm
| casualties1 = 21,750 dead or wounded<br/> 250 tanks <br/> 75 artillery<br/> 100 aircraft<br/>
| casualties2 = 100,000 dead<br/> 200,000 wounded or sick<br/> 550,000 captured<br/> 1,154 tanks<br/> 354 artillery<br/> 542 aircraft<br/>
}}

{{campaignbox Europan Campaign (1950-1975)}}
{{Campaignbox War of Lorican Aggression}}

The '''Battle of Schwartzgrad''', also known as the '''Fall of Schwartzgrad''' was the final major offensive of the [[War of Lorican Aggression]].

Following the [[Paternoster-Elde Offensive]] of January–February 1945, the Allied Armies had temporarily halted on a line 60 km (37 mi) south of Schwartzgrad and the Allied Armies in the north halted about 50 km north of Schwartzgrad . On 9 March, the East Empire established its defence plan for the city with [[Operation Tactful]]. The first defensive preparations at the outskirts of Schwartzgrad were made on 20 March, under the newly appointed commander of Army Group Norden, General [[Heydrich Konrad]].

When the Allied offensive resumed on 16 April, two allied groups attacked Schwartzgrad from the north and south, with the south, consisting of the joint Commonwealth-Federal Armies attacking ahea. Before the main battle in Schwartzgrad commenced, the Allied Army encircled the city after successful battles of the [[Battle of Grausser|Grausser Heights]] in the north and the [[Battle of the Halbe]] in the south. On 20 April 1975, Maximillian's birthday, the Army Group Gallia led by Commander-in-chief of the Allied Armies [[Peter Tachibana]], advanced from the south, started shelling Berlin's city centre, while Marshal [[Franklin Victor]]'s Army Group South broke through Army Group West, linked up with Tachibana's Army Group Gallia and advanced towards the western suburbs of Schwartzgrad. On 23 April General [[Rickard Jaeger]] assumed command of the forces within Schwartzgrad. The garrison consisted of several depleted and disorganised [[Kaisermacht]] and [[Waffen-SS (East Empire)|Waffen-SS]] divisions, along with poorly trained [[Volksmacht]] and [[Maximillian Youth]] members. Over the course of the next week, the Allied Army gradually took the entire city.

Before the battle was over, Maximillian and several of his followers killed themselves. The city's garrison surrendered on 2 May but fighting continued to the north-west, west, and south-west of the city until the end of the war in Europa on 8 May.

==Background==

==The Battle==

==Aftermath==