The Battle for Camelot took place in the early days of the year 2552, toward the end of the Fall of Avalon and was fought primarily between the United Nations Space Command Army & Marine corps and Covenant forces within the Unified Earth Government Colony Avalon's economic and social capital, Camelot. It was the most catastrophic engagement during the Fall of Avalon with nearly six million civilian casualties and over two million military casualties. UNSC ground forces managed to extract four million surviving civilians from the city and air and navy forces were successful in protecting fleeing civilian craft. Two whole divisions of marines were wiped out and the army elements in the city were decimated. The battle was fought down to the last building with air-force elements leveling the c