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|Date =007-008.[[M31]]
|Location =[[Ultramar]], [[Nuceria]]
|Outcome =Strategic Traitor Victory, Ruinstorm created<br>Loyalist Tactical Victory, Ultramar mostly defended
|Combatant1 =Traitors
|Combatant2 =[[Imperium]]
|Commanders1 =[[Primarch]] [[Lorgar]]<br>[[Primarch]] [[Angron]]<br>[[Vel-Kheredar]]<br>[[Erebus]]<br>[[Kharn]]<br>[[Argel Tal]] (KIA)<br>[[Vorias]] (KIA)<br>[[Centurion (Rank)|Centurion]] [[Delvarus]]<br>[[Princeps]] [[Venric Solostine]](KIA)
|Commanders2 =[[Primarch]] [[Roboute Guilliman]]<br>[[Orfeo Cassandar]](KIA)<br>[[Princeps]] [[Maxamillien Delantry]] (KIA)
|Strength1 =40,000 [[Word Bearers]]{{Fn|4}}<br>80,000 [[World Eaters]]{{Fn|4}}<br>[[Legio Audax]]<br>two Two [[Furious Abyss]] class Battleships
|Strength2 =[[Ultramarines]]<br>[[Legio Lysanda]]<br>[[Legio Oberon]]
|Casualties1 =UnknownAt least 50,000 Word Bearers{{Fn|8}}<br>Tens of thousands of World Eaters<br>[[Gloriana Class Battleship|Fidelitas Lex]]|Casualties2 =Unknown Astartes lossesAt least 120,000 Ultramarines<br>26 [[Ultramar]] worlds ~100 planets destroyed{{Fn|7}}<br>[[Nuceria]] destroyed
}}
The '''Shadow Crusade''' was a campaign of the [[Horus Heresy]]. Making up the second theater of the [[Eastern Fringe]] campaign of the Heresy alongside the [[Battle of Calth|Calth Front]], it was a campaign by the [[Word Bearers]] and [[World Eaters]] against the 500 worlds of [[Ultramar]].{{Fn|1}}
*{{Endn|5}}: [[The Purge (Novella)]] Chapter 1
*{{Endn|6}}: [[Angels of Caliban (Novel)]] Chapters 3-6
*{{Endn|7}}: [[The Laurel of Defiance (Short Story)]] by [[Guy Haley]], pg.314
*{{Endn|8}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Five]], pg. 81
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[[Category:Battles (Word Bearers)]]
