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|Commanders1 = [[Image:DA Icon.png|20px]] [[Lion El’Jonson]]<br> [[Image:SW Icon.png|20px]] [[Leman Russ (Primarch)|Leman Russ]]

|Commanders2 =No centralized leadership

*[[Calth High Guard]]{{Fn|2}}

|Strength2 = [[Image:DG Icon.png|20px]] [[Death Guard]]{{Fn|2}}<br>[[Image:EC Icon.png|20px]] [[Emperor’s Children]]{{Fn|2}}<br>[[Image:IW Icon.png|20px]] [[Iron Warriors]]{{Fn|2}}<br>[[Image:NL Icon.png|20px]] [[Night Lords]]{{Fn|2}}<br>[[Image:SOH icon.png|20px]] [[Sons of Horus]]{{Fn|2}}

|Casualties2 = Numerous vital worlds destroyed, including the legion homeworlds of [[Chemos]] and [[Barbarus]]{{Fn|2}}

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After they took part in [[Second Battle of Davin|destroying]] [[Davin]] and ending the [[Ruinstorm]], the [[Dark Angels]]' were freed from the isolation caused by the giant [[Warp Storm]]. A wrathful [[Lion El'Jonson]], then led the [[Dark Angels]] in wreaking havoc across the southern [[Imperium]] in a campaign of revenge and extermination. It is designed to both punish the traitorous forces of [[Warmaster]] [[Horus]] and destroy their military assets in the region. By doing so, El'Jonson seeks to prevent the Warmaster from creating a "second front" unified against [[Terra]]. The Primarch orders the usage of the Dark Angels' [[Old Night]] weaponry and this results in a trail of blackened, scorched worlds that were loyal to Horus, to be left in their wake. Among those worlds that were destroyed by the Dark Angels, during the campaign were the [[Traitor Legion]] [[Homeworld]]s of the [[Emperor's Children]], the [[Death Guard]]{{Fn|2}} and [[Nuceria]], the adoptive world of the Primarch [[Angron]].{{Fn|3}}

The Lion eventually made for [[Deliverance]], linking up with the [[Raven Guard]] and [[Space Wolves]] as well as their respective Primarchs [[Corvus Corax]] and [[Leman Russ (Primarch)|Leman Russ]]. The Lion is quick to question the Raven Lord's absence from major fronts of the war, but is ire is put to rest by Russ, who points at the survival of his own legion as evidence of their worth. Russ declares he will join The Lion's [[Passage of the Angels|Crusade of Vengeance]], including warriors equipped with new [[Mark VI Power Armour]] produced on [[Kiavahr]]. Corax however is cautious to commit his bloodied Legion to what he sees as a needlessly spiteful waste, and only assigns a small expeditionary force of his Raven Guard to The Lion's forces. Even in this role, Corax's forces will be used to eliminate key enemy targets ahead of the main Dark Angels fleet in order to spare entire worlds from annihilation.{{Fn|2}}

*[[Death of Chemos]]{{Fn|2}}

*[[Liberation of Saronican]]{{Fn|2}}

*[[Siege of Cthonia]]{{Fn|4}}

*[[Siege of Inwit]]{{Fn|2}}

*{{Endn|2}}: [[White Dwarf 478]], pgs. 102-109 - ''Horus Heresy: The Passage of the Angel of Death''

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