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| Date | December 29th, 1954-January 24th, 1955 | ||||||
| Location | Gateshead, England | ||||||
| Result | Decisive Allied victory Surrender of EWA forces | ||||||
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The Siege of Gateshead was the last major engagement of the English Anarchy, when English Republican Army forces aided by American reinforcements attacked the EWA fortifications at Gateshead concurrently with an attack againts Sunderland, in order to capture Newcastle, the last major metropolitan area held by the EWA. The fighting, which began in late December 1954 and ended on January 24, 1955, resulted in nearly 38,000 total casualties for the EWA, against about 13,500 for the Allied forces. It resulted in the surrender of Phillip Baxley, the last EWA general, and the surrender of almost 40,000 EWA soldiers on February 24th, a day almost universally acclaimed Stability Day.
The engagement at Gateshead is noted for its violent nature and the disastrous Whitburn Landings attempted by the United States Marine Corps in order to outflank the EWA, as well as the first serious aerial bombardment by the English Republican Air Force's new fleet of planes. While an EWA remnant would hold out in Rochester until April, the battle at Gateshead is regarded as the end of the Anarchy.