MOD:WCU:Bitof WC2668

(go UP one level)

From Wonder Chicken's exquisitely well written timeline:

BATTLE OF TERRA
With their fleets back up to full strength, bolstered by the first
fleet of Hakaga-class supercarriers, the Kilrathi strike deep into
Confederation space. Warsaw, Gilead, and Sirius Prime are
bombed with radiation warheads, even as the Kilrathi brush
aside Confederation's hastily assembled defenses and reach
Earth. Despite the suicidal bravery of Earth's defenders, the
Kilrathi are able to bombard crucial defense centers on the
planet - Chicago, Pittsburgh, Boston, Miami, Quebec, Berlin,
Paris, Kiev, and others - before they are finally forced to
withdraw to friendly space as a result of daring Marines, who
land aboard several Kilrathi vessels, including the Kilrathi
flagship, and destroy them with thermonuclear mines.
(Novel Fleet Action) Aftermath of the Battle of Earth

About the Landreich, 2668, False Colors says:

President Maximilian Kruger becomes a galactic hero for his actions at Earth.
The Terran Confederation establishes a diplomatic presence in the Free Republic of the Landreich
and assigns a naval garrison to the sector, which includes the TCS Juneau and the TCS Dover.
Ambassador Phelps is dispatched to the region. The Landreich itself expands to include fourteen
colony worlds and twenty parsecs of space.