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It carried the Jadotville-to-Elisabethville Highway across the Lufira River. The Katangese forces dug in here and brought heavy and sustained ground and air fire onto the relief column, killing three Indian UN troops, injuring a number of Irish UN troops and ultimately forcing the column off the bridge. [58]
- 13-17 September 1961
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Die Stadt Likasi wurde von den Kolonialherren ab 1943 nach dem belgischen Ingenieur Jean Jadot Jadotville oder flämisch Jadotstad genannt. 1966 wurde sie im Rahmen der von Diktator Mobutu in Gang gesetzten „Afrikanisierung“ in „Likasi“ zurückbenannt.
27. Juli 2016 · What unfolded over five days in Jadotville is a little-known but astonishing story of heroism and against-all-odds soldiering, a feat of indefatigable courage that is now the subject of a major...
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17. Okt. 2017 · John Gorman was a 17-year-old private in the Irish UN peacekeeping mission in the Congo in 1961. He recounts his experiences of the siege of Jadotville, where he and his comrades fought off Katangan forces for five days.
9. Feb. 2018 · Learn how a small Irish army unit defended a mining town in Congo against a Katangese attack for five days in 1961. Discover the lessons from this episode of the Congo Crisis, the U.N.'s first major military operation.
THE SIEGE OF JADOTVILLE tells the true story of the 1961 siege of a 150-member Irish U.N. battalion under Commander Patrick Quinlan by 3,000 Congolese troops...
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