Trying to explain away his army’s debacle, Mobutu charged Katangese Leader Moise Tshombe with using African Rhodesian, as well as white, troops. “We know that they were Rhodesians,” he said, ...

The Katangese army as a whole was rather less efficient. Above all it badly needed more officers. It was this that had brought him to Europe, acting as an assistant to his battalion commander, a ...

The army at home has done something, just a little, to make amends for its omissions. Quite frankly this is a naturally partisan account of this whole affair, as seen and told by and about the men ...

Surrounded, outgunned, and left without reinforcements—155 Irish UN peacekeepers held their ground for five days against 4,000 Katangese troops. This is the untold story of courage under fire at ...

In the original incident, a total of 158 men from A Company faced an overwhelming force of Katangese rebels backed up from French and Belgian mercenaries at Jadotville outside Elizabethville.

How a force of 155 raw, poorly-equipped Irish soldiers held back an army of 3,500 rebels, including seasoned Belgian and French mercenaries, in the Congo and remarkably survived. In 1961, as part ...

Michael Tighe, one of the last surviving veterans of the Irish Army’s biggest battle at the Siege of Jadotville in the Congo has passed away. Retired quartermaster sergeant Tighe (83), from ...