Unhurt, the Katangese rolled down a hill in search ... The Indian brigade stormed and captured the headquarters of Katanga’s gendarmerie at Karavia, a mile from Elisabethville, with little ...

Some engineers doubted that the Katangese were expert enough to destroy ... and its Kolwezi facilities are occupied by the Katanga gendarmerie. But with its usual instinct for survival, the ...

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 ...

they came under attack from the Katangese gendarmerie." A native of Reeneragh in Caherdaniel, Col Quinlan was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Irish Army in the 1940s. As a commandant ...

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.