The U.N. claimed Tshombe had lost control of his men—which gave it an excuse to strike back. From Manhattan U.N. headquarters, orders were flashed to the 12,000-man U.N. force in Katanga ...

Though its mines provided the uranium for the Nagasaki and Hiroshima A-bombs, the durable giant known as the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga had never been so preoccupied with explosives as it ...

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 ...

As a commandant, he led the contingent of 155 men into Jadotville in 1961 as part of a UN mission only to be attacked by secessionist Katangese forces and foreign mercenaries.

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.