Pat Quinlan in Jadotville, just days before the siege began, on Sept.10,1961. Courtesy of Leo Quinlan Vastly outnumbered and cut off from supply lines with only rudimentary weapons at their ...

In 1961, the UN sends an Irish peacekeeper troop commanded by Commandant Pat Quinlan to Katanga, in Congo, to protect the inhabitants of the mining town of Jadotville ... under siege by a huge ...