The Siege at Jadotville: The Irish Army’s Forgotten Battle

[davidbfpo]

I'd forgotten this 'small war' in the Congo, in October 1961, but a hitherto unknown website has the story how an Irish infantry company held off an attack for a week without any deaths. The attackers outnumbered them, had better weapons and more. The Irish had engineers, leaders and dug trenches.

There is a new Netflix's film being released, there is a short trailer and a twenty minute audio with a veteran who wrote the book.

Link:http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.co.uk/...#disqus_thread

One of the comments has several links to an official review and background to an ambush in 1960, such as this reminder:

During the course of the mission from 1960 until 1964, over 6,000 Irish troops participated and 26 soldiers died

Link to Irish Army article pgs.9-23, on the bloody ambush, not the siege:http://www.military.ie/fileadmin/use...eview_2010.pdf

Today the UN is still in the Congo, now the DRC and current UN peacekeeping has a thread:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=8209