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The siege of Jadotville - Katanga, Congo -1961

Type de combat : Défense contre vagues d'ennemis.

En septembre 1961, une compagnie de l'armée irlandaise de l'Opération des Nations unies au Congo est assiégée par l'armée katangaise à Jadotville durant la crise congolaise.

Le 13 septembre 1961, l'ONU déclenchait au Katanga l'opération Morthor visant à mettre fin à la sécession de l'État du Katanga par la force.

Depuis le 4 septembre 1961 était basée à Jadotville la compagnie A du 35th Infantry Battalion irlandais, sous les ordres du commandant P. J. Quinlan. À cette compagnie était attaché le sous-lieutenant suédois L. Fröberg en qualité d'interprète. Les 155 Irlandais occupaient quelques maisons de part et d'autre de la route Jadotville - Élisabethville à la sortie de la ville. Comme ses hommes ne disposaient que d'un armement léger et majoritairement vétuste (fusils Lee Enfield n°4, pistolets-mitrailleurs Carl Gustav M45, quelques FN-FAL, 2 mitrailleuses lourdes Vickers, 3 canons sans recul Carl Gustav M2, 3 mortiers de 60 mm et 2 automitrailleuses Thompson Ford MK VI ), le commandant Quinlan s'abstint de toute initiative offensive.


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Battle mode : Defense against wave attack

On Wednesday, 13 September 1961, UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld gave permission for the United Nations forces to launch a military offensive, code named Operation Morthor, against mercenary military units serving the State of Katanga, which had seceded from Congo-Léopoldville in July 1960.

According to its mandate, the United Nations Operation in the Congo (ONUC) forces were to remain strictly impartial in the conflict. But, the Katangese political leadership believed the UN had broken its mandate and its forces were siding with their opponent, the Congolese central government.

Soon after the start of Morthor, the Katangese led a counterattack on an isolated UN military unit based at the mining town of Jadotville, approximately 100 kilometers up country from the main UN base in Elizabethville.

A contingent of 155 Irish UN troops, styled as "A Company" and commanded by Commandant Pat Quinlan, had been sent to the mining town, ostensibly to assist in the protection of its citizens. The foreign minister of Belgium had called the UN secretary general, reporting that Belgian settlers and the local population were unprotected, and feared for their safety.

But, when the Irish troops arrived at Jadotville, they were not welcomed by the local people, due to strong pro-Katangese and anti-UN feeling. Two previous companies of ONUC peacekeepers — one Swedish and one Irish — had been withdrawn from Jadotville in the days prior to the arrival of Quinlan's force.

It is not clear why the Katangese wanted to isolate the Irish UN troops, although some commentators have suggested that the goal may have been to take the Irish as prisoners for leverage in negotiations with the UN.

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