Significant1961

Baixa de Cassanje Revolt

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Baixa de Cassanje · Malanje

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Cotton-pickers' strike in Portuguese Angola crushed by aerial bombing and ground sweeps, conventionally treated as the start of the Angolan War of Independence.

Belligerents2

Portuguese Empire
Angola

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Baixa de Cassanje Revolt (1961). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/baixa-de-cassanje-revolt · Sources & methodology