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Gabonese 1964 Coup

Libreville

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Brief coup against President Leon Mba reversed by French paratroopers under Operation Bata, an early example of the post-colonial Francafrique military doctrine.

Belligerents2

  • Gabon
  • France

Sources

  1. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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