Significant1970

Operation Gordian Knot

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Cabo Delgado · Mueda Plateau

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

General Kaúlza de Arriaga's massive 1970 counter-insurgency sweep in Cabo Delgado and Niassa.

Belligerents2

Portuguese Empire
FRELIMO

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Operation Gordian Knot (1970). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/operation-gordian-knot · Sources & methodology