Pereira d’Eca was attacked by South African troops consisting of 2 South African Infantry Battalion and 1 Parachute Battalion plus armoured cars. On the way to Pereira d’ Eca some MPLA troops rode slam-bang into the advancing paratroopers. An officer of the MPLA,...
Post Timelines
26 Aug 1975 Santa Clara
C Coy of 1 Parachute Battalion was involved in smaller skirmished in the south of Angola. Once again at Santa Clara as well as Namacunde, Cheedi and Onoile. Four MPLA soldiers were killed and 20 captured
14 Aug 1975 Lobito
A combined FNLA and UNITA force seized the port city of Lobito, 350 miles south of Luanda.
01 Aug 1975
UNITA formally declared war on the MPLA
26 Jan 1975 Luanda
The FNLA attacked the Radio Luanda station and destroyed it completely, kidnapping and torturing its assistant director – a member of the MPLA – in the process
15 Oct 1974
The FNLA agreed a cease-fire with the Portuguese, and became the first nationalist movement granted permission to deploy its delegation to Luanda
23 Jul 1973 Incala River
In the northeast of the Niassa district, near the Incala River in the Serra da Mecula, at the intersection of the Candulo to Marrupa trail, a Berliet from MVL CCS/CArt3558/BArt3887 detonates four booby traps interconnected by a detonating cord, planted by FRELIMO, two...
01 Jan 1973 Nangade
A section of 15 FRELIMO armed with 3 bazookas and a machine gun attacked the Nangade post at 9:00 p.m.
21 Dec 1972 Altena Farm
ZANLA launched an attack on Altena Farm in the north-east, which marked the beginning of a significant escalation in guerrilla activity and the official start of "Operation Hurricane"
5 Jan 1969 Mapé
7 members of CCaç 2321 killed in an ambush in the Mapé mountains
28 Oct 1968
Frelimo attack on an Engineering Company Camp 2393 - Three dead, thirty-five injured , with all the vehicles and machinery of the Engineering Company damaged, 13 x 82mm mortars landed inside the camp
28 Apr 1966 Sinoia
The first major engagement of the war took place in Sinoia, where seven ZANLA cadres were killed by Rhodesian Security Forces.
10 Dec 1956 Luanda
The MPLA (Movimento Popular de Libertaçao de Angola) was formed in Luanda from amalgamation of radical nationalist movements (including the Angolan Communist Party) with IlÃdio Alves Machado as president.