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...
Mozambican War of Independence
Operation Gordian Knot
Operation Gordian Knot (Operação Nó Górdio) was the largest and most expensive Portuguese military campaign in the Portuguese overseas province of Mozambique, East Africa. The operation was carried out in 1970, during the Portuguese Colonial War (1961–1974). The...
14 Aug 1969 Maniamba Base
Portuguese military unit 1st GC (Grupo de Combate) executed an operation (Operação Sagres 3) to destroy the Maniamba Base in the Lago District near the confluence of the Messinge and Nossi rivers, Niassa Province of northwestern Mozambique. During the deployment, a...
06 Aug 1969 Muera River Bridge – Diaca
Maconde Plateau, northeastern Mozambique: on the route between the Muera River Bridge and Diaca, an ambush launched by a group of FRELIMO near the so-called "curve of death" against a platoon of the 2422nd Hunter Company / 17th Independent Infantry Battalion...
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