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It was a guerrilla war in which the Portuguese Armed Forces waged a counter-insurgency campaign against armed groups mostly dispersed across sparsely populated areas of the vast Angolan countryside. Many atrocities were committed by all forces involved in the conflict.

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  • Angolan War of Independence
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  • It was a guerrilla war in which the Portuguese Armed Forces waged a counter-insurgency campaign against armed groups mostly dispersed across sparsely populated areas of the vast Angolan countryside. Many atrocities were committed by all forces involved in the conflict.
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Strength
  • 65000(xsd:integer)
  • 90000(xsd:integer)
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Casus
  • Rise of nationalism in Angola, independence of other colonies
Partof
  • the Portuguese Colonial War
Date
  • 1975-11-11(xsd:date)
  • --02-04
Commander
  • Agostinho Neto
  • Francisco da Costa Gomes
  • Holden Roberto
  • Jonas Savimbi
  • José Eduardo dos Santos
  • Lúcio Lara
Caption
  • Portuguese troops on patrol in Angola
Casualties
  • 2991(xsd:integer)
  • 4684(xsd:integer)
  • 30000(xsd:integer)
  • 50000(xsd:integer)
Result
  • ceasefire and independence after the Carnation revolution: Alvor Agreement Angolan independence in 1975, start of the Angolan Civil War.
  • Portuguese military victory;
combatant
  • Portugal
  • United States
  • Supported by:
  • UNITA
  • FLEC
  • FNLA
  • MPLA
Place
  • Angola
Conflict
  • Angolan War of Independence
abstract
  • It was a guerrilla war in which the Portuguese Armed Forces waged a counter-insurgency campaign against armed groups mostly dispersed across sparsely populated areas of the vast Angolan countryside. Many atrocities were committed by all forces involved in the conflict. In Angola, after the Portuguese had stopped the war, an armed conflict broke out among the nationalist movements. This war formally came to an end in January 1975 when the Portuguese government, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), and the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) signed the Alvor Agreement,
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