As part of the larger Congo Crisis (1960–1964), the siege of Jadotville [ʒa.do.vil] began on 13 September 1961, lasting for five days. While serving under...
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The Siege of Jadotville is a 2016 action-war film directed by Richie Smyth and written by Kevin Brodbin. An Irish-South African production, the film is...
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Pat Quinlan (Irish Army officer) (category Irish prisoners of war)
at the Siege of Jadotville in Katanga in 1961, and surrendered when they ran out of ammunition and other supplies. Despite the initial lack of recognition...
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Battalion who fought during the Siege of Jadotville in 1961. "A" Company, under the command of Commandant Pat Quinlan, was part of the Irish Army forces participating...
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Likasi (redirect from Jadotville)
official names: Jadotville (French) and Jadotstad (Dutch)) is a city in Haut-Katanga Province, in the south-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Likasi...
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Jamie Dornan (category Alumni of Teesside University)
during The Siege of Jadotville, in Netflix's war film The Siege of Jadotville. He was sent to a boot camp in South Africa with the rest of the cast to...
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Roger Faulques (category Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour)
included the siege of Jadotville led by Faulques, Michel de Clary, and Henri Lasimone. The siege of Jadotville lasted five days. At the end of the battle...
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Conor Cruise O'Brien (category Vice-chancellors of the University of Ghana)
surrounded by a force of heavily armed Gendarmerie and mercenaries outnumbering them 20-to-one in Jadotville. The Irish soldiers, many of them still in their...
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Moïse Tshombe (category Democratic Republic of the Congo politicians convicted of crimes)
Danny Sapani in the 2016 film The Siege of Jadotville. Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown. A derivative of Tshombe's name, chombe, was incorporated...
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Jason O'Mara (category Alumni of Trinity College Dublin)
(2012–13), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2016–17) and The Man in the High Castle (2018–19). For his performance in The Siege of Jadotville (2016), he won an...
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Fifty Shades franchise, he appeared in war films Anthropoid and The Siege of Jadotville, both in 2016. For his supporting turn as Jan Kubiš in the former...
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The Siege of Jadotville, which was released by Netflix Original Films. The Glimmer Man (1996) Mindhunters (2004) Constantine (2005) The Siege of Jadotville...
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United Nations Operation in the Congo (category United Nations operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Declan Power, on whose book, Siege at Jadotville, the new movie is based. "Film 'Siege of Jadotville' to reveal heroism of Irish troops". Irish Times....
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the role of Philip in the RTÉ's television series Raw. He later appeared in the films Burnt, Monsters: Dark Continent, The Siege of Jadotville, In the...
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Declan Power (category Year of birth missing (living people))
He is a graduate of Dublin City University and Trinity College Dublin.[citation needed] He wrote a book on the Siege of Jadotville, which was published...
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granddaughters of the actor Louis Seigner (1903-1991) and the nieces of the actress Françoise Seigner (1928-2008), both deans and members of the Comédie-Française...
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Heart as Quignard 2016 : Cézanne and I as Émile Zola 2016 : The Siege of Jadotville as Rene Faulques 2017 : Mon garçon as Julien 2017 : Rock'n Roll as...
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Siege of Sidi Ifni (1957–58) – Ifni War Siege of Jadotville (1961) – Congo Crisis Siege of Puerto Cabello (1962) – Venezuelan political crisis Siege of...
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Mark Strong (category Alumni of Royal Holloway, University of London)
and Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023), and John in Cruella (2021). Strong was born Marco Giuseppe Salussolia in the Islington borough of London on 5 August...
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Ronan Raftery (category Year of birth missing (living people))
original on 2 May 2016. Retrieved 22 October 2016. "Ronan Raftery Joins Cast of Roundabout's The Real Thing". broadwayworld.com. 4 September 2014. Archived...
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Vickers machine gun (category Machine guns of the United Kingdom)
Ciaran (27 July 2016). "The True Story of the Heroic Battle That Inspired the New Netflix Film The Siege of Jadotville". Time.com. Suciu, Peter (4 May 2021)...
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1960 Niemba Ambush 17 January 1961 Assassination of Patrice Lumumba September 1961 Siege of Jadotville 11–12 November 1961 Kindu atrocity January–November...
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Mikael Persbrandt (category People convicted of drug offenses)
he is perhaps best known for playing Gunvald Larsson in the Beck series of movies. He is internationally known for his starring role in the Academy Award-winning...
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on-demand Internet streaming media provider, that has distributed a number of original programs, including original series, specials, miniseries, documentaries...
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media related to State of Katanga. Free Republic of the Congo Front for the National Liberation of the Congo Siege of Jadotville South Kasai, another secessionist...
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In 2009, he made his feature film debut, playing an orphan boy in A Shine of Rainbows. Between 2009 and 2012 he appeared on Roy, an Irish-British animated...
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Bob Denard (category French military personnel of the First Indochina War)
various jobs in support of Françafrique—France's sphere of influence in its former colonies in Africa—for Jacques Foccart, co-ordinator of President Charles...
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guest star in the final two-part episode of ITV's hit drama A Touch of Frost, playing the troubled daughter of Frost's one-time corrupt colleague. In 2011...
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1961 Ndola Transair Sweden DC-6 crash (category History of Lubumbashi)
in the 2016 film The Siege of Jadotville, where it is shot down by an F-4 Phantom fighter jet. All 16 occupants died as a result of the accident. Sergeant...
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Michael McElhatton (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
actor and writer. He is best known for playing the role of Roose Bolton in the HBO series Game of Thrones from the second to the sixth season (2012–2016)...
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