Operation Cauldron was launched by the Rhodesian Security Forces in response to an incursion by ZIPRA insurgents on 28 December 1967. Despite the death...
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Armed Forces had started in 1967, and soon after Cauldron ended, the RLI was involved in a joint operation in Mozambique. A group of 17 Lusaka-based nationalists...
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Rhodesian African Rifles (redirect from Rhodesia Native Regiment)
RAR during Operation Cauldron. Captain Ken MacDonald, the Rhodesian African Rifles bandmaster and composer of Rise, O Voices of Rhodesia (the Rhodesian...
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History of the Rhodesian Light Infantry (1961–1972) (category Military history of Rhodesia)
army of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Raised as a light infantry unit at Brady Barracks, Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia, the Regiment served in...
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Battle of Gazala (redirect from Battle of the Cauldron)
Rommel retired to a defensive position backing onto Allied minefields (the Cauldron), forming a base in the midst of the British defences. Italian engineers...
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Battle of Kursk (redirect from Operation Zitadel)
movement", or maneuver warfare), culminating in a Kesselschlacht (literally: "cauldron battle", or battle of encirclement). Historians Steven Newton and Dieter...
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"Northern Rhodesia" placard from the opening ceremony. Zambia was the only team to use a placard in the closing ceremony. The start of operations for the...
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the recently formed Rhodesian Light Infantry, between Operation Nickel and Operation Cauldron (August 1967-May 1968). Godwin focussed on improving the...
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Battle of Stalingrad (category Battles and operations of the Soviet–German War)
"each part of the cauldron came personally under Hitler". On 28 January, the cauldron was split into three parts. The northern cauldron consisted of the...
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until 31 March inclusively, Phase 3: The so-called clearing out of the cauldron in the form of the last concentric attack - in this case on 1 and 2 April...
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Police Anti-Terrorist Unit (category Law enforcement in Rhodesia)
paramilitary auxiliary arm of the British South Africa Police (BSAP) in Rhodesia. The unit was founded in 1966. The concept was created for guerrilla bush...
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Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive (redirect from Lvov-Sandomierz Operation)
strategic offensive operation (Russian: Львовско-Сандомирская стратегическая наступательная операция) was a major Red Army operation to force the German...
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Battle of France (redirect from Operation Yellow)
Kesselschlacht (cauldron battle). Such a risky independent use of armour had been widely discussed in Germany before the war but OKH doubted such an operation could...
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(such as Ethiopia and Kenya) protests against the Rhodesian government. (Rhodesia did, however, compete in the 1972 Summer Paralympics, held a little earlier...
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Battle of Korsun–Cherkassy (redirect from Korsun-Shevchenkovsky Offensive Operation)
propaganda inducements, very few German soldiers and no Waffen-SS men in the cauldron had surrendered. Zhukov thus decided to send parlementaires under a white...
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Biological warfare (section Rhodesia)
Nancekuke Operation Vegetarian (1942–1944) Open-air field tests: Operation Harness off Antigua, 1948–1950. Operation Cauldron off Stornoway, 1952. Operation Hesperus...
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Cornelius, Deborah S. (2011). Hungary in World War II: Caught in the Cauldron. Fordham Univ Press. ISBN 9780823233434. Bank, Jan. Churches and Religion...
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Blitzkrieg (section Methods of operations)
strong points to encircle and destroy enemy forces in a Kesselschlacht (cauldron battle/battle of encirclement). During the invasion of Poland, Western...
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swing from Sedan to the north, rapidly to destroy the Allied armies in a cauldron battle (Kesselschlacht). When discussing his intentions with Generalleutnant...
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of Benghazi Battle of Gazala May 27: Battle of Retma Box Battle of the Cauldron May 27 – June 12: Battle of El Adem May 28 – June 10: Battle of Bir Hakeim...
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athlete from the host nation, who lights the Olympic flame in the stadium's cauldron. The closing ceremony of the Olympic Games takes place on a Sunday and...
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nearly extinguishing the flame. He was able to recover and light the cauldron. These were the first Winter Games to be televised, and the first Olympics...
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World War II (category Wars involving Rhodesia)
Allied forces in Belgium, trapping the bulk of the Allied armies in a cauldron on the Franco-Belgian border near Lille. The United Kingdom was able to...
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from the host nation—who lights the Paralympic flame in the stadium's cauldron. The closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games takes place after all sporting...
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part of his defences. The area of concentration, promptly nicknamed "the Cauldron" by British Command, will be the focus of the battle for the next few days...
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assault positions, the Axis forces were caught in an area known as "The Cauldron" between Bir Hakeim to the south, Tobruk to the north east and the Allied...
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Yugoslav Partisans (section Operations)
University Press. ISBN 978-0-932885-12-8. Calic, Marie-Janine (2019). The Great Cauldron: A History of Southeastern Europe. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University...
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place at sea using aerosol clouds and animals. Operation Harness off Antigua in 1948–1949. Operation Cauldron off Stornoway in 1952. The trawler Carella unknowingly...
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Austria-Hungary (section Theaters of operations)
Cornelius, Deborah S. (2011). Hungary in World War II: Caught in the Cauldron. Fordham University Press. pp. 9–10. ISBN 9780823233434. Archived from...
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and vaccinia viruses. Trial tests at sea were carried out including Operation Cauldron off Stornoway in 1952. The programme was cancelled in 1956, when the...
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