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The intervention in Sierra Leone was the fourth deployment of British forces abroad during the premiership of Tony Blair, and the largest operation undertaken by the United Kingdom alone since the Falklands War (1982).
- Sierra Leone Civil War - Wikipedia
As the UN mission began to fail, the United Kingdom declared...
- British and Creole intervention in the Sierra Leone ...
In 1898, the Sierra Leone chiefs sought to free themselves...
- Sierra Leone Civil War - Wikipedia
A intervenção militar do Reino Unido na Serra Leoa iniciou em 7 de maio de 2000 com uma operação militar de codinome Operação Palliser. Embora um pequeno número de militares britânicos tenha sido destacado anteriormente, a Operação Palliser foi a primeira intervenção em larga escala das forças britânicas na Guerra Civil de Serra Leoa.
Operation Barras was a British Army operation that took place in Sierra Leone on 10 September 2000, during the late stages of the nation's civil war. The operation aimed to release five British soldiers of the Royal Irish Regiment and their Sierra Leone Army (SLA) liaison officer, who were being held by a militia group known as the ...
- 10 September 2000
- British victory, all hostages rescued.
In September 2000, British troops undertook a daring hostage rescue operation in the war-torn West African country of Sierra Leone. They successfully freed five British soldiers who had recently been captured and around 20 civilian prisoners.
Although most public attention is focused on Operation Palliser, the original intervention in May 2000, and Operation Barras, the SAS-led hostage rescue operation of September 2000, the British intervention consisted of four separate but connected operations in Sierra Leone:
