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  2. Cyprus Emergency - Wikipedia

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    The Cyprus Emergency [note 1] was a conflict fought in British Cyprus between April 1955 and March 1959. [8]The National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA), a Greek Cypriot right-wing nationalist guerrilla organisation, began an armed campaign in support of the end of British colonial rule and the unification of Cyprus and Greece (Enosis) in 1955.

  3. British Forces Cyprus - Wikipedia

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    Commander British Forces Cyprus (CBF) and Administrator of the Sovereign Base Areas is a two-star appointment, alternating every three years between a British Army major-general and a Royal Air Force air vice-marshal. Consequently, the Chief of Staff British Forces Cyprus (COS) is a one-star appointment from the opposite service of the commander.

  4. Cyprus Regiment - Wikipedia

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    The Cyprus Regiment was a military unit of the British Army.Created by the British Government during World War II, it was made up of volunteers from the Greek Cypriot, Turkish Cypriot, Armenian, Maronite and Latin inhabitants of Cyprus, but also included other Commonwealth nationalities.

  5. Rick Rescorla - Wikipedia

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    Richard Cyril Rescorla (May 27, 1939 – September 11, 2001) was a British-American soldier, police officer, educator and private security specialist. He served as a British Army paratrooper during the Cyprus Emergency and a commissioned officer in the United States Army during the Vietnam War.

  6. Battle of Spilia - Wikipedia

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    Greek sources claim that during the battle British units from the north and ones from the south, unable to see in the fog and in the belief that they were surrounded by EOKA fighters, engaged each other in an eight-hour firefight involving airstrikes, artillery bombardments, and heavy weapons. This firefight caused 250 casualties, including 127 ...

  7. John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton - Wikipedia

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    Field Marshal Allan Francis Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, GCB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, MC (10 February 1896 – 20 January 1989), known as John Harding, was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First World War and the Second World War, served in the Malayan Emergency, and later advised the British government on the response to the Mau Mau Uprising.

  8. Troops sent to Cyprus as plans drawn up to evacuate Britons ...

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    The deployment of 700 troops, backed up by RAF aircraft and Royal Navy ships, comes as the situation in the Middle East deteriorates. Troops sent to Cyprus as plans drawn up to evacuate Britons ...

  9. Cypriot intercommunal violence - Wikipedia

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    Finally it was agreed to allow a force of 2,700 British soldiers to help enforce a ceasefire. In the next days, a "buffer zone" was created in Nicosia, and a British officer marked a line on a map with green ink, separating the two sides of the city, which was the beginning of the "Green Line". Fighting continued across the island for the next ...