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Noble Obelisk, Sierra Leone, May 1997-Jun 1997(64 total words in this text)(3672 Reads)  As Operation Guardian Retrieval finished, the deteriorating security situation in Freetown, Sierra Leone, required Kearsarge (LHD3) and the 22d MEU(SOC) to relocate quickly to another crisis operating area. As commander for JTF Noble Obelisk (May-June 97), the 22d MEU(SOC) evacuated 451 American citizens and 2,059 third-country nationals in four days to Kearsarge. All evacuees were later transferred to Conakry, Guinea, for processing. |
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1861:
Union troops occupy Grafton, Virginia.
1862: At the Battle of Fair Oaks, Union General George B. McClellan defeats Confederates outside of Richmond. 1862: The Confederates abandon the city of Corinth. 1864: Confederates attack at Bethesda Church, Virginia. 1900: U.S. troops arrive in Peking to help put down the Boxer Rebellion. 1902: The Boer War ends with the Treaty of Vereeniging. 1915: A German zeppelin makes an air raid on London. 1916: British and German fleets fight in the Battle of Jutland. 1941: The last of the Allies evacuate after 11 days of battling a successful German parachute invasion of the island of Crete. 1941: An armistice is arranged between the British and the Iraqis. |
