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Operation Safe Border
The Army is assisting in the peaceful settlement of the border dispute between Peru and Ecuador by providing support personnel, helicopters and US observers to Operation Safe Border. In early 1995 Peru and Ecuador engaged in sustained combat in a remote area where their common border has never been fully demarcated. Dozens were killed, hundreds wounded, and escalation to cities was feared. As Guarantors of the 1942 Rio Protocol of Peace, Friendship and Boundaries which ended the 1941 Ecuador-Peru war and defined the border, the United States, Brazil, Argentina and Chile worked for a comprehensive settlement. Ecuador and Peru agreed on February 17, 1995, to stop fighting and seek a peaceful solution to remaining issues between them. By October 1995 Guarantor military observers (MOMEP) organized the withdrawal of some 5,000 troops from the Cenepa valley and supervised demobilization of 140,000 troops on both sides. The combat zone was demilitarized and Ecuador and Peru began to contribute officers to the observer mission. |
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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. |