Battle of Spilia
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title:
Battle of Spilia
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The Battle of Spilia is the name given in Greek Cypriot sources to an engagement of the Cyprus Emergency that took place in the neighbourhood of the Cypriot village of Spilia on either 11 or 12 December 1955. The engagement involved approximately 12 members of Georgios Grivas’s EOKA group and a 40 man detachment of the 45 Commando Royal Marines.
In British military sources this is known as part of a wider operation known as ‘Foxhunter’ that was tasked with breaking up the EOKA presence in the Tr
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Spilia
date created:
2007-01-24T15:17:53Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T12:44:40Z
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