Elephant Pass Military Base is a military base located in strategic Elephant Pass, Northern Province of Sri Lanka. Elephant Pass is the gateway of the...
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in April 2000 for the control of the Sri Lankan military base in Elephant Pass, Jaffna. Elephant Pass links the Jaffna Peninsula to the rest of the mainland...
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important military base and used to be the island's largest salt field. It was regularly the site of battles during the Sri Lankan Civil War. Elephant Pass controls...
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LTTE) was fought in July 1991 for the control of the Sri Lankan military base of Elephant Pass, which was of strategic importance as it linked the northern...
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Battle of Elephant Pass: First Battle of Elephant Pass, fought in July, 1991, for control of the Sri Lankan military base of Elephant Pass Second Battle...
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Battle for the A-9 highway (category Pages using military navigation subgroups without wide style)
importantly, the Elephant Pass military base, was the only land route for Jaffna. If the LTTE were going to fully surround Elephant Pass they would have...
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force) - were flown to the Elephant Pass military base to oversee the rescue effort. The trio, together with other senior military officers, put into motion...
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that Elephant Pass was captured by the army on January 9, 2009. The base was overrun by the LTTE at the end of the Second Battle of Elephant Pass during...
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Sri Lanka Army (category Military of Sri Lanka)
Peninsula 521 Brigade 522 Brigade 523 Brigade 55 Division, based in Elephant Pass Military Base, Jaffna Peninsula 551 Brigade 552 Brigade 553 Brigade Security...
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Charles Anthony Brigade (category Military of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam)
Military analysts say that with the fall of Elephant pass, the Charles Anthony Special Regiment established the LTTE as the only non-state military force...
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Battle of Pooneryn (category Pages using military navigation subgroups without wide style)
1st Sri Lanka Light Infantry were able finally to contact the Elephant Pass Military Base. Following the attack, the three service commanders flew to Palaly...
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Operation Balavegaya (category Pages using military navigation subgroups without wide style)
camp at Elephant Pass. Subsequently, Elephant Pass camp was expanded and transformed into a massive military complex, with a main base and four mini-camps...
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Percy Fernando (category Sri Lankan military personnel killed in action)
Military Academy commandant from 1998 to 2000. He served as the Deputy GOC, 54 Division based at Elephant Pass during the Second Battle of Elephant Pass...
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Gamini Kularatne (category Sri Lankan military personnel killed in action)
LTTE fighters surrounded the 600 strong army garrison located at Elephant Pass. The base was known as the gateway to the northern Jaffna Peninsula. Enlisted...
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ceremoniously passed on to successive athletic directors. The mascot for the Oakland Athletics baseball team is based on the figurative white elephant. The story...
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List of current Sri Lanka Army formations (category Military units and formations of the Sri Lanka Army)
Division, based in Elephant Pass Military Base, Jaffna Peninsula 551 Brigade 552 Brigade, based in Iyakkachchi 553 Brigade, based in Periyapachchapalai...
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Eelam War III (category Pages using military navigation subgroups without wide style)
key districts such as Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu, and took over the Elephant Pass base. With the path clear towards the Muhumalai and Nagarkovil FDLs, the...
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Bhathiya Jayatilleka (category Sri Lanka Military Academy graduates)
the Sri Lanka Military Academy. He was serving as the Brigade commander for the 54-1 brigade of the 54 Division based at Elephant Pass at the outset of...
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Battle of Kilinochchi (1998) (category Pages using military navigation subgroups without wide style)
Elephant Pass base. The following day, the Tigers captured a distance of five miles on the Jaffna-Vavuniya road. Elephant Pass and Paranthan military...
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Lin Wang (redirect from Lin Wang (Asian elephant))
the army base in Fongshan, Kaohsiung. In 1951 the other elephant died and Lin Wang became the only one left of the original thirteen elephants from the...
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Eelam War II (category Pages using military navigation subgroups without wide style)
First Battle of Elephant Pass in which the LTTE besieged the army garrison of a full battalion strength at the strategic Elephant Pass from 10 July to...
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Abraha (category 6th-century military personnel)
religious site in Mecca, using an army that included war elephants, an event known as Year of the Elephant. The Byzantine historian Procopius identified Abraha...
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Anuradhapura Air Force Base, code-named Operation Ellaalan, was a commando raid conducted on SLAF Anuradhapura an Air Force Base in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka...
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2008–2009 Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive (category Pages using military navigation subgroups without wide style)
peninsula collapsed and SLA units from the north captured the strategic Elephant Pass base, which had been under LTTE control for almost nine years. LTTE fighters...
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Part of Security Forces Headquarters - Jaffna (SFHQ-J) Garrison/HQ Elephant Pass Military Base Engagements Sri Lankan Civil War Commanders Current commander...
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Operation Sath Jaya (category Pages using military navigation subgroups without wide style)
offensive from its base in Elephant Pass in June in response to Battle of Mullaitivu in which the 25 Brigade of the army was overrun at its base in the town...
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Operation Balavegaya II SLA victory First Battle of Elephant Pass 10 July – 9 August 1991 SLA camp, Elephant Pass, Kilinochchi District 202–400 573–1,000 SLA...
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Abul-Abbas (redirect from Charlemagne's elephant)
Abul-Abbas was probably born during the 770s or 780s (based on the average age of Asian elephant maturity) and was brought from Baghdad, the capital city...
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arms were : Argent, a chevron Azure between in chief an elephant statant proper and in base a demi-cogwheel issuant Gules, two flaunches Vert each charged...
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was expected to pass in the spring of 2010, but has been delayed by the House of Representatives after passing the Senate. The military operations in Iraq...
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