• Opération Lamantin (French for manatee) was a December 1977 – July 1978 military intervention by France on the behalf of the Mauritanian government, in...
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    Polisario Front forces in Mauritania in December 1977, as part of Opération Lamantin. In August 1978 a conventionally armed rapid reaction squadron was...
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  • Timor Egyptian–Libyan War Ogaden War 1978 South Lebanon conflict Opération Lamantin Uganda–Tanzania War Chadian–Libyan conflict Sino-Vietnamese War Soviet–Afghan...
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    during a raid on the Zouerate iron mines, codenaming its involvement Opération Lamantin. The French Air Force deployed SEPECAT Jaguar jets to Mauritania in...
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  • engaged in combat missions in Mauritania (Opération Lamantin), in Chad (Operation Manta), in the Gulf War (Opération Daguet) and in Bosnia. Since 2006, BA...
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    of dissuading Vietnam from involvement in Cambodia. However, China's operation at least successfully forced Vietnam to withdraw some units, namely the...
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    (1964 and Operation Requin in 1990), Ivory Coast (Opération Licorne in 2002), Mauritania (Opération Lamantin in 1977), Republic of Congo (Opération Pélican...
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    around the US embassy in Monrovia, which had come under attack during Operation Shining Express. On 25 July 2003, the Southern Europe Task Force at Vicenza...
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    the civil war phase, Zionist forces executed Plan Dalet, an offensive operation conquering territory for the planned establishment of a Jewish state....
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    infrastructure and logistics in the Western Desert to support such an operation. Nevertheless, the Egyptian General Staff made plans for an attack. Egyptian...
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  • Western Sahara War (1975–1991) Morocco Mauritania (Until 1979) France (Opération Lamantin, aid from 1978) Support: Saudi Arabia United States Sahrawi Arab Democratic...
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    border. They reportedly had artillery ammunition for only 36 hours of operations and were clearly engaged in a bluff but had been encouraged by Germany...
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    airline Air America, Thailand, the Royal Lao Air Force, and a covert air operation directed by the United States ambassador to Laos, fought the People's...
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  • launched the European Monetary System (EMS) in April 1978. In 1977, in Opération Lamantin, Giscard ordered fighter jets to deploy in Mauritania and suppress...
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    African allies, and received most of the investments. In 1977, in Opération Lamantin, he ordered fighter jets to deploy in Mauritania and suppress the...
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    simultaneously deploying the Special Air Service to conduct anti-insurgency operations against the rebels. This approach led to a string of victories against...
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    invasion resumed, and General Bidza was appointed as commander of the operation. On January 19, 1939, the new Minister of Internal Affairs of Carpatho-Ukraine...
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    involved; this list includes neither the peacekeeping operations (such as Operation Artemis, Opération Licorne) nor the humanitarian missions supported by...
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  • Nilo (2005) — Italian name for UN peace keeping mission in Sudan (UNMIS). Lamantin (1977–1978) — French Army intervention in Mauritania during the Western...
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  • McSherry, J. Patrice (2011). "Chapter 5: "Industrial repression" and Operation Condor in Latin America". In Esparza, Marcia; Henry R. Huttenbach; Daniel...
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    the Western Sahara War on the side of Morocco and Mauritania (see Operation Lamantin). In 2009 and 2010, France used the threat of its veto power to block...
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    vessels (6 Pacific, 4 Black Sea, 2 Caspian, 1 Northern, 1 Baltic), 5 – Lamantin class, 4 – Rondo class, 3 – Mirage class, 1 – Zhuk class, 2 – Sokzhoy class...
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  • Ann. Soc. Roy. Zool. Bruxelles 55:119-121. Derscheid, J. M. 1926. “Les Lamantins du Congo (Trichechus senegalensis Desm.) avec notes sur le répartition...
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