Second Battle of Amgala
The Second Battle of Amgala, also called Amgala II or Amgala 2, took place on 14 February 1976 in the Amgala Oasis in Western Sahara. It pitted the Moroccan troops, who lost Amgala, to the forces of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Polisario Front, supported by the Algerian army. According to Maurice Barbier, the Moroccan garrison in the city was entirely decimated.
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Amgala
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Q6250
Western Sahara
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Q240425
Polisario Front
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Q3477157
Second Battle of Amgala
Concept
1976-02-14T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
14 February 1976
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2
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