Battle of the Pine

Part of Cyprus Emergency

Date	23 November 1955
Location	Cyprus
Result	EOKA success

Belligerents

United Kingdom

EOKA

Commanders and leaders

George Grivas

Casualties and losses

2 dead
2 wounded

nil

Cyprus Emergency

1 April Attacks Nicosia Cinema Bombing Police Station Attacks Kyrenia Castle Escape Battle of the Pine Battle of Spilia Battle of Yialousa Battle at Nicosia Hospital Operation Lucky Alphonse Lepka Raid

The Battle of the Pine was a military engagement during the Cyprus Emergency. A team of EOKA guerillas ambushed a British patrol of two armoured vehicles on the road from Kyperounda to Chandria.^[1]

One day later British troops shot dead a Cypriot in the same area.^[2]

References

↑ "Chapter 4 Harding strives to suppress the EOKA movement and give a political solution to the Cyprus problem but without success - Archbishop Makarios is exiled to the Seychelles (3 October 1955 - 9 March 1956)", A history of the liberation struggle of EOKA (1955-1959) accessed 7 November 2013
↑ "Shots Fired In Cyprus.". The Central Queensland Herald (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1930 - 1956) (Rockhampton, Qld.: National Library of Australia). 1 December 1955. p. 12. Retrieved 6 August 2014.