Where is Glasdrumman ambush?

Glasdrumman ambush is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.0574°, -6.5272°.

Natural landmarks · Northern Ireland

Glasdrumman ambush

Glasdrumman ambush in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Leeter Road running SSW in the direction of Ballybinaby Cross Roads - geograph.org.uk - 4300377 — Eric Jones — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Glasdrumman ambush is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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The Glasdrumman ambush was an attack by the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) against a British Army observation post in Glasdrumman, County Armagh on 17 July 1981. An attempted ambush by the British Army on IRA members at a scrapyard southwest of Crossmaglen was itself ambushed, resulting in the death of one British soldier and the IRA retaining the ability to set up checkpoints in South Armagh.

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The crisis triggered by the 1981 Irish hunger strike of Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) prisoners led to an increase in militant Irish republican activity in Northern Ireland. British intelligence reports unveiled IRA intentions of mounting illegal checkpoints and hijacking vehicles on the IRA-controlled roads in South County Armagh, near the Irish border. To counter it, the British Army deployed the so-called "close observation platoons" (COPs) - small infantry sections acting as undercover units to counter IRA activity, a tactic introduced by Major General Richard Trant in 1977. On 6 May 1981, a day after the death of hunger-striker Bobby…

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