Right, 150 Irish soldiers endure a five day siege, prevailing against 20 to one odds, being shot at, mortared, and strafed, killing several hundred African Katangan soldiers in the process, while not losing a single man killed. I was half expecting at the end that the Katangans would come out and regale the Irish garrison with a tribal song saluting "fellow braves" a la "Zulu."
Review of The Siege of Jadotville
