Battle of Lenadoon

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Lenadoon Avenue Battle
Part of The Troubles
Date 9–14 July 1972[citation needed] Location Various locations around Belfast. Heaviest fighting in Lenadoon Avenue, Ardoyne, The Falls Road & the Markets area. 54°34′30.72″N 6°0′45.70″W / 54.5752000°N 6.0126944°W / 54.5752000; -6.0126944 Result Indecisive End between Provisional IRA & British Army ceasefire Both sides take heavy losses. Heavy civilian casualties. Springhill Massacre 28 people killed in total including civilian, army & paramilitary
Belligerents
British Army	Provisional IRA Official IRA	Ulster Volunteer Force Ulster Defence Association
Commanders and leaders
General Robert Ford Lieutenant Colonel John Charteris Lieutenant Robert Williams-Wynn	Brendan Hughes Seamus Twomey	Sammy Murphy
Units involved
British Army 14th/20th King's Hussars Royal Anglian Regiment Royal Regiment of Wales Royal Fusiliers	Provisional Belfast Brigade First Battalion Second Battalion Third Battalion Official Belfast Brigade Various sized units	UDA South Belfast Brigade Various UVF gunmen
Strength
600+ soldiers	100+ volunteers 100 less than 50	unknown
Casualties and losses
unknown killed 30 wounded	2 killed 12 injured 3 (2 from Youth Wing) killed	At least 1 killed unknown injured
14 civilians killed
class=notpageimage| Where the battle started

The Battle of Lenadoon was a series of gun battles fought over a six day period from 9–14 July 1972^[1] between the Provisional IRA and the British Army. It started on Thursday, 9 July 1972 in and around the Lenadoon Avenue area and spread to other places in Belfast. Loyalist paramilitaries and the Official Irish Republican Army were involved in some of the incidents. 28 people in total were killed in Belfast according to the CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths. The violence ended a two-week truce between the forces of the British Government and the IRA.^[2]