CASUALTY RECORD // July 12, 1979
Battle of Tichla
Estimated casualties — killed, wounded, captured, and missing — by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Casualties by side
1 sides catalogued · combined 150 estimated
Mauritanie
150
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
The Attack on Tichla on July 12, 1979, marked the final engagement between Mauritania and Polisario before the peace treaty signed in Algiers and Mauritania's subsequent withdrawal from the Western Sahara War. With Mauritania sustaining 150 casualties in this action, the battle underscored the mounting costs of Mauritanian involvement in the conflict. The engagement effectively closed Mauritania's participation in the war, removing one of the two state parties aligned against Polisario and altering the strategic balance of the broader Western Sahara conflict.
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