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| rdfs:comment | - The Battle of Ad-Dawrah was a naval engagement fought on the night of 18 January and into 19 January in 1991 during the Gulf War. In the battle, Coalition forces captured an Iraqi offshore oil field forty miles from the Kuwaiti shore. The 29 POWs captured were the first POWs of the war. It was also the first surface engagement after the Coalition intervened in the war.
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| Commander | - Saddam Hussein
- Norman Schwarzkopf
- Jaber III
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| Result | - Coalition victory
- Iraqi garrison destroyed
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| combatant | - United States Navy
- Iraqi Navy
- Kuwaiti Navy
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| Place | - Ad-Dawrah Offshore Oil Fields
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| abstract | - The Battle of Ad-Dawrah was a naval engagement fought on the night of 18 January and into 19 January in 1991 during the Gulf War. In the battle, Coalition forces captured an Iraqi offshore oil field forty miles from the Kuwaiti shore. The 29 POWs captured were the first POWs of the war. It was also the first surface engagement after the Coalition intervened in the war.
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