✦ History

Part of Gulf War

Battle of 73 Easting

February 26, 1991 · 73 Easting grid line, southern Iraq (approximate)

Result Coalition victory

Tank battle in which US VII Corps armoured cavalry destroyed a brigade of the Republican Guard's Tawakalna Division in a sandstorm.

On the map Contemporaries

Coalition

Iraq

United States
United Kingdom
Iraq
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. military commander Frederick M. Franks Jr. Commander, VII Corps Rupert Smith military commander
Salah Aboud Mahmoud military commander Ayad Futtayih al-Rawi military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
4,000
Killed
6
Wounded
19
Tanks
200–300

Units

VII Corps (United States) 1st (UK) Division 1st Armored Division (United States) 2nd Armored Division (United States) 3rd Armored Division (United States) 210th Field Artillery Brigade 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment (Gulf War) 2nd Cavalry Regiment (United States) 4th Cavalry Regiment (United States) US 1st Division
Iraqi Republican Guard Tawakalna Division 12th Division (Iraq)

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