Aden Emergency

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Aden Emergency
Part of the Cold War, the Arab Cold War, and the decolonization of Asia
The location of the Aden Protectorate
Date 14 October 1963 – 30 November 1967 (4 years, 1 month, 2 weeks and 2 days) Location Western and Eastern Protectorates, Aden Protectorate Result Yemeni NLF victory British withdrawal Independence of South Yemen
Belligerents
United Kingdom  Federation of South Arabia Protectorate of South Arabia	NLF	FLOSY Supported by: United Arab Republic
Commanders and leaders
Harold Wilson Michael Le Fanu Michael Beetham Colin Campbell Mitchell	Qahtan al-Shaabi Jarallah Omar	Abdullah al-Asnag Gamal Abdel Nasser
Units involved
Federal Regular Army Hadhrami Bedouin Legion [ar]	Guerrilla fighters
Strength
30,000 at peak[1] (3,500 in November 1967)[2] 15,000 federal troops[3]	26,000 fighters[4]
Casualties and losses
British Army: 90–92 killed 510 wounded[5][3] Federal Regular Army: 17 killed 58 wounded	382 killed 1,714 wounded[3]
Total: 2,096 casualties[6]

The Aden Emergency, also known as the 14 October Revolution (Arabic: ثورة 14 أكتوبر, romanized: Thawrat 14 ʾUktūbar, lit. '14th October Revolution') or as the Radfan Uprising, was an armed rebellion by the National Liberation Front (NLF) and the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY) against the Federation of South Arabia, a British Protectorate of the United Kingdom, which led to the proclamation of the People's Republic of South Yemen.

Partly inspired by Gamal Abdel Nasser's pan-Arab nationalism, it began on 14 October 1963 with the throwing of a grenade at a gathering of British officials at Aden Airport. A state of emergency was then declared in the British Crown colony of Aden and its hinterland, the Aden Protectorate. The emergency escalated in 1967 and hastened the end of British rule in the territory which had begun in 1839.