| Battle of Ad-Dawrah | |||||||||
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| Part of the Persian Gulf War | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Iraq |
 United States United Kingdom Kuwait | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Saddam Hussein |
Norman Schwarzkopf Peter Billière Jaber III | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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50+ marines 1 Zodiac |
1 frigate (USS Nicholas) 1 fast attack ship (Istiqlal) US Navy SEALs USN & RN helicopters | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 29 captured | None | ||||||||
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 Iraqi servicemen captured were the first prisoners of the conflict. It was also the first surface engagement after the Coalition intervened in the Gulf War.