8 February 1984
✸USS New Jersey shells the Mountain: 288 rounds
AttackerUnited States➜TargetSyria / Syrian Army
On 8 and 9 February 1984 the American battleship New Jersey fired 288 16-inch shells at Syrian and Druze positions in the Mountain, in the heaviest naval bombardment since the Korean War; the commander of the Syrian forces in Lebanon, officers and civilians were killed, and it was the last chapter of the American intervention.