Operation Braganza was launched on the night of 29 September 1942 by Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks, commanding British XIII Corps. It was intended...
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Second Battle of El Alamein (redirect from Operation Lightfoot)
Division, supported by tanks from the 4th Armoured Brigade, launched Operation Braganza attacking the paratroopers of the 185th Paratroopers Division "Folgore"...
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Operation Braganza against the paratroopers of the Folgore, who despite numerical inferiority managed to repulse the British attack. After Braganza the...
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I First Battle of Monte Grappa World War II Battle of Alam Halfa Operation Braganza Second battle of El Alamein Awards War Cross of Military Valor Order...
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Battle of Alam el Halfa. On 29 September 1942 the British launched Operation Braganza against the paratroopers of the Folgore, who despite numerical inferiority...
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Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942) was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. Torch was a compromise operation that met...
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Operation Sonnenblume (Unternehmen Sonnenblume, "Operation Sunflower") was the name given to the dispatch of German and Italian troops to North Africa...
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Born: Marshall Bell, actor, in Tulsa, Oklahoma British forces began Operation Braganza with the objective of capturing an area of ground near Deir el Munassib...
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had been disbanded in North Africa due to the losses suffered in Operation Braganza. The regiment consisted now of the following units: 185th Infantry...
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Operation Crusader (18 November – 30 December 1941) was a military operation of the Western Desert Campaign during the Second World War by the British...
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Manuel II of Portugal (category House of Braganza-Saxe-Coburg and Gotha)
and second son of Carlos and Amélie of Orléans. A member of the House of Braganza, he was baptised a few days later, with his maternal grandfather as godfather...
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Operation Battleaxe (15–17 June 1941) was a British Army offensive during the Second World War to raise the Siege of Tobruk and re-capture eastern Cyrenaica...
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Battle of Alam el Halfa. On 29 September 1942 the British launched Operation Braganza against the paratroopers of the Folgore, who despite numerical inferiority...
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Operation Bigamy a.k.a. Operation Snowdrop was a raid during the Second World War by the Special Air Service in September 1942 under the command of Lieutenant...
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Operation Blackstone was a part of Operation Torch, the Allied landings in North Africa during World War II. The operation called for American amphibious...
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Operation Compass (also Italian: Battaglia della Marmarica) was the first large British military operation of the Western Desert Campaign (1940–1943) during...
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Towards the end of September, the 131st Brigade suffered heavily in Operation Braganza and, in late October the division, still with just two brigades, fought...
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Operation Bertram was a Second World War deception operation practised by the Allied forces in Egypt led by Bernard Montgomery, in the months before the...
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and elsewhere, as the Acclamation War. The war established the House of Braganza as Portugal's new ruling dynasty, replacing the House of Habsburg who had...
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Tristão de Bragança Cunha (redirect from Tristao De Braganza Cunha)
(2 April 1891 – 26 September 1958), alternatively spelled as Tristao de Braganza Cunha, popularly known as T B Cunha was a prominent Goan nationalist and...
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el Halfa in late August. In late September the brigade fought in Operation Braganza with fairly light casualties, except the 1/5th Queen's which suffered...
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Operation Agreement was a ground and amphibious operation carried out by British, Rhodesian and New Zealand forces on Axis-held Tobruk from 13 to 14 September...
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Unternehmen Ochsenkopf (Operation Ox Head) also known as the Battle of Sidi Nsir and the Battle of Hunts Gap was an Axis offensive operation in Tunisia from 26...
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Siege of Tobruk (redirect from Operation Supercharge (1941))
Army. In late 1940, the Allies had defeated the Italian 10th Army during Operation Compass (9 December 1940 – 9 February 1941) and trapped the remnants at...
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Athmiya Rajan, Johny Antony, Sudhi Koppa, Malavika Menon, and Madhuri Braganza. The story, an investigation thriller, develops through the life of four...
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Operation Brevity was a limited offensive conducted in mid-May 1941, during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. Conceived by the commander-in-chief...
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Operation Terminal was an Allied operation during World War II. Part of Operation Torch (the Allied invasion of French North Africa, 8 November 1942)...
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Western Desert campaign (redirect from Operation Aida)
Military operations began in June 1940 with the Italian declaration of war and the Italian invasion of Egypt from Libya in September. Operation Compass...
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Pedro II of Brazil (category House of Braganza)
Maria Leopoldina and thus a member of the Brazilian branch of the House of Braganza (Portuguese: Bragança). His father's abrupt abdication and departure to...
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Maria II of Portugal (category Dukes of Braganza)
King Dom João VI. She was the first child of the Duke and Duchess of Braganza, who later became Emperor Dom Pedro I and Empress Dona Maria Leopoldina...
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