The Battle of Point 175 was a military engagement of the Western Desert Campaign that took place during Operation Crusader from 29 November to 1 December...
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Operation Crusader (redirect from Battle of Point 204)
reconnoitring that morning. In the afternoon, to the east of Sidi Rezegh, at the Action at Point 175, elements of Ariete overran the 21st New Zealand Battalion....
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The Battle of Kasserine Pass took place from 18-24 February 1943 at Kasserine Pass, a 2-mile-wide (3.2 km) gap in the Grand Dorsal chain of the Atlas...
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The Battle of point 5140 was fought on 20 June 1999 and was major military offensive carried out by the Jammu and Kashmir Rifles regiment as a part of the...
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Tunisian campaign (redirect from Battle of Tunisia)
campaign (also known as the Battle of Tunisia) was a series of battles that took place in Tunisia during the North African campaign of the Second World War,...
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Western Desert campaign (redirect from Battle of Marsa Matruh)
ISBN 978-0-306-80604-9. Bierman, John; Smith, Colin (2002). The Battle of Alamein: Turning Point, World War II. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-03040-8 – via...
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North African campaign (redirect from North Africa Theatre of World War II)
prevent an Axis defeat. Battles for control of Libya and Egypt followed, with advances and retreats until the Second Battle of El Alamein in October 1942...
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The Battle of El Guettar took place during the Tunisia Campaign of World War II, fought between elements of the Army Group Africa under General Hans-Jürgen...
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Operation Torch (redirect from Battle of Tafarquay)
ISBN 978-2-909675-75-6. Howe 1993, pp. 97, 102. Rohwer & Hummelchen 1992, p. 175 "Frederick Thornton Peters – the Canadian Virtual War Memorial – Veterans...
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The Battle of the Mareth Line or the Battle of Mareth was an attack in the Second World War by the British Eighth Army (led by General Bernard Montgomery)...
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Mateur and the port of Bizerta. The Battle of Sedjenane was fought during World War II between the Allies and Axis for control of a town in northern Tunisia...
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The Naval Battle of Casablanca was a series of naval engagements fought between American ships covering the invasion of North Africa and Vichy French...
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Operations Vulcan and Strike (category Military history of Tunis)
command of IX Corps to make the breakthrough. For the battle IX Corps was reinforced with veteran units of the British Eighth Army – 7th Armoured Division (commanded...
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The Battle of Sidi Bou Zid (Unternehmen Frühlingswind/Operation Spring Breeze) took place during the Tunisia Campaign from 14–17 February 1943, in World...
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The Battle of Wadi Akarit (Operation Scipio) was an Allied attack from 6 to 7 April 1943, to dislodge Axis forces from positions along the Wadi Akarit...
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The 2nd Battle of Longstop Hill or the Capture of Longstop Hill took place in Tunisia during the Tunisia Campaign of World War II from 21 to 23 April 1943...
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Run for Tunis (category Battles of World War II involving Italy)
War II Battles Panzer Army Africa After the event, Anderson and Cunningham, the naval commander, expressed the view that without landings east of Algiers...
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The Battle of Port Lyautey began on 8 November 1942 for the city of Port Lyautey, today known as Kenitra, in French Morocco. The battle ended with its...
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and around the city. Today, the Battle of Stalingrad is commonly regarded as the turning point in the European theatre of World War II, as Germany's Oberkommando...
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The Battle of Leyte Gulf (Japanese: レイテ沖海戦, romanized: Reite oki Kaisen, lit. 'Leyte Open Sea Naval Battle', Filipino: Labanan sa Golpo ng Leyte) was the...
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Second Battle of El Alamein (23 October – 11 November 1942) was a battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein...
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Guadalcanal campaign (redirect from Battle of guadalcanal)
The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign fought...
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132nd Armored Division "Ariete" (category Divisions of Italy in World War II)
November the Ariete engaged the New Zealand 2nd Division at the Battle of Point 175. On 7 December 1941, Axis forces withdrew to the Gazala position...
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The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and commonly referred to as Custer's...
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The Battle of Poltava (8 July 1709) was the decisive and largest battle of the Great Northern War. The Russian army under the command of Tsar Peter I defeated...
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The Battle of Vienna took place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna on 12 September 1683 after the city had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two...
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The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on...
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The Battle of Monte Cassino, also known as the Battle for Rome, was a series of four military assaults by the Allies against German forces in Italy during...
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The Second Battle of Panipat was fought on 5 November 1556, between Akbar and the king of Delhi, Hemu. Hemu had conquered Delhi and Agra a few weeks earlier...
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8th Bersaglieri Regiment (category Bersaglieri Regiments of Italy)
November the Ariete engaged the New Zealand 2nd Division at the Battle of Point 175. On 6 December Axis forces were ordered to retreat westwards to the...
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