• El Agheila (Arabic: العقيلة, romanized: al-ʿUqayla pronunciation) is a coastal city at the southern end of the Gulf of Sidra and Mediterranean Sea in far...
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    The Battle of El Agheila was a brief engagement of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. It took place in December 1942 between Allied forces...
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    Axis forces were defeated in Operation Crusader and retired again to El Agheila. In early 1942 Axis forces drove the Allies back again, then captured...
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  • The El Agheila concentration camp was an Italian concentration camp established in El Agheila in the Italian colony of Libya during the Pacification of...
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    November and protect the Eighth Army. The Axis made a fighting withdrawal to El Agheila but the Axis troops were exhausted and had received few replacements,...
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    withdrew to the Gazala position and on 15 December began a withdrawal to El Agheila. The 2nd South African Division captured Bardia on 2 January 1942, Sollum...
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  • have to withdraw allowing Rommel to fall back to El Agheila 31 December: Front lines return to El Agheila 21 January: Rommel's second offensive begins A...
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    transport. Lack of transport made it impossible to supply a garrison west of El Agheila, the most favourable position for a defensive line and restricted the...
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    Tripolitania at the Battle of Beda Fomm, the remnants being pursued to El Agheila on the Gulf of Sirte. The British took over 138,000 Italian and Libyan...
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    the remainder of the Tenth Army retreating along the coast road back to El Agheila. Richard O'Connor sent the 7th Armoured Division across the desert with...
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    raiding party ambushed a British patrol near El Agheila on 24 February. On 24 March, the Axis captured El Agheila and on 31 March attacked Mersa Brega. The...
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    German reinforcements are on the way to North Africa. British forces reach El Agheila, Cyrenaica. British battleships shell Genoa and British aircraft attack...
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    battles of El Alamein and the Battle of Alam el Halfa. The regiment pursued retreating German troops and fought at the Battle of El Agheila. In January...
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    the way back to the starting positions he had held in March, reaching El Agheila in December 1941. The British had retaken almost all of Cyrenaica, but...
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    Allies had 110,000 men, 843 tanks and 604 aircraft. The Axis retreat to El Agheila after Operation Crusader reduced the supply distance from Tripoli to 460 mi...
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    The First Battle of El Alamein (1–27 July 1942) was a battle of the Western Desert campaign of World War II, fought in Egypt between Axis (German and Italian)...
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    and across the border to Bardia, Tobruk, Derna, Mechili, Beda Fomm and El Agheila on the Gulf of Sirte. The WDF suffered casualties of 1,900 men killed...
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    from raids on Axis airfields, attacking the airfields at Sirte (twice), El Agheila, Ajdabiya, Nofaliya and Tamit, and destroying 151 aircraft and 30 vehicles...
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  • Syria 1941, Msus, Gazala, Knightsbridge, Defence of Alamein Line, El Alamein, El Agheila, Advance on Tripoli, North Africa 1941–43, Sicily 1943, Arezzo,...
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    Ten thousand inmates were kept in El Agheila, one of the Italian concentration camps in Libya during the Italian colonization of Libya....
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    counter-attack into Libya. The 10th Army was destroyed and the WDF occupied El Agheila, some 970 km (600 mi) from Alexandria. With the arrival of the German...
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    The Battle of Alam el Halfa took place between 30 August and 5 September 1942 south of El Alamein during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World...
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    for the 7th Armoured Division. On 10 April, after the Axis advance from El Agheila, small British mobile columns began to harass Afrika Korps units around...
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    went as far as El Agheila. However outside events again intervened to impede British efforts; as the British attack reached El Agheila Japan attacked...
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    "On 8th February (1941), leading troops of the British Army occupied El Agheila...Graziani's Army had virtually ceased to exist. all that remained of...
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    anti-tank guns), but finally forced the Panzerarmee Afrika to withdraw to El Agheila in Central Libya. In spring 1942, Rommel had counter-attacked and driven...
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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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    of more than 100,000 people ended in concentration camps in Suluq and El Agheila, where thousands died in squalid conditions. It is estimated that the...
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    they continued their withdrawal to El Agheila. The Ariete retreated through the Djebel Mountain towards El Agheila; by this time the division had lost...
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    thought imminent. The British in Libya were unable to continue beyond El Agheila anyway, because of vehicle breakdowns, exhaustion and the effect of the...
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