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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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 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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    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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    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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    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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    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 Battle of Plum Point Bend took place in Tennessee during the American Civil War on May 10, 1862 on the Mississippi River, between ships of the Confederate...
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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 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 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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    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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    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 the Empire of Japan's...
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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 Plassey was a decisive victory of the British East India Company, under the leadership of Robert Clive, over the Nawab of Bengal and his...
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    Operation Ochsenkopf (category Land battles of World War II involving the United Kingdom)
    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...
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