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    Bizerte (redirect from Bizerta)
    "Bizerte" in the Encyclopedia of the Orient Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bizerta" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press...
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  • CA Bizertin (redirect from Club Bizerta)
    Club Athlétique Bizertin (Arabic: النادي الرياضي البنزرتي), known as CA Bizertin or simply CAB for short, is a Tunisian professional football club based...
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    his skill and daring were of the highest order. He led two attacks on Bizerta airfield in Tunisia, pressing his attacks to effective conclusion. On 17...
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    several thousand more in the various minor pirate bases such as Bona, Susa, Bizerta, and Salé. The corsairs were not solely natives of the cities where they...
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    U.N. Start Ivory Coast Evacuation, Fox News Channel Langley, Michael. "Bizerta to the Bight: The French in Africa". History Today. (Oct 1972), pp 733–739...
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  • town in northern Tunisia, on the railway line to Mateur and the port of Bizerta. The Battle of Sedjenane was fought during World War II between the Allies...
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  • The action of 26 June 1625 was a naval battle that took place on 26 June 1625 near Syracuse, Sicily, when 6 Bizertan vessels defeated 5 Maltese galleys...
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    University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-9549-0. Langley, Michael. "Bizerta to the Bight: The French in Africa." History Today. (Oct 1972), pp 733–739...
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    they would not be successful in capturing the key cities of Tunis and Bizerta. The air campaigns by the Axis forces proved to be a difficult challenge...
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    without the Sirena—put to sea again on 4 July, this time steering for Bizerta. As usual it made a slow passage and took twenty days for a distance, in...
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    tons (71,000 t) of supplies per month were needed. Vichy France agreed to Bizerta being used for supplies but none passed through until late 1942. From February...
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    A Sherman tank of 40th Royal Tank Regiment reversing into a landing ship at Bizerta, Tunisia, September 1943...
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    violence. On 18 January, demonstrations were held in Tunis, Sfax, Gabes, Bizerta, Sousse and Monastir. Ghannouchi and interim president Mebazaa resigned...
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    Toulon available for dispatch and Bizerta available for receipt, which did not apply in 1941. The extra distance from Bizerta to the Egyptian border would...
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    further north saw the fall of Tunis on 7 May, to the British First Army and Bizerta on 8 May to the Americans. Resuming the assault on Enfidaville on 11–13...
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    White forces and civilians from the Crimea were eventually interned in Bizerta, Tunisia. Russian sailors fought on both sides in the conflict. The sailors...
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    needed. The Vichy French agreed to let the Germans use the port city of Bizerta, but no supplies reached the port until late 1942. From February to May...
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    shipped across the Atlantic, and re-installed to form two chains, Aberdeen-Bizerta, and Oran-Benghazi. Known as Skywave-Synchronized LORAN, or SS LORAN, the...
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  • (150 km) Sassari to Cagliari, Sardinia (200 km) Cagliari to Bizerta, Tunisia (200 km) Bizerta to Tunis (80 km) His aircraft disappeared shortly after departing...
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     Italy Ardente – On 12 January the Italian torpedo boat, en route from Bizerta to Palermo, was accidentally rammed by the destroyer Grecale, sailing on...
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    owned by Union Industrielle Et Maritime (U.I.M) and scuttled in 1942 off Bizerta, Tunisia, raised and scrapped in 1946 Ormuz Orient Line 1920 1927 ex-Zeppelin...
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    the Third French Republic, 1870-1940. Langley, Michael (October 1972). "Bizerta to the Bight: The French in Africa". History Today: 733–739. McPhee, Peter...
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    Bridge) Warrington  United Kingdom 1905 76 m demolished Bizerta/Brest Transporter Bridge Bizerta  Tunisia 1898 109 m Moved to Brest, France in 1909, damaged...
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    The Allies reduced the flow of Axis troops and equipment into Tunis and Bizerta, but a sizable Axis force was already ashore. On January 23, 1943, the...
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  • 2771 Squadron RAF Regiment April 1942 - March 1946 RAF Cleave, Algiers, Bizerta, Naples, Cassino, Rimini, Aegran, Greece, Yugoslavia, Prykos, Zadar, Austria...
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    battlecruisers were 100 miles away, while a third, Inflexible, was coaling in Bizerta, Tunisia. The only British naval force in Souchon's way was the 1st Cruiser...
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    damage, vandalism and some dismantling; looting Ichkeul National Park Bizerta,  Tunisia 37°10′N 9°40′E / 37.167°N 9.667°E / 37.167; 9.667 (Ichkeul...
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    "Italy will not truly be an independent nation so long as she has Corsica, Bizerta, Malta as the bars of her Mediterranean prison and Gibraltar and Suez as...
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  • Africa Troupes coloniales – French colonial forces Langley, Michael. "Bizerta to the Bight: The French in Africa." History Today. (Oct 1972), pp 733–739...
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    made its capture irrelevant. The Vichy French agreed to open the port of Bizerta in Tunisia but no supplies moved through it until late 1942. The term "Afrika...
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