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The Italian invasion of Egypt (Operazione E) was an offensive in the Second World War from Italian Libya, against British, Commonwealth and Free French in the neutral Kingdom of Egypt. The invasion by the Italian 10th Army (10ª Armata) ended border skirmishing on the frontier and began the Western Desert Campaign (1940–1943) proper.
10 June 1940 – 2 May 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II. 10 June 1940 – 13 May 1943 North African Campaign. 11 June 1940 – 4 February 1943 Western Desert Campaign. 9–16 September 1940 Italian invasion of Egypt; 9 December 1940 – 9 February 1941 Operation Compass; 4 February 1942 Abdeen Palace Incident
English: Map of the Italian invasion of Egypt 1940. Translated from File:Invasione Italiana dell'Egitto 1940.svg Deutsch: Karte der italienischen Invasion in Ägypten 1940.
After the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, the British position was threatened, as the Kingdom of Egypt was the only country separating Italian Libya and Italian East Africa. [2] According to the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty , British troops in Egypt were limited to the Suez Canal until 1956 and Alexandria until 1944, except in the case of a war ...
The Western Desert campaign (Desert War) took place in the deserts of Egypt and Libya and was the main theatre in the North African campaign of the Second World War.Military operations began in June 1940 with the Italian declaration of war and the Italian invasion of Egypt from Libya in September.
On 13 September 1940, the Italian 10th Army advanced into Egypt in Operazione E. As the Italians advanced, the small British force at Sollum withdrew to the main defensive position east of Mersa Matruh. [11] The Italian advance was harassed by the 3rd Coldstream Guards, attached artillery and other units. [12]
Cyrenaica, the eastern province of Libya had been an Italian colony since the Italo-Turkish War (1911–1912). With Tunisia, a part of French North Africa to the west and Egypt to the east, the Italians prepared to defend both frontiers with a North Africa Supreme Headquarters, under the command of the Governor-General of Italian Libya, Marshal of the Air Force (Maresciallo dell'Aria), Italo ...
An invasion is a military offensive in which sizable number of combatants of one geopolitical entity aggressively enter territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objectives of establishing or re-establishing control, retaliation for real or perceived actions, liberation of previously lost territory, forcing the partition of a country, gaining concessions or access to ...