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Â 1943 Sicilian campaign - encyclopedia article about 1943 Sicilian campaign.

Although the removal of Italy from the war had been one of the long-term objectives of the Italian campaign, the suddenness of the move caught the Allies by surprise.
The invasion of the island was codenamed Operation Husky and it launched the Italian Campaign Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war.
Operation Narcissus: Commando raid on a lighthouse near the main landings on 10 July 1943.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/1943+Sicilian+campaign

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Â Haile Selassie I, Part 2

The Italians insisted on the nautical leagues, as this would push the border further inland, while the Ethiopians maintained it was absurd to claim that the treaty used nautical leagues to measure a distance on dry land.
Although aged and very bitter towards the Emperor (whom he continued to contemptuously refer to as Taffari), he retained a strong love of his country, an unshakable loyalty to Emperor Menelik, and a deep hatred of Italy going back to the Adowa campaign.
The new "King-Emperor" of the new "Italian Empire" in gratitude bestowed the title of "Duke of Addis Ababa" as a hereditary title upon Marshal Badoglio, and Marchese of Neghelli on Marshal Graziani, the commander of the Ialian troops that seized Harrar.

http://www.angelfire.com/ny/ethiocrown/HaileII.html (5139 words)

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Â Liberation: The Second World War in Sicily - Best of Sicily - Sicilian Campaign, War in Sicily 1943.

Strategy of the Italian Campaign was never very well defined (it was conceived partly to draw German forces away from Russia and France), and the invasion of Sicily was always secondary to the invasion planned to take place at Normandy a year later.
The involvement of organized crime remains one of the more enigmatic aspects of the Sicilian campaign, and much nonsense has been published about it.
The underlying problem in all this chaos was that Alexander's strategy was never clearly defined, thus leaving open the possibility of the Sicilian campaign becoming a vaguely-planned series of battles left to "micro-managers" surrounded by mountainous terrain.

http://www.bestofsicily.com/ww2.htm (5139 words)

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Â Haile Selassie I, Part 2

The Italians insisted on the nautical leagues, as this would push the border further inland, while the Ethiopians maintained it was absurd to claim that the treaty used nautical leagues to measure a distance on dry land.
Although aged and very bitter towards the Emperor (whom he continued to contemptuously refer to as Taffari), he retained a strong love of his country, an unshakable loyalty to Emperor Menelik, and a deep hatred of Italy going back to the Adowa campaign.
The Ogaden was joined to Italian Somaliland and made the new governorate of "Somali" based in Mogadishu in the east, the southern kingdoms, provinces and principalities became the governorate of "Galla-Sidamo" and was ruled from Jimma.

http://www.angelfire.com/ny/ethiocrown/HaileII.html (5139 words)

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Â Second World War Books: History Page

Similarly, only a single vessel arrived in Italian Somaliland with supplies during the East African campaign-- a Japanese cargo ship with tires (all of which proved to be the wrong size) and fuel (which could not be transported inland and later had to be burned to prevent its capture).
By 7:00 PM the hill was in Italian hands, its defenders attempting to surrender, then escaping in disorder.
Among provisions of the settlement was free Italian use of the railroad from Addis Ababa to French Somaliland and free access to the port of Djibouti.

http://www.sonic.net/~bstone/history/somaliland.shtml (4783 words)

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Â East African Campaign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is the only campaign the Italians won unaided in World War II.
While the Italian naval squadron was not used aggressively, it was viewed as a threat to Allied convoys heading from the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea.
This campaign is often seen as part of the North African Campaign.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Campaign (1116 words)

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Â History of ETHIOPIA

The Italian commander in Eritrea, instructed to win a decisive victory over Menelik, begins his campaign by declaring that he will return with the Ethiopian ruler in a cage.
Equally threatening are the European imperialists now staking out their claims on the Red Sea coast, and in particular the Italians.
Harar and the rich province of Ogaden, independent regions long ago penetrated from the coast by Islam, have recently been subject to Italian pressure from the same direction.

http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=2114&HistoryID=ab92 (3245 words)

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Â Iraq Coalition Casualties

Italian Minister of Defense Antonio Martino affirmed on Monday that his government does not intend to keep Italian troops serving with the Multi-National Forces in Iraq for a long period of time.
11/08/04 KUNA: Italian troops won''t stay in Iraq for a long period of time
The Foreign Office has confirmed that a British contractor has been killed in a roadside bomb attack in southern Iraq.

http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx (3245 words)

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Â Italian Social Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The new authorities mounted a repression campaign against any opposition, notably by prosecuting all present and absent Fascist leaders who had backed Grandi in the Verona trial.
The Italian Social Republic (Repubblica Sociale Italiana, RSI) was a Fascist puppet state in German-occupied northern Italy.
Mussolini declared on September 23 that the coup d'Ã©tat had been defeated, and that his government was continuing as a republic, with himself as leader.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Social_Republic (470 words)

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Â History

It becomes “like an obsession of the Italian policy.” It is the object of diplomatic agreements, a systematic campaign with the public opinion, with the steady effort of peaceful penetration by the finance (Banco di Roma), by the creation of shipping lines, schools, by the encouragements on commercial initiatives, etc.
The ultimatum of the Italian government to the Turkish government, on September 29, 1911, “to answer to the appeal of its nationals in danger,” was not a surprise for anybody.
In 1881-1883, the Tunis affair, with the initial hopes put in the Italian companies helped by the government, then the hasten disillusion entailed by the French intervention, which anticipated the projects of Rome, gives concrete expression to the will of action as it gives it its tone of regrets, wild hopes, and Gallo-phobia.

http://www.african-geopolitics.org/show.aspx?ArticleId=3689 (470 words)

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Â The Unofficial Panzer Campaigns Home Page!

You see Operation Husky was a vicious campaign, conducted in stinking heat, over rugged terrain and against an Axis foe comprising seasoned Italian divisions, German Panzer Grenadiers, the ubiquitous Fallschirmjaeger and the fabled heavy panzer Tiger 1.
Tht's right - we've combined the Fulda Gap '85 and North German Plain '85 Campaign into this one massive Germany '85 Campaign.
If your not sure what it is all about, check out the After Action Report of the Campaign by John Mark Scarbrough.

http://www.members.shaw.ca/gcsaunders/welcome.html (470 words)

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Â SparkNotes: Napoleon Bonaparte: Study Questions

Why was the Directory upset by the conclusion of the Italian campaign?
The Establishment of the French Republic, and The Italian Campaign
Why was there an Egyptian campaign at all?

http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/napoleon/study.html (470 words)

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Â Washington's hypocrisy over Iraqi "war crimes"

Instead they have attempted to answer the US “shock and awe” campaign and demonstrate to the world that the US military is not all-powerful by airing film of the bodies of American troops and wounded and trembling American soldiers being questioned by their Iraqi captors.
In that war too US officials claimed they were carrying out carefully targeted military strikes while working to win the “hearts and minds” of the people.
At Nuremberg, the first charge in the indictment against the surviving leaders of the Third Reich was conspiracy to wage aggressive war.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/crim-m28.shtml (470 words)

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Â PHR2004 - The Italian Republic

[39] "Italian Police Censor U.S.-Hosted Sites," Global Internet Liberty Campaign Newsletter, 6:5 (July 23, 2002);
[19] Italian Data Protection Commission, "Employee's Badges: Less Personal Data for More Privacy," December 11, 2000, available at
Since many companies are losing a large amount of bandwidth as a result of dealing with spam, the Italian government has now equated spam as an act of theft.

http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-83522 (470 words)

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Â Mercenaries from Campania Capture Messina

After three years on the island, he returned to the Italian mainland with even less support from Greek Sicily than when he began his Sicilian campaign.
Pyrrhus then conceived the misguided idea of solidifying his support among the Greeks of Sicily by crossing to the island and launching a campaign to drive Carthage from her stronghold there.
In fact, he succeeded only in uniting Carthage and Rome in an alliance against him, while arrogantly alienating the Greek cities of Sicily that he had hoped to charm.

http://www.boglewood.com/sicily/messina.html (470 words)

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Â W.W.II

The Italian Campaign Involved some of the hardest fighting in the war and cost the United States forces some 114,000 casualties.
The Italian Campaign (3 September 1943- 2 May 1945) placed Allied troops on the European mainland for the first time, but it was never intended as a substitute for an attack aimed at Germany by way of the more open and more remunerative route through northern France.
By that tome it had become apparent that a cross-Channel invasion (an operation earnestly desired by the Russians) would be impossible during 1943.

http://www.22ndinfantry.org/wwii.htm (470 words)

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Â North Africa, WW2, Tobruk, Benghazi, Torch, Malta, Suez, Egypt, Greece, Crete, Alexandria, Med Fleet, 8th Army, Montgomery

Capt P. Mack with destroyers "Janus", "Jervis", "Mohawk" and "Nubian" sailing from Malta intercepts on the 16th a German Afrika Korps convoy of five transports escorted by three Italian destroyers off Kerkennah Islands, east of Tunisia.
Gibraltar may be secure, assuming Spain's continued neutrality, but Malta is considered indefensible in the face of the Italian Air Force based in Sicily.
Elsewhere, the Greeks are driving the Italians back into Albania and away to the south the Italian East African Empire is about to be wound up.

http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsNorthAfrica.htm (470 words)

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Â Italian boys clothes -- regions Venice

The Italian political and territorial picture, which at the end of the 18th century seemed to have stabilized, rapidly disintegrated in the face of Napoleon Bonaparte's first military campaign across the peninsula so as to successfully attack the Austrian Empire on its southern flank.
They were conducted by the European countries of the Atlantic coasts to establish direct trade contacts with China and the Spice Islands (Indonesia) that was being blocked by Byzantium/Venice and the Arabs.
The Venetians played an even more important role in the 4th Crusade (1202) in which the Venetians and their Norman allies seized and pillaged the city and set up a Latin Republic.

http://histclo.hispeed.com/country/it/reg/ir-ven.html (1772 words)

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Â North Africa, Algiers, Tunisia, Longstop, Algeria, Louisberg, Avorio, Asteria, Erica, U205, Paladin, Isis

Northern Tunisia Campaign - German and Italian operations against Allied shipping off Algeria lead to further losses:
The Axis surrender comes on the 12th and nearly 250,000 Germans and Italians are taken prisoner.
16th - Destroyers "Pakenham" and "Paladin" out of Malta encounter an Italian supply convoy north of Pantelleria island.

http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsNorthAfrica2.htm (1772 words)

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Â GUILTY!

Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the lead prosecutor at the International Tribunal on U.S./NATO War Crimes Against Yugoslavia, urged those present and those they represented from the 21 countries participating to carry out a sentence of organizing a campaign to abolish the NATO military pact.
The Members of the International War Crimes Tribunal find the accused Guilty on the basis of the evidence against them and that each of the nineteen separate crimes alleged in the Initial Complaint has been established to have been committed beyond a reasonable doubt.
The Members condemn the NATO bombardments, denounce the international crimes and violations of international humanitarian law committed by the armed attack and through other means such as economic sanctions.

http://www.iacenter.org/warcrime/wct2000.htm (1772 words)

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Â New Zealand history exhibitions - NZHistory.net.nz

Italian Campaign - Here are stories from New Zealanders who fought in Italy between 1943 and 1945, along with an overview of the main events and an interactive campaign map.
The experience was a shock as few of those taken prisoner had ever imagined that such a thing would happen - being wounded, yes; being killed, perhaps, but being taken prisoner, no.
Being a prisoner of war was a significant part of the Second World War experience.

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/GalleryContentFrame.html (1772 words)

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Â CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Emperor Charles V

In 1555 he personally took part in the campaign against Tunis under the leadership of Doria.
His recent campaigns had so undermined his strength as to render it advisable for him to make his will.
When Charles received news of the Peace of Cambrai, he determined to go to Italy and settle Italian affairs by a personal interview with the pope.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03625a.htm (4837 words)

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Â 443rd AAA Bn - World War II - Sicilian Campaign Preparation for Invasion

The General directed that the request be re-submitted at the end of the Sicilian Campaign, at which time he would approve it.
It was determined that General Alexander’s 18th Army Group would command the Sicilian campaign ground forces, to consist of General Patton’s 7th Army on the left and General Montgomery’s 8th Army on the right.
In spite of devastating reverses in the Soviet Union and its stunning defeat in North Africa, the Axis managed to garrison Sicily with ten Italian and three reorganized German divisions.

http://www.kwanah.com/txmilmus/36division/archives/443/44342.htm (4837 words)

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Â NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Talian

Speaking Italian or German in public or in the privacy of one's home was considered ofensive and unpatriotic and deserving of severe punishment.
This is not considered Italian creole, although it has a lot of foreign loanwords, because both grammar and lexicon remain Italian-based.
At that time then dictator and President GetÃºlio Vargas started his campaign of nationalization or (Nacionalismo) to try and force non-Portuguese speakers of Brazil to 'better integrate' into the national mainstream culture.

http://pedia.nodeworks.com/T/TA/TAL/Talian (389 words)

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Â KEO - ENVIRONMENT - Dams

- The campaign is also timely, now Turkey is seeking accession to the EU Â– we can keep the spotlight on human rights issues and help them to remain on the political agenda.
- The Italian government had pulled out of the Ilisu project.
There is much political not just campaign group/NGO support for the campaign.

http://www.kurdistanica.com/english/enviro/dams/dam-debate-22.html (706 words)

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Â The Anthony P. Campanella Collection of Giuseppe Garibaldi - Island 4

Island 4: The Sicilian Campaign of 1860 and Italian Unification
Crispi, a republican, served prominently in the 1860 Sicilian campaign, acted as Garibaldi's secretary, and was opposed to the annexation of Naples and Sicily to the kingdom of Italy.
His journal of the Sicilian campaign and invasion of Naples, published in English as The Diary of One of Garibaldi's Thousand, is a classic among the accounts of the Risorgimento.

http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/hist/garib/garib4.html (706 words)

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Â Remembrance Travel - Sicily

We honour those who fought and fell in Operation Husky - the 38 day Sicilian campaign in July/August 1943 that opened the way to the invasion of the Italian mainland.
Sicilian cuisine is half Italian, half Arab, and all delicious - as you will discover!Ã¯Â¾Â You will be able to enjoy breathtaking panoramas of this ancient land, not to mention Europe's highest and most active volcano - Mount Etna.
Heavily bombed during World War Two, shaken again in 1968 by earthquake, Sicily remains what it has always been: a spectacular land of rugged mountains, golden wheat fields and rocky coasts inhabited by a fiercely independent people who bring passion to everything they do, be it a religious celebration or a holiday dinner.

http://www.remembrancetravel.com/?fuseaction=tour.view&id=53 (706 words)

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Â Italian East Africa - definition of Italian East Africa in Encyclopedia

During the Second World War, the Italian army recruited many thousands of native Africans from the colony to fight against the British in the East African Campaign.
Due to poor training, incompetent leadership and inadequate supplies and arms, Italian native troops were usually defeated in the face of the enemy.
It was conquered in the 1930s during Benito Mussolini's reign in Italy and lost at the end of the North African Campaign of World War II.

http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Italian_East_Africa (193 words)

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Â Latest Newman & Byrne News

Paparazzi were flashing bulbs everywhere, and the vampire press had gathered to cover the upcoming social event of at least several centuries: the October wedding of Vlad, Count Dracula, in Italian exile from Transylvania, to the Moldavian princess Asa Vajda.
Rumour had it that the marriage marked the first step in the vampire king's campaign to restore his power and position as Lord of the Undead."
Jet setters, intellectuals, artists, film stars, socialites, vampires - everyone who was anyone among the living and the undead was making the scene in the External City that year.

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/newmanbyrne/news.html (193 words)

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Â Italian East Africa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article

During the Second World War, the Italian army recruited many thousands of native (A native or inhabitant of Africa) Africans from the colony to fight against the (The people of Great Britain) British in the (Click link for more info and facts about East African Campaign) East African Campaign.
However due to poor training and inadequate supplies and arms, Italian native troops were usually defeated in the face of the enemy.
Occasionally (A military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleum; involved in state-sponsored terrorism) Libya (at the time another Italian colony) was referred to as being part of Italian East Africa, but this was uncommon and perhaps misleading.

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/i/it/italian_east_africa.htm (268 words)