Battle of Sidi Barrani

متى

10 ديسمبر 1940 – 11 ديسمبر 1940

النوع

معركة

إحداثيات

31.61° N, 25.93° E

Description

battle in Egypt 10-11 December 1940 during World War II

War

World War II

1940 battle of WWII

The Battle of Sidi Barrani (10–11 December 1940) was the opening battle of Operation Compass, the first big British attack of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. Sidi Barrani, on the Mediterranean coast in Egypt, had been occupied by the Italian 10th Army, during the Italian invasion of Egypt (9–16 September 1940) and was attacked by British, Commonwealth and imperial troops, who re-captured the port…

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