Abyssinian Campaigns
Abyssinian Campaigns (1935–41) A series of conflicts between Italy, Abyssinia (
ETHIOPIA), and later Britain. War broke out as a result of Italy's unfulfilled ambition of 1894–96 to link
ERITREA with
SOMALIA, and
MUSSOLINI's aim to provide colonies to absorb Italy's surplus unemployed population. In 1934 and 1935 incidents, that were possibly contrived, took place at Walwal and elsewhere. On 3 October 1935 an Italian army attacked the Ethiopian forces from the north and east. Eventually the Ethiopians mustered 40,000 men, but they were helpless against the highly trained troops and modern weapons of the Italians. During the Italian occupation (1936–41), fighting continued. In 1940 the Italians occupied British Somaliland, but in 1941 British troops evicted the Italians entirely from Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia in a four-month campaign with support from Ethiopian nationalists.
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East African campaign
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...August 1940 there were more than 92,000 Italian and 250,000 Abyssinian troops under arms; the British had only 40,000, nearly...conflicting tasks of fending off the British and suppressing Abyssinian rebels, or Patriots as they were called. British strategy...British forces had their first victory in the ...
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Gideon Force
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...men from the Sudan Frontier Battalion, and 800 semi-trained Abyssinian troops. It was formed, and named, by Lt-Colonel Wingate at...objective of establishing a base for Emperor Haile Selassie in the Abyssinian province of Gojjam and then escorting him back to his capital...
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Graziani, Rodolfo
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
...World War I with distinction and subsequently commanded the Italian forces in the reconquest of Libya, 1921–31. In the Abyssinian War he led the southern flank and succeeded Badoglio as viceroy of Ethiopia, 1936–7. Chief of Staff of the Italian...
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Naval Intelligence Division
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...invaluable for the forward planning of major operations in war. The Abyssinian crisis of 1935 sounded the first alarm bells. The Deputy Chief...the landings which preceded the North African and Sicilian campaigns , nor the Normandy landings in June 1944 (see OVERLORD...
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Perlasca, Giorgio
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...He volunteered to serve in the Italian army in the 1930s in two campaigns, noted Mordecai Paldiel in his book Saving the Jews: Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in the Abyssinian war of 1935-1936, and the Spanish Civil War, fighting for fascist...
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