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Há 3 dias · World War II. Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (born May 5, 1883, Colchester, Essex, England—died May 24, 1950, London) was a British field marshal and government administrator whose victories against the Italians in North Africa during the early part of World War II were offset by his inability to defeat the German ...
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Há 3 dias · On the same day General Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief of Middle East Command, informed London that he could no longer spare the battalion in Palestine and urged diplomacy and possibly a demonstration of air strength, rather than military intervention.
- 2–31 May 1941
- Kingdom of Iraq
- Allied victory
Há 6 dias · 1943–1944. Total deaths. Estimated 0.8 to 3.8 million [A] in Bengal alone. The Bengal famine of 1943 was an anthropogenic famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II. An estimated 0.8–3.8 million people died, [A] in the Bengal region (present-day Bangladesh and ...
Há 3 dias · commanders. Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell. Claude Auchinleck. The Indian Army during World War II, a British force also referred to as the British Indian Army, [1] began the war, in 1939, numbering just under 200,000 men. [2]
Há 1 dia · In July 1939, Wavell devised a strategy to defend and then to dominate the Mediterranean as a base to attack Germany through eastern and south-eastern Europe. The conquest of Italian East Africa came second only to the defence of Egypt and the Suez Canal. In August, Wavell ordered for plans to be made quickly to gain control of the ...
9 de mai. de 2024 · Egypt and Cyrenaica (June 1940–June 1941) Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell. When Benito Mussolini took Italy into the war, the Italian forces in North and East Africa were overwhelmingly superior in numbers to the scanty British forces opposing them.
Há 4 dias · Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC (12 June 1897 – 14 January 1977) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1955 until his resignation in 1957. Achieving rapid promotion as a young Conservative member of Parliament, he became foreign secretary aged 38 ...
