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| | Military history of Italy during World War II - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Within a week of Italy's declaration of war, the British 11th Hussars had seized Fort Capuzzo and, in an ambush east of Bardia, the Tenth Army's Engineer in Chief, General Lastucci, was captured. |
 | | As in Egypt, the Italian forces with ~70,000 Italian soldiers and ~180,000 native troops outnumbered their British opponents, but Ethiopia was isolated from the Italian mainland, and thus cut off from resupply, which seriously limited what operations the Italians would be able to undertake. |
 | | After the surrender and the allied invasion, what could be reorganized of the Italian government troops fought alongside the Allies for the rest of the war while troops loyal to Mussolini's northern Italian Social Republic continued to fight with the Germans. |
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