Regional1940

Battle of Taranto

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Italy

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Taranto (1940), part of the World War II. United Kingdom defeated Italy.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
Italy

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1939)

Conflict graph

PART OFWorld War II

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Taranto (1940). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-taranto · Sources & methodology