Significant1940

Italian Invasion of Egypt

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Sidi Barrani · Sollum

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Graziani's brief invasion of Egypt from Libya, halted at Sidi Barrani and rolled back by Operation Compass.

Belligerents2

Kingdom of Italy
United Kingdom

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1939)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Italian Invasion of Egypt (1940). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/italian-invasion-of-egypt · Sources & methodology