Significant1940 – 1941 · 1 year

Operation Compass

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Sidi Barrani · Bardia · Tobruk · Beda Fomm

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

First major British offensive of the Western Desert campaign, destroying the Italian Tenth Army at Beda Fomm.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
Kingdom of Italy

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1939)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Operation Compass (1940 – 1941). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/operation-compass · Sources & methodology