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Hace 4 días · Jun 29, 2024 • By Thomas Bailey, BSc Geography. In the 19th century, Europe’s imperial superpowers were locked in a battle for global supremacy. Their colonial gaze soon fell upon Africa. The continent became a battleground for European competition as the powers scrambled to conquer the entire landmass. Europe’s conquest of Africa would ...
Hace 4 días · The struggle for North Africa, 1940-43. After a grim struggle that rolled back and forth across the North African desert for nearly three years, this campaign resulted in the first major Allied victory of the Second World War (1939-45).
Hace 4 días · Battle of Normandy. By the end of D-Day, 6 June 1944, over 160,000 Allied troops and 6,000 vehicles had crossed the Channel. The Allies had established a foothold on the beaches of Normandy. But they still had to break out, push the Germans back and liberate France.
Hace 4 días · The East African campaign (also known as the Abyssinian campaign) was fought in East Africa during the Second World War by Allies of World War II, mainly from the British Empire, against Italy and its colony of Italian East Africa, between June 1940 and November 1941.
Hace 4 días · The Second Battle of El Alamein (23 October – 11 November 1942) was a battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. The First Battle of El Alamein and the Battle of Alam el Halfa had prevented the Axis from advancing further into Egypt.
Hace 2 días · The Gallipoli campaign, the Dardanelles campaign, the Defence of Gallipoli or the Battle of Gallipoli (Turkish: Gelibolu Muharebesi, Çanakkale Muharebeleri or Çanakkale Savaşı) was a military campaign in the First World War on the Gallipoli peninsula (now Gelibolu) from 19 February 1915 to 9 January 1916.
Hace 4 días · The changing balance of power in western Africa was not confined to the coastlands. By the 1870s formal French and British armies had already ventured into the interior and had inflicted defeats on such major African powers as those of al-Ḥājj ʿUmar and Asante.
