Word: eritrea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vichy announced: The British and Free French are invading Vichy Somaliland; they have sent two columns from Eritrea toward the strategic port of Djibouti...
...Governor of Somaliland: After advancing on the town of Tadjoura, the columns are rapidly retreating toward Eritrea...
...plumb wore out. He had run the Italians out of Libya and East Africa, had had his men run out of Greece and Crete, had sent some mechanized snails into Iraq and Syria. He had worked like a Trojan. One day he would stand on a hill in Eritrea straining his one good eye through a one-barreled glass, peering across at the Eyeties' vulnerabilities; next day he would stir up his field staff in Sidi Barrãni; then he would calm the fears of Egyptian politicians; fly to Crete; visit headquarters in Palestine; spend...
...Lost Ethiopia-but were firmly entrenched in Eritrea...
...lost control of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Italian Somaliland...