Word: eritrea
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...question was how many Italians were prepared to defend Harar, and how hard. It was likely that most of the Italians who had been in British Somaliland had fallen back into this area. The Italians would probably put up a stanch fight here because here-and at Cheren in Eritrea-were the last chances for strong stand: before Addis Ababa. If the British could crack the old town of Harar, they could cut the rail line, just north of Harar, from Addis Ababa...
...Eritrea. Pride has been scant for the homebodies of Italy lately, but last week the name Cheren filled them with it. On the high escarpment near the town known as Sancheil Briggs Peak, the Italians had put up their bravest fight of the African war. In the face of constant bombings, under steady artillery fire, nearly surrounded, some 35,000 Italians showed that they could be as stubborn as the rocky buttes they defended. They resisted British attacks, and countered with their own-losing in one a brave general named Orlando Lorenzini. General Lorenzini, who led a brigade...
...last week the many British drives in East Africa had resolved themselves into one campaign-an encirclement of Addis Ababa. When he took Ethiopia, Benito Mussolini's strategy was to send his main attack (Marshals De Bono and Badoglio) southward from Eritrea, and to meet it with a smaller containing attack (General Graziani) northward from Italian Somaliland. This time the British strategy was to bottle as many troops as possible in Eritrea and then converge on Addis Ababa from the northwest and south. The main British attack came from the south...
...Eritrea a six-week-old deadlock was last week still unresolved. The Italians were ensconced around Cheren on magnificent natural forts. The British were last week busily probing in all directions around the Italian-held heights, to see where the enemy might be vulnerable. They themselves claimed capture of some new heights...
...difficult country for mechanized troops. Best British bet seemed to be fresh troops driving down the Red Sea coast from the north, which threatened to cut off the defenders on the plateau or force their retreat. When Cheren fell the Italians would be in a fair way to losing Eritrea, their oldest colony...