Word: graziani
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distance to his base, Mogadishu on the Indian Ocean, is almost twice as long, the difficulties of water, food and supplies almost twice as great. It is against him that Ethiopians have their best chance of a counterattack into Italian territory. Among the Ethiopian commanders opposing General Graziani last week is one of the most picturesque characters in the country, the former Turkish General Wehib Pasha...
...Governor of Italian Somaliland, and generally considered Italy's ablest colonial fighter, General Graziani thence leads the Fascist legions...
...years of warfare hundreds of Italian soldiers and at least 20,000 Senussites have been killed. No less a person than little King Vittorio Emanuele's own cousin, the Duke of Apulia, harried the Senussites mightily from the sky. Last winter their ultimate fate was sealed when General Graziani cut them off from fleeing into Egypt by building a formidable barbed wire fence 180 mi. long...