Word: matruh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanton wench was Cleopatra but a politician whose love of Egypt was greater than the love she bartered with lonely Roman warriors. How long she and Mark Antony lingered in Paraetonium (now Mersa Matruh) history has forgotten. The city crackled in the sun, crumbled into decay, remained virtually forgotten some 2,000 years until last week another Roman warrior sought to enter its now squalid streets. He was Marshal Rodolfo Graziani...
...Made a concentrated raid on the British coastal Army base of Mersa Matruh, end of the Egyptian railroad toward Libya...
...massed under Marshal Rodolfo Graziani in Libya for a drive eastward at Alexandria were estimated at two divisions (30,000 men). British authorities prepared the public for a "strategic retreat" of their forces from El Sollum, near the Libyan border, to the stronger and better-watered fortress of Mersa Matruh, where Cleopatra used to bathe. Meantime British aircraft, mobile artillery and mechanized patrols sorely harassed the Italians' preparations and out posts in Libya. This week Rome claimed ten British planes downed while bombing an Italian column in eastern Libya. R. A. F. counter-score: three Italian planes, one British...
Whatever happened, Mussolini ordered two days of national mourning. All over the Empire Italy's armed forces half-masted their flags. In a "revenge" raid on the British base of Mersa Matruh, the late, great Balbo's men claimed the destruction of 20 British planes...