Word: niles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great Britain split her rapidly expanding Middle Eastern forces last week. G.H.Q. (Cairo) announced that henceforth the Army of the Nile would be divided into an Army of the Western Desert and an Army of Syria and Palestine...
...back upon the course of events, I can only feel ... if we had again to tread that stony path, even with the knowledge we possess today, I for one would do the same thing again. . . ." He promised to defend "to the death" Malta, Crete, Tobruch, the Suez and the Nile Valley...
General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, who was knighted only last month for his brilliance as field commander of the Imperial Army of the Nile in its winter campaign against the Italians; and Lieut...
...Britain and Anthony Eden's "unflinching aid" to Greece, it was announced in London that Italian military equipment captured in Libya was being rushed to Greece, but the whereabouts of Britain's Army of the Nile was still unknown...
Part of the Imperial Army of the Nile, having cut its teeth on the Italians in Libya, may last week have been called upon for a far more important job in Greece. But in that Army's rightful sphere-Libya and Egypt-there was still work...