Word: sardinia
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...Sardinia, Sicily or Italy itself might be chosen as a target. Geographical and military realities were huge and frightening obstacles, but they did not in themselves bar an effort which might also save Egypt and Suez and make it possible to supply Malta without the present appalling cost in ships...
...Italians announced that they jumped-up the convoy—a mighty one, with two aircraft carriersצff Sardinia, and at once began a running attack. In their first attack they claimed to have sunk two cruisers, one destroyer, four supply ships; to have damaged a carrier, a battleship, seven other craft. This, they boasted, was only a beginning...
Almost as questionable an acquaintance for Bertie was Britain's other ally, King Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia, "a hairy man, of a virile physique, an amorous nature, and an indiscriminate affability." Bertie was much taken with him too, "chiefly because of his boast that he could decapitate an ox with one blow of his sword...
Fascist cries of "Nice!, Savoy!" in the Senate in 1938 derived from a deal made by Napoleon III and King Vittorio Emanuele I of Sardinia in 1859, when Napoleon promised to help liberate northern Italy from Austria in return for Nice and Savoy. The war aroused such enthusiasm throughout Italy that Napoleon ducked out of it, taking his prize, while Garibaldi and his Red Shirts conquered Sicily and Naples for Vittorio Emanuele...
...South of Sardinia, Axis warplanes came out to meet this formidable group. Next day's Italian papers ran ecstatic accounts of the engagement. Lavoro Fascista called it "A Black Day for the British Navy." The High Command claimed hits on two battleships, an aircraft carrier, two cruisers, a destroyer and three merchantmen. Next day German bombers attacked again south of Malta and claimed hits. When the convoy had had time to get out of danger, the British denied that a single vessel had been hit. Rome admitted that British warships (possibly going out from Alexandria to meet the convoy...