Word: somaliland
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...days the British have be leaguered an almost forgotten inkspot on the map of Africa: French Somaliland...
Zeesen: "The prominent Italian military expert, General Bellati, reports that the strategical importance of the conquest of British Somaliland lies in the removal of the continuous British threat to Ethiopia...
Rome: "The Italians have not allowed the British to carry off even a handful of soil from Somaliland, which will remain forever Italian territory...
...staff officer: "When one has to choose between two duties, always take that one whose fulfillment is the most brutal and the most difficult. You can be quite sure that it is the right one." General Paul Louis Le Gentilhomme was sacked by Vichy for continuing the fight in Somaliland. Twelve-times-wounded Colonel Philibert Collet escaped from Syria to join De Gaulle last...
...lost control of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Italian Somaliland...