Word: trasimeno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center a German line around Lake Trasimeno was breached and the terraced town of Cortona, ancient headquarters of the Etruscans, was in Allied gun sights. On the Adriatic coast British advances resumed after heavy fighting, reached to within nine miles of the port of Ancona...
...their stand. in the center near Lake Trasimeno, where Hannibal once (217 B.C.) bloodily wiped out a Roman army under Flaminius, seemed only temporary. They had been providentially helped by days of rain that gummed down the pursuit, forced the unopposed Allied air fleet to drop from more than 2,000 sorties daily to a piddling...
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