First Battle of El Alamein
During the First Battle of El Alamein, elements of the Trento put up a tenacious defense on Miteiriya Ridge, delaying the Allied advance for several hours and allowing an Italian armoured reconnaissance force to launch a devastating counterattack.
Read more about this topic: 102 Motorised Division Trento, North Africa
Other articles related to "el, first battle of el alamein, battle":
... number three enters the fourth (and last) qualification round of the UEFA Europa League (EL the new name of the UEFA Cup from 2009–10 onward) and the number four goes to the third qualification round ... play-off receives a ticket for the second qualification round of the EL ...
... of the 20th century, scholars have debated whether El Greco's style had Byzantine origins ... Certain art historians had asserted that El Greco's roots were firmly in the Byzantine tradition, and that his most individual characteristics derive directly from the art of his ancestors ... works of the second half of the 20th century devoted to El Greco reappraise many of the interpretations of his work, including his supposed Byzantinism ...
... The battle was a stalemate, but it had halted the Axis advance on Alexandria (and then Cairo and ultimately the Suez Canal). 3,000 in the Indian 5th Infantry Division and 2,552 battle casualties in the 9th Australian Division) but had taken 7,000 prisoners and inflicted heavy damage on Axis men and ... by Rommel to bypass or break the Commonwealth position was repulsed in the Battle of Alam Halfa in August, and in October the Eighth Army decisively defeated the Axis forces in the Second Battle of El ...
... creation was a fundamental principle of El Greco's style ... El Greco discarded classicist criteria such as measure and proportion ... of color to be the greatest difficulty of art." — El Greco, from notes of the painter in one of his commentaries ...
... or Candia (the Venetian name of Chandax, present day Heraklion) on Crete, El Greco was descended from a prosperous urban family, which had probably been driven out of Chania to Candia after an uprising ... El Greco's father, Geórgios Theotokópoulos (d ... El Greco's older brother, Manoússos Theotokópoulos (1531 – 13 December 1604), was a wealthy merchant and spent the last years of his life (1603–1604) in El Greco's Toledo ...
Famous quotes containing the words alamein and/or battle:
“This sort of thing may be tolerated by the French—but we are British, thank God.”
—Bernard Law, 1st Viscount Montgomery Of Alamein Montgomery (1887–1976)
“The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood, and for these deeds of horror and destruction men have been rewarded with monuments, with great songs and epics. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness. Time alone will reveal what reward will be allotted to women.”
—Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928)