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Capture of Agedabia

Germany · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1941–1942Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1941

Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel1941

Agedabia · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Captures the Agedabia Wells opening the way for an advance into Cyrenaice

1942

Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel22 January 1942

Agedabia · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Agedabia is captured by the Germans

Names involved

Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel

Provenance

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