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Capture of Mareth Line

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

2Records
1942–1943Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1942

Oliver Leese1942

Mareth Line · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Leads the Eighth Armys advance across the Mareth Line

1943

Bernard Law Montgomery Alamein, 1stMarch 1943

Mareth Line · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The Eighth Army breaks through the Mareth Line & takes 7,000 German & Italian prisoners

Names involved

Bernard Law Montgomery Alamein, 1stOliver Leese

Provenance

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