Historical place archive

Syracuse in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Syracuse in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1943–1943

Historical events in Syracuse

1943

10 July 1943
Capture of Syracuse
Bernard Law Montgomery · World War, 2nd

Syracuse is captured by the Eighth Army during the Allied invasion of Siciliy

Provenance

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