Battle of Nezuet Ghirba

Mussolini declared war on France and Britain on June 10, 1940. In Egypt, British frontier forces were immediately ordered to infiltrate the border and attack the Italian forts of Maddalena and Capuzzo. By June 14th, both outposts had fallen. Two …

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Mussolini declared war on France and Britain on June 10, 1940. In Egypt, British frontier forces were immediately ordered to infiltrate the border and attack the Italian forts of Maddalena and Capuzzo. By June 14th, both outposts had fallen. Two days later, an Italian column was spotted on its way to re-garrison the forts. After an initial skirmish, British commander John Combe withdrew behind a slight rise, gathering all available forces in the area. When he advanced again, the Italian column had formed up in a square. Combe's tanks circled it in Native American fashion, reducing it to silence after an intense firefight.

Nezuet Ghirba, Egypt

The Frontier Wire was a 271 km (168 mi) obstacle in Italian Libya, along the length of the border of British-held Egypt, running from El Ramleh, in the Gulf of Sollum south to Jaghbub parallel to the 25th meridian east, the Libya–Egypt and Libya–Sudan borders. The frontier wire and line of covering forts, were built by the Italians during the Second Italo-Senussi War (1923–1931), as a defensive system to contain the Senussi population, who crossed from Egypt during their Resistance against the Italian colonizers. From the Italian declaration of war on 10 June 1940 to late 1942, it was the scene of military engagements between Italian, British and German forces as the fighting ebbed and flowed across the frontier.

Wikipedia: Frontier Wire (Libya)

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