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History of Great Britain

              


1940
Wavell
9th Dec Tobruk Opens a counter-offensive threatening Tripoli, captital of fascist nth Africa
1941
Auchinleck, Claude John Eyre
2nd Sep Tobruk Charged with carrying out operation Crusader to relieve Tobruk & re-capture Cyrenaica
4th Dec Tobruk Erwin Rommel is forced to abandon his siege of Tobruk
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Wavell, Archibald
22nd Jan Tobruk The British capture the port of Tobruk in Libya from the Italians
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Jan Cairo Sent by Churchill to persuade Auchinleck to capture Cyrenaica but Cripps fails
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Ritchie, Neil
Jan Tobruk Rommel drives the 8th Army back to Gazala, only 25 miles outside Tobruk
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