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Encyclopedia > Battle of Tobruk
Siege of Tobruk
Conflict World War II, Western Desert Campaign
Date March 31, 1941 – November 27, 1941
Place Tobruk, Libya
Result Allied victory
Combatants
Germany, Italy United Kingdom, Poland
Commanders
Erwin Rommel Leslie Morshead
Strength
? 14,000
Casualties
8,000 At least 4,000


The Siege of Tobruk was a lengthy confrontation between Axis and Allied forces in the North African Campaign of World War II.


See also

External links

  • The Characteristic of Tobruk defence in 1941 (http://www.kki.krakow.pl/piojar/brygad/brygad/tobruk/tobruk_e.html)
  • BBC - WW2 People's War - Siege of Tobruk (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A1124777)
  • Australian War Memorial - Siege of Tobruk (http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/tobruk/)



  Results from FactBites:
 
Tobruk (800 words)
Erwin Rommel was forced to abandon his siege of Tobruk on 4th December, and the following month had moved as far west as Archibald Wavell had achieved a year previously.
British forces under General Leslie Morshead repulsed German attacks on the fortress and on 4th December, 1941, Rommel decided to abandon the siege of Tobruk.
The British Army recaptured Tobruk on 13th November, 1942, bringing the battle at El Alamein to an end.
Siege of Tobruk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (295 words)
For most of the siege, Tobruk was defended by the Australian 9th Division under General Sir Leslie Morshead.
Tobruk was the longest siege in British Empire military history, and was the first notable land defeat for a German army in World War II.
Rommel nonetheless captured Tobruk in a new offensive in 1942 in the Battle of Gazala.
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