Fort Capuzzo (Italian: Ridotta Capuzzo) was a fort in the colony of Italian Libya, near the Libya–Egypt border, next to the Italian Frontier Wire. The Litoranea Balbo (Via Balbo) ran south from Bardia to Fort Capuzzo, 8 mi (13 km) inland, west of Sollum, then east across the Egyptian frontier to the port over the coastal escarpment. The fort was built during the Italian colonial repression of Senussi resistance in the Second Italo-Senussi War (1923–1931), as part of a barrier on the Libya–Egypt and Libya–Sudan borders.
The Frontier Wire and a line of forts including Fort Capuzzo were used to stop the Senussi from moving freely across the border. The fort had four crenellated walls enclosing a yard. Living quarters had been built around the edges and provided the base for border guards and Italian army armoured car patrols. A track ran south from the fort, just west of the frontier wire and the border, to Sidi Omar, Fort Maddalena and Giarabub. The fort changed hands several times during the Western Desert campaign (1940–1943) of the Second World War.
FortCapuzzo (Italian: Ridotta Capuzzo) was a fort in the colony of Italian Libya, near the Libya–Egypt border, next to the Italian Frontier Wire. The...
Coldstream Guards, attached artillery and other units. After recapturing FortCapuzzo, the Italians advanced approximately 95 km (59 mi) in three days and...
Oreste Capuzzo (1908–1985), Italian gymnast FortCapuzzo, a World War II fort in Italian Libya This page lists people with the surname Capuzzo. If an...
Regiment, (1st RTR) crossed the border from Egypt into Libya and captured FortCapuzzo. This was followed by an Italian counter-offensive into Egypt and the...
Brigade north-east to capture FortCapuzzo on the main Sollum–Bardia road. The brigade attacked Bir Ghirba, south of FortCapuzzo, the headquarters of the...
quickly planned as a limited operation to seize Sollum, Halfaya Pass and FortCapuzzo, then advance on Sidi Aziz and Tobruk. The operation was to continue...
to FortCapuzzo. Coast Column was to take Sollum and the foot of Halfaya Pass. Sollum, Halfaya Pass and FortCapuzzo were captured but then the fort was...
battles. June 14–16: First Battle of FortCapuzzo June 17: Battle of Girba September: Second Battle of FortCapuzzo September 9–16: Italian invasion of...
and deeper inside Libya FortCapuzzo was captured, but German counter-attacks under Colonel Maximilian von Herff regained the fort during the afternoon causing...
position; the Libyan divisions arriving late at the rendezvous near FortCapuzzo. The embarrassment of the Maletti Group added to doubts about the lack...
Hurricane fighter shot down. Following two Blenheim bombers shot down near FortCapuzzo on 21 May 1941, Homuth was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross...
1940 – World War II: The British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take FortCapuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces. 1940 – The three Baltic states...
opposition and in Libya, the British captured FortCapuzzo but German counter-attacks regained the fort during the afternoon, inflicting a costly defeat...
Alamein to FortCapuzzo, despite having been blown up in over 200 places, was quickly repaired. In the month after the Eighth Army reached Capuzzo, the railway...
opposition and in Libya, the British captured FortCapuzzo but German counter-attacks regained the fort during the afternoon, causing many casualties...
top of the Halfaya Pass, Bir Wair and Musaid, then pressed on and took FortCapuzzo. The coast group failed to capture the bottom of the Halfaya Pass. The...
Kingdom 14 June: British forces cross from Egypt into Libya and capture FortCapuzzo 16 June: The first tank battle of the North African campaign takes place...
using armoured cars during the Western Desert Campaign. It captured FortCapuzzo in June 1940 and, in an ambush east of Bardia, captured General Lastucci...
HMS Terror brought another 200 tons. The water was taken to storage tanks at FortCapuzzo. Efforts were made to stock 8 Field Supply Depot with seven days' supply...
declaration of war on 10 June 1940, the British 11th Hussars had seized FortCapuzzo in Libya. In an ambush east of Bardia, the British captured the Italian...
unaware that war had been declared. On 14 June, the British captured FortCapuzzo and Fort Maddalena, taking 220 prisoners. Two days later, the British raided...
Cyrenaica had been fortified by the Italians from 1935. Behind two old outlying forts, they constructed a novel fortification, consisting of a double line of...
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