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Mechili (Arabic: المخيلي) is a
small village in Cyrenaica,
Libya and the site of a
former Turkish fort. It is
nearly 274 km (170 mi) east of Benghazi...
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action at
Mechili was an
engagement between units of the
British 7th
Armoured Division of the
Western Desert Force and
Italian forces of the 10th...
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water shortage permitted. A
considerable British force was
captured at
Mechili,
which led to the
British retreat continuing to
Tobruk and then on to the...
- near Er Regima. The
force was to use
depots at Msus, Tecnis, Martuba,
Mechili and Tmimi, El
Magrun and
Benghazi as a
substitute for lorry-borne supply...
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Indian Army
during World War II. In 1941, the
brigade was
surrounded at
Mechili by Axis
forces during Operation Sonnenblume and
suffered many casualties...
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Mechili, and Timimi. It is
about 186
kilometres (116 mi) long and
known in
Libya as “Et
Terigh El Foghiya” (literally "The
Upper Road"). The
Mechili-Timimi...
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ordered to
encircle Mechili and cut the
western and north-western exits,
while the 7th
Armoured Brigade cut the road from
Mechili to
Slonta but the Babini...
- in
December but the
Babini Group fought in
defence of the area
between Mechili and
Derna in late January. On 23 January, the
group managed to inflict...
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Division held a line from Derna,
along Wadi
Derna to
Mechili, with the
Babini Group at
Mechili,
Giovanni Berta and Chaulan,
guarding the
flank and rear...
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pulled back to
Tobruk to
avoid encirclement after actions at Er
Regima and
Mechili and
reached Tobruk on 9
April 1941.
There prolonged fighting followed,...
