Sicily Campaign

Examples of Sicily Campaign in the following topics:

• The Sicilian Campaign

  • The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II, in which the Allies took the island of Sicily from the Axis powers.
  • The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II, in which the Allies took the island of Sicily from the Axis powers (Italy and Nazi Germany).
  • It was a large amphibious and airborne operation, followed by a six-week land campaign and was the beginning of the Italian Campaign.
  • The Germans transferred a group of "R boats" (German minesweepers and minelayers) from Sicily and laid three additional minefields off the Greek coast.
  • Troops from the British 51st Division unloading stores from tank landing craft on the opening day of the invasion of Sicily, 10 July 1943.

• Sicily and Italy

  • The Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war in Europe.
  • The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis.
  • It was a large scale amphibious and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land combat that launched the Italian Campaign.
  • During the Allied invasion of Sicily, the SS Robert Rowan (Liberty ship K-40) explodes after being hit by a German Ju 88 bomber off of Gela, Sicily (Italy).
  • Explain the significance of the Allied capture of Sicily and Italy.

• Slowing Momentum

  • The Battle of Stalingrad and setbacks in the North Africa Campaign represented a major defeat for the Axis forces.
  • The Battle of Stalingrad and setbacks in the North Africa Campaign represented a major defeat for the Axis forces.
  • In Libya,the Afrika Korps (the German expeditionary force in Libya and Tunisia during the North African Campaign) failed to break through the line at First Battle of El Alamein (July 1-27 1942), having suffered repercussions from the Battle of Stalingrad .
  • In November 1942, the Wehrmacht and the Italian Army retreated to Tunisia, where they fought the Americans and the British in the Tunisia Campaign (November 17, 1942–May 13, 1943).
  • The Allies invaded Sicily and Italy next, but met fierce resistance, particularly at Anzio (January 22,1944–June 5,1944) and Cassino (January 17, 1944–May 18,1944), and the campaign continued from mid-1943 to nearly the end of the war.

• The Crusades

  • The Crusades were military campaigns sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church during the High and Late Middle Ages.
  • Generally, the Crusades refer to the campaigns in the Holy Land sponsored by the papacy against Muslim forces.
  • There were other crusades against Islamic forces in southern Spain, southern Italy, and Sicily, as well as campaigns of Teutonic knights against pagan strongholds in Eastern Europe.

• Republican Wars and Conquest

  • While Beneventum's outcome was indecisive, it led to Pyrrhus's complete withdrawal from Italy due to the decimation of his army following years of foreign campaigns and the diminishing likelihood of further material gains.
  • The First Punic War began in 264 BCE when Rome and Carthage became interested in using settlements within Sicily to solve their own internal conflicts.
  • The war saw land battles in Sicily early on, but focus soon shifted to naval battles around Sicily and Africa.Before the First Punic War there was no Roman navy to speak of.
  • The new war in Sicily against Carthage, a great naval power, forced Rome to quickly build a fleet and train sailors.

• American Arrival in Europe

  • In 1943, the US participated in the Allies' invasion of Sicily and Italy.  
  • In July, the American seaborne assault landed on the southern coast of Sicily and units of an airborne division parachuted ahead of landings.
  • On August 11, seeing that the battle was lost, the German and Italian commanders began evacuating their forces from Sicily to Italy.
  • The Italian Campaign ended on May 2, 1945 and US forces in mainland Italy suffered between 114,000 and over 119,000 casualties.

• The Isaurian Dynasty

  • Following the latter's fall, in 716 Leo allied himself with Artabasdos, the general of the Armeniacs, and was proclaimed emperor while two Arab armies campaigned in Asia Minor.
  • In 718 he suppressed a rebellion in Sicily and in 719 did the same on behalf of the deposed Emperor Anastasios II.
  • Leo secured the Empire's frontiers by inviting Slavic settlers into the depopulated districts and by restoring the army to efficiency; when the Umayyad Caliphate renewed their invasions in 726 and 739, as part of the campaigns of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, the Arab forces were decisively beaten, particularly at Akroinon in 740.
  • The campaign marked the culmination of twenty years of attacks and progressive Arab occupation of the Byzantine borderlands, while Byzantine strength was sapped by prolonged internal turmoil.

• Converging Military Fronts

  • That same month the Allies invaded Sicily, resulting in the ousting and arrest of Mussolini.
  • By May 1943, as Allied counter-measures became increasingly effective in the Atlantic, the sizable German submarine losses forced a temporary halt of the German Atlantic naval campaign.

• Early Wars with Austria and Britain

  • Napoleon's was one of three French armies sent with the aim to eventually reach Vienna (two other engaged in the campaign on the Rhine).
  • In the Montenotte Campaign, he separated the armies of Sardinia and Austria, defeating each one in turn, and then forced a peace on Sardinia.
  • The Mediterranean campaign of 1798 was a series of major naval operations surrounding a French expeditionary force sent to Egypt under Napoleon Bonaparte that serves as a bridge between the War of the First Coalition and the War of the Second Coalition.
  • Unable to find Bonaparte, Nelson turned back across the Mediterranean, eventually reaching Sicily.
  • Napoleon sent general Moreau to campaign in Germany and went himself to raise a new army at Dijon and march through Switzerland to attack the Austrian armies in Italy from behind.

• Assembling a Campaign Staff

  • The campaign manager focuses mostly on coordinating the campaign staff.
  • Campaign managers will often have deputies who oversee various aspects of the campaign at a closer level.
  • In a modern political campaign, the campaign organization will have a coherent structure and staff like any other large business.
  • Successful campaigns usually require a campaign manager to coordinate the campaign's operations.
  • Apart from a candidate, the campaign manger is often a campaign's most visible leader.