Battle of Agordat
{'<entity_0>': 'Italian East Africa', '<entity_1>': 'East African Campaign', '<entity_2>': 'Anglo-Egyptian Sudan', '<entity_3>': 'Battle of Agordat', '<entity_4>': '31 January 1941', '<entity_5>': 'Agordat', '<entity_6>': 'Eritrea', '<entity_7>': 'battle'}
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The <entity_3> was fought near <entity_5> in <entity_6> from 26 to <entity_4>, by the Italian army and Royal Corps of Colonial Troops against British, Commonwealth and Indian forces, during the <entity_1> of the Second World War. The <entity_7> was the first big victory in the British offensive against <entity_0> and was followed by the Battle of Keren (5 February – 1 April), which led to the fall of the <entity_6> Governorate. Amedeo, Duke of Aosta the Viceroy and Governor-General of the <entity_0> (AOI, <entity_0>), commander in chief of Comando Forze Armate dell'<entity_0> (Italian East African Armed Forces Command) and Generale d'Armata Aerea (General of the Air Force) ordered an Italian attack on Kassala, <entity_2> to begin on 4 July 1940 after Italy had declared war on Britain and France on 10 June. Earlier in the month, Frusci had received orders from Rome to cancel plans to invade Sudan, withdraw from Kassala and Metemma in the lowlands along the Sudan–<entity_6> border and hold the more easily defended mountain passes on the Kassala–<entity_5> and Metemma–Gondar roads. Sufficient low-grade ciphers had also been broken to reveal the Italian order of <entity_7> and the supply situation by the time that the British offensive began on 19 <entity_4>. During the <entity_7> and retirement from <entity_5>, 1,500 to 2,000 Italian and local troops were taken prisoner.
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