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"Graziani began the invasion of Egypt on 13 September, intending to squeeze the enemy between both offensives. His five divisions with 200 tanks stormed the border, taking Sollum, while the British Western Desert Force, consisting of the 7th Armoured and 4th Indian Division (and Free French Marines, Goums and Senussi rebels), fell back. Just two days later, the Italians had penetrated sixty miles, overrunning Sidi Barrani. After four days on the march, Graziani halted the 10th Army eighty miles west of the British defenses dug in at Mersa Matruh." (Mussolini's War, Frank Joseph, p. 62, Casemate Publishers, 2010) "Deploying an armored screen to their front, the British withdrew to Mersa Matruh about 220 kilometers east of the Libyan border on the coastal road." (A Military History of Africa, Timothy J. Stapleton, p. 216, ABC-CLIO, 2013) "The Treaty of 1936 made Egypt responsible for her own defence — in theory at any rate — although her army was to come under British command in case of war. At that time she had some 12,000 men under arms." (Lord Wavell, 1883-1941: A Military Biography, Robert John Collins, p. 197, Hodder & Stoughton, 1948) "Italian dispatches said today Libyan soldiers performed the seemingly impossible feat of marching 60 miles in a desert sandstorm to surprise a British garrison at Sidi Barrani, Egypt, and capture that strongly defended second line of defence." The Italian high command declared that the resistance of the army massed from all parts of the British empire to defend the western desert had been "crushed everywhere" ... The British hardly expected human beings were capable of the endurance displayed by the LIbyan troops who seized Sidi Barrani ... and expected them to use the customary Arab practice of covering up during a sandstorm such as swept in from the Sahara Tuesday."(https://news.google.com/newspapers?ni... ITALIANS REPORT SUCCESS IN DESERT, Ludlington Daily News, 18 September 1940) "In view of his shortage of motor-vehicles, Graziani was able to employ only five divisions and the motorized Maletti detachment, which, however, was also slimmed down. These forces formed the XXIII Army Corps under General Annibale Bergonzili, which comprised the homeland divisions Cirene, Marmarica, and 23 Marzo." (Germany and the Second World War, Volume III, Gerhard Schreiber, Bernd Stegemann, Detlef Vogel, p. 271, Clarendon Press, 1995) "In taking Sidi Barrani, Graziani had covered 60 of the 315 miles between the Libyan frontier at Sollum and Alexandria." (Divide and Conquer, p. 98, Bookmart Limited, 2005) "When General Graziani was moving towards Sidi Barrani, Free Frenchmen were among the units that stopped his further advance." (Bulletins from Britain, Issues 19-43, British Library of Information, 1941)