ITALIANS PUSH INTO EGYPT, IMPERIL SUEZ CANAL
Cairo, Egypt · September 13, 1940 On this date in 1940, 250,000 soldiers of the Italian Tenth Army under the command of Marshal Rodolfo Graziani crossed from the Italian colony of Libya into Egypt (see map), where British troops were protecting the Suez Canal, the vital waterway to the Middle Eastern oilfields and beyond that…