Editing List of North African Campaign battles

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This is a listing of World War II battles occurring during the [[North African Campaign]] and is sometimes known as the "Desert War".  This includes the campaigns in Egypt and Libya (often referred to as the [[Western Desert campaign]] or the "Egypt-Libya Campaign") and those campaigns in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia (usually referred to as the [[Tunisia campaign]]. This is not a comprehensive list of all engagements and generally does not cover isolated skirmishes of units smaller than a [[Company (military unit)|company]] in size.

This is part of the more comprehensive [[List of World War II Battles]].

==1940==
* June 15–17: [[Fort Capuzzo|First Battle of the Camps]] (Also known as Battle of the Marmaric)<ref>{{cite magazine | issue=23 December 1940| title =Battle of the Marmarica|magazine=Time Magazine| url =http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,765077-1,00.html | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070620114016/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,765077-1,00.html | url-status =dead | archive-date =June 20, 2007 | accessdate = 2007-12-17 | date=December 23, 1940}}</ref>
* September 9–16: [[Italian invasion of Egypt]] (Operation E)
* Dec. 9 – 9 Feb. 1942 [[Operation Compass]]
** Dec. 9: [[Battle of Nibeiwa]]
** Dec. 10: Third Battle of Fort Capuzzo
** Dec. 20–21 March 1941: [[Siege of Giarabub]]

==1941==
* [[Operation Compass]] continued
** The Offensive Resumes
*** January 3–5: First [[Battle of Bardia]]
*** January 9–26: [[Operation Compass#Tobruk|First Battle of Tobruk]]<ref name="africa">[http://worldwar2database.com/html/africa.htm "War in North Africa 1940-1942"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080213083604/http://worldwar2database.com/html/africa.htm |date=2008-02-13 }}</ref>
*** January 25: [[Battle of Mechili|First Battle of Mechili]]
*** January 24–26: Battle of [[Derna, Libya|Derna]]
*** February 5: Fall of [[Benghazi]]
*** February 5–7: [[Battle of Beda Fomm]]
* [[Operation Sunflower]]
** March 21–23: Battle of the Oasis
** March 24: [[First Battle of El Agheila]]
** April 6–8: Second Battle [[Mechili]]
** April 10 - November 27: [[Siege of Tobruk]]
** April 12: [[Second Battle of Bardia]]<ref name="7th1941">{{cite web|url=http://www.ian.a.paterson.btinternet.co.uk/battles1941.htm |title=History of the 7th Armored, List of Battles, 1941 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120802203310/http://www.ian.a.paterson.btinternet.co.uk/battles1941.htm |archive-date=2012-08-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
** April 12: [[First Battle of Sollum]]<ref name="7th1941" />
** April 12: Fourth Battle of Fort Capuzzo<ref name="7th1941" />
** April 30: First [[Battle of Halfaya Pass]]<ref name="7th1941" />
* ''[[Operation Brevity]]''
** May 15: Second Battle of Halfaya Pass
** May 15–16: Fifth Battle of Fort Capuzzo<ref name="P162">Playfair, V.II pg. 162</ref>
* ''[[Operation Skorpion]]''
** May 27: Third Battle of Halfaya Pass<ref>Rommel, pg. 137</ref><ref>Playfair, V. II pg. 163</ref>
* ''[[Operation Battleaxe]]''
** June 15–17: Fourth Battle of Halfaya Pass<ref name="7th1941" />
** June 15: Battle for Point 206
** June 15–16: Battle for Hafid Ridge<ref name="7th1941" />
** June 15–16: Sixth Battle of Fort Capuzzo
** June 16: Battle of Sidi Omar
** June 17: Battle of Sidi Suleiman
* [[Operation Crusader]]
** November 19: [[Action at Bir el Gubi (November 1941)|first action at Bir el Gubi]]
** November 19 - December 1: [[Battle of Sidi Rezegh]] (known by the [[Germans]] as "de Salis Ridge"<ref name="7th1941" />)
** November 21 – December 7: [[Second Battle of Tobruk]]
** November 21: Battle of Bir el Haiad
** November 22: Battle of Bir Ghirba
** November 22: Second Battle of Sidi Omar
** November 27: Battle of Bir el Chleta
** November 29 - December 4: Battle of Ed Dedu
** November 29 - December 1: Battle of Belhamed
** December 1: Battle of Zaafran
** December 2: Battle of Belhamed Road
** December 3–7: [[Action at Bir el Gubi (December 1941)|second action at Bir el Gubi]]
** December 11–27: First [[Battle of Cyrenaica Line]]<ref name="7th1941" />
*** December 13: Battle of [[Alem Hamza]]
*** December 13–14: Battle of Point 204
** December 23: Battle of Antelat<ref name="7th1941" />
** December 23: Second Battle of Beda Fomm<ref name="7th1941" />

==1942==
* [[Operation Crusader]] continued
** January 2: [[Battle of Bardia]]
** January 12: [[Third Battle of Sollum]]
* ''Operation Theseus''
** January 21: [[Second Battle of El Agheila]]
** January 23: [[Second Battle of Cyrenaica Line]]<ref name="7th1942">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070814061819/http://www.ian.a.paterson.btinternet.co.uk/battles1942.htm "History of the 7th Armored, List of Battles, 1942"]</ref>
** January 28: Second Battle of Benghazi<ref name="7th1942" />
**[[Battle of Gazala]]<ref>[http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_gazala.htm "Battle of Gazala"]</ref>
*** May 27: [[Battle of Retma Box]]<ref name="7th1942" />
*** "The Cauldron"<ref name="7th1942" />
**** May 27 – June 12: [[Battle of El Adem]]
**** May 28- June 10: [[Battle of Bir Hakeim]]<ref name="7th1942" />
**** May 31: Battle of 150th Brigade Box<ref name="7th1942" />
**** June 13: [[Battle of Knightsbridge]]<ref name="7th1942" />
*** June 15: [[Battle of Point 650]]
*** June 20: [[Fall of Tobruk]]<ref name="7th1942" />
* ''Operation Aida''
** June 26–28: [[Battle of Mersa Matruh]]
** June 28: Battle of Fuka
** June 30: Battle of the El Alamein Box
**July 1-27: [[First Battle of El Alamein]]
*** July 1–2: First Battle of the Coast Road
*** July 1: Battle of Deir el Shein
*** July 2: First Battle of [[Ruweisat Ridge]]
*** July 3–5: [[Battle of the Qattara box]] (Also known as Battle of the Kaponga box)
*** July 10: First Battle of [[Tel el Eisa]]
*** July 14: Second Battle of Ruweisat Ridge
*** July 14: Second Battle of Tel el Eisa
*** July 22: Third Battle of Ruweisat Ridge
*** July 27: Third Battle of Tel el Eisa
*** July 27: Battle of Miteiriya Ridge
* August 30 – September 2: [[Battle of Alam el Halfa]]<ref name="7th1942" />
* September 2: Battle of Himeimat<ref name="7th1942" />
* [[Second Battle of El Alamein]]<ref>[http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_el_alamein.htm "The Battle of El Alamein"]</ref>
** October 23–28: [[Operation Lightfoot]]
*** October 23–25: Battle of the Oxalic Line
*** October 23: Fourth Battle of Ruweisat Ridge
*** October 24–26: Battle of [[Kidney Ridge]]
*** October 25: Fourth Battle of Tell el Eisa
*** October 25–26: [[Battle of Point 29]]
** October 26–28: The German Counter Attack
*** October 27: [[Battle of Position Snipe]]
*** October 28 - November 1: Battle of Thompson's Post
** November 1–2: [[Second Battle of El Alamein#Phase four: Operation Supercharge|Operation Supercharge]]
*** November 2: Battle of Tell el Aqqaqir
*** November 2–4: Battle of Sidi Abdel Rahman
*** November 2: Battle of Himeimat<ref name="7th1942" />
* [[Operation Torch]]<ref name="africa" />
** November 8–16 [[Naval Battle of Casablanca|Battle of Casablanca]]
** November 8–10: [[Operation Blackstone]]
** November 8–10: [[Operation Brushwood]]
** November 8–10: [[Operation Goalpost]]
** November 8: Battle of Arzew
** November 8: [[Operation Reservist]]
** November 8: [[Battle of Tafarquay Airfield]]
** November 8: Battle of Youk-Les-Bains Airfield
** November 8: [[Operation Torch#Algiers|Battle of Algiers]]
*** November 8: [[Operation Terminal]]
* ''Operation Supercharge'' continued
** November 7: [[Battle of Marsa Matruh]]
** November 9: Battle of [[Sidi Barrani]]
** November 9: Third Battle of [[Halfaya Pass]]
** November 13:Battle of [[Agedabia]]
** November 13: Third [[Battle of Torbuk]]
** November 17 - Nov. 26: Battle of Djebel Abiod
** November 20: Second Battle of Benghazi
** December 12: Second Battle of the Coast Road
** December14–16: Second [[Battle of El Agheila]]<ref name="7th1942"/>
** December 15: Battle of Wadi Zem Zem (or [[Buerat]])<ref name="7th1942" />
** December 25: Battle of Sirte
* [[Tunisia campaign]]
** November 24: First [[Battle of Medjez]]
** November 24: First Battle of Djedeida Airfield]
** November 26: Battle of Djebel Abiod
** November 27: Second Battle of Medjez
** November 28: Second Battle of Djedeida Airfield
** December 1: First Battle of Tebourba
** December 2–3: First Battle of [[Faid Pass]]
** December 16–17: [[Battle of Maknassy]]
** December 22–23: [[Battle of Longstop Hill]]{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}
** December 22–25: Second Battle of Tebourba

==1943==
* Eighth Army Offensive continued
** Jan. 23: [[Battle of Tripoli (1943)|Battle of Tripoli]]<ref name="7th1942" />
* [[Tunisian Campaign]] continued
** January 14: [[Battle of Faïd Pass]]
** February 14–17: [[Battle of Sidi Bou Zid]]
** February 19–24: [[Battle of Kasserine Pass]]
** February 26 - March 4: [[Operation Ochsenkopf]] (Ox Head)
** March 6: [[Operation Capri]]
*** March 6: [[Battle of Medenine]]
** March 16–27: [[Operation Pugilist]]
*** March 16–23: [[Battle of Mareth]]<ref>Playfair, V IV Map 31</ref>
** March 23 – April 7: [[Battle of El Guettar]]
** March 26–28: [[Operation Supercharge II]]
*** March 26: [[Battle of Tebaga Gap]]<ref>Playfair, V IV Map 34</ref>
** April 6: [[Battle of Wadi Akarit]]
** April 22 – May 6: [[Operation Vulcan]]
** [[Battle of Longstop Hill (1943)]]
** May 6–13: [[Operation Strike]]<ref>Playfair, V IV Pg 446</ref>

==Footnotes==
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==References==
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* {{cite book |last=Long |first=Gavin |author-link=Gavin Long |url=http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/chapter.asp?volume=17 |series=[[Official History of Australia in the Second World War]] Series 1 (Army) |title=To Benghazi |volume=I |year=1961 |orig-year=1952 |publisher=[[Australian War Memorial]] |location=Canberra |access-date=2008-03-02 |archive-date=2007-09-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070908054833/http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/chapter.asp?volume=17 |url-status=dead }}
* {{cite book |last=Maughan |first=Barton |url=http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/chapter.asp?volume=19 |series=Official History of Australia in the Second World War Series 1 (Army) |volume=III |title=Tobruk and El Alamein |year=1966 |publisher=Australian War Memorial |location=Canberra |access-date=2008-03-02 |archive-date=2007-09-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070908055035/http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/chapter.asp?volume=19 |url-status=dead }}
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