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- noun British field marshal in North Africa in World War II; he defeated the Italians before being defeated by the Germans (1883-1950)
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Examples
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Once back in Cairo, Wingate's report of the Ethiopian Campaign Wavell now having departed was flatly rejected at GHQ and all those he recommended for DSO's denied.
Robert Eisenman: Who Killed Orde Wingate? Robert Eisenman 2011
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Once back in Cairo, Wingate's report of the Ethiopian Campaign Wavell now having departed was flatly rejected at GHQ and all those he recommended for DSO's denied.
Robert Eisenman: Who Killed Orde Wingate? Robert Eisenman 2011
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Wingate was sent in by Wavell, who remembered his earlier effectiveness with irregular forces in Palestine, in November, 1940.
Robert Eisenman: Who Killed Orde Wingate? Robert Eisenman 2011
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It was to be the first British victory in the Second World War and he did it all with irregulars, including kibbutz volunteers he had trained in Palestine and had specially brought down at his request; and it was done, once again, through his old protector Archibald Wavell, whom at this point had become a full General and Commander-in-Chief of all British Forces in the Middle East.
Robert Eisenman: Who Killed Orde Wingate? Robert Eisenman 2011
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Wingate was sent in by Wavell, who remembered his earlier effectiveness with irregular forces in Palestine, in November, 1940.
Robert Eisenman: Who Killed Orde Wingate? Robert Eisenman 2011
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Once back in Cairo, Wingate's report of the Ethiopian Campaign Wavell now having departed was flatly rejected at GHQ and all those he recommended for DSO's denied.
Robert Eisenman: Who Killed Orde Wingate? Robert Eisenman 2011
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The army under the British commander-in-chief in the Far East, Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, was defeated and in disarray.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Field Marshal Wavell, both leaders agreed, was finished.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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It was to be the first British victory in the Second World War and he did it all with irregulars, including kibbutz volunteers he had trained in Palestine and had specially brought down at his request; and it was done, once again, through his old protector Archibald Wavell, whom at this point had become a full General and Commander-in-Chief of all British Forces in the Middle East.
Robert Eisenman: Who Killed Orde Wingate? Robert Eisenman 2011
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It was to be the first British victory in the Second World War and he did it all with irregulars, including kibbutz volunteers he had trained in Palestine and had specially brought down at his request; and it was done, once again, through his old protector Archibald Wavell, whom at this point had become a full General and Commander-in-Chief of all British Forces in the Middle East.
Robert Eisenman: Who Killed Orde Wingate? Robert Eisenman 2011
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