From 1940 to 1943, the Italian Royal Navy ( Regia Marina Italiana ) established BETASOM, a submarine base at Bordeaux.

However some cavalry still served during the Second World War, notably in the Red Army, Italian Royal Army and the Polish Army.

During the Great War, the Italian Royal Army increased in size from 15, 000 men in 1914 to 160, 000 men in 1918, with 5 million recruits in total entering service during the war.

The most influential of Severn's early Italian genre paintings are The Vintage, commissioned by the Duke of Bedford in 1825, and The Fountain ( Royal Palace, Brussels ) commissioned by Leopold I of Belgium in 1826.

* 1940 – World War II: Battle of Cape Spada – The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash ; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.

Andriessen originally studied with his father and Kees van Baaren at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, before embarking upon two years of study with Italian composer Luciano Berio in Milan and Berlin.

* 1941 – World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.

* 1940 – World War II: Battle of Taranto – The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.

The Italian explorer Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi and Captain Umberto Cagni of the Italian Royal Navy ( Regia Marina ) sailed the converted whaler Stella Polare (" Pole Star ") from Norway in 1899.

During World War I, Roncalli was drafted into the Royal Italian Army as a sergeant, serving in the medical corps as a stretcher-bearer and as a chaplain.

Category: Royal Italian Army chaplains

* Regia Nave ( Italian, meaning " Royal Ship "), a ship belonging to the Regia Marina

There were also Somali artillery and zaptié ( carabinieri ) units forming part of the Italian Royal Corps of Colonial Troops from 1889 to 1941.

* 1943 – World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy begins on the same day that U. S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the Royal Navy battleship off Malta.

During World War II, he served as a signaller in the 56th Heavy Regiment Royal Artillery, D Battery, as Gunner Milligan, 954024 with the First Army in the North African campaign and then in the succeeding Italian campaign.

For example the Royal Norwegian Navy Sleipner-class destroyers were in fact of a torpedo boat size, while the Italian Spica-class torpedo boat were closer in size to a destroyer escort.

The Royal Navy's Motor Torpedo Boats ( MTBs ), Kriegsmarine ' S-Boote ' ( Schnellboot or " fast-boat ": British termed them E-boats ), ( Italian ) M. A. S.

** WWII: The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian battleship fleet anchored at Taranto naval base.

* April 16 – Alcina, George Frideric Handel's Italian opera, premieres at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.

The Italian translation was first performed on 4 June 1867, not in Italy but in London at the Royal Italian Opera House, Covent Garden ( now the Royal Opera House ), where it was produced and conducted by Michael Costa – not as Verdi desired, but in a cut and altered form.

* Bands ( Italian Army irregulars ), military units once in the service of the Italian Regio Esercito

An Italian Army eventually took Istria, started to annex the Adriatic islands one by one, and even landed in Zadar.

* Pietro Badoglio, General, Italian Army

* 1909 – Amedeo Guillet, former officer of the Italian Army ( d. 2010 )

In 1917, he joined an artillery regiment in the Austro-Hungarian Army and fought on the Italian front.

The Eighth Army now enjoyed a massive superiority in material over the Axis forces: 1st Armoured Division had 173 tanks and more in reserve or transit, while Rommel possessed only 38 German tanks and 51 Italian tanks although his armoured units had some 100 tanks awaiting repair.

Arimondi left there a small garrison of approximately 1, 150 askaris and 200 Italians, commanded by Major Giuseppe Galliano, and took the bulk of his troops to Adigrat, where Oreste Baratieri, the Italian commander, was concentrating the Italian Army.

As a consequence during WWII there was a strong support for Italy between many Muslim Libyans, who enrolled in the Italian Army

After the surrender of the Italian Army in September 1943, Albania was occupied by the Germans and soon exploded into a ferocious guerilla war.

During the war, the NLM's communist-dominated partisans, in the form of the National Liberation Army, did not heed warnings from the Italian occupiers that there would be reprisals for guerrilla attacks.

Alexander remained in command of 15th Army Group, as well as its successor, the Allied Armies in Italy, for most of the Italian Campaign, until December 1944, when he relinquished his command to Clark and took over as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces Headquarters, responsible for all military operations in the Mediterranean Theatre.

The Italian Armed Forces encompass the Italian Army, the Italian Navy, the Italian Air Force and the Carabinieri.

The Italian Army ( Esercito Italiano ) is the ground defense force of the Italian Republic.

Italy did take part in the 1990 – 91 Gulf War but solely through the deployment of eight Italian Air Force Panavia Tornado IDS bomber jets to Saudi Arabia ; Italian Army troops were subsequently deployed to assist Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq following the conflict.

National Alliance, launched in 1994, was officially founded in January 1995, when the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ), the former neo-fascist party, merged with conservative elements of the former Christian Democracy, which had disbanded in 1994 after two years of scandals and various splits due to corruption at its highest levels, exposed by the Mani Pulite investigation, and the Italian Liberal Party, disbanded in the same year.

The Italian possession of maritime areas previously claimed by Abyssinia / Ethiopia was formalized in 1889 with the signing of the Treaty of Wuchale with Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia ( r. 1889 – 1913 ) after the defeat of Italy by Ethiopia at the battle of Adua where Italy launched an effort to expand its possessions from Eritrea into the more fertile Abyssinian hinterland.

* 1936 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.

In Italy, FNC was launched on the now-defunct Italian digital satellite-television platform Stream TV in 2001.

Panzer and Italian Trieste Divisions launched counter-attacks against the Australian positions, the counter-attacks failing in the face of overwhelming Allied artillery and the Australian anti-tank guns.

As soon as the news broke in the morning of 1 September 1939 that Germany had invaded Poland, the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini launched another desperate peace mediation plan intended to stop the German-Polish war from becoming a world war.

On 6 April 1941, German, Italian and Hungarian forces launched an invasion of Yugoslavia.

Despite the political campaigns launched in order to put Sardinian on an equal footing with Italian, and any emotive value linked to Sardinian identity, the sociolinguistic situation in Sardinia due to several reasons, mainly political and socioeconomic ( the gradual depopulation of the island's interior and rural exodus towards more urbanized and industrialized areas, the forced use of Italian presented as a prerequisite to get jobs and as one of the keys to social advancement, the barriers to communication between the dialectal varieties etc.

Publication was suspended in 1905, and another 63 years would pass before another foreign-language edition appeared: In 1968, an Italian edition, Le Scienze, was launched, and a Japanese edition, Nikkei Science ( 日経サイエンス ), followed three years later.

* 1806-Claude Ruggieri a black Italian living in France launched animals on rockets, and recovered them using parachutes.

On February 19, 2009, Condé Nast Italia launched the Italian edition of Wired and Wired. it.

On 30 March 1815, Joachim Murat launched his proclamation to the Italian people from Rimini, inciting them to unity and independence.

Kourou's economy is largely dominated by the CSG, from which the European Ariane rockets are launched, as well as the Russian Soyuz and the Italian Vega rockets.

The original Eau de Cologne is a spirit-citrus perfume launched in Cologne in 1709 by Giovanni Maria Farina ( 1685 – 1766 ), an Italian perfume maker from Santa Maria Maggiore Valle Vigezzo, Italy.

Treni Regionali Ticino Lombardia ( TiLo ), a joint venture between the Italian Ferrovie dello Stato and the Swiss Federal Railways launched in 2004, manages the traffic between the regional railways of Lombardy and the Ticino rapid transit network via a S-Bahn system.

When the product was launched in 1988, its original name was Quattro ( the Italian word for " four ", a play on being one step ahead of " 1-2-3 ").

At the start of the 2008 – 09 season, during the press conference to present the new season's kit, the new official website was also presented, and an absolute novelty in the Italian championship, the first Web TV channel dedicated to a football club called Udinese Channel was launched, totally free and visible worldwide.

In the nineteenth-century, the Regia Marina ( Italian Navy ) launched an ironclad battleship named Enrico Dandolo.

Between 1927 and 1930, the organization launched numerous attacks on individual members or supporters of the National Fascist Party ( both Italian and Slovene ), and also killed several members of repressive forces: carabinieri, border guards, military personnel.

In 1946 Piaggio launched the legendary Vespa scooter ( Italian for " wasp ") and within ten years over a million units had been produced.

* was a Grampus class submarine launched in 1936 and sunk by Italian torpedo boats in 1940.

In 1922, Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini launched his infamous " Riconquista " of Libya — the Roman Empire having done the original conquering 2000 years before.