By the first days of January, Emperor Menelik, accompanied by his Queen Taytu Betul, had led large forces into Tigray, and besieged the Italians for 15 days ( 6 – 21 January 1896 ), trying in vain to storm the fort on several occasions, until the Italians surrendered with permission from the Italian Headquarters.

However only 250, 000 refugees were ethnic Italians ( 76 % of which born in the territories surrendered ), the others being ethnic Slovenians, ethnic Croatians and ethnic Istro-Romanians.

There they surrendered to the Italian forces ( Santoña Agreement ), but the Italians yielded to Franco.

The Italians were unable to break through the defensive positions established by Combe Force and surrendered en masse as the 6th Australian Division closed in on them from their rear.

Men of the King's African Rifles collecting surrendered arms at Wolchefit Pass, after the last Italians had ceased resistance in Ethiopia

" So many Italians were captured by the Western Desert Force that Anthony Eden said, " Never has so much been surrendered by so many, to so few.

When the first of the British Commandos landed the Italians surrendered.

Some Italians took refuge in the mountains of Albania, while about 15, 000 Italian soldiers surrendered to Albanian partisans.

After the battle of Custoza the Austrians temporarily retook control of the town, but despite their victory and a naval defeat of the Italians at Lissa, the Austrians surrendered to the Prussians a month later and were forced to cede Venetia after the Treaty of Vienna.

After a hard and narrowly won battle on 6 February, the Italians surrendered 25, 000 men, 200 artillery guns, 100 tanks and 1, 500 vehicles.

The Italians occupied Mek ' ele from the beginning of the First Italo-Abyssinian War ( late 1895 ) until they surrendered their half-completed fort built on the graveyard of the church of Inda Iyesus in January 1896 following the conclusion of the Siege of Mek ' ele.

On 20 April the Greek army of Epirus surrendered to the Germans, and on 23 April 1941 the armistice was repeated including the Italians, effectively ending the Greco-Italian war.

For convenience we chose a stronger pigment, unknown to the early Italians or to Brumidi, titanium oxide, reserving the active lime white for highest lights, put on at the end of the day's stint.

The Ethiopian forces positioned themselves on the hills overlooking the Adwa valley, in perfect position to receive the Italians, who were exposed and vulnerable to crossfire.

Almost forty years later, on 3 October 1935, after the League of Nations's weak response to the Abyssinia Crisis, the Italians launched a new military campaign endorsed by Benito Mussolini, the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

But while Eisenhower argued with Roosevelt and Churchill, who both insisted on unconditional terms of surrender in exchange for helping the Italians, the Germans pursued an aggressive buildup of forces in the country – making the job more difficult, by adding 19 divisions and initially outnumbering the Allied forces 2 to 1, Nevertheless, the invasion of Italy was highly successful.

For their part, the Italians developed several monoplanes such as the Fiat G. 50, but being short on funds, were forced to continue operating obsolete Fiat CR. 42 biplanes.

LaGuardia's win was based on a complex coalition of regular Republicans ( mostly middle class Germans in the boroughs outside Manhattan ), a minority of reform-minded Democrats, some Socialists, a large proportion of middle-class Jews, and the great majority of Italians.

Barely a month later, on May 2, he signed a treaty of amity with the Italians, which apparently gave them control over Eritrea, the Red Sea coast to the northeast of Ethiopia, in return for recognition of Menelik's rule.

In 1893, judging that his power over Ethiopia was secure, Menelik repudiated the treaty ; in response the Italians ramped up the pressure on his domain in a variety of ways, including the annexation of small territories bordering their original claim under the Treaty of Wuchale, and finally culminating with a military campaign across the Mareb River into Tigray ( on the border with Eritrea ) in December 1894.

The next clash came at Amba Alagi on 7 December 1895, when Ethiopian soldiers overran the Italian positions dug in on that natural fortress, and forced the Italians to retreat back to Eritrea.

But any critical feeling on the part of the public was drowned by appreciation of such melodies as " Di tanti palpiti ... Mi rivedrai, ti rivedrò ", which became so popular that the Italians would sing it in crowds at the law courts until called upon by the judge to desist.

The Albanian army, though always less than 15, 000-strong, sapped the country's funds, and the Italians ' monopoly on training the armed forces rankled public opinion.

Rousseau as noted above, was an enthusiastic supporter of the Italians against Jean-Philippe Rameau and others, making an important contribution with his Letter on French Music.

Ribbentrop expressed his firmly-held belief that neither Britain nor France would go to war for Poland, but if that should occur, he fully expected the Italians to honour the terms of the Pact of Steel ( which was both an offensive and defensive treaty ), and declare war not only on Poland, but on the Western powers if necessary.

Despite Ciano's efforts to persuade Ribbentrop to put off the attack on Poland until 1942, so as to allow the Italians time to get ready for war, Ribbentrop was adamant that Germany had no interest in a diplomatic solution of the Danzig question and only wanted a war to wipe Poland off the map.

In October 1935, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt invoked the recently passed Neutrality Acts and placed an embargo on arms and munitions to both sides, but extended a further " moral embargo " to the belligerent Italians, including other trade items.

For centuries, from 1378 on, those elected to the papacy were predominantly Italians.

The Italians are usually represented by a ship on the horizon flying the Italian flag ; an actual Italian was seen for the first time in a comic posted in late February 2008.

Nevertheless, on 7 June 1304, Benedict excommunicated Philip IV's implacable minister Guillaume de Nogaret and all the Italians who had played a part in the seizure of Boniface VIII at Anagni.

Before the Italians could concentrate on the Majeerteen, they were diverted by new setbacks.

On 15 November the Italians retreated to Bud Bud and on the way they were ambushed and suffered heavy casualties.

However, their advance was reversed when on 17 June France sought an armistice and the Italians where able to move their forces from the Tunisian border in the West and reinforce with 4 divisions those that opposed Wilson in the East.

The Italians referred to weapons gained either through capture or reparations as the Obice da 100 / 17 modello 16.

* November 12: A suicide truck bomb blows up the Italian headquarters in Nasiriyah, killing 19 Italians ( 17 of them soldiers ) and 14 Iraqis.

They reasserted that the only official evidence about the Dalmatian population comes from the 1857 Austro-Hungarian census, which showed that in this year there were 369, 310 indigenous Croatians and 45, 000 Italians in Dalmatia, making Dalmatian Italians 17 % of the total population of Dalmatia in the mid-19th century.

Behind him, there were three Italians flying Romeo Ro-5 biplanes ( 17. 25 pts ), then the rest.

His most glorious day remains March 17, 1912 in Turin, where, against Italy, after having arrived at 5 A. M., he scored a hat trick, and the French team defeated the Italians for the first time in their history, 4-3.

The Austro-Hungarians lost 17 men in the battle and the Italians 10.

Manstein sent the 6th Panzer Division to the Italians ' aid: of the 130, 000 encircled troops, only 45, 000 survived after bloody fighting to join the Panzers at Chertkovo on 17 January.

This time the Italians employed vastly superior military technology such as tanks and aircraft, as well as chemical warfare, the Ethiopian forces were soundly defeated by May 1936.

The following spring, the Luftwaffe helped its Axis partner, Italy secure victory in the Balkans Campaign and continued to support the Italians in the Mediterranean, Middle East and African theatres until May 1945.

On May 5, 1941, five years after the Italians had captured his capital, Emperor Haile Selassie entered Addis Ababa in triumph.

The Ottoman rule ended on May 12, 1912, when the Italians conquered the island, together with the whole Dodecanese, during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12.

On May 18, the Italians found themselves blocked from the north and south.

* May 31 – Since May 1, the Germans and Italians have lost 40 aircraft over Malta in exchange for 25 British planes lost in combat.

On 9 May the Italians announced 37 Axis losses.

On 22 May 1936, when General Rodolfo Graziani was made Viceroy of Ethiopia, the Italians may have possibly chosen the man least likely to pacify the country.

On 18 May, a small part of Gideon Force led by the explorer Wilfred Thesiger blocked a force of 2, 500 retreating Italians.

This was five years after being forced to flee when the Italians captured his capital on 5 May 1936 during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

The Italians responded by despatching their Ariete and Trento Divisions to North Africa, and beginning in February 1941 and continuing until early May, Operation Sonnenblume saw the German Afrika Korps arrive in Tripoli to reinforce their Italian allies.

* 23 May 2007 – AC Milan beat Liverpool 2 – 1 in the European Cup final in Athens, two years after Liverpool had beaten the Italians on penalties after a 3 – 3 draw in the Istanbul final.

However, in spite of his inferiority in troop numbers, Wavell was able to not only defend against the Italian attacks but by May 1941, he was able to defeat the Italians and occupy their east African colonies of Eritrea, Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland.

Eventually, the Italians landed a force of their own near Sitia on 28 May, when the Allied withdrawal was already ongoing.

In the fourth week of May, the Italians divided their forces into two armies: the 11 division strong Army of the Mincio led by Generals Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora and accompanied by King King Vittorio Emanuele II, and the 5 division strong Army of the Po, led by Enrico Cialdini.

Furthermore, as early as May 1992, public opinion unconditionally supported the magistrates against a political system that the majority of Italians already distrusted.

*" Signor Corte's Farewell ; His Story of the Lynching of the Italians "; The New York Times, May 24, 1891

On 1 May 1941 the Germans and Italians attacked Tobruk in considerable strength.

* 20 May: Victorious battle against Italians and Cham Albanians at Agia Kyriaki village.

Bonga was occupied 13 December 1936 by the Italians under General Malta, who died there the next year on 30 May.

In May 1816, 20 Spanish officers, Italians and English crew left Liverpool traveling first to the United States.

The Italians arrived in Debre Marqos 20 May 1936.