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Aosta, Duke Amadeo

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Aosta, Duke Amadeo (1898–1942)

Italian general, cousin of King Emmanuel of Italy. During World War II, he was a general of the Italian Air Force and Viceroy of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia).

He led an Italian army in an invasion of British Somaliland August 1940, but a British counterattack drove him back into Ethiopia where he took up a position at Amba Alagi and was forced to surrender. He was taken prisoner and sent to a camp in Kenya where he died 1942.



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