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The Battle of Madagascar (5 May – 6 November 1942) was an Allied campaign to capture the Vichy French-controlled island Madagascar during World War II.The seizure of the island by the British was to deny Madagascar's ports to the Imperial Japanese Navy and to prevent the loss or impairment of the Allied shipping routes to India, Australia and Southeast Asia.
Madagascar, then officially known as French Madagascar, was a French colony at the outbreak of the Second World War, having been under French administration since 1885. It played an important role in the war due to the presence of critically important harbors, the contribution of Malagasy troops, and was also the scene of fighting between ...
De Bono's invasion of Ethiopia (Italian military operation to annex Ethiopian Empire) [4] Map of the Italian operations during the conquest of Ethiopia. Italian conquest of Absinia after the Second Italo-Ethiopian War in 1936; Axis operations and territorial ambitions during Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) Italian military intervention in Spain
Map of Madagascar and surroundings, circa 1702–1707 Map of Madagascar and the western portion of the East Indies, ... Morocco, and Syria during World War II.
Madagascar is the fourth-largest island in the world. [2] The highest point is Maromokotro, in the Tsaratanana Massif region in the north of the island, at 2,876 metres (9,436 ft). The Republic of Madagascar is the second-largest island country in the world. [2] Its capital Antananarivo is in the Central Highlands near the centre of the island.
The Colony of Madagascar and Dependencies (French: Colonie de Madagascar et dépendances) was a French colony off the coast of Southeast Africa between 1897 and 1958 in what is now Madagascar. The colony was formerly a protectorate of France known as Malagasy Protectorate .
Teniky [a] is a geological and archaeological site located in the Isalo Massif, a mountainous formation in Madagascar's southwestern Ihorombe region. It is situated in relative isolation and seclusion, over 200 kilometers (120 miles) from the nearest coast.
World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war .