
Lion of the Desert
In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar.














15 April 1933, Rome, Lazio, Italy

October 12, 1950 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy

29 July 1883, Predappio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy



13 February 1938, Wimbledon, London, England, UK

January 5, 1931 in Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

14 April 1904, South Kensington, London, England, UK

October 17, 1946 in Rome, Lazio, Italy

18 November 1937

5 April 1940, Rome, Lazio, Italy

July 27, 1913 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy


March 5, 1924 in Rhodes, Italy [now Rhodes, Dodecanese, South Aegean, Greece]


3 April 1926, Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

July 19, 1925 in Rome, Lazio, Italy


March 12, 1918 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy



November 26, 1921 in Budapest, Hungary


1925, Brindisi, Puglia, Italy

24 July 1916, Chorlton, Manchester, England, UK

4 March 1955


21 April 1915, Chihuahua, Mexico

3 September 1926, Chilimodion, Corynth, Greece

8 June 1929, San Giovanni Lupatoto, Veneto, Italy