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Bernard Montgomery:
(1887-1976) British military leader who played a prominent role in the Allied victories in Africa and Europe during World War II (1939-1945). In 1942 he was appointed commander of the British Eighth Army in Africa; two months later he began an offensive at Al ‘Alamayn (El ‘Alamein), Egypt, which resulted in the expulsion of the German-Italian forces under the German General Erwin Rommel, first from Egypt and then from Cyrenaica and Tripolitania in Libya.
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