biography
pronunciation:
[bahdolyoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1871–1956)
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| biography:
| Italian soldier and prime minister (1943–4), born in Grazzano Monferrato (now Grazzano Badoglio), N Italy. He served in World War 1, and was promoted field marshal in 1926. He was Governor-General of Libya (1928–33) and directed the conquest of Abyssinia, now Ethiopia (1935–6). On Italy's entry into World War 2 in 1940 he was made commander-in-chief, but resigned during the Greek humiliation of Italian arms in Albania. Following Mussolini's downfall (1943) he formed a non-Fascist government, negotiated an armistice with the Allies, declared war on Germany, and held power till 1944. |
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