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    The Action of Agagia (also Agagiya, Aqqaqia or Aqaqia) took place east of Sidi Barrani in Egypt on 26 February 1916, during the Senussi Campaign between...
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    Senussi campaign (category Military history of Libya)
    engagements, culminating in the action of Agagia and the re-capture of the coast in March 1916. In the interior, the band of oases campaign continued until...
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    including the action of Agagia. The British recaptured the territory along the coast by March 1916, with the Western Frontier Force of the Egyptian Expeditionary...
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    regiment and took part in the destruction of a Senussi force at the action of Agagia on 26 February 1916. [citation needed] On 14 March 1916, he led the...
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    reconnaissance discovered a Senussi encampment at Agagia, which was attacked in the action of Agagia on 26 February. The Senussi were defeated and then...
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    victory against German and Ottoman-instigated Senussi forces at the action of Agagia which took place in Egypt on 26 February 1916 during the First World...
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    men.. Action of Agagia – British forces in North Africa fought Senussi militia backed by the Central Powers east of the Egyptian port town of Sidi Barrani...
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    broken up on 20 February, before the WFF's decisive battle at the Action of Agagia, and the regiment returned to Alexandria, the march taking until 6...
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  • Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry (category Yeomanry regiments of the British Army)
    January 1916 and became part of the 6th Mounted Brigade, an independent brigade that was involved in the action of Agagia in February 1916. At this battle...
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    Bir Hakeim rescue (category Battles of the African Theatre (World War I))
    the evacuation of Gallipoli. The British defeated the main Senussi force on the coast at the Action of Agagia on 26 February but parts of the coast to the...
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