7 March 1941 A.D. British Expeditionary Forces from North Africa Arrive in Greece
7 March 1941 A.D. British Expeditionary Forces from North Africa Arrive in Greece Editors. “British forces arrive in Greece.” History Channel. N.d. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/british-forces-arrive-in-greece . Accessed 6 Mar 2015. British forces arrive in Greece On this day, a British expeditionary force from North Africa lands in Greece. In October 1940, Mussolini’s army, already occupying Albania, invaded Greece in what proved to be a disastrous military campaign for the Duce’s forces. Mussolini surprised everyone with this move against Greece, but he was not to be upstaged by recent Nazi conquests. According to Hitler, who was stunned by a move that he knew would be a strategic blunder, Mussolini should have concentrated on North Africa by continuing the advance into Egypt. The Italians paid for Mussolini’s hubris, as the Greeks succeeded in pushing the Italian invaders back into Albania after just one week, and the Axis power spent the next thre...