26 happened June 1912: Navy Support to the Army

26/06/14

In Tripolitania, during the Italo-Turkish war of the 1911-1912, departments of the Army supported by the sea by the cruisers Iride, Carlo Alberto and by the torpedo boat offshore Ardea, proceed to the occupation of Sidi-Said, a place inside where the enemy had concentrated cavalry and artillery to protect the caravan route with the Tunisian border.

The operation will be successfully completed thanks to the constant presence of naval units that cooperated with the Army in a "spontaneous and intelligent" way, as General Garioni wrote in his eulogy to the Navy.

The fall of Sidi-Said into Italian hands completes the occupation of an important position on the Zuara and Zelten roads, from which effective control can be exercised over a stretch of approximately 40 km of coastline to the east of the border with Tunisia.

Source: Military Navy