Kai

There were several engagements with the Italians in the Mediterranean and the poor Italians usually came off the worse. The Light Cruiser Bartelomeo Colleoni was sunk in a classic cruiser engagement with HMAS Sydney. Cape Matapan is a very famous battle where Admiral Iachino got a bit muddled and lost 3 Cruisers as a result. However earlier than this the Italians had slipped out of a British trap set for them off Calabria.

After Taranto, despite recovering some ships, operations were hampered by timidity (you would be timid if you had been put through the mincer by the RN) and lack of fuel stocks for the heavy units.

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"Capital! We're nearly out of ammunition! Now we can get at them with the bayonet!" General Paddy Gough, 1st Sikh War