Battle of Beirut

Significance

The Battle of Beirut on 24 February 1912 was a naval engagement fought during the Italo-Turkish War, one of several actions in which Italian forces sought to extend pressure on Ottoman positions beyond the primary Libyan theater. The battle was commanded on the Italian side by Paolo Thaon di Revel. Beyond its identification as a naval engagement in that conflict, the available record does not detail its outcome or its specific effect on the course of the war.

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