1. El Alamein - Noun
2. El Alamein - Proper noun
a pitched battle in World War II (1942) resulting in a decisive Allied victory by British troops under Montgomery over German troops under Rommel
a village to the west of Alexandria on the northern coast of Egypt; the scene of a decisive Allied victory over the Germans in 1942
Source: WordNetThe Mammoth we attacked was not Rommel's after all. [...] Rommel himself, we'll learn later, was not in that camp and never had been. At the time of our raid, he was with the 15th Panzer Division, somewhere west of Kidney Ridge, in the thick of the fighting at El Alamein. Steven Pressfield
9th Armoured Brigade had started its approach march at 20:00 on 1 November from El Alamein railway station with around 130 tanks; it arrived at its start line with only 94 tanks fit for action. Source: Internet
After Rommel was defeated at El Alamein in 1942, the British stepped back from their all-out support for Haganah. Source: Internet
Clifford (1943), p. 317 Huge quantities of engineer stores had been collected to repair transport infrastructure and the railway line from El Alamein to Fort Capuzzo, despite having been blown up in over 200 places, was quickly repaired. Source: Internet
At best, the recent agreement constitutes what Winston Churchill – after Britain’s victory in the Battle of El Alamein – as "not the end…not even the beginning of the end, but…perhaps, the end of the beginning." Source: Internet
Barnett, p. 265 Montgomery reinforced the convert long front line at El Alamein, something that would take two months to accomplish. Source: Internet