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Bookmark or Share- Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce - TheCollectorBorn in 1883 at Predappio, Benito Mussolini became the Duce of the Italian Fascist regime. In April 1945, as the Allies were advancing into Lombardy, a group of Italian partisans stopped a small convoy of German soldiers near Dongo, a village on the northwestern shore of Lake Como.
- Duce - WikipediaDuce (/ ˈ d uː tʃ eɪ / DOO-chay, Italian:) is an Italian title, derived from the Latin word dux, 'leader', and a cognate of duke. National Fascist Party leader Benito Mussolini was identified by Fascists as Il Duce ('The Leader') of the movement since the birth of the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento in 1919.
- BBC - History - Historic Figures: Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)Mussolini gradually dismantled the institutions of democratic government and in 1925 made himself dictator, taking the title 'Il Duce'. He set about attempting to re-establish Italy as a great...
- Death of Benito Mussolini - WikipediaBenito Mussolini, the deposed Italian fascist dictator, was summarily executed by an Italian partisan in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy on 28 April 1945, in the final days of World War II in Europe. The generally accepted version of events is that Mussolini was shot by Walter Audisio, a communist partisan.
- Benito Mussolini | Biography, Definition, Facts, Rise, & Death - BritannicaBy 1925 Mussolini had dismantled Italy’s democratic institutions and assumed his role as dictator, adopting the title Il Duce (“The Leader”). What were Benito Mussolini’s political beliefs? Benito Mussolini was Europe’s first 20th-century dictator. But Mussolini’s political orientation didn’t always lean that way.
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