Mount Scalpello (Italian: Monte Scalpello) is a 583 metres (1,913 ft) hill in central eastern Sicily, Italy.[1] The hill is mostly known for Triassic[1] and Neolithic remains being found in 1997[2] and there it is mostly linked with Canadian campaign of WW2 in Italy[3] where a mule path south of the hill was the location of multiple CYR advances[4] during night operations.[5][6] After which two companies held the hill against constant German mortar and artillery.[7][3]
| Mount Scalpello | |
|---|---|
  Mount Scalpello  Mount Scalpello  Mount Scalpello | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 583 m (1,913 ft) |
| Prominence | 787 ft (240 m) |
| Coordinates | 37°32′53″N 14°39′8″E / 37.54806°N 14.65222°E |
| Naming | |
| Language of name | Italian |
| Geography | |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Sicily |
References
edit- ^ a b Crasquin, Sylvie; Sciuto, Francesco; Reitano, Agatino (2018-04-01). "Late Carnian (Tuvalian, Tropites dilleri zone) ostracods (Crustacea) from the Mufara Formation (Monte Scalpello, Central-Eastern Sicily, Italy)" (PDF). Annales de Paléontologie. 104 (2): 129–142. Bibcode:2018AnPal.104..129C. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2018.03.001. ISSN 0753-3969. S2CID 133846307.
- ^ "Monte Scalpello - Sqallija fuq in-Net". Sicilia in Rete (in Maltese). Retrieved 2022-11-22.
- ^ a b Stieva, Katelyn (2016). MAKING IT UP AS YOU GO: RACIAL POLICY IN THE CANADIAN MILITARY DURING THE TWO WORLD WARS (Thesis). University of New Brunswick. p. 47.
- ^ Tooley, Robert William (1990). Invicta : the Carleton and York regiment in the Second World War. National Library of Canada. ISBN 0-315-51850-2. OCLC 23651029.
- ^ Staff, Canada Department of National Defence General (1966). Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War: The Canadians in Italy, 1943-1945, by G. W. L. Nicholson. R. Duhamel, Queen's Printer.
- ^ Staff, Canada Department of National Defence General; Stacey, Charles Perry (1956). Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War ...: The Canadians in Italy, 1943-1945, by G.W.L. Nicholson. Cloutier.
- ^ Scot Daniell, David; Atkinson, Cristopher Thomas (1950). The Royal Hampshire Regiment. Regiment, 1950. p. 133.