- Enrico Tellini
Enrice Tellini (
August 25 ,1871 -August 27 1923 ) was an Italian General whose assassination provoked theCorfu incident of 1923.Biography
Enrice Tellini was born in the province of
Lucca inTuscany . After a childhood in Florence and enlistment in theItalian army he enrolled in classes at a local military college in Florence. In 1901 he was promoted to the rank of major. He participated in theItalo-Turkish War and during theFirst World War took part in thebattle of Caporetto . [L'eccidio Tellini. Da Gianina all'occupazione di Corfù (agosto-settembre 1923) de Giannasi Andrea, Prospettiva Editrice, 2007, ISBN 887418543X ]Assassination
In 1923 Tellini was part of a team of Italians sent by the
League of Nations to survey the disputed border betweenGreece andAlbania . He was shot and killed, along with three companions, when the car he was driving in was stopped by a fallen tree across the road that ran along the disputed border near the town ofYannina . [ [http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/enrico-tellini/ Enrico Tellini - Everything on Enrico Tellini (information, latest news, articles,...) ] at www.spiritus-temporis.com] [See also http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_the_League_of_Nations_fail]Benito Mussollini demanded 50 millionlira in reparations from Greece and the execution of the assassins. OnAugust 23 ,1923 Italian troops occupiedCorfu in theCorfu incident . [THE CORFU INCIDENT OF 1923: MUSSOLINI AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. By James Barros. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton Uni- versity Press, 1965. Pp. xxi+339] [www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9361612]References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.