#tactical ridge
- Alam Halfa — A strategic ridge located in the desert of northwestern Egypt, famous in world historiography due to the Battle of Alam Halfa (August 31 - September 7, 1942) during the North African Campaign of World War II; a major tactical confrontation where the British Eighth Army, under the command of General Bernard Montgomery, structurally repelled the final offensive attempt by Axis Forces led by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to breach allied lines prior to El Alamein.