Of all these early engagements, it would be the Greco-Italian War that would prove to be the most disastrous. Mussolini sent over 140,000 troops across the mountainous border of western Greece where they faced incredible resistance from the Greek military as well as the terrain itself. The Greeks fought so heroically and ferociously that they stopped the Italians right in their tracks, before pushing them all the way back to Italian-occupied Albania.
