Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Paakasvika muCairo, Dempsey akawana HQ yake yeCorps iri mune yekuchengetedza nekuti mitsara mirefu yekutaurirana kune Eighth Army's spearhead yaigona kungotsigira mauto maviri (Horrock's X Corps uye Lieutenant-General Oliver Leese's XXX Corps). Naizvozvo akashandiswa mukuronga kupinda kweAllied muSicily
. Urongwa hwose hwakagadzirwa neAlgiers inozivikanwa seForce 141, pasi paMajor-General Charles Gairdner. Dempsey akambotora chinzvimbo chemukuru wemauto eForce 545, vashandi vaive nebasa rekuronga chikamu cheBritish Eighth Army mukuvhiya, kudzamara Major General Francis de Guingand, mukuru wemauto eEighth Army, aponeswa kuti atore. Dempsey haana kufarira gadziriro yacho, iyo yaibatanidza kumhara kwakaparadzana, kwakapararira. Akaendesa zvaaipikisa kuna Montgomery musi wa13 March 1943, ndokuzoenda kuna Gairdner mazuva mashanu gare gare. De Guingand akatora basa musi wa 17 Kubvumbi, zvichiita kuti Dempsey adzokere kutungamira XIII Corps. Akakurukura zano racho naDempsey, uye akagadzirira mashoko okuonga nokuda kwaMontgomery. Montgomery akatumira telegraph nezvezvaaipikisa kuna General Harold Alexander, mutungamiri we15th Army Group, musi wa 24 Kubvumbi. Mushure mokukurukurirana, Mutungamiriri Mukuru weAllied, General Dwight D. Eisenhower akagamuchira chirongwa chakadzokororwa chaMontgomery musi wa 3 May.