"On a battlefield where Italian troops won little honour", Gavin Long later wrote, "the last to give in belonged to a garrison whose resolute fight would have done credit to any army."
"På en slagmark, hvor italienske tropper ikke vandt megen hæder", skrev Gavin Long senere, "tilhørte de sidste som overgav sig en garnison, hvis resolutte kamp kunne have givet hæder til enhver hær."