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Meanwhile, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was confident of victory. From his perspective, he had already inflicted heavy losses on the British and believed that the remnants of Cunningham’s forces—particularly the 7th Armored Brigade—had been nearly wiped out, giving the Axis a tactical advantage. Rommel’s intelligence was that British tank units like the 7th Armoured Brigade and the South Africans had been decisively defeated over the previous days.