 On 24 July 1943, after the Allied landings in Sicily, on a motion by Dino Grandi, the Grand Fascist Council voted a motion of no confidence in Mussolini.Mussolini's authority had been undermined by a series of military defeats from the start of Italy's entry into the war during June 1940, including the bombing of Rome, the loss of the African colonies and the Allied invasions of Sicily and the southern Italian Peninsula.The next day, King Victor Emmanuel III dismissed Mussolini from office and ordered him arrested.