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  2. Suez Crisis - Wikipedia

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    The Suez Crisis [a] or the Second Arab–Israeli War, [8] [9] [10] also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression [b] in the Arab world [11] and as the Sinai War [c] in Israel, [d] was a British–French–Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956. Israel invaded on 29 October, having done so with the primary objective of re-opening the Straits of Tiran ...

  3. Operation Musketeer (1956) - Wikipedia

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    Operation Musketeer ( French: Opération Mousquetaire) was the Anglo-French plan [1] for the invasion of the Suez canal zone to capture the Suez Canal during the Suez Crisis in 1956. The operation had initially been given the codename Operation Hamilcar, but this name was quickly dropped when it was found that the British were painting an air ...

  4. Timeline of the Suez Crisis - Wikipedia

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    By 6 September 1956, Dayan's chief of operations General Meir Amit, was meeting with Admiral Pierre Barjot to discuss joint Franco-Israeli operations. On 25 September 1956 Peres reported to Ben-Gurion that France wanted Israel as an ally against Egypt, and that the only problem was Britain, which was opposed to Israel taking action against Nasser.

  5. Closure of the Suez Canal (1956–1957) - Wikipedia

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    The closure of the Suez Canal from November 1956 to April 1957 was caused by the Second Arab–Israeli war also known as the Suez Crisis in 1956. On 26 July 1956 Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal from British and French investors who owned the Suez Canal Company, causing Britain and France to devise a military ...

  6. First emergency special session of the United Nations General ...

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    Tribute to Lester Bowles Pearson, who won the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for his contributions to defuse the Suez crisis. The first emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly was convened on 1 November and ended on 10 November 1956 resolving the Suez Crisis by creating the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) to provide an international presence between the belligerents in ...

  7. Protocol of Sèvres - Wikipedia

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    Suez 1956: The First Oil War. Hodder (2007). External links. Papers of the Suez Oral History Project; Secrets and lies at the heart of Britain's Middle Eastern folly - One of the Guardian's special reports on the Suez Crisis. Avi Shlaim, The Protocol of Sèvres,1956: Anatomy of a War Plot Published in International Affairs, 73:3 (1997), 509-530

  8. Battle of Port Said - Wikipedia

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    Until 1956, the Suez Canal was controlled by the Suez Canal Company, owned by France with Egyptian participation. Tensions first arose when Britain and the United States made a decision to not finance the Egyptian construction of the Aswan High Dam in response to Egypt’s growing relations with the communist state of Czechoslovakia and the ...

  9. Operation Telescope - Wikipedia

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    3 SU-100s Captured. Operation Telescope was a Franco-British operation conducted from 5 to 6 November 1956 during the Suez Crisis, consisting of a series of parachute drops launched by the British Parachute Brigade, in combination with French paratroop forces, 24 hours before the seaborne landing on Port Said during Operation Musketeer.

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