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  2. Operation Musketeer (1956) - Wikipedia

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    Operation Musketeer (1956) 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 ...

  3. Suez Crisis - Wikipedia

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    Suez Crisis. 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 ...

  4. 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 operation with the help of Israel to invade the ...

  5. Timeline of the Suez Crisis - Wikipedia

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    Admiral Lord Mountbatten's Efforts to Distance Himself From the 1956 Suez Crisis." Contemporary British History 26.4 (2012): 489-508 online; Adrian Smith, "Resignation of a First Sea Lord: Mountbatten and the 1956 Suez Crisis."

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

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    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 the canal zone. The emergency special session was convened due to the failure of the Security Council to resolve the ...

  7. United Nations Emergency Force - Wikipedia

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    United Nations Emergency Force. The United Nations Emergency Force ( UNEF) was a military and peacekeeping operation established by the United Nations General Assembly to secure an end to the Suez Crisis of 1956 through the establishment of international peacekeepers on the border between Egypt and Israel. Approved by resolution 1001 (ES-I) of ...

  8. Footnotes in Gaza - Wikipedia

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    0-8050-7347-7. Footnotes in Gaza is a journalistic graphic narrative by Joe Sacco about bloody incidents between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza during the Suez Crisis. It was published in 2009 by Henry Holt and Company in the U.S. and Jonathan Cape in the UK. The book describes the author's quest to get to the bottom of what happened in Khan ...

  9. United Nations Security Council Resolution 118 - Wikipedia

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    119 →. United Nations Security Council Resolution 118, adopted unanimously on October 13, 1956, after noting the declarations made before it and the accounts of the development of the exploratory conversations on the Suez question given by the Secretary-General and the Foreign Ministers of Egypt, France and the United Kingdom, the Council ...

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