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2. 1963 Aden airport attack - Wikipedia

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   The 1963 Aden airport attack was an incident which saw the beginning of the Aden Emergency. Arab nationalists of the NLF made a grenade attack against the British High Commissioner, Sir Kennedy Trevaskis, killing one person and injuring 50. [1] George Henderson, the assistant high commissioner, saved Sir Kennedy's life by pushing him out of the ...

3. Federation of South Arabia - Wikipedia

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   On January 18, 1963, the Royal Colony of Aden joined it. After the annexation of the Upper Aulaki Sultanate in June 1964, the federation included 17 states. On July 23, 1962, negotiations began in London between the British Minister of Colonies, Duncan Sandys, and the ministers of the Federation of South Arabia and the Colony of Aden. The ...

4. Aden Emergency - Wikipedia

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   The Aden Emergency, also known as the 14 October Revolution (Arabic: ثورة 14 أكتوبر, romanized: Thawrat 14 ʾUktūbar, lit. '14th October Revolution') or as the Radfan Uprising, was an armed rebellion by the National Liberation Front (NLF) and the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY) against the Federation of South Arabia, a British Protectorate of the United ...

5. Federation of the Emirates of South Arabia - Wikipedia

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   Map of the Federation of South Arabia, formerly known as the Federation of the Emirates of the South. The Federation of the Emirates of South Arabia (Arabic: اتحاد إمارات الجنوب العربي Ittiḥād ʾImārāt al-Janūb al-ʿArabiyy) was an organization of states within the British Aden Protectorate in what would become South Yemen.

6. Arab Police mutiny - Wikipedia

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   The Arab Police mutiny was an incident during the Aden Emergency where Arab soldiers and police mutinied against British troops. [1] While the mutiny itself was localized and quickly suppressed, it undermined the South Arabian Federation which had been organized by Britain in 1959 as an intended successor to direct colonial rule.

7. British Order of Battle at the Aden Emergency - Wikipedia

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   The following units of the British Armed Forces participated in the Aden Emergency (1963-67). Saladin Armoured Cars of the Queens Dragoon Guards in Aden 1967 British street patrol in Aden 1967 Royal Air Force

8. Aden Colony - Wikipedia

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   In 1963, Aden Colony was reconstituted as the State of Aden within the newly created Federation of South Arabia in an attempt to grant limited self-governance, but the unrest continued. The British withdrew in 1967, and the colony was succeeded by the People's Republic of Southern Yemen , marking the end of British control after 128 years of rule.

9. October 1963 - Wikipedia

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   The Aden Emergency started in Radfan, South Yemen, as a revolution against British colonial rule. Backed by the United Arab Republic (Egypt), the rebels were determined to drive the British out of Aden (where they maintained military bases) and the rest of South Yemen (Federation and Protectorate of South Arabia). The last British troops would ...