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1956-07-30_Suez_Canal_Seized.ogv (Ogg multiplexed audio/video file, Theora/Vorbis, length 41 s, 400 × 300 pixels, 528 kbps overall, file size: 2.57 MB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
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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 ...
On 14 October 1956, General Maurice Challe, the deputy chief of staff of the French armed forces, made the suggestion that "Israel would be invited to attack the Egyptian army in Sinai and pose a threat to the Suez Canal and this would provide Britain and France with the pretext to activate their military plans and occupy the Suez Canal Zone ...
Suez Crisis: The Rashid-class frigate was scuttled as a blockship in the Suez Canal. Refloated on 8 April 1957, she was beached and abandoned. Aka: Egyptian Navy: Suez Crisis: The landing ship tank was scuttled as a blockship in the Suez Canal near Timsah. She was refloated in February 1957, beached, and abandoned. [103] ex-HMS Papua: Egyptian Navy
On April 23, 1939, six months after Suez's premiere, Tyrone Power, age 24, and Annabella, age 31, were married (his first marriage, her third), with the union lasting until 1948. Philip Dunne later called the film "pretty bad". [8] "Tyrone Power played Ferdinand de Lesseps, the Lee Iaccoca of his day," said Dunne. "So he dug the Suez Canal, so ...
Salvage teams on Monday set free a massive container ship that has halted global trade through the Suez Canal, bringing an end to a crisis that for nearly a week had clogged one of the world’s ...
In 1956, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered the nationalization of the Suez Canal, an important waterway that allowed trade to flow between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, via the Red Sea. [17] In a secret meeting at Sèvres on October 24, Britain, France and Israel agreed to launch a three-pronged offensive against Egypt.