Suez Crisis
1956 invasion of Egypt by Israel, the United Kingdom, and France
The Suez Crisis was the invasion of Egypt by Israel, the United Kingdom and France to regain control over the Suez Canal and remove then Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who nationalized the Suez Canal Company and Egypt's oil industry.
| Suez Crisis | |||||||||
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| Part of the Cold War and the Arab–Israeli conflict | |||||||||
 Damaged Egyptian military vehicles in the Sinai Peninsula | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Israel United Kingdom France |  Egypt | ||||||||
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| Strength | |||||||||
| 175,000 45,000 34,000 | 90,000[1] | ||||||||
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Israel:
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| 1,000 civilians killed[3] | |||||||||
Before 1956, the Suez Company owned the Suez Canal, a private corporation mostly owned by British and French investors. In 1956, Egyptian President Nasser nationalized the Canal. In other words, he took it away from the Suez Company and put the Egyptian government in control. Israel, the United Kingdom, and France invaded Egypt.
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- Israel's Second War of Independence, essay in Azure magazine.
- A Man, A Plan and A Canal by Arthur L. Herman
- Sinai Campaign 1956
- Canada and the Suez Crisis
- July 2006, BBC, Suez 50 years on
- Suez and the high tide of Arab nationalism International Socialism 112 (2006)
- Detailed report on the Suez campaign by Ground Forces Chief of Staff General Beaufre, French Defense Ministry archive (French)
- Bodleian Library Suez Crisis Fiftieth anniversary exhibition
- Suez index at Britains-smallwars.com – accounts by British servicemen who were present
- 26 July speech by Gamal Abdel Nasser (French translation)
- Speech by Gamal Abdel Nasser (Original text in Arabic)
- The short film The Middle East (1963) is available for free download at the Internet Archive
- Newsreel film, British Prime Minister's broadcast Archived 7 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine at Britishpathe.com
- Blue Vanguard (1957), National Film Board of Canada film for the United Nations about its role in restoring peace after the Suez Crisis (60 min, Ian MacNeill, dir.)
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