1958 Lebanon crisis
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The 1958 Lebanon crisis was a political crisis in Lebanon caused by political and religious tensions in the country that included an American military intervention, which lasted for around three month
American Marine in a foxhole outside Beirut
US Marines on patrol in Beirut
Camille Chamoun
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Camille Nimr Chamoun was a Lebanese politician and statesman who served as the 2nd president of Lebanon from 1952 to 1958. He was one of the country's main Christian leaders during most of the Lebanes
1958 Lebanon crisis
…political and religious tensions in the country that included an American military intervention, which lasted for around three months until President Camille Chamoun, who had requested the assistance, completed his term as president of Lebanon. American and Lebanese government forces occupied the Port of Beirut and…
Official portrait, 1952
Chamoun aboard the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1953
An elderly Chamoun with Bachir Gemayel during the Lebanese Civil War
Bechara El Khoury Maro Poli