Operation Musketeer (1956)
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Operation Musketeer was the Anglo-French plan 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 Oper
Port Said during the 1956 Operation Musketeer
Troops of the Parachute Regiment escort a captured Egyptian soldier at Port Said
A Hawker Sea Hawk of 899 Naval Air Squadron, armed with rockets, about to be launched from the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle for a strike on an Egyptian airfield
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Suez Crisis
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The Suez Crisis, also known as the second Arab–Israeli war, the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel, was a British–French–Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956. Israel inva
Operation Musketeer (1956)
…Musketeer (French: Opération Mousquetaire) was the Anglo-French plan 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 British…
The location of the Suez Canal, which connects the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean via the Red Sea
Port Said, at the entrance to the Suez Canal from the Mediterranean
Australian prime minister Robert Menzies led an international committee in negotiations with Nasser in September 1956, which sought to achieve international management of the Suez Canal. The mission was a failure.