Significant1956

Suez Crisis

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Egypt · Suez Canal

Estimated casualties

3.0Ksingle estimate · no range published

Military intervention by Western powers against Egyptian nationalization of Suez Canal.

Belligerents4

Egypt
Israel
United Kingdom
France

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 4

Battle of Abu Ageila1956
Battle of Gaza1956
Battle of Rafa1956
Battle of Straits of Tiran1956

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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