media related to Mers El Kebir. A plan of the Mers-el-Kébir anchorage (in French) Accueil Kébir (in French) MERS EL KEBIR 1940 Mers-el-Kebir – A Battle Between...

The attack on Mers-el-Kébir (Battle of Mers-el-Kébir) on 3 July 1940, during the Second World War, was a British naval attack on neutral French Navy ships...

Battle of Mers-el-Kébir or Mers-el-Kébir expedition may refer to: The Battle of Mers-el-Kébir (1501) by Portugal. The Capture of Mers-el-Kébir (1505) by...

military-bases of Oran and Mers el Kébir on the North African coast, occupied by Spain since 1505. The sieges of Oran and Mers El Kébir of 1563 represented a...

The Battle of Mers-el-Kébir occurred in the year 1501 and was a failed attempt to capture Mers-el-Kébir by the Portuguese. After the conquest of Granad...

in the Attack on Mers-el-Kébir in July, but Strasbourg escaped to Toulon, where she became the flagship of the Forces de haute mer (High Seas Forces)...

The Capture of Mers-el-Kébir on 13 September 1505 was the first campaign carried out by the Spanish Empire in its war against the Zayyanid Kingdom of...

Admiral James Somerville attacked French ships during the attack on Mers-el-Kébir in Algeria, sinking or crippling three battleships. Because the Vichy...

to capture the city in July 1501. Four years later, the Spanish took Mers-el-Kébir, located just six kilometres (four miles) west of Oran. Thus began the...

of Mers-el-Kébir took place between the Spanish Empire, and the native Kingdom of Tlemcen, near, and around Mers-el-Kébir The city of Mers-el-Kébir was...

and Dunkerque would remain at Mers-el-Kébir. The only test in battle for Strasbourg came in the attack on Mers-el-Kébir on 3 July. The British, misinterpreting...

and Strasbourg would remain at Mers-el-Kébir. The only test in battle for Dunkerque came in the attack on Mers-el-Kébir on 3 July. The British, misinterpreting...

until the Armistice of 22 June 1940. Then, the force was transferred to Mers El Kébir in French North Africa. Gensoul was subsequently involved in abortive...

Force H War Diary – 'admirals.org.uk' British Admiralty document on Mers-el-Kébir Action Destruction of the French Fleet at Mers El-Kebir – H.M.S. Hood...

the city of Mers-El-Kébir after a successful expedition against the Zayyanids. In 1507, the Zayyanids ambushed the city of Mers-el-Kébir, with about 11...

known as Mohammed el Kebir was the bey of the Western Beylik from 1776 to 1796. He is best-known for re-conquering Oran and Mers El Kébir from the Spaniards...

surrender of France on 22 June 1940, the bulk of the French fleet lay at Mers-el-Kébir. Since British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was very worried that...

not deliver on his promise. This belief led to the British Attack on Mers-el-Kébir (Operation Catapult), where, on 3 July 1940 the Royal Navy attacked...

The Spanish conquest of Oran and Mers el-Kebir took place from 15 June to 2 July 1732, between the Kingdom of Spain and the Deylik of Algiers. The great...

1554, Mers El Kébir and Oran in 1708. The Spanish returned in 1732 when the armada of the Duke of Montemar was victorious in the Battle of Aïn-el-Turk...

Mogador and her sister Volta were present during the British attack on Mers-el-Kébir on 3 July 1940, but only Volta managed to escape to Toulon. Mogador...

of neutralizing the main element of the French battle fleet, then at Mers El Kébir in Algeria. After he had destroyed the French Battle fleet, Somerville...

life-or-death matter) and the British attacked the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir on 3 July 1940 and at the Battle of Dakar on 23 September 1940. On 8...

she carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt across the Atlantic to Mers El Kébir, Algeria, en route to a conference of vital importance in 1943 in Tehran...

effectively ceased to exist as a separate unit after the British attack on Mers-el-Kébir. Battleships had been internationally perceived as the strategic arms...

Atlantic to search for German surface raiders. She was stationed in Mers-el-Kébir when France surrendered on 22 June 1940. Fearful that the Germans would...

battleship, 1 cruiser, 2 flotilla leaders, 5 destroyers, 6 submarines), Mers-el-Kébir (1 battleship, 1 destroyer), and Syria-Lebanon (1 submarine). O'Hara...

and Provence were sunk by the British Royal Navy during the Attack on Mers-el-Kébir the following month; Provence was later raised and towed to Toulon,...

flagship. Force H took part in the destruction of the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir in July 1940. Just eight days after the French surrender, the British...

United Kingdom had been severed since 8 July 1940 after the attack on Mers-el-Kébir. Julian T. Jackson wrote, "There seems little doubt... that at the beginning...