2002, p. 355. Ferguson 2002, p. 356. James 2001, p. 583. Combs 2008, pp. 161–163. "Suez Crisis: Key players". BBC News. 21 July 2006. Archived from the...

Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal Company's assets in Egypt, including the Suez Canal, and placed them under the control of the Suez Canal Authority. 1993...

throughout the East of Suez. In 1969 Chartered Bank merged with Standard Bank, which did business throughout Africa. The merged enterprise was incorporated...

Thus, it wanted to secure the key waterway between East and West – the Suez Canal, completed in 1869. However, a theory that Britain sought to annex...

focusing on the nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egypt's second President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and the subsequent Suez War with Israel, the United Kingdom...

Identity in the Middle Ages". Smithsonian History of Warfare. Vol. 47. Brill, 2008. ISBN 9004164472 Janin, Hunt and Ursula Carlson. Mercenaries in Medieval...

"double port" connecting the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, prefiguring the Suez Canal. At the time, Egypt had been an Ottoman province since 1517, but was...

of the South. The British also felt threatened by the construction of the Suez Canal (1859–1869) by Ferdinand de Lesseps in Egypt. They tried to oppose...

and diplomatic. He foresaw that the potential construction of a canal at Suez would make good relations with Egypt vital to Britain. Later in his reign...

FLN Victory Battle of Bouzegza 4–12 August 1957 Algeria None FLN Victory Suez Crisis (1956–1957) Operation Kadesh October 1956 – March 1957 Egypt  Israel...

over Kashmir. On its part, India opposed the invasion of Egypt during the Suez Crisis and demanded that the Indian Ocean be declared a Zone of Peace. But...

with the most eminent French artists, he was invited to the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. The Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français (Society of...

1800s. The country continued to be widely considered a superpower until the Suez crisis of 1956 and the dismantling of the British Empire left the UK's dominant...

1878–1879; first circumnavigation of Eurasia, via the Northeast Passage and the Suez Canal, during the Vega expedition. St Roch; 1940–1942 and 1950; first vessel...

back, while sailing around the African continent, until the opening of the Suez Canal. Saint Helena is the United Kingdom's second-oldest overseas territory...

health, he began to conduct travelers to Greece and Egypt. Here he met the Suez Canal planner Lesseps and became fascinated by the idea of the Canal. After...

باشا; literally Mustafa Reshid Pasha the Great; 13 March 1800 – 7 January 1858) was an Ottoman statesman and diplomat, known best as the chief architect...

the Russian Baltic fleet was denied passage through the British-controlled Suez Canal. The fleet arrived on the scene a year later, only to be annihilated...

Steamship Co., and was fitted with refrigeration equipment. She plied the Suez Canal route from England to Australia during the 1890s, up until the years...

the desert: the creation of the Suez Canal. Alfred A. Knopf. p. 80. ISBN 0-375-40883-5. Ralf Roth; Günter Dinhobl (2008). Across the Borders: Financing...

few months. Historians commonly date Jewish emancipation to either 1829 or 1858, while Benjamin Disraeli, born a Sephardi Jew but converted to Anglicanism...

frontiers and the control of all sea approaches to the subcontinent via the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, and the Persian Gulf became preoccupations of British...

gas and renewable energy. It was founded in 1858 as the Universal Suez Canal Company, to build the Suez Canal. It purchased the solar power electricity...

be transported in efficient new steamships. This, plus the opening of the Suez Canal, led to the decline of the great warehousing districts in London and...

caravans to Mecca, as well as selling them provisions. The opening of the Suez canal reduced the dependence on desert caravans and attracted the Bedouin...

In 1869 Egyptian workers -under the supervision of France- completed the Suez Canal. A rivalry emerged between France and Britain for control of Egypt...

University, Dept of Anthropology, 2008) Van Zanden, Henry: 1606: Discovery of Australia. (Perth: Rio Bay Enterprises, 1997) Veth, Peter; Sutton, Peter;...

100 tons of cable as scrap. The 2008 submarine cable disruption was a series of cable outages, two of the three Suez Canal cables, two disruptions in...

St. Mary's church, Chennai, the first Anglican Church built east of the Suez is one of the first examples of British colonial architecture in India. French...

Turkey and the Crimea during the War against Russia in the Years 1854–55–56. 1858. Volume I: History of individual Corps Volume II: History of disease, wounds...