... Suez Canal bridgehead infantry Artillery Road Akavish Road October 8 There is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom. (Eccles. 9:10) At noon on October 7, the General Staff and the commanding general of the Southern Command, General Gonen, already knew that the 162nd Tank Division...

... zone through important ‘arms of the sea’ such as the Suez Canal. In doing so, this chapter examines the interconnectedness of British ports with foreign and international priorities, exploring them as part of an entangled space of negotiation with the ‘outside’ world, rather than places marking simply...

.... While the Chiefs of Staff in London were right to assume that Mussolini would focus on Egypt, due to the vital importance attached to controlling the Suez Canal, they were wrong to conclude that he would enter the war at the first opportunity. Belfield Sir Henry Berlin Conference 1884 British...

...When fighting erupted on the Suez Canal in July 1967, hostilities intensified, and Israeli casualties mounted. General Headquarters (GHQ) sought the best way to defend the canal according to the government's unwritten directive: not one inch for the enemy! It decided to build the Bar-Lev Line...

... headquarters ammunition shortage Brigadier General Avner Shalev Israel Defense Forces Southern Command Mossad Zefania General Gonen counterattack Yom Kippur War Suez Canal 252nd Division On the morning of Yom Kippur, none of the 436 men and officers in the sixteen strongholds on the Bar-Lev Line...

... Natan “Pit” bunker command post in Hakirya Brigade 1st Brigade Egypt 3rd Brigade 4th Division Egypt understanding of the movements and intentions of Marom Col Oded Wadi Mabrook Eitan Lt Gen Rafael strike Lachish Lt Col Zeev War of Attrition Egypt air superiority close air support Suez Canal...

... his hatred for his Japanese crewmates. The author details the numerous jobs he worked on the ship, including loading cargo, serving as a guard, and working in the mental health ward all before his arrival into port. Oranje Ocean Suez Canal Hospital One day in August 1946, Dad called us boys...

...This chapter examines the arrival of British troops in Egypt. The massive flow of troops and equipment to Egypt eventually made that country the greatest British military base outside of Britain and France. The British soldiers were deployed to protect the Suez Canal and those stationed there lived...

...This chapter is a history of Port Said told through the popular street festival known as the Limby Burning. It studies the imaginary roots of the Limby festival and what this historical imaginary conveys about lived experiences along the Suez Canal. It discusses Egyptian memories of General Allenby...

...A bibliography of post-graduate theses concerning Maritime Economics, classified as Modern Studies and subdivided as follows:- Policy Studies; Contemporary Shipping and Applied Surveys; Shipping Economics; and other Maritime-related Economic Studies. Shipping Shipping Policy Liner Suez Canal...

..., engineers, staff personnel, businessmen—were forced to leave Egypt in distressing circumstances. Furthermore, the Suez Canal was closed, unusable for months. In a few days the work of Ferdinand de Lesseps was undermined. For a few years France cut herself off from part of the Third World, whose emerging...

... constituencies, including the Free Officers; the growing pressure for Egypt to alter the status quo in the Sinai through the force of arms; the Crossing of the Suez Canal by Egyptian troops in October 1973 to attack Israeli forces; and the signing of the “Treaty of Peace between the Arab Republic of Egypt...

... to make cosmopolitan, internationalist values rhetorically central to the organization's foundation. Moreover, the opening of the Suez Canal became a symbol of increasingly rapid mobility that drove processes of globalization. In Nubia, mobility became a marker of how technological innovation could...

...This chapter examines how laborers were recruited and organized to undertake the excavation of the Suez Canal between 1859 and 1864. After reinstating labor to the eminently technological historiography, this chapter argues that human toil and mechanical exertion, far from being on the extremes...

...The Suez Canal incident brought painful realizations of diminished power in the international arena along with currency restrictions, social spending cuts, and petrol rationing due to related oil supply issues. Britain implemented cuts in its military budget and activity and abandoned the nuclear...

... them the Suez Canal. At the same time, vital political agreements such as the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty deepened and solidified relations between Britain and its most important political and economic allies, setting the stage for the next forty years of increasing interconnectivity. This chapter explores...

...This chapter examines the Free Officers' relations with Britain and the United States, particularly in light of the Anglo-Egyptian negotiations regarding the withdrawal of British troops from the Suez Canal Zone. In the aftermath of the March crisis, the Command Council of the Revolution (CCR...

... in the Suez Canal Zone. By the early 1950s, that presence had become the world’s largest military installation. Eighty thousand troops occupied sixteen army camps and eleven air bases linked by a network of roads, railways, and ports; the zone had its own broadcasting system and newspaper. Though nominally...

...The End of the British Empire in the Middle East, 1952–1971. Wm. Roger Louis, Oxford University Press. © Wm. Roger Louis 2025. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198201977.003.0012 On 26 July 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal Company, which held the concession on operating...