The Battle of Ismailia took place between the Egyptian Army and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) during the last stages of the Yom Kippur War during October...
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The Battle of Ismailia was an armed confrontation which took place in the Egyptian city of Ismailia on 25 January 1952 between the British Army and Egyptian...
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Following the Battle of Kafr-el-Dawwar in 1882 the British established a base there. The head office of the Suez Canal Authority is located in Ismailia at the...
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Ismailia Governorate (Arabic: محافظة الإسماعيلية) is one of the Canal Zone governorates of Egypt. Located in the northeastern part of the country, its...
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Yom Kippur War (redirect from Battle of Sinai)
Cairo. Egypt successfully repelled further Israeli advances in the battles of Ismailia and Suez. A second ceasefire was imposed on 25 October, officially...
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capture the building. The ensuing battle of Ismailia was later commemorated and is now celebrated in Egypt on 25 January of every year as National Police...
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bullet". The resulting battle saw the police station leveled and 43 policemen killed together with 3 soldiers. The Battle of Ismailia outraged Egypt and the...
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Cairo fire (category Egyptian revolution of 1952)
Cairo. The direct trigger of the riots was the Battle of Ismailia, an attack on an Egyptian police installation in Ismaïlia by British forces on 25 January...
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on 25 January. The holiday commemorates and is a remembrance of the Battle of Ismailia where 50 police officers were killed and more wounded when they...
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El-Sa'ka Forces (category Special forces of Egypt)
Brigade is listed in the Defense Intelligence Agency's released order of battle for 1967. In 1990 there were five brigade-sized commando groups; from...
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Fouad Serageddin (category Interior ministers of Egypt)
later take credit for ordering police in Ismailia armed with rifles to engage in a futile battle of Ismailia against British troops using light artillery...
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Egyptian National Police (redirect from Police of Egypt)
Salah Zulfikar in Battle of Ismailia (1952) Police on a camel in front of the Red Pyramid in Dahshur.jpg Police on a camel in front of the Red Pyramid in...
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to Ismailia in an attempt to similarly cut off the Second Army. His efforts bogged down, and he was unable to reach Ismailia (see Battle of Ismailia),...
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Ismailia Canal or the Al-Ismāʿīliyyah Canal, formerly known as the Sweet Water Canal or the Fresh Water Canal, is a canal which was dug by thousands of...
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Egyptian Air Force (redirect from Air Force of Egypt)
(B707-366, B737-100) 102 Tactical Air Wing 25sq - Ismailia/Inshas (EMB-312 Tucano) 26sq - Ismailia (AT-802 Air Tractor) 35sq - Hurghada (EMB-312 Tucano)...
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of troops through the Suez Canal to Ismaïlia. This was accomplished so quickly, Ismailia was occupied on 20 August without resistance.: 67 Ismailia was...
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seizure of power 1881–1899 Mahdist War June 11, 1940 – February 4, 1943: North African Campaign, part of World War II 1952 Battle of Ismailia (1952) 1952...
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1952 Egyptian revolution (redirect from Causes of the Egyptian revolution of 1952)
"'The decisive volley': The battle of Ismailia and the decline of British influence in Egypt, January–July, 1952". The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth...
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across the Sinai Peninsula via the Mitla Pass to Suez, in 49 hours. At Ismailia Station, Lawrence convinced Burmester and Admiral Wemyss to send HMIS Dufferin...
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although he was at Ismailia during the battle for Romani. With the occupation of Romani, the area became part the Northern or No. 3 Sector of the Suez Canal...
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Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also This article lists all the battles that...
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Egyptians captured a strip of territory in Sinai, but were outflanked by Israeli forces over the Suez Canal in the Battle of Ismailia, which trapped the Egyptian...
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they may have had of reaching Cairo from the north, and shifted their base of operations to Ismailia instead. After the bombardment of Alexandria on 11...
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25th Brigade ambush 18 October 1973 Battle of Ismailia 22 October 1973 Scud missile attack 24–25 October 1973 Battle of Suez 21–24 July 1977 Libyan-Egyptian...
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Egyptian Airborne Corps (category Army units and formations of Egypt)
Serabaeum and the bridges there over the Sweetwater Canal. In the Battle of Ismailia, the combined Egyptian paratrooper-commando (Sai'qa) force managed...
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George Erskine (category Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
in North Africa, Italy and Normandy between 1943 and 1944. During the Battle of Normandy in June and July 1944, the British Second Army commander, Lieutenant...
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Sinai Peninsula (redirect from History of the Sinai Peninsula)
crossing into African Egypt: Suez Governorate on the southern end of the Suez Canal, Ismailia Governorate in the center, and Port Said Governorate in the north...
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Anglo-Egyptian War (redirect from War of 1882)
Regardless, the British abandoned the idea of reaching Cairo from the north, and shifted their base of operations to Ismailia. Wolseley arrived at Alexandria on...
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The Battle of Rafa, also known as the Action of Rafah, fought on 9 January 1917, was the third and final battle to complete the recapture of the Sinai...
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Raid on the Suez Canal (category Battles of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign)
another major cutting in the Asiatic bank north of Qantara enabled minor inundations between Qantara and Ismailia. On 15 January 1915 Sector I Headquarters...
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