media related to Mers El Kebir. A plan of the Mers-el-Kébir anchorage Accueil Kébir (in French) MERS EL KEBIR 1940 (in French) Mers-el-Kebir – A Battle Between...
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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 French Navy ships at the...
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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...
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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 Tlemcen...
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Dunkerque-class battleship (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
damaged 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)...
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Jafar's galleys blocked Mers El Kébir to prevent the city to be relieved from Oran. Ottoman's main objective was to capture Mers El Kébir, as Hassan was warned...
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French battleship Dunkerque (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
convoy escort duties. The ship was badly damaged during the British attack at Mers-el-Kébir after the Armistice that ended the first phase of France's participation...
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Mogador-class destroyer (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
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...
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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 French...
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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...
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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...
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bombardment and Attack on Mers-el-Kébir the 3 July 1940. Gensoul never commented on these events. "Marcel-Bruno Gensoul is Dead; Defied Churchill on Fleet in...
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Cedric Holland (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
operations. He was prominent in the negotiations in the run up to the Attack on Mers-el-Kébir in July 1940, when the French fleet refused to agree to terms to...
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French battleship Strasbourg (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
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...
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Bretagne-class battleship (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
Bretagne 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...
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enemy" of France. Such sentiments were exacerbated by the British Attack on Mers-el-Kébir, which caused great bitterness in France and went a great way towards...
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effectively ceased to exist as a separate unit after the British attack on Mers-el-Kébir. Battleships had been internationally perceived as the strategic...
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action during the war, with Dunkerque being sunk during the British attack on Mers-el-Kébir to prevent her from being seized by the Germans. Bretagne and Provence...
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French destroyer Mogador (category Articles missing coordinates without coordinates on Wikidata)
World War II. The ship was heavily damaged during the British attack on Mers-el-Kébir on 3 July 1940, but was later repaired and sailed to Toulon. She...
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incident Fashoda Incident Levant Crisis 1993 Cherbourg incident Attack on Mers-el-Kébir Auld Alliance Entente Cordiale France–United Kingdom relations...
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HMS Foresight (H68) (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
mid-1940 and formed part of Force H where she participated in the attack on Mers-el-Kébir and the Battle of Dakar. The ship escorted numerous convoys to...
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Battle of Quebec (1690) Attack on Mers-el-Kébir This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title English Attack. If an internal link led...
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Scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
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 November 1942 the...
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Force H, based at Gibraltar, she bombarded French ships during the attack on Mers-el-Kébir. In May 1941 Hood and the battleship Prince of Wales were ordered...
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James Somerville (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
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...
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warships commanded by Admiral James Somerville attacked French ships during the attack on Mers-el-Kébir in Algeria, sinking or crippling three battleships...
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E and F-class destroyer (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
June and formed part of Force H where they participated in the attack on Mers-el-Kébir. Two months later they participated in the Battle of Dakar where...
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carrier was sunk by surface gunnery. In the attack on Mers-el-Kébir, British battleships opened fire on the French battleships in the harbor near Oran...
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one of the battleships damaged by the British during their July Attack on Mers-el-Kébir, French Algeria, back to France in November. She was transferred...
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the 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...
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