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    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...
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  • throughout the East of Suez. In 1969 Chartered Bank merged with Standard Bank, which did business throughout Africa. The merged enterprise was incorporated...
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  • the Suez Crisis, on July 26, 1956 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal Company's assets in Egypt, including the Suez Canal...
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  • regulations and less state involvement throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. The Suez Crisis of 1956 was a humiliating defeat for Prime Minister Eden, but his...
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    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...
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  • Identity in the Middle Ages". Smithsonian History of Warfare. Vol. 47. Brill, 2008. ISBN 9004164472 Janin, Hunt and Ursula Carlson. Mercenaries in Medieval...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    "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...
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    continent and its southern Cape of Good Hope, before the opening of the shortcut Suez Canal in 1869, in Egypt between the Mediterranean and Red Seas. Saint Helena...
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    geopolitical goals in the region, specifically in retaining control over the Suez Canal by establishing a pro-British state in the region. Weizmann's role...
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    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...
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  • created pressure for an Anglo-French controlled canal through the Suez peninsula. The Suez canal opened in 1869, the same year in which the Central Pacific...
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    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...
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    arrangements of the former East India Company. The 1869 completion of the Suez Canal led to significantly faster transport between India and the United...
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    Mustafa Reşid Pasha (category 1858 deaths)
    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Portuguese until 1541, when a fleet under Estevão da Gama penetrated as far as Suez. In 1513, about 40 miles (64 kilometres) south of Acandí, in present-day...
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    2010). A Lesson for Our Times: How America Kept the Peace in the Hungary-Suez Crisis of 1956. Author House. pp. 695–696. ISBN 978-1-4520-3033-3. "The end...
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    10 December 2008. Retrieved 1 January 2009. "When Karachi Bleeds, Pakistan's Economy Bleeds". Center for International Private Enterprise. 22 August 2013...
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    2010, pp. 304–311. Bektas Y. (2017). "The Crimean War as a Technological Enterprise." Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science...
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    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...
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    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...
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    In 1869 Egyptian workers -under the supervision of France- completed the Suez Canal. A rivalry emerged between France and Britain for control of Egypt...
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    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...
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  • response to COVID-19. 2021 – A container ship runs aground and obstructs the Suez Canal for six days. 1338 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan (d. 1374) 1430 – Margaret...
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    the original (PDF) on 12 January 2006. Retrieved 27 July 2008. "Karnataka: French firm Suez to rehabilitate Mangaluru's drinking water at Rs 565.79 cr"...
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