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...

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...

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...

The Battle of Mers-el-Kébir occurred in 1501 and was a failed attempt to capture Mers-el-Kébir by the Portuguese. After the conquest of Granada in 1492...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

Admiral James Somerville attacked French ships during the attack on Mers-el-Kébir in Algeria, sinking or crippling three battleships. Because the Vichy...

to capture the city in July 1501. Four years later, the Spanish took Mers-el-Kébir, located just six kilometres (four miles) west of Oran. Thus began the...

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...

and Strasbourg would remain at Mers-el-Kébir. The only test in battle for Dunkerque came in the attack on Mers-el-Kébir on 3 July. The British, misinterpreting...

known as Mohammed el Kebir was the bey of the Western Beylik from 1776 to 1796. He is best-known for re-conquering Oran and Mers El Kébir from the Spaniards...

until the Armistice of 22 June 1940. Then, the force was transferred to Mers El Kébir in French North Africa. Gensoul was subsequently involved in abortive...

surrender of France on 22 June 1940, the bulk of the French fleet lay at Mers-el-Kébir. Since British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was very worried that...

the city of Mers-El-Kébir after a successful expedition against the Zayyanids. In 1507, the Zayyanids ambushed the city of Mers-el-Kébir, with about 11...

majority of the French fleet to be stationed at the naval bases at Toulon, Mers El Kébir and Bizerte with only one squadron to be based at Brest on France's...

The Spanish conquest of Oran and Mers el-Kebir took place from 15 June to 2 July 1732, between the Kingdom of Spain and the Deylik of Algiers. The great...

life-or-death 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...

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...

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...

battleship, 1 cruiser, 2 flotilla leaders, 5 destroyers, 6 submarines), Mers-el-Kébir (1 battleship, 1 destroyer), and Syria-Lebanon (1 submarine). O'Hara...

effectively ceased to exist as a separate unit after the British attack on Mers-el-Kébir. Battleships had been internationally perceived as the strategic arms...

she carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt across the Atlantic to Mers El Kébir, Algeria, en route to a conference of vital importance in 1943 in Tehran...

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,...

Atlantic to search for German surface raiders. She was stationed in Mers-el-Kébir when France surrendered on 22 June 1940. Fearful that the Germans would...

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 either...

Orange, Vaucluse. It had spent 47 years in Orange after relocating from Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria in October 1967. The 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment (1er REC)...

began negotiations with Algiers. They were willing to cede Oran and Mers el-Kebir if they would be allowed to retain their trading posts, in return for...

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...