In late-July 1956, three months before the Suez Crisis, British Prime Minister Anthony Eden wrote a letter to U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower. At this stage it had become clear that Egyptian ...

The IMF's lending to the four countries directly involved in the 1956 Suez crisis, and particularly to the United Kingdom ... Nations resolution for a cease-fire. On December 3, the British government ...

In 1956, the first large international peacekeeping force was dispatched to the Suez Canal area to keep the peace while the British and French ... the Suez Canal Crisis. Pictured here, Pearson ...

The Aframax tanker Attica, which was sanctioned by the UK last month for carrying Russian oil, is sailing past Scotland’s ...

In 1956, an international crisis over control of the Suez Canal put Britain and France ... and the long history of British intervention in Egypt - all with the usual Epic History TV maps as ...

And it failed miserably. That war, known as the Suez Crisis, is widely considered the beginning of the end of the British Empire. Egypt became the most powerful Arab country for the next 20 years ...

At the same time the UK was losing its global influence as Egypt reclaimed the Suez Canal from British control. Prime Minister Eden tried to take it back but the USA refused to back the military ...