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    The Raid on the Suez Canal, also known as Actions on the Suez Canal, took place between 26 January and 4 February 1915 when a German-led Ottoman Army...
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    On 6 June 1967, after the start of the Six-Day War, Egypt closed the Suez Canal, which it owned and operated, and kept it closed until 5 June 1975, through...
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    Force in Egypt (category Commands of the British Army)
    1915 with a raid on the Suez Canal. This threat remained until 1916 when the British forces went on the offensive. The composition of the force changed...
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    control of the Suez Canal, which Nasser had earlier nationalised by transferring administrative control from the foreign-owned Suez Canal Company to Egypt's...
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    located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez on the Red Sea, near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal, and is the capital of the Suez Governorate...
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    passage through the Suez Canal and Straits of Tiran was restricted by Egypt, in cooperation with Saudi Arabia, for much of the time between the 1948 Arab-Israeli...
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    February 1915 (category Wikipedia articles incorporating the Cite Grove template)
    December The following events occurred in February 1915: Raid on the Suez Canal — An Ottoman force of over 13,000 laid siege to the Suez Canal. The Royal...
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    Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein (category Recipients of the Order of the Medjidie, 4th class)
    Pasha was given the job by the war minister Enver Pasha of capturing or disabling the Suez Canal. This effort is called the First Suez Offensive, and it...
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    administration until the beginning of the war when Ottoman Empire forces invaded the area. During the Raid on the Suez Canal in February 1915 part of the attacking...
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    Camel cavalry (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
    destroyed the Turkish forces during the Raid on the Suez Canal with a camel cavalry charge and in the Middle Eastern Sector of the World War 2. The auxiliary...
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