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The Suez Crisis [a] also known as the Second Arab–Israeli War, [8] [9] [10] the Tripartite Aggression [b] in the Arab world [11] and as the Sinai War [c] in Israel, [d] was a British–French–Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956.
Israeli forces first seized the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Crisis of October–November 1956. Under heavy international pressure, Israeli forces withdrew in March 1957, after heavily mapping the territory and placing secret supply caches in preparation for the next war.
Israeli M4A4 Shermans were also used in the Sinai campaign. In July 1956, IDF chief of staff General Moshe Dayan advised Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion that Israel should attack Egypt at the first chance, but Ben-Gurion stated he preferred to attack Egypt with the aid of France. [4]
In November and December 1956, the force facilitated the orderly transition in the Suez Canal area when British and French forces left. From December 1956 to March 1957, the force facilitated the separation of Israeli and Egyptian forces and the Israeli evacuation from all areas captured during the war, except Gaza and Sharm-el-Sheik.
Sinai War (1956) Israel United Kingdom France: Egypt: Victory. Sinai demilitarized, UNEF deployed. Moshe Dayan: 231 None: Six-Day War (1967) Israel Egypt Syria Jordan Iraq: Victory. Israel captured the Gaza Strip, Sinai, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights. Levi Eshkol: Moshe Dayan: Yitzhak Rabin: 776–983 20 War of Attrition (1967–1970 ...
Headed by British Army General Charles Keightley, it was conducted in November 1956 in close coordination with the Israeli armoured thrust into the Sinai, which was called Operation Kadesh. Egypt's government, led by Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, was seeking political control over the canal, an effort resisted by the Europeans. The army was ...
The US Army then used D9 bulldozers during the Vietnam War to clear forests. Combat use of Caterpillars in Israel stretches back to the Sinai War of 1956, the Six-Day War in 1967, the Yom Kippur ...
On 26 July 1956 Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal from British and French investors who owned the Suez Canal Company, causing Britain and France to devise a military operation with the help of Israel to invade the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula and have British and French paratroopers drop in to protect the Suez Canal ...