Port Said Gallery

Port Said Paratroopers

British Paratroopers 'dug in' on the Canal Road in Port Said, 12th November 1956. The Egyptian position is 500 yards from this point. (Photo by Terry Fincher/Keystone/Getty Images)

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Anti-British First Day Cover - Port Said Raid - Suez Crisis

Anti-British Egyptian First Day Cover (printed in Alexandria) - critical of British military operations in the 1956 Suez Crisis - November, 1956. The aim of the conflict was to regain Western control of the Suez Canal, removing Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who had just nationalized the canal. After the fighting had started, political pressure from the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Nations led to a withdrawal by the three invaders. The episode humiliated the United Kingdom and France and strengthened Nasser. Date: 1956

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

European military men with locals in Port Said, Egypt

European military men sitting and enjoying a drink with local gentlemen and ladies as well as a native boy gathered around them in Prince Farouk Street in Port Said, north-eastern Egypt and located at the Suez Canal. Date: circa 1920

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

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