Operation Musketeer: Duel for the Suez Canal - http://africanhistory.about.com/library/prm/blsuezcanal1.htm Three-part scholarly recounting and analysis of the Suez Crisis (1956), by Wilfred P. Deac, in Military History Magazine (from About.com).
MSN Learning & Research Plus: Suez Canal - http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArtContent.aspx?refid=761578705 Three photos, a dynamic map, and authoritative article (Introduction, Physical Description, and History) on the Canal -- with links to key names, placenames, and events; from Encarta.
BBC: UK considered cutting off Nile - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6197002.stm Britain drew up plans to cut off the Nile to Egypt to force a return of the Suez Canal, files from 1956 reveal.
The Suez Crisis: Key maps - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5195068.stm BBC News maps showing the strategic importance of the Suez Canal and how the crisis unfolded.
Story of the Suez Canal - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/islam/1876suezcanal.html Reprint from: All the Year Round, January 8, 1876; from Islamic History Sourcebook, Fordham University.
Suez Canal - http://i-cias.com/e.o/suez_can.htm Brief description and key-dates history of the artificial waterway, with several links; from Encyclopaedia of the Orient.
Wikipedia: Suez Canal - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal Illustrated article including history, current day, and related links.
Suez Canal Honoured as an International Landmark - http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html9/o040623r.htm Report dated June 04, 2003, announces that the International Association for Civil Engineers has designated the Suez Canal as a landmark in the history of world civil engineering.
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