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Get started with Brilliant’s tutor for free. You can upgrade to Premium to unlock all courses. How History Works viewers can save 20% off an annual subscription at https://brilliant.org/HowHistoryWorks/ ----- Sign up for my FREE newsletter! - https://www.compoundeddaily.com/ ------ #history #economy #oilcrisis Link To Our Other Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/HowMoneyWorks Written By: Sam Video Created By: Svibe Multimedia Studio Editor: Cardan Media Gatherer: Andrea Rivas Footage Courtesy of: Getty Images Music Provided By: Epidemic Sound 📩 Business Inquiries ➡️ [email protected] ------ Sources https://www.economist.com/special-report/2006/07/27/an-affair-to-remember https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/cold-war/end-of-empire/suez-crisis https://www.unsabarcelona.org/wp-content/uploads/UNHSC-Final.pdf ------- Books (I have tried to find free links where I could) https://archive.org/details/causesconsequenc0000ross_w6z0/mode/2up https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1Z-po72YcH4C&redir_esc=y https://books.google.com.au/books?id=zLfnAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false https://archive.org/details/economicaidameri0000burn ------ In the first week of November 1956, the largest amphibious invasion fleet assembled since D-Day steamed out of a harbour in Malta… over a hundred warships, half a dozen aircraft carriers, and tens of thousands of British and French troops, were headed for Egypt. Their job was to take back the Suez canal. A hundred-mile stretch of water through the desert that had been, until about three months earlier, run by a company headquartered in Paris whose single biggest shareholder was the British government. The country they were sailing against had an army that was, at that very moment, being decimated by attacks from Israel… an air force that would mostly be destroyed while still parked on its runways… and no navy to speak of. On the surface, this was one of the most lopsided engagements of the century. But the empire behind it still lost… everything… in six days. Now the strange part is that the fighting itself went fine… the paratroopers took their objectives, and the landings went almost embarrassingly smoothly. The British Empire did not lose a single battle in November 1956. What it DID lose though was the one thing that had actually been holding the aging empire together for two centuries… and it turned out that thing could be destroyed much, much faster than a navy. And by the time the fleet sailed home, everyone on earth had seen exactly what it was….