Britain Lost Its Empire Over a Canal It Thought It Owned
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In 1869, the Suez Canal opened and changed the world. It cut the journey from Europe to Asia by thousands of miles, made fortunes overnight, and handed Britain a strategic artery it would spend decades fighting to control.
In 1956, Egypt took it back.
When President Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, Britain and France did something that would have been unthinkable just a decade earlier. They invaded. And then, under pressure from the United States and the Soviet Union, they retreated. For the first time in modern history, a former colony had defied the old imperial powers and won -- not on the battlefield, but in the court of world opinion.
The Suez Crisis of 1956 is the moment most historians point to as the true end of the British Empire. Not the independence of India. Not the loss of the American colonies. A canal.
In this documentary, we trace the full story from the canal's construction through the colonial struggle for control, the dramatic nationalization, and the humiliating withdrawal that announced to the world that the age of European empire was over.
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Britain Lost Its Empire Over a Canal It Thought It Owned
History Found
10,951 views
In 1869, the Suez Canal opened and changed the world. It cut the journey from Europe to Asia by thousands of miles, made fortunes overnight, and handed Britain a strategic artery it would spend decades fighting to control.
In 1956, Egypt took it back.
When President Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, Britain and France did something that would have been unthinkable just a decade earlier. They invaded. And then, under pressure from the United States and the Soviet Union, they retreated. For the first time in modern history, a former colony had defied the old imperial powers and won -- not on the battlefield, but in the court of world opinion.
The Suez Crisis of 1956 is the moment most historians point to as the true end of the British Empire. Not the independence of India. Not the loss of the American colonies. A canal.
In this documentary, we trace the full story from the canal's construction through the colonial struggle for control, the dramatic nationalization, and the humiliating withdrawal that announced to the world that the age of European empire was over.
If you want history that explains how the modern world actually got this way, subscribe.
" Political and Economic Power , grows out of the barrels of the Guns of a Nations Military .
Morallity and Imternational Law is on the side of Victor's ."
It waa America that ended ,.British and French power and influence in the Suez Canel in Egypt .
AMERICA HAS THE POWER TO GOVERN , AND DECIDE WORLD POLITICS THEY SEE FIT ; BECAUSE THEY ARE THE WORLD'S SUPERPOWER .
" There is nothing New under the Sun ."
Now when America Speaks ; Britain without the British Empire , now just
" Wags " its tail , and obey's .
The Nation states , and there Sovereign Power is an illusion . True power in really is in the hands of Money , and the Banks . They in turn control countries , and the Countries military War .
This is why War will never go out of fashion , because of the flow of Money and Economics must flow to those at the top .