The aims Aiming were to regain Recovering Western control Control of the Suez Canal and to remove Removing Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser , who had just nationalized the canal .

The Egyptian forces were defeated Conquering , but they did block Hiding_objects the canal to all shipping .

The three allies had attained Getting a number of their military objectives , but the canal was useless .

Directly across the canal from Oostkamp was another small village named Name_conferral Moerbrugge .

The canal is about 20 metres wide and very deep .

The South Alberta Regiment ( SARs ) would place Placing its tanks on the friendly side of the canal at either side of the crossing Sending point and hold Defending the flanks of the crossing Motion_directional with their fire along with the Vickers machine guns of The New Brunswick Rangers .

Finally , `` A '' Company of the Argylls , the Argyll scout platoon and one squadron of the SARs were moved Self_motion to a point north of the crossing Sending along the canal to provide Supply a diversion and to test Testing German defences in that area .

Major Stockloser ordered Arranging `` B '' , `` C '' , and `` D '' companies to cross the canal but had not arranged Arranging for assault boats , stating Statement that the operation would be `` a crossing Motion_directional of opportunity '' .

The battle Hostile_encounter began Process_start when the IDF launched Motion Operation Abiray-Lev ( `` Stouthearted Men '' ) , attempting to establish Coming_to_be a corridor to the canal and allow Preventing_or_letting bridges to be laid Placing for a crossing Motion_directional .

The paratroopers drew Getting Egyptian attention long enough for the Israelis to move Motion bridging equipment Supply to the canal undetected .

Seriously depleted Expend_resource by the continuous fighting Hostile_encounter , the Egyptians relinquished GiveUp control Control of the routes to the canal , opening Openness them up to the Israelis .

the missing persons inquiry Criminal_investigation which followed was one of the largest in the history of west yorkshire police Patrolling , involving Cause_to_be_included the search Scrutiny of around 1,750 buildings Building , underwater searches Scrutiny of thirty-two drainage Emptying wells , the draining Emptying of a two-mile section of canal and the halting Hindering of household waste collections .

The plan Arranging of attack Attack was for the British raiding Attack force to sink two obsolete cruisers in the canal mouth at Ostend and three at Zeebrugge , thus preventing Preventing_or_letting raiding Attack ships leaving Departing Bruges .

The Ostend canal was the smaller and narrower Expansion of the two channels giving Giving access to Bruges and so was considered a secondary target Aiming behind the Zeebrugge Raid .

Three weeks after the failure of the operation , a second attack Attack was launched Motion which proved Statement more successful in sinking Motion a blockship at the entrance Arriving to the canal but ultimately did not close Process_end off Bruges completely .

Once departed the train reached Arriving a bridge across the canal to the north from Kursha-2 , they found Know it already ablaze .

This British Empire victory Getting , the first against the Ottoman Empire in the war , ensured Preventing_or_letting the safety of the Suez Canal from ground attacks Attack and ended Process_end the Central Powers ' plans Arranging to disrupt traffic through the canal by gaining Getting control Control of the strategically important northern approaches to it .

The first landings Motion took place Process_start in the early morning on 28 July , and reached Arriving the first objectives , an inland canal , without major incident .

Using two landing Self_motion zones , one to the west of the Caen canal and the other to the east of the River Orne , Mallard was the third airborne operation Military_operation involving units of the division on D-Day .

In the opening stages of the attack , known as The Crossing ( العبور ; `` al-'obour '' ) , combat engineers used Using water cannons to rapidly clear Emptying numerous passages through the sand wall lining the east bank of the canal , laid bridges and operated ferries , allowing armor to cross Motion_directional .

The attack surprised Change_sentiment the Israelis , and by October 7 the crossing was complete Process_end , and the east bank of the canal was occupied Control by five Egyptian infantry divisions .

By the end of October 8 , Egypt occupied Control a strip of territory along the entire east bank of the canal to a depth of approximately .

In addition to the canal crossing , Egypt laid Placing a successful naval blockade against Israel in the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea .

In April 1918 , the Dover Patrol raided Attack Zeebrugge , to sink block ships in the canal entrance to trap U-Boats , which closed the canal for a short time .

In April 1918 , the Dover Patrol raided Attack Zeebrugge , to sink block ships in the canal entrance to trap U-Boats , which closed the canal for a short time .

His building projects included Cause_to_be_included the beautification of Nineveh , a canal 50 km long to bring Bringing water to the city , and the `` Palace Without Rival '' , which included Cause_to_be_included what may have been the prototype of the legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon , or even the actual Hanging Gardens .

German forces demolished Destroying the bridge over the Wilhelmina Canal at Son before it could be captured Conquering by the US 101st Airborne Division , although a Bailey bridge was then built Building over the canal by British sappers .