The Dutch victories in the two battles, and at the Battle of Texel that followed in August, saved their country from an Anglo-French invasion.

He insisted, however, that "the joint enterprise and the preparations for it were justified in the light of the wrongs it [the Anglo-French invasion] was designed to prevent."

The Anglo-French invasion began that day.

Menzies publicly supported the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt during the Suez Crisis.

Australia, New Zealand and South Africa backed the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt to regain control of the Suez Canal.

In November 1956, Dulles strongly opposed the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt in response to the Suez Crisis.

Worse still the crisis coincided with the Suez expedition, the ill-fated Anglo-French invasion of Egypt, which was itself condemned by Moscow as an 'imperialist' venture.

In 1956 the ship participated in Operation Musketeer, the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt to seize control of the Suez Canal.

In 1956, disillusioned, he left the paper after his cartoon comparing the Russian tanks in Budapest to the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt was rejected.

The United Kingdom, France and Israel took part in the campaign, with the Anglo-French invasion being known as Operation Musketeer, beginning on 31 October 1956.