French paratroops hardened in Algeria led the Suez landing.

Evidence

At dawn the next morning, 5 November, 600 British and 500 French paratroops dropped near Port Said. For all the muddles and delays of the past months, the last minute changes of plan whereby élite airborne troops had been sent in on invasion barges, operations proceeded with remarkable smoothness. Brushing aside fairly feeble resistance, Massu’s fast-moving paras, tempered by the war in Algeria, were well on their way to Suez when Bulganin issued his missile-rattling ultimatum to the “Allies” — just twenty-four hours after Russian tanks had rolled into Hungary to crush her short-lived liberty. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 494

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Suez guaranteed eventual Algerian independence while stiffening French resolve to win. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 496; The Suez humiliation within the officer corps seeded the later 1958 revolt. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 496; The 1956 Suez and Hungary crises triggered the New Left’s coalescence (+1 more)

Related

• The Suez humiliation within the officer corps seeded the later 1958 revolt. (similarity 0.86)
• Suez’s humiliating withdrawal devastated returning French troops’ morale in Algeria (similarity 0.86)
• The Suez debacle jolted French morale and hardened the war’s brutality (similarity 0.86)
• Suez guaranteed eventual Algerian independence while stiffening French resolve to win. (similarity 0.82)
• Suez shattered Britain’s independent foreign policy and France’s trust in Anglo-Saxons (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria’s entanglement likely fuelled Mollet’s rush to Suez. (similarity 0.80)
• Massive French troop increases failed to halt the rebellion’s spread in 1955-56. (similarity 0.79)
• An Algeria cut off from France could not survive more than a fortnight (similarity 0.79)
• Suez delivered captured Western arms to the F.L.N. and bolstered its morale. (similarity 0.79)
• Replacing fraternising regiments with outsiders broke the barricades’ supply lifeline. (similarity 0.79)
• The French army in Algeria transformed from clumsy to effective by 1956 (similarity 0.79)
• The French army’s 1940 humiliation fueled its determination not to lose Algeria. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The Suez debacle jolted French morale and hardened the war’s brutality #expands (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 512
• Suez guaranteed eventual Algerian independence while stiffening French resolve to win. #expands (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 496
• The 1956 Suez and Hungary crises triggered the New Left’s coalescence #expands (0.50)
• The Suez humiliation within the officer corps seeded the later 1958 revolt. #expands (0.45) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 496