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| rdfs:comment | - Aden was originally of interest to Britain as an anti-piracy station to protect shipping on the routes to British India. With the advent of the Suez Canal in 1869, it further served as a coaling station. Following the independence of India in 1947, Aden became less important to the United Kingdom.
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| Commander | - Harold Wilson
- Abdullah al Asnag
- Admiral Sir Michael Le Fanu
- Gp Capt Michael Beetham
- Lt-Col Colin Campbell Mitchell
- Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi
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| Caption | - The location of the Aden Protectorate
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| Casualties | - 68
- Total: 2,096 killed
- Unknown South Arabian Army casualties
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| Result | - British withdrawal
- Creation of the People's Republic of South Yemen
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| Place | - Western and Eastern Protectorates, Aden Protectorate, Middle East
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| abstract | - Aden was originally of interest to Britain as an anti-piracy station to protect shipping on the routes to British India. With the advent of the Suez Canal in 1869, it further served as a coaling station. Following the independence of India in 1947, Aden became less important to the United Kingdom. The Emergency was precipitated in large part by a wave of Arab nationalism spreading to the Arabian Peninsula and stemming largely from the socialist and pan-Arabist doctrines of Egyptian leader Gamel Abdel Nasser. The British, French and Israeli forces that had invaded Egypt following Nasser's nationalisation of the Suez Canal in 1956 had been forced to withdraw following intervention from both the United States and the Soviet Union. Nasser enjoyed only limited success in spreading his pan-Arabist doctrines through the Arab world, with his 1958 attempt to unify Egypt and Syria as the United Arab Republic collapsing in failure three years later. A perceived anti-colonial uprising in Aden in 1963 provided another potential opportunity for his doctrines, though it is not clear to what extent Nasser directly incited the revolt in Aden, as opposed to the Yemeni guerrilla groups drawing inspiration from Nasser's pan-Arabist ideas but acting independently themselves.[citation needed]
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