British foreign policy in the Middle East
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title:
British foreign policy in the Middle East
text:
British foreign policy in the Middle East has involved multiple considerations, particularly over the last two and a half centuries. These included maintaining access to British India, blocking Russian or French threats to that access, protecting the Suez Canal, supporting the declining Ottoman Empire against Russian threats, guaranteeing an oil supply after 1900 from Middle East fields, protecting Egypt and other possessions in the Middle East, and enforcing Britain's naval role in the Mediterr
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Overview of the European empire's history in the region
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_foreign_policy_in_the_Middle_East
date created:
2020-03-21T01:54:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T21:27:33Z
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