Sea via the Suez Canal

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Previously, the empire's military infrastructure drew on sea lanes of communication through the Mediterranean Sea via the Suez Canal, alternatively round the Cape of Good Hope to India and on to East Asia and Australia. With the end of empire, which began with Indian independence (1947), there was a gradual draw down of the military presence "east of Suez". In 1967, Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his Defence Secretary, Denis Healey, announced that British troops would be withdrawn in 1971 from major military bases in South East Asia, primarily in Malaysia, Singapore and Aden, which is when the phrase in that context entered the vernacular.


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