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So, supposedly, the Brits and the French managed this with 26 casualties and there were about

a thousand Egyptian civilian casualties. However, this is where we get into some of the French

conduct. During the fighting in the canal zone, the French paratroopers often practiced their

no prisoners code and executed Egyptian prisoners of war. I've written normal.

Just totally normal.

Meanwhile.

I like the idea of being like, it is just protocol.

We do not take prisoners.

You understand how it is.

I don't know.

I would have to talk to my line manager.

The way that it's phrased is so like, it's in their culture, which is very strange.

But that's what happens

when you use colonial troops as they do colonial violence. But also, like, the amphibious

landings, they've settled on Port Saeed, which, as we've mentioned, is like, small, medium-sized

city. And the Egyptians sort of do some fairly competent urban warfare here.

I mean, it's a city, it favors the defender, whatever, but like, and it's very uneven,

but they do fall back in, like, pretty good order, and they, like, extract some casualties

from this.

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