Military confrontation between UK and France in Syria in May 1945
Levant Crisis
Part of Decolonization of Asia
British armoured cars moving through the streets of Damascus during the Levant Crisis in May 1945
Date
19 May – 19 July 1945
Location
French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
Result
British-enforced ceasefire
French withdrawal from the Levant
Syria gains full independence
Belligerents
United Kingdom
Syria
France
Commanders and leaders
Winston Churchill
Bernard Paget
Shukri al-Quwatli
Charles de Gaulle
Fernand Olive
The Levant Crisis, also known as the Damascus Crisis, the Syrian Crisis, or the Levant Confrontation, was a military confrontation that took place between British and French forces in Syria in May 1945 soon after the end of World War II in Europe. French troops had tried to quell nationalist protests in Syria at the continued occupation of the Levant by France. With heavy Syrian casualties, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill opposed French action and sent British forces into Syria from Transjordan with orders to fire on the French if necessary.[1]
British armoured cars and troops then reached the Syrian capital of Damascus, following which the French were escorted and confined to their barracks.[2] With political pressure added, the French ordered a ceasefire.[3] The crisis infuriated the French leader Charles de Gaulle and almost brought Britain and France to the point of war.[4][5]
^Luce, Henry Robinson (1945). Time. Vol. 45. pp. 25–26.
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