Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"At the United Nations General Assembly the US put forward a resolution demanding withdrawal, gathering support from sixty-four other nations. . . . On 6 November, less than forty-eight hours after British troops had landed in Egypt, with Nasser facing disaster, Eden was forced to call a halt to the campaign. ‘I cannot hold out any longer,’ Eden told Mollet. Far from precipitating Nasser’s downfall, the Suez invasion propelled him to a pinnacle of prestige and influence. . . . Basking in the adulation, Nasser set out to impose Egypt’s leadership on the Arab world." [The Fate of Africa, p. 39-43] "The Suez Crisis, also named the Tripartite Aggression and the Kadesh Operation, was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France. The aims were to regain Western control of the Suez Canal and to remove Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser from power. After the fighting had started, the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations forced the three invaders to withdraw. The episode humiliated Great Britain and France and strengthened Nasser." [Wikipedia]