Mers El Kébir

Mers- el- Kebir (Spanish: Mazalquivir ) is a port city on the northwest coast of Algeria, near the city of Oran with about 18,000 inhabitants.

Have all popularized the name through the first war between British and French since the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 In July 1940, -. Despite the actually existing alliance between the British and French - attacked the British Royal Navy that lie at Mers -el- Kebir ships at anchor the French Navy in to their possible extradition - as part of the military and political leadership of France in the Vichy regime collaborated with the Germans - to prevent the German Reich (Operation Catapult ). Previously, the French commander had refused to hand over the ships to the British. Military was the operation in which 1,300 French sailors were killed, only partially successful. While two ships were sunk, but escaped the rest of the fleet towards the southern French ports. There, she immersed herself in accordance with orders of the German invasion in 1942.