After intense fighting, the IDF progressed towards Cairo and advanced southwards on the east bank of the Great Bitter Lake and in the southern extent of the canal right up to Port Suez.
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The Second Field Army covered the area from north of Qantara to south of Deversoir, while the Third Field Army was responsible for the area from Bitter Lakes to south of Port Tawfiq.
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Abdul Aziz ibn Saud's first meeting with an infidel head of state was when he met Franklin Roosevelt on the USS Quincy in the Great Bitter Lake of the Suez Canal in 1945.
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The next day a force of 6, 000 soldiers was reported east of the Little Bitter Lake at Moiya Harab when defenders at Qantara were fired on by part of the approaching force.
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Although the Red Sea is about higher than the eastern Mediterranean, the current between the Mediterranean and the middle of the canal at the Bitter Lakes flows north in winter and south in summer.
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Opened by king Ptolemy II around 280 BC the waterway branched off the Pelusiac arm of the river running eastwards through the Wadi Tumalat to the Bitter Lakes on a length of 55.6 km.
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On February 14, 1945, King Abdul-Aziz had a historic meeting with President Roosevelt on board the U . S . Naval ship the on the Great Bitter Lake of the Suez Canal in Egypt.
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Later the Persian king Darius had the same idea, and yet again Ptolemy II, who made a trench 100 feet wide, 30 feet deep and about 35 miles long, as far as the Bitter Lakes.
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After several days of heavy fighting, they were able to secure the roads to the canal, and by October 18 had two bridges laid down at Deversoir, at the northern end of the Great Bitter Lake.
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In the second half of the 19th century, French cartographers discovered the remnants of an ancient north south canal past the east side of Lake Timsah and ending near the north end of the Great Bitter Lake.
