Attack on Mers-el-Kébir
Battle
The attack on Mers-el-Kébir on 3 July 1940, during the Second World War, was a British naval attack on neutral French Navy ships at the naval base at Mers El Kébir, near Oran, on the coast of French Algeria. Wikipedia
Date: July 3, 1940
Location: Mers El Kébir and North Africa