The Franco-Egyptian War was a military conflict from 1915-1917 between France and the ‎Kingdom of Egypt, fought primarily over control of the Sinai Canal and the adjacent Sinai Peninsula, which was a French protectorate separate from Egypt, which claimed the territory for itself. The war began on November 2, 1915 with the Egyptian surprise attack against French Sinai's capital at Estbourg, and ended with the Turkish-brokered peace agreement at the Tirana Conference in 1917, where France agreed to relinquish its claims to the Canal and withdraw its forces from the Sinai Peninsula in return for the right to transport naval vessels down the Sinai Canal and for the right to unrestricted commercial access for all European nations down the Canal. In 1919, France also agreed to relinquish its cla