Question: When did Britain go to war with the country where the story that's the basis of Ever After takes place?

It was directed by Andy Tennant and stars Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott, and Jeanne Moreau. The screenplay is written by Tennant, Susannah Grant, and Rick Parks. The original music score is composed by George Fenton. The film's closing theme song "Put Your Arms Around Me" is performed by the rock band Texas. Ever After (known in promotional material as Ever After: A Cinderella Story) is a 1998 American romantic drama film inspired by the fairy tale "Cinderella". <SEP> it tells the story of phil, stu, alan, and doug as they travel to thailand for stu's wedding. after the bachelor party in las vegas, stu takes no chances and opts for a safe, subdued pre-wedding brunch. things do not go as planned, resulting in another bad hangover with no memories of the previous night. <SEP> The oldest known version of the Cinderella story is the ancient Greek story of Rhodopis, a Greek courtesan living in the colony of Naucratis in Egypt, whose name means ``Rosy - Cheeks ''. The story is first recorded by the Greek geographer Strabo in his Geographica (book 17, 33), probably written around 7 BC or thereabouts: <SEP> The aims were to regain Western control of the Suez Canal and to remove Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who had just nationalized the canal. After the fighting had started, political pressure from the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations led to a withdrawal by the three invaders. The episode humiliated Great Britain and France and strengthened Nasser. The Suez Crisis or the Second Arab -- Israeli War also named the Tripartite Aggression (in the Arab world) and Operation Kadesh or Sinai War (in Israel), was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France. <SEP> by the start of the 20th century, germany and the united states challenged britain's economic lead. subsequent military and economic tensions between britain and germany were major causes of the first world war, during which britain relied heavily upon its empire. the conflict placed enormous strain on the military, financial and manpower resources of britain. although the british empire achieved its largest territorial extent immediately after world war i, britain was no longer the world's pre-eminent industrial or military power. in the second world war, britain's colonies in south-east asia were occupied by imperial japan. despite the final victory of britain and its allies, the damage to british prestige helped to accelerate the decline of the empire. india, britain's most valuable and populous possession, achieved independence as part of a larger decolonisation movement in which britain granted independence to most territories of the empire. the transfer of hong kong to china in 1997 marked for many the end of the british empire. fourteen overseas territories remain under british sovereignty. after independence, many former british colonies joined the commonwealth of nations, a free association of independent states. the united kingdom is now one of 16 commonwealth nations, a grouping known informally as the commonwealth realms, that share one monarch—queen elizabeth ii.