The Free Officers realize on July 22,…

1952 CE

The Free Officers realize on July 22, 1952, that the king might be preparing to move against them.

They decide to strike and seize power the next morning.

King Farouk, forced to abdicate in favor of his infant son on July 26, sails into exile on the same yacht
on which his grandfather, Ismail, had left for exile about seventy years earlier.

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Cairo > Al-Qahirah Al-Qahirah Egypt View →

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Farouk of Egypt View → Gamal Abdel Nasser View →

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Egypt, Kingdom of (British Protectorate) View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) View →

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Free Officers' Coup in Egypt View →

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Mayhem View → Government View → Custom and Law View → political movement View →

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