Nasser appears in Muhammad Ali Square in…

1956 CE

Nasser appears in Muhammad Ali Square in Alexandria on July 26, 1956, the fourth anniversary of King Farouk's exile, where twenty months earlier an assassin had attempted to kill him.

An immense crowd gathers, and he begins a three-hour speech from a few notes jotted on the back of an envelope.

When Nasser says the code word, "de Lesseps," it is the signal for engineer Mahmud Yunis to begin the takeover of the Suez Canal.

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Alexandria > Al-Iskandariyah Al-Iskandariyah Egypt View →

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Farouk of Egypt View → Gamal Abdel Nasser View →

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United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), or Soviet Union View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) View → France (French republic); the Fourth Republic View → Israel View → Egypt, Arab Republic of View →

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Cold War View → Suez Crisis, or Sinai War View →

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Engineering View → Mayhem View → Government View → Custom and Law View →

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