18h 8min, jul 26, 1956 y - Nasser appeared in
Muhammad Ali Square in Alexandria
Description:
This is here twenty months earlier an assassin had attempted to kill him. An immense crowd gathered, and he began a three-hour speech from a few notes jotted on the back of an envelope. When Nasser said the code word, "de
Lesseps," it was the signal for engineer Mahmud Yunis to begin the takeover of the Suez
Canal.
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Egyptian Revolution
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