Egypt was a major battlefield in the North African campaign during the Second World War, being the location of the First and Second Battles of El Alamein. Legally an independent kingdom, and an equal sovereign power in the condominium of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, in reality Egypt was heavily under the coercive influence of the United Kingdom, a state of affairs that had persisted since the United Kingdom intervened militarily in the Urabi Revolt in favor of Egypt’s Khedive, Tewfik Pasha, in 1882, subsequently occupying the country.
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Egypt during World War II |
The continuing British dominance of Egyptian affairs, including British efforts to exclude Egypt from the governance of Sudan, provoked fierce Egyptian nationalist opposition to the United Kingdom. Consequently, despite playing host to thousands of British troops following the outbreak of the conflict, as it was treaty-bound to do, Egypt remained formally neutral during the war, only declaring war on the Axis powers in the spring of 1945.
Though escaping the fate of Iraq, and Iran, both of whose governments were toppled by the United Kingdom during the war (the latter in conjunction with the Soviet Union), Egypt experienced the Abdeen Palace Incident, a confrontation between Egypt’s King Farouk and the British military in 1942, the results of which would contribute directly to the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 a decade later.
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Alexandria Racecourse, Egypt |
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Beggars, Egypt |
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Boat on Nile River, Egypt |
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Boat on Nile River, Egypt |
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Boat on Nile River, Egypt |
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Cairo, Egypt |
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Cairo, Egypt |
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Cairo, Egypt |
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Cairo, Egypt |
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Camel with load of melons, Egypt |
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Camels, Egypt |
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Carrying water, Egypt |
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Desert Patrol, Egypt |
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Drawing water, Egypt |
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Drawing water, Egypt |
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Driving goats, Egypt |
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Driving sheep, Egypt |
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Egyptian band |
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Egyptian children on a wagon, Egypt |
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Egyptian ladies seated in a wagon, accompanied by four men |
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Egyptian Police making an arrest |
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Egyptian Police |
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Egyptian Police |
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Egyptian Police |
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Egyptian Soldier, pyramid in background |
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Egyptian woman |
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Egyptian women carrying water |
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English Bridge, Cairo, Egypt |
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Funeral Procession, 4 men carrying a coffin, Egypt |
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Funeral Procession, Egypt |
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King Faruck's Palace, Egypt |
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King Faruk's yacht, Egypt |
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Man ploughing with two oxen, Egypt |
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Milkman. Man milking a cow in a city street, Egypt |
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Mixing concrete, Egypt |
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Mosque, Cairo |
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Mounted Egyptian Police passing a sign saying "H.B.M.'s and Imperial Forces. Music for all ranks" |
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Native on camel, Egypt |
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Native woman carrying water, Egypt |
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Native women selling bread, Egypt |
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Native women washing, Egypt |
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Natives, Cairo, Egypt |
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Natives, Egypt |
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Opera Square, Cairo |
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Pyramid, Egypt |
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Pyramids, Egypt |
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Pyramids, Egypt |
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Pyramids, Egypt |
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Selling sweet corn, Egypt |
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Sick camel, Egypt |
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Smoking Egyptian pipe, Egypt |
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Sphinx, Egypt |
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Stanley Bay, Alexandria, Egypt |
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Street barber, Egypt |
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Street drink seller, Egypt |
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Street Fair, Egypt |
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Street sweepers, Egypt |
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Threshing Train, Egypt |
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Water syphon, Egypt |
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