OCTOBER WAR AGAINST
ISRAEL ( CROSSING OF SUEZ
CANAL BY EGYPTIAN FORCES
OCT. 6 1973 )
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Egyptian forces crossing the Suez Canal
on October 7
Wreckage of an Israeli
A-4 Skyhawk
on display in Egypt´s war
museum.
An Israeli M60 Patton
tank destroyed in the
Sinai.
Muhammad Anwar
al-Sadat
Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat : 25 December
1918 – 6 October 1981 was the third President of Egypt,
serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by
fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. In his eleven years
as president he changed Egypt´s direction, departing from some of
the economic and political principles of Nasserism by
re-instituting the multi-party system, and launching the Infitah
economic policy.
He was a senior member of
the Free Officers group that overthrew the Muhammad Ali Dynasty in
the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President
Gamal Abdel Nasser, whom he succeeded as President in 1970. As
president he led Egypt in the October War of 1973 to re-acquire
Egyptian territory lost to Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War, making
him a hero in Egypt and, for a time, the wider Arab World.
Afterwards he engaged in negotiations with Israel, culminating in
the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. This won him the Nobel Peace Prize
but also made him unpopular among some Arabs, resulting in a
temporary suspension of Egypt´s membership in the Arab League, and
eventually his assassination.
President
Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
acknowledge applause during joint
session of Congress in Washington, D.C., during which
President Jimmy Carter
announced the results of the Camp David
Accords, 18 September 1978
President
Jimmy Carter shaking hands with Sadat and Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Begin
at the signing of the
Egyptian–Israeli Peace
Treaty on the grounds of the
White
House,
1979
Field Marshal Ahmed Ismail
Ali
Ahmad Ismail
Ali (Arabic:
أحمد
إسماعيل
علي) (14 October 1917 – 26
December 1974) was the Commander-in-Chief of Egypt´s army and
minister of war during the October War
of 1973, and is best known for his
planning of the attack across the Suez Canal,
code-named Operation
Badr.
Military
career
In October
1972, Ali accompanied Prime Minister Aziz Sidqi
on a visit to Moscow, and, on his
return, stifled a coup attempt against President Sadat. That same
month, he replaced the anti-Soviet general Muhammad
Sadeq as Minister of Defence, and was promoted
to full general. His skill as a strategist, and his success in
reviving the morale of the Egyptian army became evident in the
October War of 1973. Following the war, he was made a Field Marshal
in November 1973.
Death
Ali
died in December 1974 from advanced cancer, at the age of
57.
Saad
el-Shazly
Saad Mohamed
el-Husseiny el-Shazly (Arabic:
سعد
الدين محمد
الحسينى
الشاذلى,
(1 April 1922 – 10 February 2011) was an
Egyptian military personality. He was Egypt´s chief of
staff during the October
War. Following his public criticism of
the Camp David
Accords, he was dismissed from his post
as Ambassador
to Britain and Portugal, then sent
into exile in Algeria.
He took part
on the Egyptian side of the 1973 October War, also known as
the Yom Kippur
War, being the mastermind of the successful
Egyptian attack on the Israeli Bar-Lev line of
defence.
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