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The coup was almost bloodless. In Cairo, there was so little opposition the city fell like “a ripe mango.”1 The strategic garrison town of al-Arish in the Sinai fell the following day. As did Alexandria on the Mediterranean coast.
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McMillan, M.E. (2016). Cairo: Wednesday, July 23, 1952. In: From the First World War to the Arab Spring. Middle East Today. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137522023_16
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