The army will take charge with the assistance of the police. I assure our foreign brothers that their interests, their personal safety [lit. Members of the Free Officers gathered after the revolution. A coup d'état had originally been planned for 5 August, but the coup leaders advanced their plans to the night of 22 July, after General Naguib—one of the Free Officers—informed that group on 19 July that the Egyptian Royal Army high command had a list of their names. When their negotiator was killed in the parley by the fedayeen, the British force attacked the Egyptian police barracks in Ismailia. On January 25, 1952, British troops discovered the fedayeen had retreated into the local police barracks. Therefore, the army, representing the power of the people, has empowered me to demand that Your Majesty abdicate the throne to His Highness Crown Prince Ahmed Fuad, provided that this is accomplished at the fixed time of 12 o'clock noon today (Saturday, 26 July 1952, the 4th of Zul Qa'ada, 1371), and that you depart the country before 6 o'clock in the evening of the same day. Finally, on 19 October, Nasser signed a treaty for the evacuation of British troops from Egypt, to be completed over the following 20 months. However, there is much more to it than that. I assure our foreign brothers that their interests, their personal safety [lit. Calling a military coup a revolution is not pretty factual to me. 72 relations. The revolution was initially aimed at … During the winter of 1951–1952 nationalist police officers began protecting and promoting fedayeen (the Egyptian resistance) attacks on British authorities in Cairo, Alexandria, and the Suez Canal. Naguib ordered the captain of Farouk's yacht, al-Mahrusa, not to sail without orders from the army. Mr Maher has been slow to carry out social and land reforms demanded by the army and has given way to General Muhammad Neguib. These "salvation ministries", as they were called, failed to halt the country's downward spiral. The next day, January 26, 1952 ("Black Saturday"), what many Egyptians call "the second revolution" broke out (the first being the Egyptian revolution of 1919). Free Officers Movement. On July 28, 1953, Muhammad Naguib became the first President of Egypt, which marked the beginning of modern Egyptian governance. Standing in the automobile, from left to right: Youssef Seddik, Salah Salem, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Abdel Latif Boghdadi, The Revolution Command Council (RCC), made up of the previous nine-member command committee of the Free Officers in addition to five more members, chaired by Naguib, was formed. The voice everyone heard reading the message belonged to Free Officer and future president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat:[8] The coup was conducted by less than a hundred officers - almost all drawn from junior ranks — and prompted scenes of celebration in the streets by cheering mobs.[9]. When the police refused to surrender the fedayeen, the British officer attempted to negotiate the surrender of the police and the fedayeen. A coup d'état had originally been planned for 5 August, but the coup leaders advanced their plans to the night of 22 July, after General Naguib—one of the Free Officers—informed that group on 19 July that the Egyptian Royal Army high command had a list of their names. The officers thus decided to launch a preemptive strike and after finalizing their plans in meeting at the home of Khaled Mohieddin, they began their coup on the night of 22 July. The ongoing state of war with Israel also posed a serious challenge, as the Free Officers increased Egypt's already strong support of the Palestinians. 23–26 Jul 1952 Egyptian Revolution of 1952 . On 16 July, the King annulled these elections, appointing his own supporters instead in an attempt to regain control of the army. Debate broke out among the Free Officers concerning the fate of the deposed king. By the 1960s, Arab socialism had become a dominant theme, transforming Egypt into a centrally planned economy. In 1888 at the Convention of Constantinople, Britain won the right to protect the Suez Canal with military force, giving Britain a base to dominate Egyptian politics. Ali Maher was asked to form a civilian government. It is certain that all Egypt will meet this news with enthusiasm and will welcome it. Finally, the order came for Farouk to abdicate in favour of his son, Crown Prince Ahmed Fuad - who was acceded to the throne as King Fuad II - and a Regency Council was appointed. As they approached the el-Qoba Bridge, an artillery unit led by Youssef Seddik met with them before he led his battalion to take control the Military General Headquarters to arrest the royalist army chief of staff, Hussein Sirri Amer and all the other commanders who were present in the building. Accordingly, we have undertaken to clean ourselves up and have appointed to command us men from within the army whom we trust in their ability, their character, and their patriotism. Additionally, contrary to orders issued by the Council, members of the Liberation Rally accumulated much of the seized non-Muslim property and distributed amongst their closed networks. Two years later, on 18 June 1956, Nasser raised the Egyptian flag over the Canal Zone, announcing the complete evacuation of British troops. You manifested this during and after the Palestine War in the corrupt arms scandals and your open interference in the courts to try to falsify the facts of the case, thus shaking faith in justice. Egypt has reached the point, therefore, of having no army to defend it. Egypt erupted in fury. The Rally was headed by Nasser and included other Free Officers as secretaries-general. List of female United States Air Force generals, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2014, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2014, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2015, Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, Democratic Movement for National Liberation, List of modern conflicts in the Middle East, List of Chiefs of the General Staff of Egypt, Sectarian conflict in Mandatory Palestine, https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Egyptian_revolution_of_1952?oldid=5318552. From an array of contenders for power, it was a movement of military conspirators—the Free Officers led by Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser—that toppled the monarchy in a coup on July 23, 1952. Its policies completed the image of the Egyptian government being a puppet-figure in the hands of the British government. At 6:00 am the Free Officers air force units began circling Cairo's skies. The Egyptian Revolution of 1952 occurred on 23 July 1952, when the Muslim Brotherhood -backed Free Officers Movement - led by Mohammed Naguib, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Anwar Sadat - overthrew the constitutional monarchy of King Farouk I of Egypt. The Egyptian revolution of 1952 (Arabic language: ثورة/إنقلاب 23 يوليو 1952), also known as the July 23 revolution or July 23 coup d'etat, began on July 23, 1952, by the Free Officers Movement, a group of army officers led by Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser. In January, the Muslim Brotherhood was outlawed. The revolutionary government adopted a staunchly nationalist, anti-imperialist agenda, which came to be expressed chiefly through Arab nationalism, and international non-alignment. An elections law was passed on 3 March granting women the right to vote for the first time in Egyptian history. Egypt's reputation among the peoples of the world has been debased as a result of your excesses in these areas to the extent that traitors and bribe-takers find protection beneath your shadow in addition to security, excessive wealth, and many extravagances at the expense of the hungry and impoverished people.